Mother is a sacred word, and for children, mother is their own heaven, their own world.
I have a one-year-old treasure in my family, and since she learned to call her mother, she has begun a daily journey of calling her mother, and her tone of voice has changed. Sometimes a crisp scream of mama will hit your heart crisply; sometimes the last ma~ tail note will drag on long, and it will make you feel infinite tenderness in your heart; sometimes you wake up, open your eyes to see that it is your mother, and squint your eyes mamamama and scream non-stop...
Perhaps in her cognition, mom is omnipotent. When it comes to sleeping, Mom is a warm arm bend, a light lullaby; when she encounters problems, Mom is a superman who can appear at any time to help her solve problems.
Mom is a presence that makes children feel safe and dependent. This is true for people, and it is even more true for animals, because baby animals face more unpredictable dangers, and they need to learn to forage and learn skills around their mothers to survive in the cruel natural world.
There are so many species in the animal kingdom, there are seals, hedgehogs, foxes, whales, zebras, giraffes... What does their mother look like? Like human mothers, do they need to be pregnant in October, and will they stay with their mothers until they reach adulthood of 18?
I believe that when parents take their babies to the zoo, they have encountered or will encounter, for me, reading the book "Animal Mother" is equivalent to learning in advance, and when the baby asks in the future, I am still the omniscient and omnipotent mother.
The book "Animal Mother" shares a total of 16 kinds of animal babies and their mothers. Among them are crowned seals, hedgehogs, possums, platypus, foxes, whales, etc., each of which has a different length of time and an eye-opening approach to raising a baby.
For example, the crowned seal mother who lives in the sea only feeds her baby for one week. The reason why the breastfeeding time is so short is because the crown seals give birth in March and April every year, and when they give birth, the body is floating on the ice, the climate is just warming in this season, and the ice surface is very dangerous, so the species has evolved into the current production, the crown seal can only breastfeed the baby for 4 to 7 days, and the baby cannot eat the mother's milk.
Another example is the mother hedgehog with thorns, who will use her nose to arch her nose out of the nest when her baby is 2 months old and live alone. Is the hedgehog mother so cruel? No, after the baby hedgehog is born, the mother will not leave the side.
Because when babies are born, the thorns on the hedgehogs are soft thorns, not piercing, and their eyes are closed, it takes two weeks to open, and there is no way to see the danger to protect themselves. However, the baby hedgehog grows very fast, the baby baby will fall off the baby teeth in less than 3 weeks, and after 5 weeks, they can leave the nest to hunt with their mother at night, and in just two months they can learn the skills to live independently.
Another example is the possum that likes to hang from a tree and play, they will stay with their mother for at least 3 months, because they are usually weaned after 70 to 120 days of birth. The way the possum baby feeds is very special, the possum mother has a nursery bag, when the possum baby wants to feed, you need to climb into the nursery bag by yourself...
The lifestyle of mothers and babies in the animal world is both eye-opening and full of motherly love. Just like human mothers, animal mothers will spare no effort to take care of and accompany their babies to grow up and help them prepare for their future lives.
The book "Animal Mother" progresses from mammal mothers to human mothers. When reading with children, on the one hand, we can let children develop outward from the self, understand the similarities and differences between humans and animals, form analog thinking, and make the vision richer and broader; on the other hand, we can also let them experience what maternal love is in the analogy, and the difficulty of mothers raising themselves, and learn to express love to their mothers.
Of course, it is not only the children who benefit from the reading process, because through the vivid explanation of the "Animal Mother" picture book, we can also get inspiration from the behavior of animal parenting, that is, the importance of high-quality accompaniment to children's growth. In the body of animal mothers, you can see how important the intimate contact between mothers and children is, and only careful care and high-quality companionship can make children feel safe and gradually learn to be independent.
The author of the book is Italian children's book author Oris Collodini, who has created several best-selling picture books, among which her debut "Tel Aviv" was nominated for the Bologna Best Children's Book Award and was well received by readers. In this book, the author adopts the collage art form, the whole book only uses black, orange and blue three colors, it will show the wonders of the wonderful and interesting animal world, is a rare and popular science knowledge and interesting picture book, for children's emotional enlightenment is of great benefit.