The author of Perfect Partner is Naomi Jones, who has been dealing with children's literature all the year round and has a wealth of children's books. Illustrator james jones is an award-winning artistic director and designer. He was once called a new star in Ran Ran by British booksellers.
Although this is a picture book about interpersonal communication, the protagonist in the book is not a child, but a yellow triangle with different shapes, always on the way to find friends; And other circles, squares and hexagons that become friends with triangles in a short time.
The story begins with the journey of finding friends in the triangle. In this process, the triangle has always adhered to the inherent view that only the same shape can become good friends, and has been leaving other different shapes until it finds its dream good friend. It is understood that difference is also a form of "perfect partner".
Perfect Match is a picture book about finding friends with triangles. In the story, triangles become friends with circles, squares and hexagons, but later they will bump into them when playing puzzles with other figures. Although other graphics feel nothing, triangle is annoying and I don't think it is suitable to be friends with them.
In the center of a triangle, what really suits you is other triangles. He thinks the same graphics together are a perfect partner.
In fact, the triangle's principle of "judging people by their appearances" represents the views of most people in society. In our idea, only like-minded people can become friends. However, the criteria for judging like-minded people are often very narrow. Family background, knowledge and appearance are all important benchmarks, and we are often blinded by these external standards.
In Notre Dame de Paris, Hugo wrote an absurd story that took place in France in the 5th century A.D./KLOC. In this story, quasimodo is ugly and kind, Claude is hypocritical, and Phobos is beautiful and evil. Except for Esmeralda, in this story, the external standard has been broken, and it cannot be the criterion for judging the internal.
In Perfect Partner, circles, squares and hexagons keep saying "Never mind" to triangles, but triangles still care about their appearance. It was not until they found another set of triangles that they realized that they lacked some other friends and invited them again: "Do you still want to play with me?"
The graphics that have been played together again are trying to match with other graphics with their own advantages. This time, they had a good time, as Naomi Jones said at the end of the story: "Although triangles are not exactly the same as other shapes, they are still perfect partners."
Triangle gives up its insistence on foreign standards and has more good friends to play with. It is because of the "differences" between these friends that the world is interesting.
The hardest thing for people in this world is to recognize themselves and find their own way.
Looking at the picture book "Perfect Companion" vertically, you will find that it is a road of self-discovery in the cloak of finding friends. At first, Triangle was very self-abased and stubborn, because he would want to stay away from others if he accidentally bumped into them. Just like us, after accidentally doing something that hurts a friend, it will escape and dare not face its friend, thus entering another circle of friends. This pattern of making friends keeps repeating.
If placed on children, this is the child's exploration of the rules of making friends. At first, he didn't know what the standard of making friends was, so he had to keep groping with his own standard. Finally, he found the rules of making friends and learned how to get along with friends.
In real life, it seems that most parents are particularly anxious about making friends after their children go to kindergarten. They worry that their children have no friends in kindergarten and that they are bullied in kindergarten.
Of course, children aged 3-4 will also start looking for friends because they have entered the sensitive period of interpersonal communication. But this process is not smooth sailing, but will be accompanied by different contradictions.
My son in a small kindergarten class told me on his way home that he would never play with XX again because XX hit him and didn't say sorry to him.
It's like the corners of a triangle touching other shapes. Children will always have contradictions when they get along, but they will play together in a friendly way. In this process, children constantly revise their standards of making friends and ways of getting along.
For parents, the child is the director of a relationship, and we are just bystanders. As a guide, let children find solutions to problems, just like the stars in Perfect Partner. When the triangle is depressed, as a guide, enlighten him and guide him to find friends with the same shape and friends with different shapes. Instead of controlling and preaching, he can only guide himself to find a solution to the problem.