This is a story of an apprentice cook who wished to learn culinary skills from a chef. He was tasked to prove his worth through kitchen cleaning. Meanwhile, as he was cleaning，he met his friends coincidentally as they came in to be the customers. Read about how he uses his quick wits (if you see it that way) to impress his friends and managed to learn something along the way, and also if he managed eventually to learn from the chef.
The highlight of this book is probably found in the handful of pages showing the sequence in which the ingredients for the omelette rice were being added. The pages can be made interactive in that children may pretend to be doing the cooking (on the page) while being read to.
There are also a few interesting discussion points that we can raise for our children while reading. For example, is it right for Lele to allow his friends into the kitchen? Is it right for him to pretend that he knows how to cook in front of his friends while he actually has not really started learning from Chef Bear? What would our children choose to do if they were also in the same circumstance as Fox Lele?
I think it is up to us as parents to guide our children to think, form opinions and shape their moral values as we read picture books with them，and not simply going along the flow of the book to agree with the actions of the characters full-fledge just because the main characters are doing them.
这个故事是关于一只名叫乐乐的狐狸想在熊大厨师的餐厅当学徒的经历。第一天，因为乐乐有点笨手笨脚打翻了一桶水，熊大厨师便安排他打扫厨房，考验一下乐乐在厨房干活的能力，才决定是否收他为徒。碰巧在乐乐在打扫厨房时，乐乐的朋友来光顾餐馆。乐乐用了一些机智（若你也认同）应对了他的朋友们的点单和要求，从中学了蛋包饭的预备和烹饪过程。想知道乐乐最终有没有被熊大厨师,就得翻阅书了。
本书中间的篇页有些比较有趣的设计，能提供小孩们在读的当儿，能和书有点玩乐的互动。那几页里连贯了煮蛋包饭的过程，放什么食材，进行什么煎炒的动作，会发出什么样的声音，能然小孩用书模仿制作蛋包饭的过程。
在和孩子讲述这本故事时，能和孩子一起探讨以下的几点：乐乐应不应该让他的朋友进入餐厅的厨房呢？在他其实还不懂得怎么做蛋包饭的时候，他应不应该在他的朋友面前 装懂呢？还是他应该一五一十地把确实的情况告诉他的朋友？让孩子想象设身在乐乐的立场，他们会怎么做呢？
身为家长，我们必须肩负起引导孩子们思考，独立形成意见和塑造他们的品格和价值观的重任。在阅读绘本时，我们不能一意认同主角的所有行为，而是应该帮助孩子们辨别是非对错，认清行为在场合里，或道德价值观里妥当不妥当。
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