The story goes like this: an old man lives in a strange house by the sea. The reason is very strange, because the old man lives in this small town, and the sea water keeps rising, flooding the original house, so the residents build new houses on the original house, just like a hut made of building blocks.
Grandma died three years ago, leaving only grandpa to get up early in the morning to fish for dinner. Hens and wheat are raised on the roof, and daily necessities are bought on merchant ships, so life is orderly.
One day, the sea flooded the floor again, and grandpa began to build a new house. However, grandpa accidentally dropped the tool to the third floor underwater, so he dived into the water to get it.
Grandpa got the tools and saw the tattered bed in the house. It suddenly occurred to him that grandma died here three years ago, so he wanted to see the house below again, because no matter which floor of the house, there were good memories.
Spring has come, the new house has been built, and there is a dandelion in the crack of the wall. My grandfather smiled when I saw the dandelion in full bloom.
Through this book, I know that memories are beautiful, worth collecting and can be recalled all the time. But the new days in the future are also worth cherishing. The translator of this book has a sentence that I like very much: "Even if everything goes wrong, just like the plot in the book-the sea will always flood the new house, we are still poised and full of expectations, just like an old man with a pipe, smiling at the dandelion in full bloom in the spring breeze." The past days have passed and memories are beautiful, but we should take our future life seriously and make persistent efforts to create a better world.
After reading this book, my mother asked me why the sea has been rising. I don't know. Mom said it was because of global warming, some icebergs melted, the sea level rose and the sea flooded grandpa's house. I admire the author of this book even more. There is no exhortation in his book, but he uses vivid stories to make us understand the importance of protecting the earth and protecting our beautiful homeland.
The paintings in this book are also very clever, which makes people feel warm and heavy: let us understand a heavy truth in a warm story and show a warm story in a heavy topic.