Refuse a boring start.
Aunt Millicent is excellent in both narrative methods and writing skills, and is humorous.
As long as you read the beginning of the story, you will not think about reading tea, rice and snacks, and deeply understand what Xiaoxian said: "Refuse to be bored".
"I," said Angelica Tonks, "have eight uncles and eleven aunts!"
Angelica Tonks always has more than others. The fashionable canvas shoes she owns keep the class record; Derwent has the largest collection of pencils. Besides, she always has endless pocket money. Now Angelica still has the most uncles and aunts in town. The students wriggled and looked at each other-what a terrible Angelica Tonks family!
Mr. wilfred Starling brushed the chalk dust off his bony hands and sighed, "All right! Angelica, you are really lucky to have nineteen uncles and aunts. However, you can only choose the most interesting one to write. Is there any problem? "
"But they are all interesting," Angelica retorted. "Tonks is interesting, you know. It is too difficult to choose only one of them. "
The children twisted even more. The whole class is fed up with the tonks family who are "very interesting". In fact, Mr. wilfred Starling almost screamed, but he managed to hold back the anger in his stomach.
Rubbing his thin shoulders, he said, "All the homework assigned this week is written on the blackboard. Now, everyone copied it down. Remember, Angelica, all I want is your description of your uncle or aunt. Only one is needed! " Wilfred thought, don't bring me the boring and terrible Tonks family gallery.
The students began to copy the homework requirements. Jamie Natbim, sitting behind Angelica, leaned forward and whispered, "If everyone else in your family is so interesting, they are really excellent compared with you. However, anyway, I dare say that the aunt I want to write is definitely better than your uncle and aunt! "
"I bet your aunt won't win," Angelica whispered to Jamie. "Your aunt must be very boring. Your boring aunt, what's her name? "
Jamie wrote down his homework, put down his pen and said, "Aunt Millicent, she is special!" " "
"Millicent!" Angelica sneered, "What's your name! No one has that name these days! "
"You two talk separately!" Cried Mr. Starling, rubbing his stomach. "You can pack your bags and get ready for school. The bell will ring soon. " He thought to himself, this is really a blessing!
Jamie wrote a challenge to Angelica, but after school, he had to confess to Mr. Starling that he needed an aunt because there was no aunt or uncle to write about.
With the consent of Mr. Starling, Jamie was told that he didn't need to tell his classmates that his menstruation was fabricated. Mr. Starling's original words were, "All you have to do is make her read it like it's real and make everyone believe it."
The "dream aunt" that the whole family loves.
When Jamie came home, he mumbled with his father, mother and sister about eleven aunts and eight uncles in Angelica, and mentioned his homework, saying that he would write "Aunt Millicent".
At first, everyone's reaction was like this: "
Jamie's father looked over the newspaper and shot at Jamie: "What aunt?"
"Who's Aunt Millicent?" Jamie's sister, Nerissa, chased and asked.
"You don't have Aunt Millicent," mom said. "You don't have an uncle menstruation."
After explaining that Mr. Starling agreed with Jamie to write a fake aunt and didn't need to tell others, the family began to accept this "Aunt Millicent".
Dad suggested clarifying some problems first. For example, is Aunt Millicent his sister or Jamie's mother's sister? Jamie hasn't thought about it yet.
Mrs Tenebin was calm and suggested that millicent menstruation should be Dr Tenebin's sister. Because she grew up in the town, everyone knows that she is an only child. But Dr. Turnabim comes from another town and people don't know much about him.
In this way, Dr. Turner had a sister, because she worked in a foreign government and was very busy. No one has seen her. As for her job, she must be an explorer. She is exploring the dense forest in Cameroon, Central Africa.
Grandma Turner, who came to winter the next day, was also asked to tell the story of "Aunt Millicent" when she was a child. Grandma was very happy, saying that this "daughter" loved exploring and watching The Great Explorer when she was a child. Grandma also knits socks for Aunt Millicent who is exploring.
On the day Jamie read the composition, all the students except Angelica fell in love with the interesting "Aunt Millicent". Angelica loudly questioned that the aunt was false, because women could not explore. Her views were strongly opposed by her classmates, and everyone kept asking questions around Jamie.
An "explorer" loved by the whole town.
The homework was finished, but Aunt Millicent didn't disappear.
At school, the career guidance teacher is busy explaining to the girls in Jamie's class how to become a test pilot, buffalo hunter, crane driver, underwater cartographer and so on. Later, the teacher also specially opened the course "Women Challenge Career".
At home, "Aunt Millicent" lives happily in the Natbin family, and the whole family is eager to know her adventure story. My father brought back books about Cameroon and Central Africa from the library, and my mother dug out a shelf of Kenyan hunting spears from the old warehouse of the antique shop and hung it on the wall of the family recreation room, as well as mongoose specimens, bamboo flutes, tambourines and so on.
The students went home to play tambourines, patted meerkats and asked grandma when to send socks to Cameroon. More and more people in the town began to visit Mrs Tenebin's antique shop. Everyone wants to know about Aunt Millicent's adventure and is proud of her. Even the postman knows that grandma is "the explorer's mother".
It was not until a newspaper editor called to interview Millicent menstruation that Jamie had to find a quick ending for menstruation.
Jamie hopes that this aunt will be "swallowed up by quicksand in a certain job, or crushed by a group of running elephants", and Mr. Starling thinks it will be more attractive and unforgettable. Jamie can't say that "Aunt Millicent" is fake, because it will make the girls and boys in the class, including the people in the town, feel sad.
It seems a little difficult. What kind of ending should Jamie and his family give "Aunt Millicent"? What do you think of intelligence?
An unreadable anthology.
Aunt Millicent was written by Mary Steele of Australia, and the story was published in an anthology called Dream Times of Australia.
The anthology was conceived by the Australian Children's Book Association and invited sixteen writers who won the most prestigious books of the year to create a theme around the "dream era".
The stories included in the anthology cover a wide range of topics from now to the future, from schools to space, from suspense detectives to humorous dramas.
If you want to choose the most impressive story, it must be Aunt Millicent. Because this story will stimulate children's creativity to a great extent, and it also contains educational ideas that inspire parents deeply.
# Fairy's conclusion #
The Selected Works of Aunt Millicent is published in Australia, not a bestseller, so it seems that it is not easy to find.
In order to let more children read this wonderful story, Xiaoxian here presents a small welfare for readers who insist on reading ~
The method is simple:
Trust the immortals privately and gain resources.
(165438+1valid before October 30th)
no need to say any more
See you next week for more wonderful recommendations!
——End——
Recommended reading
Weekly recommendation | I don't want to sleep until I finish reading detective stories suitable for children.
Parents must read the book on parenting education: let children become angels who love learning.
Parents may regret not reading these children's books.
Thank you for your reading and support!