Died on June 29, 2007, and the epitaph engraved on the tombstone in California was impressive:
Love and hope never die (the dream of love and hope never dies).
For parents, "love" and "hope" are really too vague words. How to tell them and make them understand is really a big problem.
Michael gregniec, a picture book writer, solved this problem easily with a book "Flower of the Rainbow".
Michael gray Neck is an experienced writer. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, moved to America, and then lived in Japan. In 2003, I worked as a "resident writer" in Nanchang 2 1 Century Publishing House, Jiangxi Province for one year, which is closely related to China.
He is a prolific writer. His picture books published in America and European countries include When I Open My Eyes, Good Morning and Good Night, and What's in Your Pocket? 》; I have worked with many Japanese writers on many picture books and published Why Are You Sad? Where are you? I will wait for you, pickup truck, dad's scarf, Feiair, shortcut, which leg goes first and many other works.
Rainbow Flower is one of his representative works.
This is a very stylized book: using mural painting method, first painting on canvas with plaster, then painting, and finally showing a special effect with three-dimensional effect.
Thick textures and large areas of colors have brought a primitive and rough aesthetic feeling to this book.
It tells a warm and touching story.
Winter goes and spring comes, and the sun rises. He was surprised to find that a rainbow-colored flower bloomed on the snowy Yuan Ye yesterday.
Rainbow flower appeared in a positive and optimistic style: "I'm so happy to see the sun!" " I really want to share my happiness with you! "
One kind and lovely little animal after another walked through the flowers.
They are full of worries.
Flowers generously gave them petals again and again, giving them the most timely help.
Ants use petals as boats to float across puddles, which is really safe.
It's cool that mice tie petals to their tails to make fans.
Lizards put petals on their bodies to make clothes. It's beautiful.
Hedgehog put petals on his body to keep out the rain. It is really warm.
The bird gave her daughter petals as a birthday present. I'm so happy.
A gust of wind blew and the last petal was blown away, leaving nothing for the rainbow-colored flowers.
The flowers finally broke and the snow fell. She stood there quietly, a little submerged.
The earth is wrapped in silver, and perhaps no one will remember that there was once a rainbow-colored flower.
Don't!
Ants, mice, lizards, hedgehogs and birds never forget the help of rainbow-colored flowers.
Rainbow flowers will remain in their memory forever.
The long winter finally passed and the sun came out. To my surprise, rainbow-colored flowers appeared again.
Rainbow Flower is a book that children can instinctively read for a long time, and different ages can play it differently.
For children around 2 years old, they can be led to count and recognize colors.
For example, at the beginning, how many petals can a child count?
After losing a petal, let the child count, and so on.
The hardest thing is to recognize the color.
I always thought it was easy for children to recognize colors, but unfortunately it wasn't.
When I was playing in Naughty Castle, I had a red bobball in my hand and asked Lele to bring me one of the same color. As a result, she often takes it wrong.
Later, I pointed to the red ball and asked her what color it was. She told me "blue!" "
I was depressed several times, and even wondered if this guy was color blind.
A while ago, I listened to an English enlightenment lecture, which mentioned three steps that Montessori taught children to know letters:
The first step: this is, as parents say, to teach children cognition;
The second step, show me, is to let the children identify;
The third step, tell me, let the children speak for themselves.
I think this method should be suitable not only for learning letters, but also for teaching words and understanding all kinds of things.
As for teaching children to know colors, this method can be called a killer, and the effect is very obvious.
For children over 3 years old, rainbow flowers can let him know what is "love" and "hope".
Rainbow flower has a kind heart.
She tries her best to help everyone who needs help and bring happiness and warmth to the small animals.
At the same time, this flower also nourishes the rainbow-colored hearts of babies and sows the seeds of kindness in their hearts.
I saw a warm-hearted story on the Internet before:
In Lianyungang, Jiangsu, a female passenger took a bus and got on the bus without swiping her card. The driver reminded her that the female passenger kept accusing him.
After repeated explanations failed, the driver chose to bear it silently alone.
A little girl who witnessed the whole process secretly handed the driver a small note.
"Please don't lose your good mood because of a small matter. Maybe my aunt didn't mean to. I hope you are happy every day. "
After seeing the note, the driver said:
"Bus drivers often have this timid problem, but they are in a good mood all day when they see this note."
This little girl, who can be called an angel, once planted a kind seed in her heart, thrived and finally gave off dazzling light.
Finally, the sun said happily, "Good morning, Rainbow Flower. Goodbye! "
The sun will think, is this from last year?
This is definitely not the one from last year!
But she was the seed of last year.
At one time, no one knew whether this seed could survive.
However, as long as she is here, she keeps a hope.
And this hope is precious, especially after the previous hardships and near despair.
Everything in this world is accomplished by hope:
If a farmer doesn't want corn to grow into seeds, he won't peel it;
A bachelor will never get married if he never wants to have children;
A businessman will not go to work if he doesn't want to make a profit from it.
If you encounter a hurdle that you can't get through, you have hope in your heart and a high probability of surviving it.
Many times, looking back at the original "dark moment" is nothing more than that.
Parents accompanying their children to read "Rainbow Flowers" have no less impact on their children's hearts.
Do you feel a little ignorant when you compare yourself with the words love and hope?
When I was young, I always thought that I could at least be a hero like Ling Huchong and Yang Guo, but in the end, how did I become Yue Buqun?
Life is always like this, making people laugh and cry.
But as long as those grinding pains don't crush us to death in the past, we still have hope and the possibility of turning over.
As we sang when we were young and frivolous, "We never gave up our ideals in the face of cold eyes and ridicule."
This world is the world of the heart.
About the author: Feng, a daily writing practitioner, reads a book every week, a middle-aged Tianjin nanny who is still trying to grow up, and runs an official WeChat account independently. I'm Feng.