I think each of us has had the experience of moving, but obviously not everyone can meet and participate in the experience of building a house together, from preparing materials and determining the location to digging holes, laying foundations, erecting frames and installing wallboard.
picture book
Building our homeland
, according to the author.
Jonathan Ben
Real experience. When he was young, his parents bought a wasteland to build a new house for the whole family. In the meantime, they lived in a car and spent five years building this immature single-family wooden house in their spare time.
The most amazing thing is the addition of three new members (the author and his two sisters). This calm and independent pioneering spirit is not easily achieved by ordinary people. At least you have to have the courage to let go of the convenient life in the city. You should have enough pioneering spirit to build a house from scratch; You should be calm and take things as they are, so that you can maintain your love for life for five years, even if you live in a small car. This childhood experience is unforgettable.
It is no wonder that the author will choose as an adult.
Record this true and beautiful childhood experience in the form of illustrations.
And let us directly feel the beauty and happiness of the whole family Qi Xin working together to do something through the picture book.
Picture books are developed from the perspective of the author's sister. Of course, my sister was just a little girl at that time. From her eyes, we can easily feel the child's innocence and curiosity, as well as those interesting little details.
Open the first page of the picture book and you will see a vast wasteland.
Cross-page panorama
, gave us a very intuitive visual impact, the big open space in the lower right corner is obviously reserved for the construction site of this house.
However, as an old reader of the picture book of the snail family, I turned to the last page of the picture book for the first time. Sure enough, the same big picture, but in the original open space, there is already a small three-story house standing impressively.
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Due to the development of the story, the front and back ring inserts are in contrast.
, is one of the little surprises that I look forward to most every time I read a picture book produced by Luo Tian.
In addition, if you are careful enough, it is not difficult to find that in the big picture on the front and back pages, the changes of the four seasons have brought the originally bleak trees back to lush vitality-
The new life goes on like this.
Back to the original title page of the picture book, the author's family packed furniture from the old house in the city and moved into the car.
What moved me was the author's description of this townhouse. Although it is a small scene, it is enough to give us a glimpse of the whole leopard and understand the house structure of American cities:
Although new york, Chicago and other big cities also have high-rise units similar to our city, in most towns, ordinary residential areas are two-story townhouses painted in picture books, and houses generally have basements; And some families with higher income levels will choose single-family villas, which are similar to the houses built by the author, but located in the city, not in the countryside ~
Admittedly, this is a small detail, but the seriousness of the details makes us gain different feelings when reading picture books, which is also excellent.
Similar details are scattered in picture books. For example, when their family first came to the clearing, the oncoming kitten became a part of the family. In the picture book below, we will be surprised to find that kittens are also in love and have a litter of kittens. Don't be so cute!
The picture book is a warm watercolor illustration style, with a simple outline of thick lines and a natural graffiti. A few strokes, warm scenes and vivid characters with their own characteristics are vividly on the paper.
What people like best is
The warmth created by picture books
Even in the snowstorm, there are still warm yellow lights to soften the whole picture.
The main line of the story begins with moving, and the small animals that occasionally wander along the way give us a sense of country life. When their family first came to this clearing, there was nothing but a weed, an old oak tree and an oncoming kitten.
Their family lives in an RV for the time being. After solving the water and electricity problems of the RV, they began to prepare the materials needed to build the house. Only during this period, from Monday to Friday, my father will go to work in the city normally. Only on weekends can the family drive to the sawmill to buy wood, collect stones from the neighbor's pasture and transport piles of sand and gravel to the quarry.
The weather was warm and the ground became soft. Grandpa came with an excavator. After a series of operations such as digging, dumping, shoveling and piling, their new basement was formed.
Then, they began to frame the house. In the process, two equally busy children and, of course, kittens were always seen in a corner of the picture. It is not difficult to find that the happiness of a family working together almost overflows on paper.
When the house frame stands firmly in the middle of the ground, the family sits around the campfire, eating, drinking and chatting until the stars twinkle and owls sing. This picture is simply the most vivid interpretation of "happy work".
It's autumn in a blink of an eye, so work harder; We must install chimneys, roofs, wallboard and windows for the house before winter comes. Although winter rain came earlier and bad weather slowed down their work, it didn't stop.
In this way, along the story line in the picture book, we started the indoor drawing design and room decoration. Autumn is coming, winter is coming, and the days are getting shorter and shorter. During the busy days and nights, my mother got pregnant and gave birth to a new baby.
Finally, the house was finally built. After a moving party, a family of five moved into a new house neatly.
We often say that a house with love is home.
For example, in the picture book Building Our Home, the whole family builds a house together. In this process, some fathers usually go back to work in the city and only have time to prepare construction materials on weekends. There is also the embarrassment of living in a car and the hard work of continuing to build a house in bad weather; It seems difficult for a mother to get pregnant and have children, but with the full cooperation of this family, the sweet attitude towards life presented to us really touched the softest part of our hearts.
The family works together to build happiness, which is the best appearance of life.
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I'm @ Chusisi, looking at the painting. Thank you for reading and look forward to your attention.
How to discover the nature around you in spring? Before you know it, spring has come. Are you caught by the newly sprouted leaves and flowers? Nature is everywhere, not only in the countryside, but also lurking in the steel jungle around us, as long as we pay attention. So there is such a group of people who, starting from the nature around them, use their own words and brushes to describe the grass, trees, flowers and birds hidden in life and record the subtle and touching phenological changes of the year. These nature notes not only give our readers the opportunity to roam in the study, but also inspire us to observe, pay attention to and understand the beauty of nature that may be neglected in our daily life and feel the beautiful wild interest.
1996, English country notes
Edith holden.
Ziyun translation
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Edith holden, an English lady who lived in 100 years ago, was a village teacher and an illustrator of children's books. 1906, wearing a long Edwardian dress, she walked or rode a bicycle through the muddy countryside and changeable weather in alton, Warwick, England, in order to find some painting materials for her students in the art school class every Friday.
With infinite enthusiasm and careful observation of nature, this notebook was born, which recorded the phenological changes and natural features of the countryside for a whole year and twelve months. The author's writing is delicate and affectionate, and he often attaches proverbs and poems related to the seasons. Although there are many kinds of flowers, birds, insects and fish in her works, they are not exotic flowers and animals, and many of them are often seen in our lives. For Edith, their beauty is not inferior to smallness and ordinary. Take this season as an example. Wild peas, buttercups, sorrel, leaf warbler and butterflies formed Edith more than 100 years ago, and we are in the colorful spring of the Millennium. The fresh and beautiful illustrations in the notes not only make readers relaxed and happy, but also can be said to be a very vivid guide to animal and plant identification.
Local chronicles of Hong Kong
Author: Ye Lingfeng
Commercial press
Some time ago, I saw on social media that the world's critically endangered bird, the little sunflower parrot, has bred a huge wild population in Hong Kong, with the number exceeding 200, accounting for 10% of the global total. They are descendants of a cage of pets released by the British army when Japan invaded China, and they have survived undisturbed in the local area to this day. From this short story, we can see the natural friendliness of Hong Kong. What most people don't know is that Hong Kong is not only a bustling metropolis, but also a paradise for waiting for birds. Every winter, more than 60,000 migratory birds from northern China and Siberia thrive here, among which the endangered black-faced spoonbill accounts for 25% of the global total.
Ye Lingfeng, who has lived in Hong Kong for most of his life, wrote down the local history of Hong Kong more than half a century ago and wrote another side of Hong Kong from a natural perspective. In his book, he said, "The position of Hong Kong butterflies in the history of world natural science may be more important than that of Hong Kong business in the history of world business."
From a new perspective of natural science and folklore, the author recorded the birds, animals, insects and fish in Hong Kong, some anecdotes, local customs, knowledge, interest and writing were freely conveyed in a small chapter, which was pleasing to the eye. He pays attention to things that are not uncommon in the city-cicadas, frogs, Shuang Yan, rhododendrons, banyan trees and kapok. Taking the whole year as the time coordinate, he talked about the New Year's Eve rice cake from the spring leeks in early spring, saying that everything is natural, that is, food, clothing, housing and transportation, four-year-old customs, and a leisurely life. The latest simplified edition adds a lot of photos, hand-drawn illustrations and notes, which makes the book more worthy of the name and more accessible.
Natural notes
Ren Zhongshu
Citic publishing house
It is hard to imagine from the title that this is a book focusing on Shanghai and its surroundings. From 20 1 1, Ren Zhong began to take notes about nature, and this book, as she said in the preface, records the community where her home is located, a small piece of wetland not far from home, the path she must pass to and from work, and a small "wasteland" where she goes to the library every month with less than 20 square meters. It is such a small corner of the city where plants, birds and insects live, which constitutes the whole content of the thick 304 pages of this book.
According to 72 phenology, this book records all kinds of creatures in nature every month of the year, and with colorful illustrations drawn by the author, shows how all kinds of creatures rise and fall according to the changes of the four seasons, even in the cracks of busy cities. The beauty of nature is changeable and endless. They are hiding in the city, really hiding in front of me. How much beauty have we never found?
Four Seasons, Walk Slowly —— Notes on Beijing Nature
Rice cake cooking
Life bookstore publishing co., ltd
After attending a "Nature Notes" group, I was busy with my work all day in Beijing, and gradually began to understand the growth cycle of every plant around me. I know the home of a kingfisher by the river in my unit, what wind blows in what season and what food will appear at what time. I know that Beijing used to be a city surrounded by mountains and a half. On the mountain, there is a golden lamp in full bloom with ice, rare big flowers and beautiful wire petals. And this book is the result of her observation and recording for more than three years.
This book can be called the first natural note about plants and phenology in North China all year round. From March to February, the author recorded more than 0/00 kinds of most representative plants in Beijing all year round, and showed the plant characteristics and wonderful natural world in North China in detail and systematically. From the words and paintings, we can see the author's deep enthusiasm and interest in the surrounding nature. In her works, from the grass and trees around the city to the unknown wild flowers and weeds in remote Shan Ye, all conform to the internal rhythm of nature, and Luo Zhi has become a rich and fine ecological network.
She not only records the moment when the yellow leaves of ash trees fall on the streets of Beijing, but also climbs over the mountains to go to the plants on the mountains when the spring is chilly: "Every year, one week after Tomb-Sweeping Day, I will visit the cliff' Three Hermits', which is my nickname for them. They are Acer clematis, Hedyotis diffusa and Corydalis Fangshan. There is reason to call them "cliff" hermits. If you see where they grow, the 90-degree vertical cliff will certainly admire these plants as much as I do. "