Author: [English] author Bai, translated
Press: Hebei Education Press
Publication date: February 2020?
Picture book story reading link:
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Sharing this book with children is actually a way to learn to get along with "acceptance and tolerance": the expressions of various animals in the book reflect the typical personalities of different children and are worth savoring.
—— Associate Professor, Department of Art and Labor, Su Taipei Teachers College, and children's picture book writer
Going swimming with Uncle Gan conveys the message of "obeying the rules" gently, naturally and humorously in a simple way.
? Uncle Gan has a boat and his home is by the river.
? One day, he wanted to swim in the river, so he punted into it. Along the way, I met two children, a rabbit and a cat ... they all asked to get on the boat, and Uncle Gan agreed to their conditions and only asked them to abide by the rules. At first, the young tourists on board could abide by the rules, but soon they showed their true colors. As a result, the boat capsized and everyone fell into the river Uncle Gump is not angry. They went ashore to bask in the sun together. Uncle Gan also invited the little guests to his house for tea. When leaving, Uncle Gan invited the guests to take a cruise together next time.
The story "Going to the River with Uncle Gan" adopts a narrative method suitable for children, with a simple and lively plot and repeated many times.
Since Uncle Gan set out to swim the river, he met new tourists again and again, and every time the tourists asked Uncle Gan to take him to swim the river. Where's Uncle Gump? Every time, he kindly promised the guests and told them the rules. This story was repeated nine times until the established rules between Uncle Gan and his animal friends were broken and everyone fell into the water.
A beautiful day begins with Uncle Gan swimming alone in the river.
Next, the partners joined in. They experienced a drowning game. Everyone basked in the sun and went to Uncle Gan's house for tea. Uncle Gan made an appointment with them to swim the river together next time. This is a beautiful day, so it's over. ...
In a simple and vivid story, it contains the rhythm of poetry:
Up- Swim across the river alone.
Cheng-tourists join
Turn-? Break the rules
Close to- Have tea at the party.
The beginning and inheritance of the story is quiet and peaceful. The turning part breaks the silence and becomes noisy, so the story changes and is full of fun. The last sentence is "Come to the river again next time!" Give people infinite beautiful and interesting reverie-what will happen next time you swim in the river?
The cover of Going to the River with Uncle Gan shows us a harmonious and beautiful scene. On the edge of a tender mountain, Uncle Gan leaned over and supported the cruise ship with a pole, smiling at the distant scenery. The ship is crowded with tourists, children, rabbits, cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, chickens, cows and goats. They stayed quietly in the boat, looking at their favorite direction. The boat is green, the water plants are green, and everything has the breath of nature.
Dangdang data wrote:
Illustrator john boyne Hamm once received the freest and most democratic open education at Summerhill School in England. Therefore, the book is full of Xiashan's trust and tolerance, and the atmosphere of letting things develop naturally-without too many restrictions and reactions. "
The first page of the story introduces "This is Uncle Gan".
Uncle Gan's face was drawn in a cartoon, with round little black dots as his eyes and curved arcs as his smiling mouth.
Uncle Gump looks very amiable. Behind him is his home. His home is full of rural customs. There is a lush forest behind the house and a nursery in front of it. Uncle Gan is preparing to sprinkle water on the flowers.
On the second page of the picture, Uncle Gan has a boat. His boat is by the river. What an enviable life! The leisurely and beautiful atmosphere is also reflected in the painting. The boat rowed leisurely across the shore, surrounded by reeds and weeds.
The picture of tourists falling into the water at the back of the picture book reads "The boat capsized". If you only rely on this sentence, it seems that you can't see the state when the ship capsizes, but the dynamic picture vividly shows everyone's performance when the ship capsizes, enriching the story content of this sentence.
The boat capsized, and the children and Uncle Gan fell into the water with open arms. Some animals held their arms high and fell straight into the water, while others fell into the water with their backs down. In short, it was very lively. I believe every child will be very happy to read this. They like this kind of confusion, because it is the nature of children!
Let's walk to Uncle Gan's house. This painting is a beautiful and long country road. Uncle Gan led his friends to stroll on the road. The wind blew through the Woods and meadows. Everyone walked forward talking and laughing, and order was naturally established. This painting is full of harmonious and beautiful atmosphere.
It is also wonderful for friends to have tea at Uncle Gan's house. Everyone sat quietly in their seats, enjoying the wonderful afternoon tea. Uncle Gan doesn't need any requirements or guidance from them. After the release of madness, they all naturally calmed down, and joy and harmony filled them.
Finally, it was getting late, and Uncle Gan said goodbye to his friends. The vague figures of his friends and the bleak scenery around them all indicate the coming of night.
I believe that every child who has seen Swimming with Uncle Gan is looking forward to swimming with Uncle Gan and experiencing a wonderful story. At the end of the story, "Goodbye, visit the river next time." It leaves readers room for reverie.
Screen design in the whole book is very special. Different from other picture books, it is colorful and has a large area of color blocks. Watercolor painting and sketch alternately appear, giving people a fresh and elegant, harmonious and beautiful feeling.
A careful appreciation of this painting will reveal an interesting phenomenon.
Throughout the book, from Uncle Gan's cruise to the joining of the last goat companion, it is a transition from black and white to color, from color to black and white, and so on.
The page numbers on the left are sketches in black and white, all depicting Uncle Gan holding a cruise ship. On the cruise ship, the partners who boarded the boat along the river looked at the outside freely, happily and orderly, and their faces were full of joy.
The page on the right is the watercolor renderings of the friends who appeared in the later journey.
Left and right pages appear alternately, giving people different impressions:
The cruise ship, Uncle Gan and his friends, the river, the surrounding background, the characters and scenery in the picture are all vague and the outline is vague. Use different shades of black lines to describe the picture.
This picture gives the impression that a cruise ship is driving slowly.
Because the ship is moving forward, the river is fluctuating, and the surrounding scenery is regressing, everything is illusory and seemingly simple regardless of the characters on board or the background outside the ship. However, this seems to be the genius of the painter's technique.
Although every painting is still, the painter can convey the feeling that the boat is constantly moving in the blur of cruise ships, tourists and surrounding scenery. This is really great!
Where the picture stays, the background is different from the previous one, which also secretly conveys the information that the cruise ship keeps moving forward.
Close-ups of friends who want to join the cruise ship ranks are all big close-ups. The protagonist has a clear outline, bright colors and vivid characters.
The photos of two children, with big feet, seem to be hanging in the air, giving people a feeling of freedom. The little girl's hair fluttered in the air, so unrestrained and naive. The background around the children is the water plants and wild ducks on the shore, full of strong rural flavor. Painting also embodies the unique flavor of Xiashan School, which is in line with children's nature and does not make too many restrictions and reactions.
The little rabbit appeared. This is a quiet and beautiful rabbit. Its quiet eyes are full of longing for swimming in the river, surrounded by beautiful wild flowers. Little rabbit still has a beautiful little yellow flower in his hand. Really like a girl who loves nature.
Observing the children, rabbits, cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, chickens, cows and goats in turn, their eyes are quiet and full of desire to swim in the river. The natural background behind them is also completely different, some are wild flowers, some are grasslands, some are Woods, and some are outside the farmhouse. Although each picture is still, it can convey the feeling that the ship is constantly moving in different background objects.
After comparing the two pages, on the whole, in the scene where the little friend asked to join nine times on his way to the river, the left and right pages showed a comparative effect:
Distance, movement, reality, black and white, collective, individual ...
The seemingly simple picture shows such rich effects that I have to admire the author's unique painting techniques.
Dutch sucker, a Japanese psychologist, said in reading Going to the River with Uncle Gan: "Children grow up in the process of' order-the destruction of order-the restoration of order (or the formation of a new order)".
Order: In the process of swimming the river, Uncle Gan asks everyone to abide by the rules every time he meets new tourists.
Disturbance of order: children show their true nature, the cruise ship falls out, everyone falls into the water, and the rules are broken.
Restoration of order: Uncle Gan led everyone to his house for tea, and everyone lived in harmony and beauty, and the order was naturally rebuilt.
This new order does not need to be realized by means of punishment, and the sudden suspension of cruise ships due to capsizing is a natural consequence of violating the rules.
Children who fall into the river after crazy and unrestrained play will naturally have some reflections, instead of being reprimanded and punished and forced to obey.
This allows children to experience the consequences of their bad behavior from natural punishment, and it is easy to internalize into rules, so that children can gradually form a sense of rules. Children need to constantly educate themselves in their mistakes, explore the feedback from the world, and then constantly adjust their behavior from the feedback, and grow up through trial and error, punishment and reflection on mistakes. This process should be happy.
Uncle Gan plays the role of a teacher in the story.
On the way to the river, every time a new tourist applies to join the river team, Uncle Gan will readily agree and put forward the corresponding rules, and the friends of the cruise ship can silently abide by the rules at first.
Later, the rules put forward by Uncle Gan were broken by the children, and the children were punished accordingly. At this time, an ordinary teacher may yell at the children and scold them for not obeying order. However, Uncle Gan didn't do what we thought. He calmly waited for everyone to be dried by the big sun, then took everyone to his house to enjoy afternoon tea, and finally welcomed everyone to swim in the river.
Some people say that perhaps Uncle Gan deliberately made pygmalion effect.
Before children and animals upload, every exhortation of Uncle Gan is a kind of "expectation". Knowing that things might happen, he gave each passenger a "spell" (hint) in a naughty way, and each spell (requirement) happened to be the passenger's nature (normal natural behavior).
Uncle Gan doesn't need to make any conditions, because saying "no …" in advance is equivalent to prompting the child to do this action. For children, we should use more positive language, avoid paying too much attention to bad behavior, and avoid using language such as "Don't ……" to strengthen bad behavior. On the one hand, we should use positive language, on the other hand, we should divert children's attention, which is more effective than thousands of "no".
However, the clever uncle Gan seems to have deliberately played a game of "destroying and rebuilding in order". He was familiar with the nature of children's animals, but deliberately put forward "Don't ……" to strengthen the bad problem, and finally the order was destroyed.
He experienced a punishment of falling into the water with his children, and then re-established order by drinking tea again. I believe that after several such punishment experiences, the awareness of rules in children's hearts will naturally be established.
This tells us that as educators, we need certain educational wisdom, and blunt demands and preaching often fail to achieve educational results and can only suppress children's nature.
Under severe demands or reprimands, children may show superficial obedience, but maybe one day something will make their nature explode.
When the child did something wrong, Uncle Gan didn't make any sense, but treated every passenger with tolerance, understanding and respect. From the story, we can always feel Uncle Gan's gentle attitude and kind heart. Under this quiet and kind power, the children were unconsciously infected, and finally everyone showed inner peace and harmony.
The story has gone through 9 questions and 9 answers. Every problem is a small passenger. Can Uncle Gan swim in the river? Every answer was that Uncle Gan agreed to let the little passengers swim in the river and put forward the rules. ?
Simple question-and-answer repetitive language structure, especially suitable for children to read. At the same time, every question reflects the polite attitude of the passengers, and every answer also reflects the kindness and kindness of Uncle Gan.
Although the teaching of reading, writing and drawing doesn't emphasize language training, in the process of children listening to stories, they subtly acquire a standardized language model, and at the same time, Uncle Gan's tolerant and kind attitude also permeates the children's hearts.
Nine questions and nine answers:
What every passenger wants to express is "Uncle Gan, can I go swimming with you?" However, the different sentence patterns used make the language of picture books more changeable and not too rigid.
1. Child: "Shall we go with you?"
Rabbit: "Uncle Gan, shall I go with you?"
3. kitten: "I want to take a boat."
4. Dog: "Will you take me with you?"
5. Pig: "Uncle Gan, can I go now? Please, please. "
6. Sheep: "Is there a seat for me?"
7. Chicken: "Can we go too?"
8. Bull: "Can you make room for me?"
9. "Uncle Gan, can I join?"
9 a:
1. "Well, as long as you don't make any noise."
2. "OK, but you can't jump around."
3. "Yes, but you can't chase rabbits."
4. "ok, but you can't mess with that cat."
5. "Yes, but you can't swing from side to side."
6. "Okay, but you can't baa."
7. "OK, but you can't flap your wings."
8. "Well, as long as you don't step on anything."
9. "Welcome, but don't kick around."
Every answer reflects Uncle Gan's goodwill and expectation for the small passengers, but this sentence pattern of "but can't ……" creates pygmalion effect. What Uncle Gan emphasized not to do is exactly what his friends naturally like to do, so it is inevitable and unexpected to fall into the water in the future.
The clever uncle Gan must have expected such an ending, but he deliberately played a game of falling into the water, so that every passenger could reflect the natural punishment.
In Piaget's theory of truth development, children aged 2-5 are in the self-centered stage, and the rules of the game or the requirements of adults have not yet formed a binding force on them. They just implement the rules of the game according to their own wishes.
6-8 years old, belonging to the authoritative stage, absolutely obeying the orders of adults and authorities and the rules or requirements set by the surrounding environment.
This picture book is suitable for children aged 3-6. According to the performance of small animals in this picture book, they should be between the age of "self-centeredness" and "authoritative stage". This picture book is conducive to helping children aged 5 or 6 to establish a sense of order in their hearts.
Teacher Ma Ling's "Early Childhood Reading Class" said: Choosing suitable reading materials for children should be based on the principle of what children need most at this stage of life.
Specific to the first grade children, at the beginning of formal learning activities, psychological security is the most important. At school, teachers read picture books to their children, which in itself tells them: I love you, I am your spiritual harbor, and you can take any learning adventure with confidence!
Therefore, this picture book is also a picture book to help first-grade children build a sense of security. Uncle Gan's tolerant and kind attitude quietly moistens the children's hearts like spring rain!
Going swimming with Uncle Gan conveys the message of "obeying the rules" gently, naturally and humorously in a simple way.
When children and animals are eating tea on a cruise ship, that childlike interest and happiness are unreservedly displayed. This is also the attitude that this book wants to convey to us-let things develop naturally without too many restrictions and reactions.