Book title: "Four Fourteen Wolves" 8-open Coated paper hardcover 46 pages
This picture book is a second time, and I still feel it.
"In nature, animals and plants can only survive by dependent on each other.
is like a puzzle, and all the fragments are put together to form a huge picture."
— "Four Fourteen Wolves"
Every species is a fragment on this huge puzzle of nature. It seems inconspicuous, but it cannot be missed.
However, I didn’t expect before reading this book that this negative character, which has always been regarded as the incarnation of “brutal and evil”, is so important.
They are wolf.
In Little Red Riding Hood, it transforms into a wolf grandmother and is removed by the hunter for intending to swallow the little girl. In the cartoon, it plays again, Big Wolf that shouts "I will definitely come back" every time. It is a terrifying existence and a fearsome character in many literary works. It left a negative impression on people and invisibly became the object of human discrimination.
Then, what bad intentions do wolf have? It just wants to eat enough and not be hungry, nurture offspring, and reproduce and prosper. Such ideals are not luxurious in nature, and can be said to be reasonable and should be respected.
However, the end of discrimination is extinction. Under the call to encourage attacks and even reward S. People raised the shotgun , in order to get the reward and protect their livestock, and simply for prejudice. In
Yellowstone National Park , those free and ferocious wolves disappeared.
Until then, people discovered that the elk , which was originally the food of gray wolf , was too much to be filled.
Foliage, saplings, and weeds are over-gnitted, and the trees and meadows cannot turn into barren brown dry soil. Without trees as homes, birds look for other places to make nests, bears, beaver , rabbits, fox are getting fewer and fewer...
With the extinction of gray wolf here, nature has lost its vitality, and everything seems to be degenerating, developing towards a scene that people do not want to see.
I used to be disliked by you, but later I found that I couldn’t do without you.
995, the remedial action to reintroduce wolves into the park was finally implemented with the efforts of many parties.
is elsewhere, captured and migrated, allowing it to adapt to the environment, issue in a planned manner, track, observe and research.
Fifteen wolfs became the advance force to support.
One fell in the capture stage, fourteen, opening up the heroes who adapted to the environment, reproduced, nurtured offspring, and strengthened the wolf pack. Yellowstone ecosystems have improved, but they are also at risk of being shot and killed by accident after walking out of the border.
"Four Fourteen Wolves" comes from the story of this "wild" project. The story is full of warmth, breaking the inherent cognition and rigorous science popularization, and delicate style of painting, all make this picture book look good and informative.
The translation of this book is Harry Potter translation Ma Ainong , the text is as beautiful as prose.
illustration is also drawn by Kate Greenwener Grand Prize winner Jenny Desmond. The realistic style is cute and some small details can be highlighted.
This story adapted from real cases also brings inspiration to people. Let us think about how humans and nature should coexist, and let children read stories and understand knowledge while knowing the real wolf, feel the magic and mystery of nature, and understand the importance of species balance.
It is worth mentioning that the introduction manual included in this picture book was written by children's literature writer Chang Li and children's book author and translator Ajia. It not only deeply analyzes the picture book itself, but also extends more questions worth pondering.
read the picture book thicker, and it also reads more meanings, which is worth reading.
