[Repost] Read “Mimi” to Ami

It’s such a bless­ing for chil­dren to be able to read such thought­ful books at such a young age! We adults who make and read books for chil­dren are like the match­mak­er, con­nect­ing chil­dren and books with a red thread, which is also a bless­ing:)Orig­i­nal address:Read “Mimi” to Amiauthor:I love DemiRead­ing Mimi to Ami is a won­der­ful feel­ing.
From time to time, I would have this feel­ing in my heart: Oh, this author writes exact­ly like my lit­tle A‑mi!
 

“Mimi Says No,” Mimi pour­ing milk, exact­ly the same, exact­ly the same, this scene is so famil­iar! Then see­ing Mimi shake off her moth­er’s hand and try to walk on the street by her­self, I could­n’t help but sigh, “This lit­tle ras­cal in my arms, my moth­er can’t hold her hand either, she does­n’t want her to hold her hand when cross­ing the street!” Look­ing down at Mimi, she pursed her lips and smiled know­ing­ly…
 

In “Mimi Learns to Tidy Up,” because of her scat­tered toys, she tripped over a build­ing block the first time, but did­n’t cry. She tripped over a duck toy the sec­ond time, but she did­n’t cry either. The third time, she tripped over a train toy, and final­ly burst into tears. Those scat­tered toys are beau­ti­ful­ly reflect­ed in the sub­se­quent pages, and lit­tle Ami flipped through them, com­par­ing them, gaz­ing intent­ly…
 
“Mimi is sit­ting on the toi­let”, ARMY is also in the POTTY
Dur­ing the TRAIN phase, I felt even more empa­thet­ic! I saw Mimi, so eager to chase her pup­py that she near­ly over­turned the toi­let. I saw Mimi rush to the door even though she was still sit­ting on the toi­let when the post­man arrived. I used a term Ami could under­stand to explain the post­man to her—“courier.” For a Taobao expert like me, Ami has a lot of expe­ri­ence with the word “couri­er.” Had­n’t she, too, rushed to the door with­out even tak­ing off her pants when the door slammed? See­ing lit­tle Ami, with her expres­sion of gen­uine joy and her goofy laugh, made me eager to share anoth­er Mimi book with her…
 

“Mimi Loves to Imi­tate” was the most touch­ing scene, of course, when Mimi imi­tat­ed her moth­er in mak­ing soup with a pot filled with toys and smelly socks! Lit­tle Ami’s favorite pas­time is play­ing house in the kitchen, rum­mag­ing through pots and pans. I point­ed to the frown­ing pup­py next to the socks, and she imme­di­ate­ly under­stood the image from the sim­ple lines and said, “It stinks!”
 

Today I read the “Mimi Series” to Ami for the first time. Author Zhou Yifen’s obser­va­tion, per­cep­tion, and expres­sive writ­ing are all first-rate. The writ­ing is sim­ple, pre­cise, and com­fort­able, with­out any lengthy ser­mons, or even con­ven­tion­al ones. For exam­ple, in the line “Mimi says no,” the author does­n’t even hint at “that’s wrong.” I was a lit­tle sur­prised after fin­ish­ing the book, but that sur­prise was also a joy­ful one. The author under­stands the char­ac­ter­is­tics of chil­dren in the T2 stage and rec­og­nizes this as an inevitable part of growth, with­out tak­ing the blame for it. I real­ly like this.
 

I real­ly like the way the font size changes accord­ing to the con­tent. The medi­um and large words and phras­es match the ups and downs of my voice per­fect­ly. Look­ing at the hol­low char­ac­ters on the book, even though they are silent, I can feel them singing! They actu­al­ly make sounds like “ow” and “no”!
 
The most note­wor­thy thing is, of course, that the set of books that Ami owns are signed copies of Teacher Zhou Yifen. It’s sim­ply amaz­ing. Thanks to Ajia and Xuan­ma, and I look for­ward to see­ing more works by Teacher Zhou.