Is your child afraid of going to the hospital? Try this picture book with only 75 words

There is no Shrimp Ball Sauce comic again this week. Since the last time I wrote about my picture book trip to Taiwan, this kid’s fingers can’t stop on the keyboard. Of course I\’m secretly happy. It seems that it\’s not that difficult to get cartoonists to write articles, as long as you find the right switch. Suddenly, she started to replace paintings with writing, and suddenly, she became one of my special authors. What’s the switch for shrimp ball sauce? Of course it’s her endless love for picture books. This time, she read a picture book with only 75 words. From the perspective of a cartoonist, she turned it into a vivid cartoon, with all the static details moving. We teach picture books to children all day long, but it is difficult for us to have such a detailed and unique vision. From time to time, there will be picture book interpretations of shrimp ball paste. If you like it, please feel free to express your love in the comments. This week, I went to the hospital twice. One time was on Tuesday. My roommate had wisdom teeth, his face was swollen like a steamed bun, and he also had a fever. I escorted her to a large hospital near my home. Looking at the registration office in front of us, we were frightened. Someone is actually quarreling! I was stepped heavily on by the uncle next to me, and I was at a loss what to do. \”If I come alone, I might faint from shock.\” The roommate endured the tenth-level toothache and struggled to say a word. Another time, on Wednesday, I accompanied my cousin and her baby to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The waiting room at 8:05 in the morning was a bit stuffy. Some of the children were playing with their own small planes, some were playing with the door handles in the waiting room, and some were playing with the plastic guard posts in the corner… Most of them were just like me, yawning and dazed. All in all, it\’s boring. The big friends frowned in unison, and they can be roughly divided into two categories: those who use their mobile phones and those who do not. My cousin was the only one who walked around the place counting bears (posters on the walls of the hospital) while holding her baby with a smile on her face. Looking at the rows of friends, big and small, in front of me, I thought of a picture book. Text: Ernst Jandel [Austria], pictures: Norman Jung [German] Translation: Sanhe, published in 2007. The text has only 75 words: the door opened/one came out/one went in/four remain The door is open/one comes out/one goes in/three doors are left open/one comes out/one goes in/two doors remain open/one comes out/one goes in/the last door opens/one comes out/go in alone doctor Hello, uh, read it in thirty seconds. Thoughts after first reading: Scamming money. Take your time, take your time, and take an extra thirty seconds to read it again. Isn\’t this what a child was thinking while waiting for the doctor? It\’s just that in the picture book, the generous poet Yandel leaves more room for expression in the picture. Just looking at the cover is very interesting. The artist used tight and chaotic cross-hatching to create a dark and scary corner. There was a row of neatly arranged wooden chairs and five toys with mutilated limbs, either dull or restless. the fifth? Counting from left to right, the fifth one is a little puppet with a broken nose like a sausage. So the little poem above is probably the inner monologue of the little puppet. After opening the book, you can confirm this from the illustration on the title page. ▲Little puppets looking around (the illustrations on the title page of the book often allow us to understand the story or identify the protagonist in advance.) At the beginning, everyone sat in a row in the dark waiting room. DoorIs the warm yellow light coming from the seams hope? No, it\’s the unknown, it\’s the fear – God, what are you doing inside with the door closed and the lights on? Oh my God, there are still __ more to come. What will I do after I get in? The door is open! The three little guys in front leaned back in unison in fear, and even the blue chandelier above them took a breath of cool air. The tin frog\’s big mouth opened slightly, and the little puppet managed to maintain a smile. ▲Oh, a beetle came out. Wingless penguins waddled into the unknown, while one-wheeled ducks and one-eyed cubs cast concerned glances. Drama Chandelier also paid close attention to the situation. The door closed and (apparent) calm returned to the waiting room. The door opens again, and the wingless penguin has wings again! Everyone seemed calmer and the reaction was not as strong as before. ▲Beetle coming out vs. penguin coming out is a process of coming out, going in, and repeating five times. But from the changes in body language and facial expressions of the six little guys (including the chandelier), I can constantly receive the fluctuations of their inner emotions. The little puppet could still maintain a faint smile at first. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer patients, I finally couldn\’t stand it any longer. ▲\”The frogs have all gone in, and I will be next!\” The little puppet cried in fright. But it was clear that all the people who came out of the consulting room were full of blood and resurrected! ▲The two most exaggerated ones: the dancing bear and the flying frog puppet, who are so nervous that they stand on their own hands and feet… but they still have to face it all alone! The previous fourteen sets of facing pages are all (left) text with fixed layout + (right) images with a single perspective. This repetition creates a strong visual rhythm. Until the last page of the whole story, the painter suddenly adjusted the perspective, the rhythm was instantly broken, the progressive tension was terminated, and the picture suddenly brightened up – the doctor with a round head and a big nose in the consulting room, He is standing in the warm yellow light, greeting the little puppet with a smile! ▲Happy ending! I asked some friends: \”How do you explain to your children what the hospital is for?\” Although there are no more than ten mothers around me, their answers are already very representative. A serious mother: \”My answer is very ordinary. The hospital is just for seeing a doctor.\” Not only ordinary, but also indifferent. An irritable mother said: \”Hospital… you have to be obedient when you go to the hospital, you have to cooperate with the doctor when seeing a doctor, and you have to be quiet in the hospital. Do you dare to cry?\” Uh, this, this, threats? A stubborn mother: \”What\’s the explanation for this? She couldn\’t understand it even after I said it.\”… If I were a baby, after hearing these answers, I would probably choose a dog leash. But if you have read \”The Fifth\” early, answering this question will not be difficult at all! In the words of the authors, a hospital is a place where wingless penguins can regain their wings, a place where a one-eyed bear can regain its sight, a place where a broken-nosed puppet can be replaced with a new one… and so on, maybe children will not I am so resistant and afraid of going to the hospital. I\’m really not afraid of going to the hospital. Every time I went there when I was a child, my mother would lead her, shouting \”Hello Uncle\” and \”Hello Auntie\” all the way, and she would receive some greetings like \”Wow, you are so tall\”, which was similar to visiting during the New Year. Oh, my mother is a head nurse,The kind that\’s not fierce. So, for me when I was young, the hospital was where my mother went to work. Of course when you grow up, you will understand that hospitals are destined to become the most anxious public places in the city. But children are not obliged to add 1 to this value. If you want to modify the low pressure in the hospital…well, just think about it. But it doesn’t matter. For adults who take their children to the hospital, why not try to create an isolation light wave for them with smiles and comfort. When the sense of security is recharged in time, will it be much easier to drive away fear? If that doesn\’t work, it would be a novel choice to bring \”The Fifth\” with you and read it to them while waiting for the doctor. Or you can turn the title of the original book into a countdown signal. Whenever you see a little patient coming out of the hospital, you and your child can whisper together: Next, please! I also felt inexplicably invited when I went to see a doctor. ▲Original cover (the original version came out in 2003, so you can’t find it anywhere). Look, the picture book can not only be used for reading. I saw through every corner, and it can actually be used to solve so many problems! Now it\’s worth the price. The night before I decided to go to the dentist, my roommate was anxious. I suddenly saw \”Crocodiles Are Afraid, Dentists Are Afraid\” on the bookshelf, and I quickly took it down and handed it to her. She touched her face with one hand and turned over the book with the other. She endured the pain while letting out a strange laugh: \”Hohohohohohoho, hey, I am a crocodile, I don\’t want to see a dentist! … Help me take a picture of this, I want to send it to my friends Circle!\” Then she, a 27-year-old young man, recalled the devastating moment after the tooth extraction when she was seven years old: \”That dentist was so cruel, my mother was even more cruel than her! After the tooth extraction, I felt I was about to die, and my mother forced me to rinse my mouth with potion together with her! The TV in the hospital was actually playing \”Water Margin\” and singing \”Song of the Heroes\”… I\’m crazy!\”