? I'm not good at exams this week, because I'm always thinking about something when I look at the exam questions, so the answers in my mind will be mixed up, so it's always a problem for me to scratch my head to participate in the written test selection of the unit. I really hate the age of less than 4, and I have to worry about the exam questions in the midsummer with pleasant weather and comfortable temperature. So, what to read? I'm sure it won't work. It's too time-consuming. If you don't come to this juvenile literature, the space is not long. By the way, learn the direction and determine the age at which children can read. Cricket in Times Square is on the list.
At first, I was a little adrift. Although it was a realistic scene, it was a fairy tale role. For an adult like me who doesn't have much interest in animals, crickets and mice are not so cute. But in the fourth chapter, when a cat Henry ~ the third fairy tale character appeared, the mood began to fluctuate. I was worried that the mouse would be attacked by him, but in fact they turned out to be good friends. This bridge is really like riding a roller coaster. Then the story becomes fascinating, whether it is the hospitality of Feng Sai, a cultural relic dealer in Chinatown, the origin of crickets in China history (I really know it for the first time here), the delicious food in China, and the amazing musical talent of Chester cricket, all of which make the plot climax again and again. And those waltzes, serenades, marches, Italian folk songs, opera aria, and religious poems are all making the beauty of music known to the world in words, which is also a potential aesthetic education for teenagers! Therefore, I think reading such a novel with the company of famous songs should be a wonderful enjoyment!
I deeply understand that this novel also involves friendship, self, freedom and choice. Especially when Chester cricket decided to leave his young master and return to his hometown in rural Connecticut because he couldn't feel the real joy of playing music, and finally made a curtain call and expressed his love for him, it was a moment of tears! Like the pursuit of the tide, the love of the owner, and the companionship of friends, I can say that I am reluctant to leave, but I still decided to leave. This may be a choice that adults facing the same situation can't easily make, and it also reminds me of the wise little fox in The Little Prince. This is to tell more young readers that respecting the heart is a more precious experience!
On the other day, when I searched the Internet disk, I saw the academic online celebrity Ping Ge's "Cricket in Times Square", and I went to look through the catalogue specially. It seems that it is still being updated. It is necessary to take time to listen to it, and it should be more detailed. However, for children, it is still recommended to read books before listening to them, so as to guide their own thinking and understanding to be broader and more detailed.
Finally, it is recommended to read this book for grade 4 and above. You can read it as a fairy tale first in primary school, and then read it again in middle school to experience the transmission of values! For a work that won the Nuremberg UBS Prize in 1961, it is not easy to understand and describe the elements of China in detail and in a friendly way at that time when China and the United States had not formally established diplomatic relations. Pay tribute to the author!