Although this a very short book, I find that it is quite interesting that the author cum illustrator seems to use a rather old strategy of putting scary consequences into the story to teach kids (or scare them into) good behaviour. The delivery is also rather swift and happens within a couple of pages (as […]
这本书是以第三人叙事 的写作手法来叙述感叹号的心声 。起初，感叹号感到自己十分突出，不管去到哪儿，他都觉得自己如鱼离水。然后，他遇到了另一个标点符号，被他的一连发问所激发后，发现他生命的潜能！ 这个故事让我联想到最近读过关于一个没有手的新加坡女子成功的成为 一名舞蹈指导员，也在疫情时胜任送外卖的工作。起初，她经常需要面对旁者的好奇眼神和问题，对于自己的残疾感到失落。 不过，后来她终于能克服自己的不幸，找到了生命的热诚 家长可以和孩子分享残疾与否，每个人都是创造者微妙的旨意和创作。除了用此书的内容，我们也可以用以上的报道，延申讨论，培养孩子同理，感恩和知足的心。 另一位值得孩子学习的榜样则是患有先天性四肢切断症（海豹肢症）的演说- 家尼克·武伊契奇。 这本书简单的绘画和文字，叙述感叹号的情感，配搭得天衣无缝，让读者在翻阅时，享尽无穷的乐趣。 值得拥有的一本好绘本。 你可以点击 感叹号 购买。 This is a really delightful and clever story about the life, thoughts and feelings of an exclamation mark through a third-person narrative style. At first, he was really uncomfortable about himself and how he looked and tried hard to fit in. Then […]
This is a heartwarming story about a girl who could not bear to part with her old pair of shoes. As she was placing her new shoes that her mum bought for her at the door, she saw her old pair and it evoked lots of memories of the time spent with the shoes while […]
This is a really quirky story infused with witty dialogues about the encounters of the mouse and a duck inside a wolf’s belly after both had been eaten up by the wolf sequentially. The duck had apparently built a home in the wolf’s belly after he had been eaten. After some initial annoyance of being […]
This is a story about a red delivery truck who had been given the task to deliver gifts to a family of rabbits welcoming a newborn. In the big city, he met other vehicles who were faster and bigger than he is. He started to feel low in confidence. Along the way, he met with […]
This is a super delightful story of the monster “Nian” with a slight twist. The story accords “Nian” to be a little monster once created from the cumulative loneliness in the winter air and lived in the mountain top. In the coldest of the winter, he would feel extremely lonely and angry and thus descend […]
In this story, it is about an army of wild cats flying a plane away only to be informed mid-way that the fuel has not been topped up and they had to make an emergency landing on an island. There, they seemed to have discovered a Shangri-la and enjoyed the momentary novelty of the island. […]
In this story, it is about an army of wild cats attempting to steal sushi from a sushi conveyor belt joint. Through the night, they executed their first plan which failed badly. Subsequently, their second plan to steal the sushi via an underground tunnel failed too and led to a major disaster. This is just […]
In this story, it is about an army of wild cats sneaking into a bakery to bake their own bread and adding way too much yeast into it. The series follows a formulaic story plot in which the wild cats get into trouble out of their curiosity, greed or simply for fun sake, and they […]
In this story, it is about an army of wild cats sneaking into a creamery to eat ice-cream. When they had finished and were on their way out, they froze and collapsed just outside the creamery due to the extreme weather. Fortunately, someone who came back for a forgotten turned-on-stove found them and rescued them […]
绘本好介绍 (双语）Bilingual reviews for picture books 