Recently, I plan to open a new column and read the classics carefully. The protagonist of the column is the "classic big IP" that everyone is familiar with in the English book industry:

For example, grading, I told you about the funny family of Oxford Tree before.

Picture books for young children have been occupied by cute things such as cats and dogs (such as Dahonggou, Cookie Dog, Pete Cat, Piggy Peggy, Mouse Bobo).

Chapter, it's a pure magic world (Harry Potter, Percy Jackson), the legend of Narnia) ~

If in a parallel world, the owners of these books really exist, then these big IPS are the proper reading world The Avengers ~

They have been translated into various languages and spread all over the world because their contents are good enough even without learning English. No matter what language it appears in, it is the best among the best, and it is worth reading carefully.

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Therefore, after carefully reading all the inventory of classic columns, I will put the key to interpretation on the reading content itself.

Let's talk about the magic tree house, the originator of the first chapter.

Source: MTH official website

No matter how hot it is outside, it doesn't matter to us. It's broken. Let's take a look at the legendary "magic tree house", the originator of the first chapter.

Magic tree house series

Author: mary pope osborne

0 1. What's the impact?

02. What's the story?

03. Is the originator of the first chapter worthy of the name?

04. What versions are there? Which series? Which children are suitable for each other?

# 1

Why is it a wonderful tree house?

The first issue of the classic intensive reading was given to the fantasy tree house, because children all over the world, whether you are a child of a Nordic working family or a child of an American presidential family, almost all start reading literary books from this set. Since the book 1992 1 was born, it has been translated into 38 languages, with a cumulative sales volume of over 654.38+34 million copies. What is this concept? Add up to the height of 76 Everest!

It is an extracurricular reading set by American schools, and almost all children have one; It is a set of books with the highest borrowing rate among the books collected in American primary and secondary schools.

The magic tree house is also the first set of first chapter books in my escape life. I collected all the Chinese and English versions for him, which is a rare book. It's still neatly packed on my bookshelf, which he shared in the video number before.

Seeing his obsession, I was curious and read some. To tell the truth, there is a feeling of "taking a breath". Although it is a children's book, the topic involves nature, history, geography and culture, which is equivalent to opening up a grand world for children, leading them to appreciate the wonders of the world that they have never been to, to experience the past and future that they cannot experience, and to talk to inaccessible celebrities and great men.

#2

The magical tree house

What kind of stories have you told?

Very simple, it is a fantasy adventure story of a pair of little brothers and sisters. People are also very grounded. My brother Jack, eight and a half years old, likes reading. He is a cool little boy. Sister Anne, seven years old, loves fantasy, adventure and creativity.

One day, they came across a magical tree house full of books in the forest of the town.

From then on, this magical tree house is like a time machine of Doraemon. Whenever they point to a book, the magical tree house takes them to explore different time and space. From the Mediterranean to the Amazon basin, from the North Pole to the moon, from the legendary Camellia kingdom to the ancient city of Pompeii in BC; Brother and sister escaped the Terracotta Warriors, went to Wolong to save the giant panda, helped depressed Dickens find creative inspiration, and killed dragons in the sky and pythons in the sea. ...

Brothers and sisters have to find their own solutions when they encounter difficulties. In the process of reading these fantasy adventure stories, children experience different cultures and histories together, just like chasing plays. By the way, now that I think about it, the way I bumped into it at that time was really a bit like the popular sentence recently. "Immersive" reading is very "atmospheric" and easy to "climb to the top".

The author Mary is also a female classmate with stories. She has lived in different areas with her father since she was a child. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, she has transferred to school 8 times and moved home 13 times. After graduating from college, she almost traveled all over the world. The place in the book is also the place where she has actually been.

Mary pope osborne, the author of The Magic Tree House.

Source: MTH official website

What impressed me the most was that in the preface of "The Season of Sandstorms", Mary wrote: "I once crossed the whole continent, from Greece to Nepal, and I drove across the whole desert along the way. In a deserted desert, an old man and his great-grandson helped me. I will never forget their kindness, the beautiful sunset in the desert, and the cold starry night. When I wrote this story, my mind was full of good memories of that day. "

What a fascinating experience! It is difficult for ordinary people to have such a rich life experience.

Therefore, the book Magic Tree House has endless imagination, association and creativity, and is based on almost real experiences, not a purely fictional story. She said, "This is real magic!"

I also think the story of giving children to such people is quite reliable.

#3

Because it is called "the originator of the first chapter book"

That's amazing.

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The Big Bang of Knowledge Caused by the Magic Tree House

However, except for the magical tree house, no one has been spinning in the long river of history and running all over the world.

I made a rough list:

Humanistic themes are: ninja, cowboy, Thanksgiving, Viking. ...

Animal themes are: camel, killer whale, penguin and giant panda. ...

Geographical themes include: Tokyo, Arctic, Rainforest, African Grassland. ...

Natural topics are: tornado, sandstorm, earthquake and tsunami. ...

Historical themes include: King Arthur, Pompeii, Renaissance, American Civil War. ...

Philosophical themes include: ancient Babylonian civilization, Aristotle's manuscripts and the origin of Arabic numerals. ...

Cleverly, these topics are all centered on the city, linking people, events, events and history of the city together, with a strong humanistic atmosphere.

For example, in the story of sandstorm season, children can follow the leader to the market (urban culture) of the ancient city of Baghdad; Look at desert climate and tornado (geography) here; Read the plants in the desert, date palms (creatures); Animals in the desert, camels (animals); Reading Arabic numerals was actually invented by Indians and transformed by Baghdad people. Reading the House of Wisdom in Baghdad (Philosophy) ...

"True knowledge brings light to the world"

I remember when I was reading Christmas Escape from Camelot (translated in Chinese as Saving the Happy Kingdom), he was very interested in King Arthur, the key figure in the book, so he consulted many stories about King Arthur, Queen and Lancelot, and learned that the most famous allusion "Knight of the Round Table" was the origin of free and equal dialogue. I also found some love-hate stories about heroes and beautiful women ... I think Eva is an encyclopedia after reading the whole series of MTH.

The good content is this. Children are easily moved and attracted by the little things inside, and then their curiosity is detonated. Then they will take the initiative to dig deep into all kinds of small knowledge, and their knowledge will gradually broaden.

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In the world of magic and adventure, children have no time to be distracted.

Ladies and gentlemen, did you see that? But don't forget, what is the significance of the magical tree house as the first chapter of the book?

It is to put the children in and read quietly, thus forming the habit of "getting the book and entering the reading state"!

I happen to have a copy of Quick Rescue of Life at hand. Let's take a look and feel the excitement.

Brother and sister were sent to the frozen Alaska by the magic tree house. This time, they are here to save people. The specific tasks are not mentioned. Readers have to follow the plot step by step to find out.

They thought there was a volcano and an earthquake, but as a result, the whole town was quiet and the suspense was enough. ...

Brother and sister are at a loss. They met a man on the phone in the snow. The story starts here, and the two brothers and sisters can't get in touch. We read from a series of exclamation marks that things are complicated!

"The sled driver who delivered the medicine hasn't arrived yet!"

"If he gets to Solomon's hotel, leave him there!"

"Don't let him come any closer!"

"We can't afford to lose medicine!"

"There is a big snowstorm blowing directly from the North Pole tonight!"

"no! Drugs must be delivered as soon as possible! "

It turns out that the children in the town have an infectious disease called diphtheria, and the nearest vaccine is in a city more than 0/000 kilometers away from the town. ...

Worst of all, this is Alaska. The roads in and out of the town are all frozen, and only sled dogs can pass. That's not enough, there is a big snowstorm behind!

All the difficulties are piled up in front of us. What should we do?

Therefore, people decided to use sled dogs to relay the vaccine back from 1000 kilometers. This is a life-and-death relay in the snow-"all huskies leap forward with great strength and pull sledges into the cold night in Alaska."

In the dark, everyone is nervous. How does this book describe this tense atmosphere?

In the dark, only

"jingle", "squeak" and "hiss"

This 1000 km snow rescue also encountered many sudden difficulties, from how to keep the balance between people and dogs at high speed to what to do when the glasses are foggy. ...

One climax after another, one crisis after another, just like a wonderful movie, ups and downs, the whole process can not find opportunities to wander!

This wonderful content makes the rhythm of the whole book quite close, which can strongly attract children's desire to read. Attracting children to take the initiative to get into books like chasing dramas is what I just said about "immersion" and "atmosphere".

What I want to say in particular is that this story really happened in Alaska on 1925. Twenty sled drivers and 150 sled dogs traveled day and night, crossing rivers, plains, forests and frozen Alaska, and brought back life-saving vaccines from cities 1085 kilometers away. Under normal circumstances, it takes 25 days for dogs to pull sleds, but they successfully completed the relay in only five and a half days, saving many children's lives!

It is not only closely related to the prototype of historical stories, but also easy to read and interpret, which is the "magic" of the magic tree house.

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Show profound themes to children by reducing the dimensions of themes.

Remember what I told you about "painting the wall to read"?

In short, some profound topics, such as classics, history, culture and so on. They are all used to lay the foundation for children's reading in a "dimensionality reduction" way.

There are many masterpieces of dimension reduction in the magic tree house. You think it is unrealistic for primary school students to read Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, but they can enter the daily life of Dickens through the magical tree house!

In Dickens' ode, the great writer will be anxious to run away from home because he can't code words. Can't write a composition like Xiong Haizi? When Jack and Anne went to find Dickens' residence, what they saw and heard along the way outlined the glory of the Victorian era very aptly.

The book also mentions the "industrial revolution", in which two brothers and sisters met begging children and drivers trying to earn money to support their families, which is evidence of the widening gap between the rich and the poor under the background of the industrial revolution.

#4

The magical tree house

What series/versions are there and how to choose them?

Trees attract the wind, because they are particularly popular, so all kinds of piracy emerge one after another, which makes some friends think that the version of the magic tree house seems quite complicated? Actually, it is not.

No matter the Chinese version or the English version, the magic tree house has three series. I made a table.

The same color represents the same bibliography.

They are:

? The basic version of the magic tree house story series, ***28 books.

Corresponding to the first 28 books of the English original Magic Tree House, it is also relatively simple, with relatively few words, suitable for children aged 5-7 who just started reading independently.

? The Magic Tree House story series advanced edition, ***28 books.

Corresponding to the original English version of Merlin Task 28, it is the most popular series of Magic Tree House, because since the advanced version, a new character, the great magician Merlin, has been unlocked and can go up and down from now on. Moreover, this series is suitable for reading in a wide range of ages, as long as children can read independently smoothly. I recommend 7- 12 years old.

"Magic Tree House" popular science series

It is called Fact Trackers abroad, and its Chinese name is translated into Encyclopedia of Magic Tree House. This series is relatively few, and there are only a few books introduced in China. I guess it's not very chewy, because it's a simple and rude pure science. I understand it as an extra chapter in the magic tree house.

I am glad that I came into contact with many such good books when I was a child, "circling in the long river of history and running around the world." When he was 6 or 7 years old, he must have read it in a muddle. There were not many things left, but the impression was very shallow. Seeing many differences, he thinks reading is great, so it's good!

Now everyone has broken their hearts for the baby's education, all kinds of fancy resources, and all kinds of worrying accompanying reading. In fact, if the content is good enough, it is enough to simply put it in black and white.

East west

The gift box is beautiful, and it is suitable for your own children or others. The first chapter of this grandfather's Magic Tree House can be recommended to primary school students when children all over the world start reading textbooks.

Magic Tree House Advanced Edition

(7- 12 years old)