Trea\u00adsures by Michelle Pusey<\/a>The orig\u00adi\u00adnal French title lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly trans\u00adlates to \u201cGuc\u00adci\u2019s Grand Jour\u00adney,\u201d seem\u00ading\u00adly telling a sim\u00adi\u00adlar sto\u00adry, yet also seem\u00ading\u00adly dis\u00adtinct. Illus\u00adtra\u00adtor Peg\u00adgy Neal\u2019s illus\u00adtra\u00adtions depict the Guc\u00adci fam\u00adi\u00adly, a species of rodent that lives on trop\u00adi\u00adcal seashores, sub\u00adsist\u00ading pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly on a diet of nuts. This species of rodent may be unfa\u00admil\u00adiar to most Chi\u00adnese read\u00aders, but the back cov\u00ader blurb reveals it\u2019s an agouti, a species of rodent pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly found in trop\u00adi\u00adcal Amer\u00adi\u00adca. Larg\u00ader than a typ\u00adi\u00adcal mouse, it resem\u00adbles a rab\u00adbit, but lacks a tail and ears. They pos\u00adsess an intrigu\u00ading trait: amne\u00adsia. Despite dili\u00adgent\u00adly col\u00adlect\u00ading seeds and fruit, peel\u00ading them, and bury\u00ading them for lat\u00ader con\u00adsump\u00adtion, they often for\u00adget where they buried their pre\u00adcious food upon wak\u00ading! \u2014 The sto\u00adry of Michelle and Peg\u00adgy\u2019s col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtive pic\u00adture book begins with the agouti\u2019s dev\u00adas\u00adtat\u00ading amne\u00adsia. Pret\u00adty infor\u00adma\u00adtive, isn\u2019t it?
\n<\/p>\nGuc\u00adci\u2019s amne\u00adsia is tru\u00adly dev\u00adas\u00adtat\u00ading. With his grand\u00adfa\u00adther aging and his moth\u00ader car\u00ading for his younger sib\u00adlings, he\u2019s respon\u00adsi\u00adble for sav\u00ading food for the fam\u00adi\u00adly. But after hiber\u00adna\u00adtion, the for\u00adest they live in is rav\u00adaged by a storm, leav\u00ading no food avail\u00adable. And Guc\u00adci has com\u00adplete\u00adly for\u00adgot\u00adten where he buried his stash! In such a sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, life-sav\u00ading food is the true trea\u00adsure. With no oth\u00ader options, led by his moth\u00ader, the Guc\u00adci fam\u00adi\u00adly embarks on a \u201cgreat journey\u201d\u2014at least for the agouti.
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Michel Pous\u00adsi is a best\u00adselling French author, rank\u00ading sec\u00adond in France in terms of sales in 2018. How\u00adev\u00ader, he\u2019s not a chil\u00addren\u2019s book writer; his forte lies in thrillers and sus\u00adpense, often in the real\u00adis\u00adtic detec\u00adtive genre. This pic\u00adture book sto\u00adry, from his 2015 book, \u201cShe\u2019s Not My Moth\u00ader,\u201d is actu\u00adal\u00adly a short sto\u00adry set with\u00adin the thriller. It\u2019s one of sev\u00aden bed\u00adtime sto\u00adries that the three-and-a-half-year-old pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist, Mar\u00adrone, hears repeat\u00aded\u00adly, and per\u00adhaps the most impor\u00adtant of them all. The pic\u00adture book is for\u00adtu\u00adnate to have the renowned Peg\u00adgy Neal as the illus\u00adtra\u00adtor. Peg\u00adgy is not only an illus\u00adtra\u00adtor but also a ver\u00adsa\u00adtile design\u00ader, spe\u00adcial\u00adiz\u00ading in print, toys, appar\u00adel, and even unique inte\u00adri\u00ador design. Hav\u00ading trav\u00adeled exten\u00adsive\u00adly, includ\u00ading sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant time in South Asia and South Amer\u00adi\u00adca, she seems to have a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar fond\u00adness for the vibrant, vibrant col\u00adors of the trop\u00adics, result\u00ading in a warm and exot\u00adic style. Through Peg\u00adgy\u2019s illus\u00adtra\u00adtions, the sto\u00adry elic\u00adits no hint of hor\u00adror, but instead a vibrant, endear\u00ading, and humor\u00adous atmos\u00adphere, mak\u00ading it impos\u00adsi\u00adble not to miss the Guc\u00adci fam\u00adi\u00adly\u2019s jour\u00adney.
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In the pic\u00adture book\u2019s nar\u00adra\u00adtive, this jour\u00adney of search\u00ading for food and shel\u00adter seems like a dif\u00adfi\u00adcult adven\u00adture, but in the pic\u00adtures, it\u2019s incred\u00adi\u00adbly romantic\u2014quite inter\u00adest\u00ading, quite allur\u00ading, to say the least. This is the unique charm of pic\u00adture books: the text and the pic\u00adtures each tell a sto\u00adry: chil\u00addren typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly look at the pic\u00adtures while an adult reads the text, and the result\u00ading \u201cthird sto\u00adry\u201d is clos\u00adest to the sto\u00adry they ulti\u00admate\u00adly absorb. Of course, the child\u2019s own rich imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion will fur\u00adther refine it.
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Like \u201cThe Alchemist,\u201d the end of a great jour\u00adney is where it began. How\u00adev\u00ader, Michel\u2019s sto\u00adry is remark\u00adably inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive: instead of find\u00ading their old \u201ctrea\u00adsure\u201d buried at the start\u00ading point, the Gooch fam\u00adi\u00adly dis\u00adcov\u00aders a new for\u00adest, where new trees, sprout\u00aded from the seeds Gooch had for\u00adgot\u00adten, are laden with fruit\u2014even more new trea\u00adsures! This inge\u00adnious out\u00adcome isn\u2019t the author\u2019s design; it\u2019s actu\u00adal\u00adly these seem\u00ading\u00adly insignif\u00adi\u00adcant species, the agouti, that serve as the \u201cfor\u00adest gar\u00adden\u00aders\u201d of the equa\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal region. Their dili\u00adgent bury\u00ading of fruit, then for\u00adget\u00adting to dig it up, helps the for\u00adest regen\u00ader\u00adate. The for\u00adest becomes more beau\u00adti\u00adful and fer\u00adtile, and the agouti fam\u00adi\u00adly has an inex\u00adhaustible sup\u00adply of food.
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There\u00adfore, read\u00ading pic\u00adture books like this is tru\u00adly a delight\u00adful expe\u00adri\u00adence. The sto\u00adries are beau\u00adti\u00adful, the images are beau\u00adti\u00adful, and they are very infor\u00adma\u00adtive. They make you mar\u00advel at the won\u00adders of nature. At the same time, you may also gain some unique insights into life, such as the trea\u00adsures and pur\u00adsuits in life. This kind of read\u00ading is a won\u00adder\u00adful jour\u00adney in itself, isn\u2019t it?
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But what\u2019s even more fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading about this sto\u00adry is that it\u2019s actu\u00adal\u00adly from a thriller detec\u00adtive nov\u00adel! How could that be? Aren\u2019t you curi\u00adous at all? I can\u2019t spoil the sto\u00adry of the mur\u00adder\u00ader in that nov\u00adel, but I can tell you that this lit\u00adtle sto\u00adry fits per\u00adfect\u00adly with\u00adin the nov\u00adel, not only advanc\u00ading the plot per\u00adfect\u00adly (the stuffed ani\u00admal the pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist con\u00adstant\u00adly holds is none oth\u00ader than Guc\u00adci the agouti) but also pro\u00advid\u00ading a bril\u00adliant metaphor. The nov\u00adel begins like this: A three-and-a-half-year-old boy named Mar\u00adrone sud\u00adden\u00adly announces to every\u00adone at kinder\u00adgarten that the moth\u00ader he lives with every day isn\u2019t his! Of course, no one believes Mar\u00adrone, dis\u00admiss\u00ading him as a tem\u00adpo\u00adrary men\u00adtal ill\u00adness. How\u00adev\u00ader, the child psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgist who comes to help Mar\u00adrone believes him and is sur\u00adprised to dis\u00adcov\u00ader that Guc\u00adci the stuffed ani\u00admal is actu\u00adal\u00adly telling him sto\u00adries. \u201cThe Trea\u00adsure\u201d is the first sto\u00adry.
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From a child devel\u00adop\u00adment per\u00adspec\u00adtive, chil\u00addren under the age of four or five are, at least in terms of their abil\u00adi\u00adty to retain mem\u00ado\u00adries, much like the agouti in the sto\u00adry. For exam\u00adple, a three-month-old baby may only retain mem\u00ado\u00adries for a week, while a three-year-old may only retain mem\u00ado\u00adries for six months. Con\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly, adults often lack a clear recall of events before the age of four or five, rely\u00ading on pho\u00adtographs or rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtions from elders to recon\u00adstruct those mem\u00ado\u00adries. But the ques\u00adtion aris\u00ades: if chil\u00addren are so eas\u00adi\u00adly for\u00adget\u00adful, why do adults con\u00adtin\u00adue to engage in ear\u00adly child\u00adhood edu\u00adca\u00adtion?
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I think this short sto\u00adry clev\u00ader\u00adly answers this ques\u00adtion and offers a won\u00adder\u00adful metaphor: child\u00adhood is the most impor\u00adtant trea\u00adsure in a per\u00adson\u00ad\u2019s life. Think of it this way: when chil\u00addren are very young, the words we say to them, the sto\u00adries we tell them, the pic\u00adture books we read them, the poems and nurs\u00adery rhymes we recite, the music we share, the games we play, the car\u00adtoons we watch, the mean\u00ading\u00adful expe\u00adri\u00adences we have, and so on, are like seeds. For chil\u00addren, most of these are for\u00adgot\u00adten, buried deep with\u00adin their con\u00adscious\u00adness, and even when they look back as adults, they may not be found. But those seeds will even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly grow into a new for\u00adest, with trees full of new fruit, just like Guc\u00adci the Agouti\u2019s trea\u00adsure.
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How\u00adev\u00ader, there is a more impor\u00adtant rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion: in order to har\u00advest these \u201ctrea\u00adsures\u201d, we must help chil\u00addren embark on a great jour\u00adney, to con\u00adstant\u00adly explore and pur\u00adsue, while care\u00adful\u00adly pro\u00adtect\u00ading those around them, cher\u00adish\u00ading the present, and firm\u00adly believ\u00ading that those trea\u00adsures will qui\u00adet\u00adly bloom one day (espe\u00adcial\u00adly when we for\u00adget why one day).
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\nSuch rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion is suit\u00adable for both chil\u00addren and our\u00adselves.
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Ajia \u2026
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