This article is a transfer from "East-West Children's Education" (ID: eastwest_edu), written by Chihiro Mama
Extend the holidays to postpone the start of school, and recommend high-quality animated shorts and movies for you at home. Children should not watch the film for a long time, one is that the time is not good for vision, and the other is that their concentration is limited.
More importantly, children need to use their bodies to do things and play, to develop through direct experience. Arrange the rhythm of family life and the daily process reasonably, and watching cartoons is only an option in leisure time.
01 "A Pig Who Can't Eat Cookies"
Happy and philosophical little stories
【Video Information】
Directed by Rob Silvestri
Runtime: 3 minutes and 55 seconds
Language: No dialogue
Release date: 2010
Douban score: 7.6
【Reasons for recommending films】
This is an animated short film highly recommended by Chihiro's children, she can really watch it once and laugh once, even if she has watched it dozens of times, the content is familiar with the heart, and when she sees piglet desperately using eighteen martial arts to die in order to eat cookies, she still laughs.
For children, this short film is as cute as "Unlucky Bear", the piglet constructs a temporary seesaw, sets up a cardboard ladder, and even takes a plane to parachute, which can be described as a step by step, creative, but it has repeatedly failed, and the embarrassment of thinking is particularly funny.
For adults, this short film has another meaning. I don't know how many people, like little pigs, have worked hard, but the results are not satisfactory. The tireless piggy eventually failed to eat the cookies, but did you find it unhappy? I think it's fun. Without using the result as a yardstick for life, gain or loss has nothing to do with a jar of cookies, and you may be able to gladly accept the black humor of fate.
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02 Gift
To be brave is to accept oneself that is imperfect
Director: Jacob Frey
Duration: 4 minutes and 12 seconds
Language: English
Release date: 2015
Douban score: 8.3
In the beginning, the boys nestled in the house and indulged in games. When he saw that the gift his mother had given him was a puppy with a missing leg, he kicked it aside in exasperation, but the puppy was not sad because he was rejected, and the puppy's happiness infected the boy and made him start to walk out of his own world.
At the end of the picture, the boy stands up on crutches, leaving the back of one leg, and people suddenly realize... To be brave is to accept oneself that is imperfect.
03 Treehouse Fairy Tale
Series of cartoons, restore vivid picture book stories
Director: Caribara
Length: 7 minutes in each episode, 26 episodes in total
Language: Chinese translation
Release date: 2017
Douban score: None
This is a series of cartoons that Chihiro particularly likes, and it's the only one I'm willing to indulge her watching for several episodes. In 2017, the animated series won the Emmy Award, the highest television award as important as the "Oscar" and "Grammy", and was named "Best Preschool Children's Program" by the organizing committee. In addition to a very artistic and interesting viewing experience, it is also a "mentor" with real significance for children's growth.
It's a cartoon, but it's more of a storytelling show where four kids go to their secret base every day to tell stories in a cute tree house.
A total of 26 episodes, one episode and one story, all of which come from classic picture books, such as "999 Frog Brothers Big Move", "It's Good to Have You", "Christmas Turkey Legend" and "Thumbelina", etc. After watching one episode, children are equivalent to reading a picture book.
04 The Fox and Me
The relationship between love and possession
Director: Luc. Yagai
Duration: 92 minutes
Language: French
Release date: 2007
Douban score: 8.6
A ten-year-old girl encounters a fox catching a vole on her way to school. The girl is fascinated by the beautiful fox, from autumn to winter to spring, the girl's relationship with the fox slowly builds, the fox takes the little girl on a wonderful forest adventure...
The film brings us an interesting journey through the forest, and also tells the relationship between love and possession in a telling way, hitting the heart.
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