[Repost] “Green Child” through the eyes of children from the Xinjiang Aksu Blue Sky Class

My thoughts after read­ing the book: I’m real­ly hap­py!Orig­i­nal address:“Green Child” through the eyes of chil­dren from the Blue Sky Class in Aksu, Xin­jiangauthor:Green Child  Edi­tor’s Note:

     
Today I received a text mes­sage from Teacher Li Yong of the “Blue Sky Class” in Aksu Pre­fec­ture, Xin­jiang, telling me they were hold­ing a Green Chil­dren’s Writ­ing Club. I was curi­ous: What exact­ly is a Green Chil­dren’s Writ­ing Club? After receiv­ing Teacher Li’s email, I final­ly under­stood. It’s a read­ing club for Green Chil­dren. I’m grate­ful to Teacher Li Yong for orga­niz­ing this event, Direc­tor Xu Yuan­chao of Chaoy­ing School, and all the stu­dents who par­tic­i­pat­ed.
 
 

A let­ter to the edi­to­r­i­al office of Green Child
Liao Ying
Dear Edi­tors,
Hel­lo!
“Green Child” is a book for chil­dren. It allows chil­dren to learn knowl­edge, gives chil­dren room for imag­i­na­tion, and enables chil­dren to have rich imag­i­na­tion.

After read­ing “Green Child”, I think the sto­ry in this book is nov­el and can let us imag­ine while read­ing. In addi­tion, the car­toons in it are very inter­est­ing. When we read them, we can use our imag­i­na­tion. When we read the texts next to the car­toons, we will be more impressed by the sto­ry.

The sto­ry that most cap­ti­vat­ed me in “The Green Child” is “The Sheep Thief and the Wolf Pack.” This sto­ry depicts a coura­geous sheep­dog through the lens of a sheep thief and a wolf pack hunt­ing wolves. Under the dog’s hero­ic watch, the sheep thief was mauled by the dog. When doc­tors dis­cov­ered the hor­rif­ic wounds, they found them sus­pi­cious and called the police. He was sub­se­quent­ly appre­hend­ed. The sheep­dog guard­ed the flock at the frigid sheep­fold door. When the harsh win­ter passed, not a sin­gle sheep was lost in Baibao Inge­tu’s camp. He bit off the left ears of two wolves, a wolf’s tail, and tore two wolves to pieces. In this sto­ry, we wit­ness a fierce, brave, and ded­i­cat­ed sheep­dog. Thanks to him, not a sin­gle sheep was lost in his mas­ter’s camp.
In “The Scare­crow’s Notes,” we see a clever and lov­able scare­crow. Read­ing this car­toon brings a warm and famil­iar feel­ing, like return­ing to child­hood, filled with joy and hap­pi­ness!
Thank you to the edi­tors for bring­ing us such great sto­ries and comics. I hope more peo­ple will enjoy “Green Child.” Final­ly, I wish the edi­tors good luck in their work, hap­pi­ness every day, and good health!
Sin­cere­ly,
 
salute!
Liao Ying, a ninth-grade stu­dent at Chaoy­ing School in Aksu City, Xin­jiang
Decem­ber 3, 2010
Thoughts on Read­ing “Green Child”
Liu Baoyu, sev­enth grad­er at the pri­vate Chaoy­ing School in Aksu City, Xin­jiang
 
 
See­ing this title, you might won­der: Why is it “Green Child”? Why not “Red Child” or “Yel­low Child”? In real­i­ty, this pub­li­ca­tion encour­ages us to pro­tect plants and trees, cher­ish nature, and cul­ti­vate com­pas­sion. This pub­li­ca­tion, unlike any­thing we’ve encoun­tered before, brings us more than just the nov­el­ty of get­ting a book. It also teach­es us to dis­cov­er life, to dis­cov­er that there is some­thing to learn in every moment and every place.
There are not many sto­ries in the mag­a­zine, includ­ing “My Lit­tle Pony”, “The Sheep Steal­ers and the Wolves”, “The Blind Men and the Ele­phant”, “The Wind”, etc. We need to savor and think care­ful­ly after read­ing them.
“My Lit­tle Pony” tells the sto­ry of a child who does­n’t even have a horse, but claims he has a pony. It’s his dream, his hope, and it gives us a deep­er under­stand­ing of his inner world. “The Sheep Thieves and the Wolves” tells the sto­ry of a sheep­dog named Monk, who is unafraid of the sheep thieves’ clubs and sticks, nor of their num­bers. The greedy sheep thieves are even­tu­al­ly severe­ly injured by Monk. The wolves are anoth­er “gang” threat­en­ing the flock, but Monk tri­umphs over the larg­er herd. Over the course of a win­ter, oth­er sheep­dogs are either dead or injured, and many sheep die, while Monk’s flock remains intact. “The Blind Men and the Ele­phant” tells the sto­ry of four blind men who, after feel­ing only the ele­phan­t’s ears, legs, tail, and tusks, claim to have under­stood its appear­ance. This sto­ry teach­es us not to assume we know every­thing by sim­ply touch­ing a small part of a sto­ry. “The Wind” tells the sto­ry of a piglet whose father gives him two nick­names: “Lit­tle Cutie” and “Lit­tle Annoy­ing.” It explores the piglet’s strengths and weak­ness­es. The wind, whose nick­name is the same as the piglet, is love­ly and cool in sum­mer; it is annoy­ing and cold in win­ter.
If we are as brave and strong as Munch, we can win with few­er troops; if we are as ide­al­is­tic as the child who dreams of hav­ing a pony; if we are like the wind, we should learn its advan­tages; if we are not as arro­gant as the four blind men, we should let them cor­rect their short­com­ings.
If we cher­ish nature, care for small ani­mals, and care for every plant and tree around us, then we will be green chil­dren and won’t have to wor­ry about the end of the world. What a won­der­ful thing that would be!