A lesson for parents from "Little Morian": Don't forget the innocence, dreams and courage on the road to raising children

Text | Ying Ma

"Wanting to fly" is probably everyone's deepest dream! Who doesn’t want to have such an experience, breaking away from the constraints of the ground and flying freely in the air? Therefore, in ancient times, works like "Flying Sky" in Dunhuang were born. In modern times, human cognition continues to expand, airplanes are invented, satellites are built, and people can go out of the earth and into the distant universe.

Human beings are always exploring the unknown and trying to understand the larger and broader world around them.

For innocent children with all kinds of weird ideas, flying is also an unfulfilled childhood dream of many children. The children's book series "Little Morian" created by children's literature writer Zhu Huifang is such a set of works that reflects the inner world of children.

One is the winner of the Bing Xin Children's Literature New Work Award and a member of the Chinese Writers Association; the other is an illustrator who is good at using rich and soft lines to express the film art style. Under the collision and polishing of Zhu Huifang and Gu Mi, After five years, the "Little Morian" series was born.

This set of picture books is suitable for children aged 2 and above. It involves growth themes such as dreams, growth, bravery, exploration, etc., including "I Want to See the Stars", "I Want to Fly", "I Can Defeat the Giants" "Strange Dragon", "I Want to Have a Dream", "Big Monster in the Cave", "I Have a Secret", "Journey to Momo Festival", "Happy Momo Festival", ***8 volumes, narrated This book tells the story of a little boy named Morian who grows up in the jungle and has an adventure story. With the illustrator Gu Mi’s movie-like presentation style and rich and soft color expression, it brings children a fascinating and exciting journey.

The protagonist of the story, little Morian, comes from a planet called Momi Moro. He lives with his parents in a wonderful jungle world. He is called Little because he is only as big as our little finger. Although he is small, he is very cute. The feathers on his head and wearing a grass skirt are the image given to him by Gumi. He always smiles widely, is honest and simple, looks ignorant and full of curiosity, but has infinite kindness and courage, just like every child's childhood.

In the volume "I Want to Fly", little Morian tells his father that he wants to fly high, and his father encourages him to give it a try.

So, he climbed up the tall vine, and it happened that a pod burst and the beans jumped far away.

So he jumped on the beans and said, "Ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, eh!"

The beans did not fly for long and began to fall.

A gust of wind blew up a dandelion, and many small umbrellas flew up.

Little Morian took the opportunity to catch one. He was very happy, "Ah, Lili, yo", he was flying!

The wind stopped and the small umbrella fell down. Just in time, a butterfly flew over, and Morian jumped onto the butterfly gently.

This time, it flew further. The happy Morian sang "Ah Li Li Yo" again.

Hey, there are a lot of colorful bubbles floating in front of me.

Morian gently jumped onto the biggest bubble. The big bubble kept rising and changing colors. It was so beautiful! Morian flew high.

With a "pop", the bubble burst.

Morian fell rapidly, and was about to fall from the high altitude to the deep bottom of the lake.

Dad flew a plane to catch him.

"Thud, tut, tut", the plane flew high and fast, and even did a thrilling somersault, it was great!

Unexpectedly, the plane flew towards a big tree, getting closer and closer, and was about to hit it.

At the moment the plane hit, "poof, poof" something caught them.

It turned out to be my mother. Her parachute successfully caught the father and son.

Up to this moment, Morian has completed the entire "Want to Fly" adventure.

The language of the entire picture book is brisk and plain. Through adults’ reading, children can easily understand and remember it. The use of verbs and onomatopoeia makes the writing style more vivid and detailed. Repeated paragraphs, such as "fly far" and "fly high", are suitable for children in the sensitive period of language. It can help children increase their vocabulary and sentence structure accumulation, and prepare for primary school in the future. Lay the foundation for writing.

"Ah Li Li You" is a slang-like expression. Every time it appears, it represents an emotion of joy, surprise, or satisfaction. It almost runs through the entire series. It is cute, childlike, and impressive. It’s so profound that my baby always talks about it for a long time after listening to it.

In terms of illustrations, the picture book has bright colors, gentle and soft colors, and an animation-style presentation, which is warm and unique. Following Morian's footsteps, the children experienced slender vines, lush grass, beautiful flowers, high skies, steep and deep lakes, and other "aircraft" such as dandelions, butterflies, bubbles, airplanes, and parachutes. There are 5 scenes, each one is beautiful and thrilling.

The drawing techniques are unique, including looking up, looking down, looking down, progressive split shots, and a variety of rich perspective changes, bringing a more immersive reading experience.

Following little Morian, we blended in and seemed to have completed a journey of exploration and dream realization. Those naughty moments of children and interesting stories from our childhood have brought us closer to our children. At this moment, we can better understand the children around us.

Morian is so real, so innocent, full of innocence and curiosity, and represents the true side of a child's heart. This is an impact on the dull, rule-filled world. Everyone longs for freedom in their hearts, to be unrestrained, confident, and fearless.

Perhaps, everyone needs a book like this to occasionally look back at their childhood self.