This book is beautiful in literary grace, picture, story and implication.
But at the moment, I want to talk about how interesting the illustrations in this book are.
1. Broken eggshell painting
Alison Jane, an illustrator, will paint with a special kind of oil paint, which will crack the surface of the canvas and imitate the old one. So it is also called "broken eggshell painting".
Look carefully, those little flowers on the cover picture turned out to be fried eggs.
After reading this book, the child learned a new painting method. Unfortunately, my baby is too young to draw this effect.
But we can draw eggs!
2. Cloud
The clouds in the book are full of various shapes. When reading with my baby, I will look for shapes together, including elephants, pigs and skirts; And will learn from these shapes, such as adding eyes to pigs and letting elephants spray water.
The shape of the cloud and the things on the ground also echo each other, such as the white cloud pig, horse and skirt in the sky, and the prototype can also be found on the ground.
Clouds change with stories. When the king asked the little boy for colorful clothes, a crown cloud appeared in the sky; When Cai Yun's clothes were put back into the sky, a skirt cloud appeared; When the little boy and the little girl finally ran hand in hand, a cloud of love appeared in the air.
At the end of July, I took my little sisters home alone. The high-speed rail is so boring that I suddenly found the clouds in the sky, which are so beautiful. So I took them to play the game of cloud.
At first, we simply observed the shape of clouds. This cloud is like a duck, and that cloud is like a crocodile, writing stories there.
In addition, I also took a few random pictures for my children to draw on their mobile phones.
The journey of more than five hours is more exciting because of the clouds!
pleasant surprise
After watching it many times, one day, my daughter suddenly pointed to a place and said, "Mom, it seems to be a smiling face here." "So my daughter and I started looking together, only to find that expressions were hidden everywhere.
Trees, grazing sheep, conditional paths, birds, fences, etc. Form expressions in illustrations; There is a cloud with an ambiguous expression; Finally found that even the house is very expressive.
And these expressions change with the story.
At the beginning, the story is peaceful and the expression is calm.
I was scared when I met a little boy in the middle and yelled at him for clothes.
As the clouds were spun into threads, the sky stopped raining, plants began to wither, and the expression became sad at this time.
Finally, when the little princess returned the clothes, clouds appeared in the sky again. With the sound of rain, people cheered and everywhere turned into smiling faces.
Isn't it fun! A book can make children fall in love with reading and painting, and also cultivate their observation ability and imagination.
Do you want to share it with the children?