The story between cricket, mouse and cat

What will happen between crickets, mice and cats? Let me answer, I will say "it must be a fight", "it's a war" and "the cat ate the mouse, played enough cricket, and then ate it" More specifically, I will describe how the cat's front legs are bent low, how its hind legs are tightened and pushed back, how its tail sweeps across the ground lightly, and meowing and pouncing on its delicious meal, even the enemy. The mouse and cricket escaped pitifully. There is also a kind of "war", just like the cartoon Tom and Jerry. A silly cat met a top smart mouse and cricket. They come and go, evenly matched. Someone asked, can't you live in harmony? Yes, one possibility is that cats get along well with mice and crickets (haha, this is a cold joke. )。 The second is that cats, mice and crickets will either yield, be enslaved by each other or serve each other, and peace will prevail.

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Crickets in Times Square are about the sincere friendship between these three animals, and the love and responsibility between the boy Mario and crickets. This is a novel that tells a love story in simple and natural language. By chance, Chester Cricket jumped into the picnic basket and was taken from his hometown in Connecticut to the most prosperous Times Square subway station in new york. Because his cry was discovered and adopted by the boy Mario, Mario liked the cricket very much, found a cage and mulberry leaves for it, and persuaded his mother to agree to adopt it. At Mario's newsstand, the cricket met a clever mouse and a simple and kind cat. They had two accidents while having dinner at the newsstand. On one occasion, the cricket ate half of the two-dollar bill, and on another occasion, the newsstand was burned down, causing great losses. Every accident, mice and cats try their best to help crickets. In order to reduce the loss of Mario's family, cricket helps Mario's family out of trouble with its superb performance. After becoming famous, it began to miss its hometown and the free life in the countryside, and finally returned to its beloved hometown with the understanding and help of mice and cats.

? When I first saw this book, I was attracted by the great contrast of the title, the cover picture and two simple descriptions. "Times Square" is a big and complicated world metropolis; Crickets are very small, too small to find, too small to feel incompetent and mediocre. It exists, and you can't hear it unless you walk through the weeds or brick piles far away at night (you won't bark when you get close). Moreover, the voice is monotonous and has no ups and downs, which makes people who are indifferent and rushing on the road more and more irritated. They just want to throw a stone in to stop it. What about crickets in Times Square? "newbury Children's Literature Silver Award. The world's fifty best children's books in the 20th century. This is the description on the cover of this book. There are vivid pictures of cats, mice and crickets on the cover. Based on various questions, I decided to buy them.

George szell Deng, the author of cricket in Times Square, is an American. The painting in the book is gus williams, a world-renowned American illustrator of children's books. He has painted many famous children's books. Since the publication of 196 1, this book has been well received by readers (adults and children). The author of the book is full of childlike innocence and observes the world with childlike innocence. The protagonist of the book is unexpected, the language is simple and natural, and the story makes people feel the ideological connotation of the work by accident and accident again and again. This is an excellent work and worth reading.

? There are many excellent or award-winning works on the theme of animals, such as "The Rabbit Destroys the King" and "Mr. Pope's Penguin". However, three kinds of animals are natural enemies, and three kinds of animals are not excellent in size or ability, which show their love and responsibility in the metropolis and indifferent environment of Times Square. I can't help being moved by the author's childlike innocence. Speaking of childlike innocence, this is a necessary condition for excellent children's literature. This is also what I want to focus on today.

? Childhood is the only way of life, and the experience of childhood is irreversible. This experience has a subtle influence on the outlook on life and values of adults. It can be said that the value orientation of adults was formed at that time. The famous Soviet educator Suhomlinski said: "Childhood is the most important period in life. He is not preparing for the future life, but a real and dazzling unique and unrepeatable life. What will today's children become in the future? What matters here is how he spent his childhood, who led the way hand in hand when he was a child, and what things in the world around him entered his mind and heart. " For some adult criminals and some mental patients, we can find some answers by analyzing their causes and their childhood experiences. People who are positive and optimistic in adulthood must have a happy childhood. This experience allows them to enjoy a lifetime. Childhood is so important that the influence of this period on children, especially in culture and thought, is even more important. In this respect, in addition to the educational methods provided by parents and adults, it is more important to provide them with excellent children's literature.

? Childhood children, whether in front of peers or adults, generally do not regard themselves as children. They want freedom, and they are very imitative. They always regard adults or behaviors they think are novel as imitators. They are eager to grow up and subjectively feel that they have grown up. However, in this modern society where material life is extremely rich and multi-cultures coexist, this is in conflict with children's low ability to distinguish and think and their immature minds. At this time, there are too many imitators and too many miscellaneous things. These languages, behaviors and ideologies are easy to obtain or can be directly stuffed into their eyes, ears and hearts. This simple imitation and absorption is not only bad for children, but also harmful. At first, they thought it was fun and fashionable, but its influence was profound, profound and silent.

? Rousseau, a French thinker, said: "It is natural that children should become children before becoming adults." This requires the whole society to provide children with their own childhood living resources and purify their childhood living environment. The intervention of excellent children's literature works can play an irreplaceable role. In today's society, online games, electronic toys and adult online novels are flooding the society with their advantages of fast spread and strong curiosity, which has influenced children's thoughts. At this time, excellent children's literature works are more precious and meaningful. Excellent children's literature works First of all, writers should have an eternal childlike innocence and works with childlike innocence. Then let's take a look at the situation now. Although Cao Wenxuan's beautiful essays and Zheng's fairy tales have appeared in recent ten years, and other works like The Cricket in Times Square have won the International Children's Literature Award abroad, they are far from enough compared with the rapid and massive dissemination of adult literature works on paper or online.

? Preschool children (3-6 years old) usually read more instructions to improve their ability, such as how to improve their memory, 56 small games to improve their attention and so on. Of course, there are Grimm's fairy tales and Aesop's fables. Children in the lower grades of primary school often read some "pocket books" that can be bought at a very low price at the campus gate (books are small and can be put in their pockets, and most of them are imitated after being circulated by seniors). No author or pen name of this kind of book is novel; There is no publishing house or publishing house called flowers or anything like that. The content is mostly cold jokes and horror zombie stories. My son bought it in the second grade. He read it with relish, and sometimes he is too scared to sleep alone. In the senior grade of primary school, children have begun to read adult novels (both in paper and online), including youth idols, emotional life, horror suspense, detective murder and so on. And comics, mostly cold jokes. Throughout the primary school and junior high school, all kinds of famous teachers guide the composition, which also takes up part of the children's reading time. In recent years, the situation has improved. The state began to attach importance to reading for all, especially advocating children to read excellent works. Primary and junior high school campuses open libraries for children to borrow; City libraries also set up reading rooms specially for children; After the new curriculum reform, Chinese reading and writing began to pay attention to let children read and appreciate beautiful articles that meet their characteristics, pay attention to personality when writing, and encourage children to write with their own experiences and perspectives. The introduction and appearance of classic picture books also guide children's reading. However, due to various reasons, there is still a long way to go for children to understand writers full of childlike innocence and create excellent children's literature works full of childlike interest.

? What do you need? I heard a story: a boy about 3 years old. He just said a few nice words to his mother and bought a monkey king noodle. Later, when he saw a marshmallow, he called his mother to buy him another marshmallow. His mother disagreed, saying that he "bought whatever he saw." . But I couldn't beat the child, so my mother bought it anyway. As soon as the little boy got it, he put the Monkey King and marshmallows together and said with satisfaction, "the Monkey King, here comes your somersault cloud. You can step on it and do somersaults. " What a pure and kind childlike innocence!

? Every child is kind and pure, full of love and beauty. Adults have the obligation and responsibility to create an environment for them to accept excellent children's literature, so that their thoughts and spirits can be returned and purified, and excellent children's literature works can quickly and massively cultivate and publicize them and penetrate their hearts. Let children enjoy childhood life in childhood!

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