Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears        (week ten)

A West African Tale is a picture book by Verna Aardema in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children, which tells an African legend. In this origin story, the mosquito lies to a lizard, who puts sticks in his ears and ends up frightening another animal, which down a long line causes a panic.
In the end, an owlet is killed and the owl is too sad to wake the sun until the animals hold court and find out who is responsible. The mosquito is eventually found out, but it hides  to escape punishment. So now it constantly buzzes in people's ears to find out if everyone is still angry at it.

This story is a resource for teachers to teach the skill cause and effect!

About the Authors or Illustrators

Diane Dillon

Artist Diane Dillon is renowned for the enormous body of work she has produced with her husband and collaborator, Leo Dillon.

                    

Leo Dillon

Among Leo Dillon's many honors, he and his wife have received two Caldecott Medals, for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, four New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, four Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, two Coretta Scott King Honors, and the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal.

Mother Goose

Mother Goose        (week seven)

The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymesoften published as (Old) Mother Goose's Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one nursery rhyme.A Christmas pantomime called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom.

Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose .

rhymes,games,book,crafts on this website!
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was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.

The best known of his tales include  Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle au bois Dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).

   

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In 1697 he published Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals (Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé), subtitled Tales of Mother Goose .This “Mother Goose” has never been identified as a person, but used to refer to popular and rural storytelling traditions in proverbial phrases of the time.

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Miss Potter

Miss Potter
 is a 2006 Anglo-American biographical fiction family drama film directed by Chris Noonan. It is a biographical film of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potterand combines stories from her own life with animated sequences featuring characters from her stories.

plot:
In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents.One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house, and a rookie publisher, Norman Warne, who is delighted with her tales, publishes her first children's book. This success leads Norman to publish two other books, and Miss Potter meanwhile becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Soon Beatrix and Norman fall in love with each other.This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents' way of life and London.

movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrCA-ozxfeI

Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit                (week six)

 a fictional animal character in various children's stories by Beatrix Potter.He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902 and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912.

Merchandise includes dishes, wallpaper,bags, and dolls.

In 1936, Walt Disney expressed interest in making a Peter Rabbit film. Beatrix Potter she refused and did not give him the rights!

Peter Rabbit appears in the 1971 ballet film, The Tales of Beatrix Potter. He also was featured in HBO's 1991 Storybook Musical adaptation of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, narrated by Carol Burnett.

There is an accurate replica of Potter's house and a theme park in Japan, and a series of Mr McGregor's gardens in one of the largest banks. Merchandisers in Japan estimate that 80% of the population have heard of Peter Rabbit.


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Potter asserted that her tales would one day be nursery classics, and part of the "longevity of her books comes from strategy", writes Potter biographer Ruth MacDonald.She was the first to exploit the commercial possibilities of her characters and tales; between 1903 and 1905 these included a Peter Rabbit stuffed toy, an unpublished board game, and nursery wallpaper.

 video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fErRjperZiM

Charlotte’s Web

Charlotte’s Web

week four and week five continue this book.
audio:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLM7d5Rx8Po&list=PLSZ5VNN8--Mt6tu06UB14WkOeB72QCmT2

listen to the audio back home!
movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdX69cWtu6w&list=PL50143B8E5F232C70


fancy wording:converse,chat,salutations,hello.

Child Development and Literature

Child Development and Literature        (week three)

Winnie-the-Pooh

also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHkZ_6V_J_o&list=PLD1051B18877F5AF7

Charlotte's Web

The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte.

Charlotte's web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published in October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers.

movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdX69cWtu6w&list=PL50143B8E5F232C70

oedinary                 miraculius

namoral   →           terrific

plain        ←            some pig

                對比        radiant

           結論：humble

A promise is to be kept.

I promise to somebody.

Literary realism

realist art movement beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal), and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin) and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Literary realism, in contrast to idealism, attempts to represent familiar things as they are.

Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wam186ghrno

Bennett's most famous works The Old Wives' Tale .

audio:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2f0DLyoVO0

CHILDREN LITERATURE

Children's literature     (week two)

Children's literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
There are six categories of children's literature :

Picture books, including concept books that teach the alphabet or counting for example, pattern books, and wordless books.

Traditional literature, including folktales, which convey the legends, customs, superstitions, and beliefs of people in previous civilizations. This genre can be further broken into subgenres: myths, fables, legends, and fairy tales

Fiction, including fantasy, realistic fiction, and historical fiction

Non-fiction

Biography and autobiography

Poetry and verse.

Picture book

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.

Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902.

Peter Rabbit is a fictional animal character in various children's stories by Beatrix Potter.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuTlQCGxE5Y

Fairy tale

Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. The term is mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition and mostly relates to children's literature.

Fable

A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.

 Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop.

Many familiar fables of Aesop for example "The Crow and the Pitcher", "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Lion and the Mouse".

Aesop

was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.

Nursery rhyme

traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. In North America the term Mother Goose Rhymes, introduced in the mid-18th century, is still often used.

Old King Cole    
song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z5mN9_bAaI
    

Jack and Jill     

       

song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQYsQkfNPc

Fantasy

 fiction genre that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common.

                                                                                         Harry Potter

movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct7HbnSWs1Q

J. K. Rowling is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.