{"id":3282,"date":"2014-04-23T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2014\/04\/23\/lao_shu_yang_20140423\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T08:49:12","slug":"lao_shu_yang_20140423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2014\/04\/23\/lao_shu_yang_20140423\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Review of \u201cThe Mouse Raised a Cat\u201d (Win\u00adner of the 9th Wen\u00adjin Award, 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n  The Mouse Raised a Cat is by Xiao Mao<\/span>\u201c<\/span>Fairy Tale Dream Fac\u00adto\u00adry<\/span>\u201d<\/span>A col\u00adlec\u00adtion of fairy tales in<\/span>25<\/span>In this exquis\u00adite and short fairy tale, some impor\u00adtant char\u00adac\u00adters in Xiao Mao\u2019s fairy tale world \u2014 Baby Pig, Bobo Bear, Anmi, Frog and Lit\u00adtle Fish, Tao\u00adtao and Mili, etc. \u2014 appeared on the stage one after anoth\u00ader, per\u00adform\u00ading inno\u00adcent, cute, humor\u00adous and wit\u00adty lit\u00adtle sto\u00adries.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nAt first glance, this is a rather plain book, with\u00adout fan\u00adcy bind\u00ading or exag\u00adger\u00adat\u00aded rec\u00adom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtions. But upon clos\u00ader inspec\u00adtion, the illus\u00adtra\u00adtions are love\u00adly and appro\u00adpri\u00adate, the type\u00adset\u00adting is loose\u00adly spaced, and pinyin is pro\u00advid\u00aded, show\u00ading con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion for young read\u00aders at every turn. But more impor\u00adtant\u00adly, once you start read\u00ading this fairy tale col\u00adlec\u00adtion, young read\u00aders will like\u00adly be deeply attract\u00aded.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nIn the open\u00ading chap\u00adter \u201cRef\u00ader\u00adee\u201d, the piglet is invit\u00aded to be the ref\u00ader\u00adee of a run\u00adning race. The con\u00adtes\u00adtants include two-legged chick\u00adens, duck\u00adlings and geese, four-legged pup\u00adpies, kit\u00adtens and bears, as well as six-legged and eight-legged ani\u00admals\u202642<\/span>A cen\u00adtipede with only one leg also com\u00adpet\u00aded. The audi\u00adence cheered, think\u00ading, \u201cThe more legs, the faster it must run!\u201d But it turns out that the lit\u00adtle flower snake, with no legs, won! This sto\u00adry show\u00adcas\u00ades the typ\u00adi\u00adcal char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtics of Xiao Mao\u2019s fairy tales: clever cre\u00adativ\u00adi\u00adty, seam\u00adless inte\u00adgra\u00adtion of knowl\u00adedge, humor\u00adous expres\u00adsion, vivid imagery, an almost nat\u00adur\u00adal child\u00adish\u00adness, and a touch of philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal inter\u00adest, which also allows adults to have some room for reflec\u00adtion.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nRead on, and as each sto\u00adry unfolds, you will find that the var\u00adi\u00adous char\u00adac\u00adters in Xiao Mao\u2019s fairy tale world have dis\u00adtinct per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adties: the baby pig is a sim\u00adple, kind-heart\u00aded opti\u00admist; Bobo Bear is good at every\u00adthing except his love for hon\u00adey, he is smart, curi\u00adous, and will\u00ading to explore every\u00adthing, so the lit\u00adtle fox and the big bad wolf who are relat\u00aded to him also appear to be infi\u00adnite\u00adly cre\u00adative; the naughty frog and the beau\u00adty-lov\u00ading lit\u00adtle fish have an envi\u00adable and sin\u00adcere friend\u00adship, and their pur\u00adsuit of beau\u00adty can be called roman\u00adtic; the friend\u00adship between the mouse Mi Li and the pup\u00adpy Tao Tao is also quite pecu\u00adliar, and this spe\u00adcial com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion always encoun\u00adters unex\u00adpect\u00aded new things; and the boy An Mi is like an alien liv\u00ading on Earth, and he is always involved in events that shock the uni\u00adverse.\u2026<\/span>What a rich and won\u00adder\u00adful world this is!<\/span><\/p>\n


\nIn the fairy tale that serves as the title of this book, Mili and Tao\u00adtao adopt\u00aded a cat that was called \u201cTast\u00ading Brand Cat Food\u201d.\u201d<\/span>Zhang Mao\u00admao, the spokesper\u00adson for the film, is actu\u00adal\u00adly the celebri\u00adty cat, tired of her life with\u00adout free\u00addom, and decides to become a nor\u00admal cat with an own\u00ader, even if that own\u00ader is a mouse or a pup\u00adpy. How\u00adev\u00ader, as their love grows, the cat finds it increas\u00ading\u00adly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to sup\u00adpress her instinct to eat the mouse, so she res\u00adolute\u00adly decides to leave and become a free stray cat. This is a fairy tale with a dis\u00adtinct\u00adly mod\u00adern per\u00adspec\u00adtive, and the author clev\u00ader\u00adly incor\u00adpo\u00adrates ele\u00adments of real life, paint\u00ading a beau\u00adti\u00adful pic\u00adture while not shy\u00ading away from the some\u00adtimes harsh real\u00adi\u00adties of rela\u00adtion\u00adships.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nHow\u00adev\u00ader, no mat\u00adter how many mod\u00adern ele\u00adments he intro\u00adduces into his works, Xiao Mao always main\u00adtains the roman\u00adtic tra\u00addi\u00adtion unique to fairy tales. In \u201cThe Adven\u00adtures of Nine Lit\u00adtle Mice,\u201d the beau\u00adty-lov\u00ading moth\u00ader mouse devotes her\u00adself to dress\u00ading her chil\u00addren, turn\u00ading them into the most beau\u00adti\u00adful lit\u00adtle mice in the world. All ani\u00admals mar\u00advel at their beau\u00adty, and the war\u00adring par\u00adties stop fight\u00ading because of their appear\u00adance. Even their nat\u00adur\u00adal ene\u00admy, the cat, learns sym\u00adpa\u00adthy and pity\u2026 In the end, the father mouse sighs:\u201c<\/span>I nev\u00ader thought that beau\u00adty could change the world!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nYes, this roman\u00adtic tra\u00addi\u00adtion is also the ide\u00adal of fairy tales. No mat\u00adter how help\u00adless we are in the fan\u00adta\u00adsy world or the real world, we must ulti\u00admate\u00adly promise our chil\u00addren that they will live hap\u00adpi\u00adly togeth\u00ader from now on.\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nOnly by believ\u00ading can you tru\u00adly achieve it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nChil\u00addren\u2019s read\u00ading pro\u00admot\u00ader Ajia
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