How could every adult who stands on top of the world today not be a child without troubles and eccentricities? Although we have grown into adults, we can still maintain our original innocence like children. On the day of "June 1st International Children's Day", let's take a look at the children's books that are suitable for big friends and children, reminisce about childhood in children's books, and reminisce about children's fun.
Literature reading category
"Wild Mangpo"
Yin Jianling/People's Literature Publishing House, Tiantian Publishing House, March 2016 edition
"Wild Mangpo" won the best literary book of the year in the 2016 China Children's Book List. The protagonist, Young Ann, is an unfortunate boy who loses his mother at birth and is abused by his stepmother growing up. In order to find his grandmother, who loved him, he stumbled into the church and was sent by the janitor to Notre Dame, which specializes in orphans. Later, You'an was sent to Ye Mangpo, where he not only found friendship and love, but also his potential artistic talent was also stimulated, and after several explorations and unremitting efforts, he finally realized his dream. This is a legendary story of how to explore yourself and find the direction of life in a special era. The famous children's literature writer Cao Wenxuan once commented on "Wild Mangpo": Chinese children's literature has almost never touched the "soul", and Yin Jianling in "Wild Mangpo" precisely focuses on psychological description to interrogating the power of the soul.
Wild Mangpo is a small world, where cold and warm, love and hate, sincerity and deception, faith and abandonment will all happen, seemingly simple, but in fact complex. Wild Mangpo seems to be the epitome of every child's inner world, because it is full of all kinds of complex and warm emotions, as well as all kinds of confusion and pain, but the children will never give up the original dream. "In the distance, the white wall of the wild slope is shrouded in golden light, and it gradually turns into a faint fragment of pen and ink, melting with the earth and the sky..." This is the last paragraph of the novel, and it is also the most exquisite stroke of the whole novel, because there is a word in it - "light". "Light" is hope, a new starting point, a farewell to the dark past and a vision of a bright future.
"Childhood River"
Zhao Lihong / Author Fujian Children's Publishing House, December 2013 edition
"Childhood River" is a gift from Zhao Lihong to children, and it is still a novel worth reading for both children and adults, a book suitable for slow reading, slow tasting, and slow moving. Xue Di grew up in the countryside and was accustomed to living with his mother-in-law (grandmother), when suddenly one day his father took him to Shanghai, and his life was completely changed. He has to face new environments, make new partners, meet all kinds of people in the city, and face many new things. Because of his attachment to the river from childhood, Xue Di got lost in order to find the river after he arrived in the city, knew a group of partners because of the river, met a pair of wandering brothers by the river, bet with people on the bridge to dive, and fought to save people under the river... The story is like a group of old photos of Shanghai, showing a strong old feeling, and the author's poetic language gently tells the charming story of the old song. Many of my big friends grew up with their grandparents, so in this children's literature, readers can see their childhood. Childhood is like a small river, flowing through the bed of your life, it flows so slowly and so rapidly that you cannot keep it, its ripples and waves will gently pat your heart and make you feel as if you have never grown up. If there really is a river in the childhood years, even if it is only a small river, it must be an interesting thing, how many stories will happen on the riverside? This is how Zhao Lihong felt when she created "Childhood River".
The sentences of "Childhood River" are concise and vivid, and children are easy to understand, but the more simple and simple the sentences, the more they can bring the reader back to a distant childhood. This innocent little era, like a painting, has our colorful childhood in it; like a brisk song, singing our beautiful future; like a brilliant rainbow, although it will soon dissipate, but the dream realm is unforgettable; like a dream, the dream has our happy childhood life; like a meteor that crosses the sky, it disappears very quickly, but the brilliance of that moment will precipitate in the heart into eternity...
"The Little Bean by the Window"
【Japanese】 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi / by Zhao Yujiao / Translation Nanhai Publishing Company, January 2003 edition
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, the author of "Little Bean by the Window," is a well-known Japanese writer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. The book was evaluated as: "It not only brought countless laughter and emotions to tens of millions of readers around the world, but also injected new vitality into the development of modern education, becoming one of the most influential works in the world in the 20th century." ”
"The Little Bean by the Window" tells a real story when the author was in elementary school. After Being expelled from the original school for being naughty, Xiao Doudou came to Ba Gakuen. Under the love and guidance of Principal Kobayashi, the "weird" little beanie in the eyes of ordinary people has gradually become a child that everyone can accept, and laid the foundation for her life. The problem child in the book, Who was initially considered a "strange child", is Tetsuko Kuroyanagi herself, and this book can make every reader realize that every child, when he is born, has excellent qualities. We are grateful to the adults who regarded them as treasures when they were children, cared for them with their hearts, and guided them carefully. As parents, as educators, we must discover the good qualities of our children early on, and let them be carried forward, so that we can cultivate our children into personalities. As written on the cover of "The Little Bean by the Window", "Everyone can find their own sunny childhood in this book", this book is worth everyone to see, especially those who are now parents, because each of us has a unique childhood and will eventually become a parent.
"Rabbit Eyes"
【Japanese】Kenjiro Ashiya / By Wu Fei / Translation, China City Press, September 2010
"Rabbit's Eye" is the debut work of Japanese children's literature master Kenjiro Ashiya, and together with "The Little Bean by the Window", it is called "Japanese Children's Literature Double Bibi", which has aroused enthusiastic responses from readers and sold multinational copyrights.
"Rabbit's Eye" is a warm children's book that tells the story of a primary school teacher who constantly injects love and tolerance into the children in his class. Fumi Kotani, who had just graduated from college, had a student named Tetsuzo in her class, who had been silent and occasionally bit people when she was angry. At first, Sensei Kotani is deeply shocked by Tetsuzo, who refuses to open her heart, but slowly, she learns to respect and understand Tetsuzo's special personality, and eventually discovers the rich treasure hidden in Tetsuzo's body... When we see a child like Tetsuzo who suffers from autism, grumpiness, and strange habits, his frozen heart is slowly melted by Mr. Kotani, our hearts are full of emotions. Loving minako with intellectual disabilities, rescuing the captured puppy Aji, and having fun composition lessons, each little story reveals the innocence of children and the care and love of adults for children...
On the one hand, in the process of reading, the eldest friends will recall the two or three interesting things that happened with the teacher in their childhood, recall the tolerance of their own mistakes, care for their dignity, such as the strict father and mother like the teacher; on the other hand, in the process of reading, children will learn to tolerate and love, learn to accept and dedicate warmth to each other.
Charlotte's Web
【Beauty】e.b. White/Author Ren Rongrong/Translation Shanghai Translation Publishing House, May 2004 edition
"Charlotte's Web" is a fairy tale about friendship, written for children and adults. The author uses the narrative style of fairy tales to show a praise and attachment to life itself, giving us a deep reflection on life.
In the barn of the Zuckerman family, a group of animals live happily, among which Wilbur the Pig and Charlotte the Spider form the most sincere friendship. However, one of the ugliest pieces of news shattered the calm of the barn: Wilbur's future fate was to become bacon ham. As a pig, the grief-stricken and desperate Wilbur seemed to be able to accept the fate of being slaughtered, but the seemingly small Charlotte said, "I will save you." So Charlotte used her own silk to weave an online text on the pig pen that was regarded as a miracle by humans, completely reversing Wilbur's fate, and finally letting him win a special prize in the bazaar competition, and a future of destiny. However, at this time, the life of the spider Charlotte has come to an end... Concise language and childlike fun are the two most important narrative styles in "Charlotte's Web", and the concise and clear text makes it easier for children to understand the emotions between Charlotte and Wilbur. White, the master of rhetoric, while retaining his humorous temperament, uses the simplest, most direct, and most childlike words that are easily accepted by children. His depictions of character movements, language, and psychology are also very relevant to the physical and psychological characteristics of children.
What White wants to pass on to children in this children's literature is how to understand the meaning of life, and this is what every adult should think about. Those words Charlotte said to Wilbur on her deathbed: "... What the hell is life? We are born, we live for a while, we die. It makes no sense for a spider to be busy all its life catching and eating flies, and by helping you, perhaps it can elevate the value of my life a little. Everyone knows that there is something meaningful to do in life", which not only appeased Wilbur, but also shocked countless readers.
"Mao Mao"
[De] Mitchell Ender / by Lee Shih-hoon / Translation Twenty-first Century Publishing House, December 2006 edition
"Mao Mao", along with "Grimm's Fairy Tales", has won 12 international and domestic literary awards, is the best base for modern people to interpret time, and is a strange book that sharply criticizes modern material society. The protagonist Mao Mao is a little girl who does not know her age and does not know where she came from, she has a "sensitive hearing" that ordinary people do not have, and she can solve the problems and disputes of friends just by listening to her friends. Because people are deceived by mr. Gray, who is everywhere in the city, obsessed with the so-called rational and mechanized life, and disregards family affection and conscience, Mao Mao risked his life to meet the old man of time, Master Houla, and discovered the great secret of the world and mankind in the kingdom of time, that is, "time is life". The birth of life is the blossoming of life, and when life is over, the same flower of life will bloom again. Knowing this secret, she returned to the real world to fight those Mr. Gray, and finally won the victory.
In the tide of materialism, we only blindly pursue the supremacy of efficiency and lose the purest humanity, which is one of the most tragic costs of modern civilization. Time is money? Mitchell Ender tells us the opposite answer: Time is life, and life is in our hearts. Creating value in the limited time of life, doing something truly meaningful, and making time bloom more brilliantly is what we are looking for. This story makes children know how to cherish time, and also makes adults understand that time should be used more meaningfully, so as to truly enjoy life, rather than living a life in complaining and doing nothing.
Picture book class
Father and Son
[De] É. O. Braun / By Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, April 2016 edition
On December 13, 1934, Father and Son's first comic strip story, Bad Homework, was published in the Berliner Pictorial. This long-form comic strip overflows with Braun's love for his three-year-old son Christian, and is arguably the most widely circulated family comic in the world. The vivid and humorous short stories in the work come from the real feelings of cartoonists in life, "Father and Son" is actually a true portrayal of Braun and his son Christian, the comic is full of human warmth and humor, the life of ordinary people is portrayed through the expression between father and son, full of warm human feelings. The whole comic does not have a single sentence of dialogue, but it is easy to understand and makes people laugh. "Father and Son" was introduced to China as early as the 1930s, when even Lu Xun, Feng Zikai and others were highly respected.
The Adventures of Tintin
Hergé / China Children's Publishing House, April 2001
The Adventures of Tintin consists of 22 volumes, mainly adventure stories, supplemented by science fantasy content, humorous and advocating anti-war, peace and humanitarian ideas, which is very famous in Western countries. The story was inspired by the travels of Danish writer and actor Paler Halder, who traveled the world in 44 days at the age of 15. Hergé's comics are vivid in shape, easy in line, and colorful, and the storyline of each adventure is tense, the climax is repeated, and the laughter is continuous, satisfying the curiosity and imagination of every big friend and child. The personalities of the characters in the story are also very distinct, Tintin is smart and brave, calm and calm in the face of danger; Milu, this snow-white pet dog, never leaves Tintin half a step, and whenever Tintin encounters danger, he always comes forward - of course, Tintin will also go to the knife mountain and go down to the fire; Captain Adok of the Acute Son is a friend that Tintin made on the ship, drinking is always indispensable to his share, plus strong and daring, becoming Tintin's good companion; the most interesting are Dupont and Dupont brothers, The two men were confused, but they had a great detective's shelf, and they repeated each other's words. The Adventures of Tintin is not only a comic book, but also an educational book.