[Repost] Shenzhen Memoirs Part 5: When Mimi from the East Meets the Stars and Moon from the West

The great­est joy of mak­ing chil­dren’s books is meet­ing such inter­est­ing chil­dren and adults^_^Orig­i­nal address:Shen­zhen Mem­oirs Part 5: When Mimi from the East Meets Xingyue from the Westauthor:I am Xiao Doudou
   
whenThe lec­ture, “East­ern Mimi Meets West­ern Stars and Moon,” began on the after­noon of our final day. Because we had to return to Zhuhai that evening, we had orig­i­nal­ly planned to leave at 5 p.m., but even at 6 p.m., we were still reluc­tant to leave. It was the ele­gance of Pro­fes­sor Zhou Yifen and the sub­tle grace of Janelle Ken­non that kept me lin­ger­ing.
 

Left: Argenti­na 
Mid­dle: Zhou Yifen Right: Janelle Ken­non
 
   
teaseDoudou and Mimi have had a rela­tion­ship for quite a while. I remem­ber when Doudou received that set of Hey­ing chil­dren’s books, he was just over 2 years old. When he opened it, the first book he chose was “Mimi Says No”. At that time, Doudou was at the age when he liked to say no. Lat­er, Doudou even took this sto­ry to par­tic­i­pate in a sto­ry­telling com­pe­ti­tion.
   
This time, they were able to meet Teacher Zhou Yifen face to face, and the prob­lem that Dou Ma and Dou Dou had been strug­gling with for near­ly two years was final­ly answered.
   
What kind of ani­mal is Mimi’s pro­to­type?
   
Is it a lit­tle mole? Doudou shook his head: “Look at Mim­i’s feet. The mole’s feet are round, and Mim­i’s feet are long.”
   
Is it a pup­py? Doudou shook his head again: “Pup­pies have tails, but Mimi does­n’t.”
   
What exact­ly is Mimi? Last week, the teacher unveiled the mys­tery: “Mimi is an under­ground crea­ture.” Haha, the answer was both expect­ed and unex­pect­ed. Although Doudou did­n’t quite under­stand what an under­ground crea­ture was, he seemed to have sud­den­ly real­ized, “Mole rats live under­ground, too!”

I am hon­ored to have par­tic­i­pat­ed in the mak­ing of the gift for Teacher Zhou Yifen as a grass seed.
On behalf of the Clover fam­i­ly, he per­son­al­ly deliv­ered the gift to Teacher Zhou.
 

By the way, let me show you the gifts we made.
The gift on the left is for Janelle, inspired by the fig­ure-eight dance in “Green Flute”
The Xiao­mi rice giv­en to Teacher Zhou Yifen is sur­round­ed by the deep love of the clover
 
   
lis­tenJanelle’s lec­ture was a treat.

    Before the lec­ture began, the moment Jen­ny walked into the venue, I thought of Grand­ma Tasha.
   
Her pas­sion for life and her rig­or­ous approach to work inspire awe. When I first opened her “Stars and Moon,” I won­dered: If I paint like this, won’t I end up with pres­by­opia?
   
For near­ly two hours, Jen­ny spoke in detail—
   
The won­der­ful sto­ry of the squir­rel and the paper roll

    Dialects of Amer­i­can Crows and Chi­nese Crows
   
Lit­tle boy look­ing down at a large emp­ty card­board box
   
Janelle looks up at the angry dog

    How to draw a drink­ing foun­tain that ejects a cylin­dri­cal stream of water (for dogs)
    …
   
As I lis­tened to the whole song, I was not only impressed by Janelle Ken­non’s tal­ent, but also deeply moved by her awe of nature, her heart­felt care for small ani­mals, and her extra­or­di­nary del­i­ca­cy and per­sis­tence.

   
It is nec­es­sary to show Janelle’s sig­na­ture

   
I was both impressed and hum­bled by Jen­ny’s ded­i­ca­tion to auto­graphs. When I went to get her an auto­graph, I also brought two of Youran’s moth­er’s books with me, fig­ur­ing I’d just sign them while I was there. Instead, Jen­ny gave me two such beau­ti­ful auto­graphs, so beau­ti­ful that I felt embar­rassed to extend my hand hold­ing the oth­er two books. I fig­ured, just as Jen­ny treats every auto­graph request with such kind­ness, I too should learn to cher­ish them.

   
Here, I would also like to express my spe­cial thanks to Teacher Xingx­ing for giv­ing Dou Dou “Stars and Moon” and “Green Flute”.
 
~~~~~~~~~~~Behind the Scenes~~~~~~~

 The moment when Duo­ba Com­pa­ny com­pletes the gift mak­ing
I miss that work lamp and work­bench
 

When I was enter­tain­ing my moth­er at a lec­ture,
Doudou has been draw­ing all the time.
It seems that the old say­ing is true: “The old­er the child, the less wor­ry you have” :)))
 
After a lec­ture,
Doudou filled Mim­i’s note­book from begin­ning to end with draw­ings
In her words: “I paint the Mimi in my heart.”
Is it true that the sen­tence in “Stars and Moon” is true again:
We are so dif­fer­ent yet feel so sim­i­lar? Haha
I would like to thank Ms. Zhou Yifen for her sig­na­ture.
I will trea­sure it, it is the most valu­able child­hood mem­o­ry.
 

Wang Doudou wrote for an entire after­noon, pro­duc­ing a high out­put and an aston­ish­ing num­ber of works.
Even Mr. Ajia noticed it :)
After the lec­ture, Teacher Ajia spe­cial­ly gave Doudou sev­er­al of Mim­i’s note­books.
Doudou was hold­ing it in his hand and show­ing it off all the way, and for a while it seemed like the talk of the town :))