{"id":1246,"date":"2009-10-26T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T03:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/shuo_xue_dou_20091026\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T03:12:32","slug":"shuo_xue_dou_20091026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2009\/10\/26\/shuo_xue_dou_20091026\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIllus\u00adtra\u00adtions for \u201cMy Ide\u00adal\u201d by Xiong Liang and Wang Puzhi<\/p>\n

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Today is Octo\u00adber 23, 2009 (Frost Descent), and the weath\u00ader is beau\u00adti\u00adful. This day, like so many oth\u00aders, is so ordi\u00adnary for some peo\u00adple that it seems as if it nev\u00ader exist\u00aded. But for oth\u00aders, it may be a momen\u00adtous occa\u00adsion, worth antic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00ading and cher\u00adish\u00ading. Future his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans may not even find room to include this date in their his\u00adto\u00adry books, because it\u2019s pos\u00adsi\u00adble that noth\u00ading tru\u00adly hap\u00adpened on this day. But per\u00adhaps some will still remem\u00adber it. For exam\u00adple, I will like\u00adly remem\u00adber this day as a very hap\u00adpy \u201cunbirth\u00adday,\u201d even though it seems as if noth\u00ading hap\u00adpened, and noth\u00ading will hap\u00adpen.<\/p>\n

 
\nI played a clip of Miri\u00adam to myself
\nStock\u00adley sang Per\u00adfect
\nDay. I\u2019ve been lis\u00adten\u00ading to this song a lot late\u00adly because I\u2019m cur\u00adrent\u00adly retrans\u00adlat\u00ading Pot\u00adter\u2019s Peter Rab\u00adbit. It always reminds me of that incred\u00adi\u00adbly beau\u00adti\u00adful woman, sit\u00adting on a grassy slope in the Eng\u00adlish Lake Dis\u00adtrict, metic\u00adu\u00adlous\u00adly paint\u00ading the world around her with water\u00adcol\u00adors: the sky, the lake, the grass, the hares, the squir\u00adrels, the hedge\u00adhogs, the ducks, the dogs, the cats, the coun\u00adtry mice, and the chil\u00addren. A dark cloud drift\u00aded in, fol\u00adlowed by a slant\u00adi\u00adng wind and a driz\u00adzle. She hur\u00adried\u00adly gath\u00adered her paper, stood up, and, hold\u00ading her sketch\u00adpad on her head, hur\u00adried toward the stone house on the hillside\u2026another
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But today I thought of lis\u00adten\u00ading to this song because I want\u00aded to seri\u00adous\u00adly praise a set of books: the recent\u00adly pub\u00adlished \u201cWild Child\u201d by Xiong Liang.<\/p>\n

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For over a year now, when\u00adev\u00ader I\u2019ve talked with friends about Xiong Liang\u2019s upcom\u00ading \u201cWild Child\u201d series, I\u2019ve been filled with sin\u00adcere admi\u00adra\u00adtion: This pic\u00adture book far sur\u00adpass\u00ades Xiong Liang\u2019s pre\u00advi\u00adous works! It marks a new height in Xiong Liang\u2019s pic\u00adture book cre\u00adation. Whether it will become a land\u00admark in the devel\u00adop\u00adment of orig\u00adi\u00adnal pic\u00adture books is hard to say, but I believe it will be a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant achieve\u00adment that can\u00adnot be ignored.<\/p>\n

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The rea\u00adson for such admi\u00adra\u00adtion is main\u00adly due to the shock I felt when I saw the drafts of books such as \u201cA Gar\u00adden of Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles Became Spir\u00adits\u201d, \u201cMy Ide\u00adal\u201d, \u201cCrick\u00adets and Grasshop\u00adpers\u201d, and \u201cWe Want to Be No. 1\u201d almost a year ago.<\/p>\n

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I remem\u00adber vis\u00adit\u00ading Xiong Lei and Xiong Liang at their stu\u00addios. We had a won\u00adder\u00adful chat, and Xiong Liang casu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtioned that he\u2019d also illus\u00adtrat\u00aded a book based on a Bei\u00adjing chil\u00addren\u2019s rhyme, \u201cA Gar\u00adden of Green Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles Becomes a Spir\u00adit.\u201d He\u2019d orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly planned to pub\u00adlish it, but see\u00ading that Mr. Zhou Xiang\u2019s pic\u00adture book of the same name had already been pub\u00adlished, which was excel\u00adlent and well-received, he felt hes\u00adi\u00adtant to bring it out. The inspec\u00adtor and I were incred\u00adi\u00adbly curi\u00adous and insist\u00aded on see\u00ading Xiong\u2019s ver\u00adsion of the veg\u00adeta\u00adbles. When Xiong Liang unfold\u00aded it, we were over\u00adjoyed. In oth\u00ader words, it was fun! It real\u00adly was fun. Com\u00adpared with the grace\u00adful, del\u00adi\u00adcate and gen\u00adtle style of Zhou\u2019s ver\u00adsion of Green Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles, the style of Xiong\u2019s ver\u00adsion of Green Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles is rather rough, and at first glance even looks a bit like the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly child\u00adish graf\u00adfi\u00adti of a naughty boy; the sto\u00adry struc\u00adture of Zhou\u2019s ver\u00adsion of Green Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles fol\u00adlows the style of a Jiang\u00adnan veg\u00adetable gar\u00adden, as if it is a fairy tale tak\u00ading place in a veg\u00adetable farmer\u2019s veg\u00adetable gar\u00adden, while the Xiong ver\u00adsion pays more atten\u00adtion to its orig\u00adi\u00adnal fun in the inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of this nurs\u00adery rhyme, allud\u00ading to the sto\u00adry of the White Lotus Sect in the Qing Dynasty, and there is a sense of wild\u00adness in the scenes of fight\u00ading and play\u00ading; what sur\u00adprised us the most was that many of the images in the Xiong ver\u00adsion of Green Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles were actu\u00adal\u00adly direct\u00adly paint\u00aded from pho\u00adtos of veg\u00adeta\u00adbles, fruits and mel\u00adons, and they are very life\u00adlike, which is a unique expe\u00adri\u00adence.<\/p>\n

 
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We were all thrilled after read\u00ading it and urged Xiong Liang to pub\u00adlish it as soon as pos\u00adsi\u00adble. Con\u00adcerns about a poten\u00adtial con\u00adflict were com\u00adplete\u00adly unnec\u00ades\u00adsary. These two books clear\u00adly dif\u00adfer in style and inter\u00adest. Although both are adapt\u00aded from the same nurs\u00adery rhyme, the sto\u00adries are vast\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent. The more clas\u00adsic some\u00adthing is, the more it deserves dif\u00adfer\u00adent ver\u00adsions, just like \u201cThe Three Lit\u00adtle Pigs\u201d and \u201cLit\u00adtle Red Rid\u00ading Hood.\u201d Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles with dif\u00adfer\u00adent fla\u00advors deserve to be enjoyed by both adults and chil\u00addren.<\/p>\n

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The Xiong broth\u00aders, some\u00adwhat excit\u00aded by our Lin broth\u00aders, began to dis\u00adcuss their \u201cWild Child\u201d con\u00adcept. We then looked at \u201cMy Ide\u00adal,\u201d craft\u00aded from small stones, the vivid\u00adly writ\u00adten \u201cCrick\u00adets and Grasshop\u00adpers,\u201d and the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly play\u00adful and cre\u00adative \u201cWe Want to Be Num\u00adber One.\u201d What sur\u00adprised us most was that the char\u00adac\u00adters in these books were all chil\u00addren\u2019s toys\u2014pebbles, crick\u00adets, grasshop\u00adpers, ants, and, com\u00adbined with the veg\u00adeta\u00adbles and fruits from the pre\u00advi\u00adous book, \u201cit was a real mess!\u201d\u2014but under Xiong Liang\u2019s brush, seem\u00ading\u00adly casu\u00adal and sim\u00adple strokes, we cre\u00adat\u00aded incred\u00adi\u00adbly vivid images. Even with\u00adout the sto\u00adries, revis\u00adit\u00ading these images and char\u00adac\u00adters over and over again was deeply cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading and nev\u00ader tires of them.<\/p>\n

 
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How\u00adev\u00ader, if this is all there is, the painter is still just a painter, not a cre\u00adator of pic\u00adture books.<\/p>\n

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I have always insist\u00aded that pic\u00adture books are first and fore\u00admost for chil\u00addren to read, to be read to, and to tell sto\u00adries to. It is not enough to have only beau\u00adti\u00adful and inter\u00adest\u00ading pic\u00adtures. They must also be able to tell sto\u00adries. When telling sto\u00adries to chil\u00addren, chil\u00addren should be able to respond, and it is best if they can respond whole\u00adheart\u00aded\u00adly.<\/p>\n

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Of course, I also accept the view that dif\u00adfer\u00adent gen\u00adres of pic\u00adture books should coex\u00adist, and that\u2019s true. Some\u00adtimes, we need pic\u00adture books to sat\u00adis\u00adfy the nos\u00adtal\u00adgia of those of us who have long since left child\u00adhood. We also need to con\u00advey to chil\u00addren what we feel is nec\u00ades\u00adsary, even if they don\u2019t imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly under\u00adstand or even don\u2019t com\u00adpre\u00adhend it, but we hope that \u201cthey\u2019ll under\u00adstand when they grow up.\u201d As a result, some pic\u00adture books are high\u00adly appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded by adults (espe\u00adcial\u00adly those in refined lit\u00ader\u00adary cir\u00adcles), and chil\u00addren, out of curios\u00adi\u00adty and basic cour\u00adtesy towards the sto\u00adry\u00adtellers, lis\u00adten atten\u00adtive\u00adly to these sto\u00adries. Even if their reac\u00adtions are mut\u00aded, we still firm\u00adly believe that it ben\u00ade\u00adfits chil\u00addren and is worth\u00adwhile. This is actu\u00adal\u00adly my own view, albeit a some\u00adwhat help\u00adless one at times. Even a good cook can\u00adnot cook with\u00adout rice!<\/p>\n

I feel like most of Xiong Liang\u2019s pre\u00advi\u00adous pic\u00adture books fall into a sim\u00adi\u00adlar cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry: excel\u00adlent works that appeal more to adults than chil\u00addren, with sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded lan\u00adguage, but not ide\u00adal for direct sto\u00adry\u00adtelling with chil\u00addren. The inspec\u00adtor and I pre\u00adfer the two \u201cPeking Opera Cats\u201d books because they\u2019re more suit\u00adable for sto\u00adry\u00adtelling and act\u00ading, and they also allow us to con\u00adnect with our favorite Three King\u00addoms sto\u00adries. I also par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly like \u201cSu Wu Shep\u00adherd\u00ading Sheep\u201d because it makes a great song\u00adbook and also con\u00adnects with a favorite his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal sto\u00adry.<\/p>\n

Orig\u00adi\u00adnal pic\u00adture books should be more about telling sto\u00adries direct\u00adly to chil\u00addren and evok\u00ading their whole-heart\u00aded response. This is one of my more stub\u00adborn ideas.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, when I final\u00adly got my hands on the first batch of six \u201cWild Child\u201d books, I felt a long-await\u00aded urge: I imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly took the books home and told them to my daugh\u00adter! The result was even more remark\u00adable than I\u2019d antic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded. Per\u00adhaps because she was bored with home\u00adwork, her eyes lit up and she was so excit\u00aded to hear the \u201cWild Child\u201d sto\u00adries. After read\u00ading \u201cAny Cat Is Use\u00adful\u201d and \u201cThe Invis\u00adi\u00adble Horse\u201d (I usu\u00adal\u00adly start with the ones I find more chal\u00adleng\u00ading), she burst into laugh\u00adter and insist\u00aded on \u201cread\u00ading it again.\u201d Her moth\u00ader urged her to \u201cgo to bed\u201d and grum\u00adbled, \u201cYou\u2019re already in fourth grade, and you\u2019re still so stub\u00adborn!\u201d But she per\u00adsist\u00aded. I had to smooth things over and tell her to go through \u201cA Gar\u00adden of Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles Becomes a Spir\u00adit\u201d togeth\u00ader first, and we\u2019d talk about the rest tomor\u00adrow. My daugh\u00adter reluc\u00adtant\u00adly agreed\u2014it seems these books have a side effect, and they might actu\u00adal\u00adly be mak\u00ading her wild!<\/p>\n

But, to be hon\u00adest, telling sto\u00adries with these six books is no easy task! What\u2019s the dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty? The dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty lies in being able to con\u00advey that fla\u00advor.<\/p>\n

When read\u00ading pic\u00adture books to chil\u00addren, it\u2019s usu\u00adal\u00adly enough to let the child look at the pic\u00adtures while the adult reads the words. If the pic\u00adture book uses sim\u00adple lan\u00adguage for chil\u00addren and the sto\u00adry is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading, sim\u00adply read\u00ading the sto\u00adry through is gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly effec\u00adtive. For exam\u00adple, in the book \u201cGrand\u00adpa Will Find a Way,\u201d just read it slow\u00adly and don\u2019t speak too fast.<\/p>\n

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How\u00adev\u00ader, to tell the six \u201cWild Child\u201d books well, you real\u00adly need some spe\u00adcial prepa\u00adra\u00adtion and prac\u00adtice. What should you prac\u00adtice? \u2014 Speak\u00ading, learn\u00ading, jok\u00ading, and singing. Isn\u2019t that the same as the require\u00adments for per\u00adform\u00ading crosstalk? Hehe, there are some sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties.<\/p>\n

For exam\u00adple, \u201cWe Want to Be First\u201d tells the sto\u00adry of a group of crick\u00adets who are always striv\u00ading to be num\u00adber one (it\u2019s a bit of a shame it was\u00adn\u2019t pub\u00adlished dur\u00ading the Olympic year, haha). This book can be read direct\u00adly, but there are so many crick\u00adets in the pic\u00adtures, and they\u2019re talk\u00ading every\u00adwhere, so when read\u00ading, I have to find the crick\u00adets\u2019 words every\u00adwhere. The crick\u00adet teacher in the sto\u00adry is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly emo\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly unsta\u00adble, so imi\u00adtat\u00ading his speech takes some effort. Besides speak\u00ading, learn\u00ading and enter\u00adtain\u00ading are also very impor\u00adtant when read\u00ading this book. Learn\u00ading means imi\u00adtat\u00ading, and enter\u00adtain\u00ading means \u201cplay\u00ading with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

 
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Let\u2019s talk about \u201cAny Cat Is Use\u00adful.\u201d This book tells the sto\u00adry of a seem\u00ading\u00adly unat\u00adtrac\u00adtive cat who ful\u00adfills his dream of per\u00adform\u00ading Peking Opera. It can also be seen as an exten\u00adsion of the \u201cPeking Opera Cat\u201d sto\u00adry. The book includes a Peking Opera excerpt from \u201cLi Bai Rais\u00ades His Cup to Invite the Bright Moon,\u201d which would be par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly fun to learn and sing. How\u00adev\u00ader, this sto\u00adry isn\u2019t pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly about singing, but about telling. The quo\u00adta\u00adtion marks indi\u00adcate that this isn\u2019t \u201ctelling\u201d in the usu\u00adal sense, but rather about engag\u00ading in a stand-up com\u00ade\u00addy rou\u00adtine. Before dis\u00adcussing this book, lis\u00adten to a stand-up com\u00ade\u00addy rou\u00adtine by Liu Baorui to get the feel for it. When telling the sto\u00adry, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in the lat\u00ader pages, don\u2019t rush; take your time and deliv\u00ader the punch\u00adline at the end.<\/p>\n

To sing \u201cA Gar\u00adden of Green Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles Becomes a Spir\u00adit\u201d and \u201cCrick\u00adet and Grasshop\u00adper\u201d well requires some singing skills. The for\u00admer is easy to learn with stan\u00addard Bei\u00adjing-style nurs\u00adery rhymes, which can be found online. The lat\u00adter, also a nurs\u00adery rhyme, is also a Bei\u00adjing-style drum song, so it\u2019s not so easy to sing. You can find a suit\u00adable ver\u00adsion online called \u201cGrasshop\u00adper and Crick\u00adet\u201d and learn to sing it with your child. I\u2019ve found that chil\u00addren learn faster. Both books are incred\u00adi\u00adbly enjoy\u00adable if you can sing them well. If you can only read them with\u00adout singing, the fun is reduced by 60\u201370%.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s said that \u201cThe Invis\u00adi\u00adble Horse\u201d requires com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive skills, espe\u00adcial\u00adly the spir\u00adit of \u201cbrave\u00adly per\u00adform\u00ading.\u201d If you take the plunge, this book might be a favorite with chil\u00addren. This book, through a fic\u00adtion\u00adal stage play, tells the sto\u00adry of how imag\u00adi\u00adnary hors\u00ades are por\u00adtrayed in Peking Opera. A mag\u00ada\u00adzine ver\u00adsion of the book, pub\u00adlished in \u201cSuper Baby,\u201d fea\u00adtured only spo\u00adken and sung parts by the Peking Opera char\u00adac\u00adters. Hon\u00adest\u00adly, I ini\u00adtial\u00adly strug\u00adgled to fig\u00adure out how to tell this sto\u00adry to chil\u00addren. Xiong Liang must have rec\u00adog\u00adnized this prob\u00adlem; he tried read\u00ading it to his own daugh\u00adter and also found it quite dif\u00adfi\u00adcult. So, in this new ver\u00adsion, he added the pref\u00adace and the book\u2019s nar\u00adra\u00adtion. (By the way, I\u2019m par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly impressed by Xiong Liang\u2019s spir\u00adit and abil\u00adi\u00adty to learn, demon\u00adstrat\u00aded in this kind of self-tran\u00adscen\u00addence!) With this approach, the book can be used as a sto\u00adry\u00adtelling medi\u00adum. How\u00adev\u00ader, it presents a new chal\u00adlenge for the sto\u00adry\u00adteller: you have to use a com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of nar\u00adra\u00adtion, spo\u00adken and sung parts to tell the sto\u00adry to chil\u00addren. That night, I real\u00adly gave it my all! Apart from the some\u00adwhat unsat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adto\u00adry nar\u00adra\u00adtion, the lines were recit\u00aded at the top of their lungs and the singing was even more out of tune\u2026 Unex\u00adpect\u00aded\u00adly, it was a huge suc\u00adcess and was extreme\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar with my daugh\u00adter, who kept shout\u00ading \u201cDo it again, do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Final\u00adly, let\u2019s talk about \u201cMy Ide\u00adal.\u201d The cov\u00ader of this book boasts \u201cWorks by Xiong Liang and Wang Pu.\u201d Wang Pu is a fourth-grade stu\u00addent at a rur\u00adal ele\u00admen\u00adtary school, and the text in this book is a copy of one of his essays, unchanged. Rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly speak\u00ading, this book is short in terms of sto\u00adry con\u00adtent. If you were to read it the usu\u00adal way, this essay, less than 300 words long, would be fin\u00adished in the blink of an eye. Of course, that\u2019s not the way to go. Much of the fun in this book lies in the illus\u00adtra\u00adtions, allow\u00ading you to savor the sto\u00adries as you read. And just a quick aside, the diverse peo\u00adple of the Five-Col\u00adored Earth are also hid\u00adden in this book. :)<\/p>\n

 
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\nFive-col\u00ador Earth Forum Sig\u00adna\u00adture Edi\u00adtion
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After a round of \u201ctalk, learn, play, sing,\u201d you might think, \u201cOh, that\u2019s so dif\u00adfi\u00adcult.\u201d Haha, it\u2019s not that scary. The real secret to telling the sto\u00adries of these books is: try to relax, don\u2019t take it too seri\u00adous\u00adly, just have fun.<\/p>\n

I once heard Xiong Liang dis\u00adcuss the cre\u00adative process behind \u201cWild Chil\u00addren.\u201d He explained that the ini\u00adtial inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for these sto\u00adries came pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly from chil\u00addren\u2019s thoughts or out\u00addoor games he played with them. He often trav\u00adeled alone, meet\u00ading chil\u00addren from the moun\u00adtains and vil\u00adlages, and becom\u00ading close friends with some, like the sto\u00adry\u00adteller in \u201cMy Lit\u00adtle Pony\u201d and the young author of \u201cMy Ide\u00adal.\u201d When Xiong Liang spoke of the term \u201cwild chil\u00addren,\u201d it was with respect, even a touch of attach\u00adment. Play\u00ading and breath\u00ading in the world like wild children\u2014that, I think, is quite an ambi\u00adtion. Per\u00adhaps it was this under\u00adstand\u00ading that allowed Xiong Liang to let go of his artis\u00adtic bag\u00adgage in the cre\u00adation of \u201cWild Chil\u00addren,\u201d focus\u00ading less on their artis\u00adtic mer\u00adit and more on whether they could be enjoyed by chil\u00addren. So, you can sim\u00adply treat these \u201cWild Chil\u00addren\u201d as fun \u201ctoys\u201d to play with your chil\u00addren and do what\u00adev\u00ader you like.<\/p>\n

Okay, that\u2019s all for now. Just a quick note: to cel\u00ade\u00adbrate the suc\u00adcess\u00adful release of the \u201cWild Child\u201d pic\u00adture book series, a sto\u00adry\u00adtelling ses\u00adsion will be held at Hong\u00adni\u00adba on the after\u00adnoon of Octo\u00adber 31st. Car\u00adrot Inspec\u00adtor and I will be host\u00ading, and we\u2019ll have Xiong Liang him\u00adself telling and singing a sto\u00adry. The theme is \u201cTalk, Learn, Amuse, and Sing \u2014 Wild Child.\u201d Nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly, there will be a book sign\u00ading (P.S.: The pages of this book series are made of thick\u00ader off\u00adset paper, per\u00adfect for writ\u00ading with a brush). Every\u00adone, from 0 to 99 years old, is wel\u00adcome. Experts in sto\u00adry\u00adtelling, learn\u00ading, amus\u00ading, and singing are espe\u00adcial\u00adly wel\u00adcome to join us on stage. Hey, upstairs, please!<\/p>\n

 
\nOcto\u00adber 23, 2009 Red Mud<\/p>\n

Relat\u00aded links<\/p>\n

First a Wild Child, Then a Painter (Read\u00ader Orig\u00adi\u00adnal Edi\u00adtion)<\/u><\/a>
\nWild Child, Part 6: A Gar\u00adden of Green Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles Becomes a Spir\u00adit (Veg\u00adetable Ver\u00adsion)<\/u><\/a>
\n\u201cWild Child\u201d No. 5 \u201cMy Ide\u00adal\u201d (Com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion by Rur\u00adal Chil\u00addren)<\/u><\/a>
\nXiong Liang talks about cre\u00adation<\/u><\/a>
\nTalk\u00ading with Teacher Ajia about the Aes\u00adthet\u00adics of Pic\u00adture Books<\/strong><\/u><\/a>
\n(Xiong Lei)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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