This woman, her name is Alice. I loved listening to my grandpa telling stories since I was young. When I grew up, I went to work as a librarian far away. Later, I traveled around the world, including tropical islands, snow-capped mountains, and deserts. She hurt her waist during a trip, so she stayed in a house by the sea. In order to make the world around her more beautiful, she began to constantly sprinkle the seeds of Lu Binghua in the front and back of the house, the roadside fields, and even the church school.
The flowers are blooming, the Lubing flowers swaying in the wind, purple, white and pink, are like this woman's life, beautiful and moving. People no longer call her by her name, but call her-"Mother Flower".
"Flower Granny", a classic picture book recognized worldwide. Won the National Book Award of the United States, was selected as the "100 New England Classic Children's Books" by "American" magazine, was named "the best-selling children's book of all times" by the American "Publisher Weekly", and was selected by the Picture Book Research Department of Japan Children's Book Research Association Compile "Picture Book·500 Books for Children".
Because she loves to listen to grandpa telling stories, she has determined to be like grandpa since she was a child, and will do three things when she grows up:
The first thing is to travel far away.
The second one is old, I just live by the sea.
The third and most important thing is to do something to make the world more beautiful.
The third thing is the most difficult, but she finally thought that wherever her footprints can be, the seeds of Lubing flowers will be sprinkled. In the second year, all the flowers have bloomed, and the world has changed. More beautiful.
In one sentence, stand up and stand up to the heart
There is a core sentence in the story: do something to make the world more beautiful .
When most parents read this picture book to their children, they always emphasize the meaning of this sentence, and when discussing with their children how to make the world beautiful, the children’s answer cannot escape planting flowers and plants. The answer to building a big house.
But the understanding of this sentence should be two aspects:
If the child is over 5 years old or even older, we can share the grand narrative structure of this book with the child. A picture book connects the stories of three generations: Many years ago, Granny Hua's grandfather came to the United States on a large sailing ship. At the end of the story, Granny Hua's niece listened intently to her aunt's story and promised her aunt to do those three things when she grew up.
From the perspective of writing enlightenment, we can see that in writing, one sentence can point out the core and meaning of the story, and one sentence also makes the story have a beginning and an end, and it is clear.
Miaoying enters the heart, the lady in the chaos in the picture book
Peng Yi, an early researcher of Chinese picture books, is interpreting the picture book "The Flower Granny" "At this time, I said something interesting and memorable:
This story is not so much moving children, it can make women more teary.
Whenever I read this sentence, I always think of the cover of "Mother Flower": an elegant woman, with her back straight and head high, the wind blows her cloak open and blowsTossed her hair, she walked gracefully and firmly along a winding path.
Cover of "Flower Mother"
Side face, profile, high head, graceful curves of the body sprinting in the wind, in the sound of the sea and the wind in the wilderness, It is not only a woman's beautiful posture, but also her attitude towards life, which is particularly moving.
Seeing such a figure, I can't help but think of the American movie "Gone with the Wind", this famous film based on Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind", once swept the top ten Oscar awards, female The protagonist Scarlett, a daughter of a daughter, experienced a series of emotional ups and downs in the smoke of the American Civil War, the death of a child, the departure of a lover, and the poverty of life, but she never forgot what her father once said: "世界上只有地与Tomorrow is with the same." At the end of the story, the rich daughter was transformed into a brave and strong lady in troubled times, still clinging to her land, looking forward to a better tomorrow. .
Stills from the American movie "Gone with the Wind"
Like Scarlett, both are amazing women, beautiful, independent, elegant, brave, and The image of "Mother Flower" is also an extraordinary woman: Barbara Cooney. This is one of America’s greatest picture book writers. Since the publication of the self-written picture book "King of Destroy Island" in 1941, she has created more than 100 picture books in the past 60 years. Among them, she is responsible for the illustration of "Golden Voice and "The Fox" and "The Bull Catcher" won the American Cadick Gold Medal in 1959 and 1980 respectively.
Barbara Cooney mainly wrote and paints himself in his later creations. "Flower Granny" is a work with a strong autobiographical color. After she became famous, she once recalled: my great-grandfather was an artist. He came from Germany Immigrated to Manhattan...My mother is an oil and watercolor painter. I can easily get all the materials needed for painting. She often lets me paint by myself. Cooney had two marriages in her life. In her second marriage, she married a country doctor and moved to a place near the sea in Maine, living in a large New England-style house built in the 19th century. Until his death in March 2000.
From the perspective of writing enlightenment, we can clearly see that many real experiences of Barbara Cooney appear in the story of "Mother Flower". This inspires us to try our best to search for the events we have experienced in writing, and choose real materials to write, so that it is easier to express successfully and to move people more easily.
Barbara Cooney, America’s greatest picture book writer
Winning in details is the real success Bara Cooney once said: "A picture book is like a string of pearl necklaces, the picture is pearls, and the text is a thin line of pearls. Thin lines cannot be beautiful without pearls, and necklaces do not exist without thin lines."
In her later works, the pictures and texts have returned to a meticulous, true, and quiet natural style, and they blend together, which should be inseparable from her deep understanding of pictures and texts in picture books.
Barbara Cooney’s painting style is characterized by a combination of the integrity of the scene and the tightness of the details. In "Mr. Flower", although the characters are the absolute protagonist of the story, we see that Ms. Flower still occupies a small proportion in the picture, and the position is not absolutely in the center. We can find that she does not want to give people a strong vision. The sense of shock, but placing the characters in a broader and broader context, allows readers to extend their eyes infinitely, leaving enough room for imagination, which corresponds to the profound connotation of this work.
The performance of the details makes this story with such a large span of time and space appear very full and vivid. People in tropical islands and small oriental countries have different clothes, houses, buildings, and seaside The winding road, the small flowers blooming on the side of the road, the cloak, the hair style of the mother-in-law, the furniture of the room are all paintedVery meticulous, it can be seen that it has been strictly studied, not casually written.
From the perspective of writing enlightenment, we can tell children: sometimes writing does not require big and important events to support. Remember those little things, those small, interesting, and make people The details that shine in front of your eyes or throb in your heart are attractive treasures.
Barbara Cooney once said, "The Flower Mother" is her own story. When spring comes, flowers bloom everywhere, and children in the field run all the way holding flowers... This scene is the most beautiful scene in Barbara Cooney's heart. Just like what she said through the flower mother:
You must do something to make the world more beautiful
Do something to make the world more beautiful
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