Won the picture book award of Bologna International Children's Book Fair, the most beautiful book award in Germany, the nomination award of German Youth Literature Award, the Bologna Book Award, the recommended bibliography of Silver Feather, and the national Vlag en Wimpel award in the Netherlands; A cartoon full of suspense and a picture book of children's "fear of hospitals, darkness and the unknown" can help children overcome their fear of darkness and ignorance.

Brief introduction to the story

Five injured toys are waiting outside the dark door, and there is a lamp in the door.

They walked into the room one by one, waiting for other toys outside, full of fear; Strangely, after coming out of the door, all the injured toys were cured.

What's behind the door? "Hello, doctor", wow, it turned out that the doctor cured them!

Aesthetic appreciation

The story takes dark green and bright yellow as the background colors, with bright and dark colors, which cross each other and light and dark, showing readers a ups and downs and gripping cartoon; When it is bright and dark, it makes the story full of suspense; One by one, making the story very rhythmic.

The whole painting was created with a pen. Toys show their nervousness when waiting outside the door and their happiness and relaxation after coming out of the door through rich expressions, movements and changes in environmental details.

The story layout is also very distinctive. The book adopts a single-page layout, with a large area of blank space on the left, only a few simple words, and the whole picture on the right, and always keeps the same angle. It is full of freshness by changing the color and light sense of chandeliers and room lights, so that readers can follow these toys into thrilling stories and feel their inner feelings together at the moment.

The power of language

The writing is lively and refined, with delicate brushwork and rich connotation. The full text is only 75 words, but a six-line poem has staged a surprising blockbuster. The ending is unexpected and reasonable, which completely describes the child's psychological state facing the unknown: mystery, fear, excitement, loneliness and desire; Let children understand that it is normal to be afraid of darkness and the unknown!

Every child, even adults, can get a buzz from this book, recalling the nervous feeling when going to the hospital or facing the unknown. Fortunately, I finally found that everything was not as terrible as I thought, and finally I was relieved and relaxed.

Observe the details

The story has already started from the cover. If you look closely, you will find that the toys sitting in the chair seem to be a little incomplete: the wound toy penguin has no arm, the duck's foot has a roller missing, the bear's arm is injured and bandaged, and his eyes are also wearing an eye patch. The frog's back is entangled, and the puppet's nose is broken.

The title is Fifth. There happened to be five people sitting in the chair, but who was the fifth? Let the children guess and create suspense; There is also a hidden knowledge of mathematics enlightenment-ordinal number and arrangement. Try to let the children count from left to right or from right to left to find out the differences.

In the room where toys are waiting, the position of the chandelier keeps changing: every time the door of the inner room is opened, the chandelier swings to the right; Once the door is closed, it will return to the upright position; And every time a toy enters the room inside, the chandelier will swing to the left with the direction of the toy, and the continuous movement changes make the picture move at once, which is very interesting.

The light in the room is bright yellow, full of warmth, in contrast to the cool color outside; With the physical changes after the toys came out, the whole story gradually became warm, and the toys waiting outside seemed less anxious. Until the last moment, the door of the inner room was completely opened, and everything came out: this is a lovely doctor!

Every toy leaves a good shadow on the wooden floor under the bright yellow light, which brings infinite healing power to readers.

Surprise eggs

When the author Yang Del wrote this book, he was over 70 years old. The illustrator Norman Jung is also over 60 years old. Two elderly people in their twilight years are telling their own lives with their own life experiences: in the face of darkness and the unknown, there is always a lamp on for you. Don't be afraid, everything will work out in the end.

Parenting enlightenment

How to help children overcome their fears? Parents can help children find the source of fear, such as hospitals, doctors, darkness and so on. Let the children know that everyone has some fears. This is our instinctive self-protection, don't worry too much.

Secondly, parents can guide their children to express their inner fears and weaken their fears. For example, draw what they are afraid of and let their children become heroes such as Altman who beat monsters. Children will gradually strive to overcome fear and fear.