{"id":3619,"date":"2017-11-23T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2017\/11\/23\/wan_an_de_20171123\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:48:50","slug":"wan_an_de_20171123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2017\/11\/23\/wan_an_de_20171123\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret of Good\u00adnight: My Thoughts on the Trans\u00adla\u00adtion of \u201cThank You, Good\u00adnight\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cThank You, Good\u00adnight\u201d is a new pic\u00adture book pub\u00adlished in 2015 by Amer\u00adi\u00adcan car\u00adtoon\u00adist Patrick McDon\u00adnell. He is renowned in the comics field for his work on MUTTS; he is also a pas\u00adsion\u00adate ani\u00admal pro\u00adtec\u00adtion activist and a deeply com\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adate phil\u00adan\u00adthropist. He and his wife, Karen, do not have chil\u00addren, but he pre\u00adsum\u00adably loves them dear\u00adly. Since 2005, he has exper\u00adi\u00adment\u00aded with cre\u00adat\u00ading pic\u00adture books for chil\u00addren, achiev\u00ading con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable suc\u00adcess in this field. In 2012, he won the Calde\u00adcott Medal for \u201cI\u2026 Have a Dream.\u201d Through\u00adout McDon\u00adnel\u00adl\u2019s pic\u00adture books, he con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly con\u00adveys mes\u00adsages of love, courage, and dreams. \u201cThank You, Good\u00adnight\u201d is no excep\u00adtion, but it also serves a unique pur\u00adpose: to help chil\u00addren fall asleep peace\u00adful\u00adly.
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\nThere are already many \u201cgood\u00adnight books\u201d for chil\u00addren on the mar\u00adket. What\u2019s so spe\u00adcial about \u201cThank You, Good\u00adnight\u201d? Can it tru\u00adly help chil\u00addren (and adults, by the way?)? This begins with the clas\u00adsic \u201cGood\u00adnight, Moon.\u201d Mar\u00adgaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd pub\u00adlished the book in 1947. Ini\u00adtial\u00adly, most adult read\u00aders did\u00adn\u2019t ful\u00adly grasp its val\u00adue. The sto\u00adry con\u00adsists of a large green bed\u00adroom, where the fur\u00adnish\u00adings are metic\u00adu\u00adlous\u00adly inven\u00adto\u00adried, fol\u00adlowed by a sto\u00adry about a lit\u00adtle bun\u00adny say\u00ading good\u00adnight to every\u00adthing, and final\u00adly falling asleep\u2014it\u2019s a sto\u00adry too sim\u00adple! Ask the chil\u00addren if they enjoy the sto\u00adry, but they often fall asleep while lis\u00adten\u00ading! It seems like they haven\u2019t real\u00adly react\u00aded. Sim\u00adply put, adults often over\u00adlook a child\u2019s most nat\u00adur\u00adal reaction\u2014the peace\u00adful sleep phase\u2014and take it for grant\u00aded. When these chil\u00addren grew up and had their own chil\u00addren, they want\u00aded to look for the good\u00adnight mag\u00adic book they had when they were young that could make their chil\u00addren fall asleep while lis\u00adten\u00ading to it. It was then that they redis\u00adcov\u00adered \u201cGood\u00adnight Moon\u201d.
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\nResearchers have since begun to delve into the ori\u00adgins of this \u201cgood\u00adnight mag\u00adic.\u201d It turns out these books have a direct con\u00adnec\u00adtion to young chil\u00addren\u2019s hearts, sooth\u00ading their rest\u00adless sleep. For exam\u00adple, despite the sim\u00adple text, these books pos\u00adsess a remark\u00adably rhyth\u00admic flow, a rhythm rem\u00adi\u00adnis\u00adcent of a lul\u00adla\u00adby: frag\u00adment\u00aded, repet\u00adi\u00adtive, lin\u00adger\u00ading, and long. The images them\u00adselves appear sim\u00adple, yet imbued with both child\u00adish and artis\u00adtic inter\u00adest, and the soft tones and con\u00adtours cre\u00adate a sense of com\u00adfort and a desire for a good night\u2019s sleep. The nar\u00adra\u00adtive is also metic\u00adu\u00adlous\u00adly craft\u00aded. Rather than sim\u00adply nar\u00adrat\u00ading the sto\u00adry or sim\u00adply set\u00adtling into a qui\u00adet good\u00adnight mood, it first cre\u00adates a bit of excite\u00adment, allow\u00ading young read\u00aders to vent. \u201cGood\u00adnight, Moon\u201d begins by count\u00ading the items in the room (like a wealthy man), and then invites a lit\u00adtle bun\u00adny to patient\u00adly say good\u00adnight to each one. As the bun\u00adny begins, it even stands up from its bed, excit\u00aded. Clement, the lit\u00adtle char\u00adac\u00adter in \u201cThank You, Good\u00adnight,\u201d is also a rab\u00adbit. Notice how he\u2019s wear\u00ading the same blue and white striped paja\u00admas as the bun\u00adny in \u201cGood\u00adnight Moon\u201d! This is clear\u00adly a nod to both of McDon\u00adnel\u00adl\u2019s pre\u00adde\u00adces\u00adsors. How\u00adev\u00ader, McDon\u00adnel\u00adl\u2019s bun\u00adny has a \u201cslum\u00adber par\u00adty\u201d with two friends, hav\u00ading a good time before get\u00adting ready for bed.
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\nThe great\u00adest secret of the \u201cGood\u00adnight Mag\u00adic\u201d lies in the sec\u00adond half of the book. The \u201cmag\u00adic\u201d of \u201cGood\u00adnight, Moon\u201d lies, at its core, in its under\u00adstand\u00ading of a unique psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal state in infan\u00adcy and ear\u00adly child\u00adhood: chil\u00addren at a cer\u00adtain stage can\u00adnot yet grasp the per\u00adma\u00adnence of objects. Objects no longer in sight seem to have van\u00adished from their uni\u00adverse! This can be unset\u00adtling, caus\u00ading them to strug\u00adgle to fall asleep. The author invites chil\u00addren (with the help of the book\u2019s lit\u00adtle rab\u00adbit) to count the most famil\u00adiar and cher\u00adished objects around them, then say good\u00adnight to each one. While seem\u00ading\u00adly set\u00adtling these objects, it actu\u00adal\u00adly soothes the child\u2019s heart. Once they have said good\u00adnight to the sky, the stars, and all the sounds, they can final\u00adly drift off to sleep.
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\nWhile pay\u00ading homage to its pre\u00adde\u00adces\u00adsors, \u201cThank You, Good\u00adnight\u201d also attempts to ele\u00advate the mag\u00adic: the three lit\u00adtle ones insist on hear\u00ading a sto\u00adry before falling asleep, and they insist on hear\u00ading their favorite sto\u00adry. For chil\u00addren, their favorite sto\u00adries are often those in which they become the pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist. Here, the images reveal anoth\u00ader secret: the ele\u00adphant in this book is like\u00adly \u201cBabel the Ele\u00adphant,\u201d and the bear is \u201cWin\u00adnie-the-Pooh Bear\u201d! \u2014 Of course, you can just take this as a pos\u00adsi\u00adble inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion. After lis\u00adten\u00ading to the sto\u00adry, they do the same thing as the bun\u00adny in \u201cGood\u00adnight, Moon,\u201d but instead of just say\u00ading \u201cgood\u00adnight,\u201d they add a real \u201cgood\u00adnight kiss\u201d and a \u201cthank you\u201d \u2014 falling asleep filled with warmth and grat\u00adi\u00adtude! What a sweet good\u00adnight rit\u00adu\u00adal!
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\n  But wait! There\u2019s more to the sto\u00adry.
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\nOn goodreads.com, a web\u00adsite fre\u00adquent\u00aded by for\u00adeign read\u00aders, there are over 800 reviews of this book. While the major\u00adi\u00adty are prais\u00ading, there are also some dis\u00adagree\u00adments. The main dis\u00adagree\u00adments are that the book is too sweet, and that the sto\u00adry\u2019s char\u00adac\u00adter, Mag\u00adgie, seems a bit puz\u00adzling: Why is she car\u00ading for the three lit\u00adtle ones like a moth\u00ader or a nan\u00adny, when she her\u00adself is a child? This lat\u00adter obser\u00adva\u00adtion is tru\u00adly fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading, and even more inter\u00adest\u00ading, I haven\u2019t found a sin\u00adgle review address\u00ading it. It\u2019s pos\u00adsi\u00adble that every\u00adone has over\u00adlooked the book\u2019s great\u00adest secret: the true pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist isn\u2019t the three lit\u00adtle ones, but Mag\u00adgie!
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\nThe secret lies on the last page: Mag\u00adgie lies asleep in bed, with three lit\u00adtle crea\u00adtures beside her. But please note: in this paint\u00ading, the three lit\u00adtle crea\u00adtures are no longer liv\u00ading crea\u00adtures; they are actu\u00adal\u00adly Mag\u00adgie\u2019s toys! To ensure this, the artist has Mag\u00adgie take the toy rab\u00adbits out of the cov\u00aders. All the bed\u00adtime activ\u00adi\u00adties we\u2019ve seen so far are sim\u00adply a play Mag\u00adgie has writ\u00adten, direct\u00aded, and per\u00adformed her\u00adself. This is Mag\u00adgie\u2019s bed\u00adtime rit\u00adu\u00adal!
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\nSo who helped Mag\u00adgie accom\u00adplish all this, espe\u00adcial\u00adly read\u00ading and telling her sto\u00adries? Of course, it was Mag\u00adgie\u2019s par\u00adents, who were not in the pic\u00adture but seemed to be every\u00adwhere.
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\n  I think this is the most reas\u00adsur\u00ading secret of this sto\u00adry.
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\nWrit\u00adten in Bei\u00adjing on Octo\u00adber 15, 2016
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