The Expression of Love —— Re-reading I Like Teddy Bear

? David mckee's I Like Teddy Bear is a picture book about the relationship between parents and children. The story tells that the little prince Peter wants a teddy bear as his birthday present, but his ideas are repeatedly unacceptable to his parents. Finally, because he can't beat children, Peter has a teddy bear made of pure gold. On the birthday night, the cold and hard teddy bear hoped to get a hug from Peter. At first, Peter refused, and finally put out his arms. His embrace softened the cold and hard teddy bear a little. Finally, Peter learned to hug his parents from the teddy bear.

1. Questions in the picture book

1. Why does the pure gold teddy bear become soft after hugging?

2. Why do pure gold teddy bears cry and talk?

Second, fill in the loopholes (little girl dictated, I recorded, and the underlined part supplemented for me)

? The little prince Peter's mother is a temporary witch (refer to Alice the Little Fairy). Why is she a temporary witch? Because she always plays and plays in the witch school, she doesn't study at all, and finally she can only get a temporary witch's book (diploma). Later, she got married (probably because she couldn't be a witch) and gave birth to little Peter, but no one knew that she was a temporary witch (good at disguise).

? Peter is the only child of the king and queen. The young man and woman suddenly became parents when they were not ready. On the issue of how to educate their children, it has been difficult for them to reach an understanding. After a long time, they began to resent each other and ignore each other. Peter has always been an obedient child. He never goes against his parents' wishes, but on his upcoming birthday, Peter doesn't want a gift from his parents. He wants a teddy bear, and his parents don't want to buy it for him because they think the teddy bear is for girls. But mom and dad love Peter very much, so mom thinks of magic that she hasn't used for a long time, but because she didn't study hard at school, she failed many times and had to buy magic candy (I love magic candy store too much). After eating the magic candy, the queen made a "love teddy bear" with a spell. As long as this teddy bear is hugged by human beings, it will immediately release the magic power of love, so that that person will hug others (feeling that the baby has been brainwashed by the little devil fairy of Balala). Peter is very happy and happy with "Teddy Bear of Love". And the king's family finally understood love and learned to love because of this "teddy bear of love". Hugging can make people feel warm and love, so we should hug often.

Third, stalks hidden in picture books

? Anthony browne is very keen on joking with readers. He is good at hiding some details in pictures. As for the purpose, he explained it this way: "I like to add something to the pictures. It is easy for readers to ignore these details when they read it for the first time, but when they read it again, they will find new discoveries, which can make a book worth reading again and again. " Similarly, david mckee is also a master who is good at capturing readers with small details.

1. Japan Bridge

? There is a scene in "I like Teddy Bear" in which Monet's Japanese Bridge is selected. At first, I thought it was david mckee's tribute to Monet's works, but after rereading it over and over again, I found a problem. This picture is the first time that the king and queen appeared in the picture at the same time, and they looked at each other with their eyes closed. It was on this bridge that Peter's parents decided to give away the teddy bear according to their children's wishes. This page became the turning point of the whole story. Similarly, Bridge of Japan reflected an important turning point in Monet's creative career in terms of technique and subject matter. So coincidentally, can it really only be attributed to a tribute to the master?

? The daughter said, "Peter's parents stood on the bridge because it was quiet and suitable for whispering, but they forgot the little fish in the pond. They were all soldiers of the Dragon King. Finally, the Dragon King knew that Peter's parents were going to give him a pure gold teddy bear, and the Dragon King turned himself into a teddy bear. Because the Dragon King liked being hugged, he would cry and let Peter hug him." (This is a complete sequel to the second edition)

2. A cat in boots

? In another scene of the story, a painting appeared, depicting a bridge section in Puss in Boots. Why did david mckee put a painting with such content here? I have consulted two versions of this book, and there are serious differences in translation.

? Because of the lack of original books, it is impossible to verify what this stalk should be. But we can make a bold guess. According to the picture on the wall about "Cat in Boots", I think the translation of the second version is more suitable for the development of the story.

3. Close your eyes and open your eyes

? In the cover of I Like Teddy Bear, the parents with closed eyes are in sharp contrast with the children with wide eyes, which instantly catches the reader's eye. The title page makes people feel that children and parents live in two completely different States, and the eyes are the windows to the soul. From the beginning of I like Teddy Bear, we saw the closed hearts of parents, which made me feel that "my world is actually you don't understand". Sure enough, in the development of the story, Peter's parents don't know what the child needs, don't understand the child's world at all, and even less understand the child's desire for love. But when the pure gold teddy bear softened in Peter's arms and Peter began to learn to express his love with body language, his parents' eyes finally opened, but at this time we found that Peter closed his eyes. I think Peter at this time should be intoxicated with his parents' love for a long time.

4. Continuation and conjecture of the story

? "I like Teddy Bear" and "Gorilla" both use a lot of blank space at the end of the story, which provides readers with room for imagination and has the effect of making something out of nothing and winning something out of nothing. At the end of "I like Teddy Bear", Peter holds a teddy bear in one hand and an orange ball in the other (in painting language, orange symbolizes happiness, health and courage). From the action of Peter holding a teddy bear, we can feel that the teddy bear has completely turned into a very light and soft plush toy, and the other ball coincides with the foreshadowing of the story that King China asked Peter what Christmas presents he needed. No matter the gestures or expressions of the three people, we can all feel deep love.

Fourth, the extension of the story

1. Affection

? There are many similarities between anthony browne's Gorilla and I Like Teddy Bear in the discussion of kinship.

? The pure gold teddy bear's desire for hugs is exactly Peter's inner appeal. From the beginning of the story, we saw the expressionless king and queen, the alienated parent-child relationship, and the separation between Peter and his parents. Even when Peter said "good night" to his parents on his birthday night, the king and queen just turned their backs on him and isolated him with a high chair back. At this time, we can all feel Peter's loneliness and Peter's desire for love from the picture.

? Compared with anthony browne's Gorilla, parents and children in the two books lack eye contact, physical intimacy and language warmth, and everyone's life is like parallel lines, and there is no intersection. "Gorilla" makes the father extend his arms to his daughter through a doll gorilla, while "I like teddy bears" makes the son extend his arms to his parents through a teddy bear. Either way, we can see that if the disharmonious parent-child relationship is to be broken, one party must take the initiative and one party must have the courage to change it.

? We can see from the above two pictures that both Peter's parents and Anna's father have chosen to use books and newspapers to block the distance between them and their children, so that they are emotionally alienated. Emotion in a painting is mainly conveyed by straight lines, diagonal lines, curves and colors. Although david mckee chose a lot of warm colors (red, orange and yellow) in I Like Teddy Bear, trying to create a warm atmosphere, in fact, readers still read their emotional coldness from Peter's parents' stiff expressions, which just set off this strong color. The use of straight lines also makes the high chair back instantly block the road of family communication. Anthony browne's Gorilla is even more direct. He uses a lot of lines, intersecting lines and geometric patterns in cool colors (blue, black and white) to express the disharmony between Anna and her father, and also makes readers feel Anna's loneliness. But at the same time, we should also pay attention to the color expression of the two authors' little protagonists. Is it just a coincidence that Peter is wearing a blue (cool) robe in warm colors and Anna is wearing a red (warm) sweater in cold colors? Children's abrupt color main line makes readers' eyes gather here, and also makes us feel that the breakthrough of the inherent world is the children themselves.

? We saw the last picture of the story. The king and queen, who had been expressionless, danced happily, and the king also put Peter around his neck to play. Again, we compared the scene of the gorilla setting up Anna in Gorilla. In Anna's heart, the gorilla played the role of father, and finally his father's heart was moved by Anna's love, and he crossed the barrier of the chair and kissed his daughter in a prone position to understand and meet her needs and re-establish their close relationship, and kept wearing cold clothes.

? "I like Teddy Bear" reminds me all the time like a warning slogan, making me understand that we should pay more attention to her inner world while giving her material life. This reminds me of teacher Wang Renping's words: "Cultivating" means "accompanying and raising". We are busy all day looking for ways to cultivate children's ability and quality, but we often don't even have the patience to accompany them. We want to omit the process of nurturing, and we just want to educate our children in simple, rude and quick-acting ways such as preaching, beating and cursing, while ignoring the construction of good family relations. Relationship precedes education and includes education. With a solid parent-child relationship, education will become relaxed, happy and natural.

? In addition to family cards in picture books, we will also find many in movies, some of which are main lines, while others are hidden lines, such as the French movie Spring of the Cowherd. The main line of the film tells the story of Matthew, a music teacher, teaching music to children in a boarding school for boys. In the film, Pierre, a problem boy with a natural voice, appeared, and Matthew finally excavated Pierre's musical talent through persuasion. There is a hidden line in the film. Matthew met Pierre's mother many times and kept telling her about Pierre's highlights, hoping that Pierre could give full play to his musical talent. Although Matthew's purpose was not simple, it was precisely because he kept giving Pierre's mother hints about this talent that Pierre's mother finally left the boarding school with him to study music more systematically, which gave birth to a great conductor.

? From this hidden line, we can see Matthew's role. It is the existence of this external force that improves the estranged mother-child relationship in jeanpierre, and it is also the promotion of external force that makes Pierre's mother change her attitude towards her children, and finally leads Pierre to complete the transformation of her own growth.

2. Hug

? Jimmy's "Hug" has two sentences on the front and back covers, "No hug should be forgotten" and "Every hug shines with touching secrets". Dr. Herold Fowles, a famous American psychologist, said: "Hugging can eliminate depression-it can improve the efficiency of the immune system in the body; Hugging can inject new energy into a tired body and make you younger and more energetic. In the family, a daily hug will strengthen the relationship between members and greatly reduce friction. "

? Psychological research shows that the psychological quality of children who are often touched and hugged is much healthier than those who lack these actions. This is especially true for adults. It will make you feel safe and warm again in your childhood. The hug between people is a transmission of love. Peter learned to hug through teddy bears, and then he taught his parents to hug. I believe his parents will also teach others to hug. This is a transmission of love and a continuation of emotions.

? Jimmy's lonely red lion set in "Hug" is to feel the magic of hug in reading, from refusing to hug, to yearning for hug, to simulating hug and learning to hug. Here,