2007年6月26日 星期二

Willy and Hugh - Written by Anthony Browne


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I think this book is suitable for 4-7 years old children to read, since it mainly talks about the friendship, and children may start to realize the meaning from four years old. It is beginning that people need more friends to accompany them in schools. I had ever mentioned about the author in reflection before; he always use monkey as main characters but not human beings, and he did the same thing in “Willy and Hugh.”

The book describes that a tiny and thin monkey who is not popular in his school life, and there is even no one want to make friends with him. However, one day, he met Hugh who was running and bumped into him by accident. Hugh is strong and big, and the most important is, he is quiet polite, and he said sorry to Willy. Willy was surprised, since everyone in his live won’t treat him like this. By this accident, they became good friends, and they had a lot of fun. Because of Hugh, no one can treat Willy badly anymore. Furthermore, although Hugh is big, there is still something he afraid of, and Willy can help him solve the trouble – a small spider.

I think this book is really sweet and interesting. First, I want to talk about the illustrations. The illustrations always portray the meaning of the context very well, and I like it very much. In this case, children can easily understand the meaning and the expression of this book. Furthermore, the children will like to spend time on this book, since it is easy and attractive at this age group. Second, from the psychoanalytical criticism aspect the content of this book are showing many things. The friendship may be the main point and issue for children to focusing on it and for those tow monkeys, their friendship shows the importance of accompany for everyone. And I certainly believe that, everyone need friend around us, therefore, when the children read this book they may come up with the feeling of agreement and the book will arouse the interest among the children. The characters of this book, they use the way of comparison and ironically comparison on them. They describe the big monkey has a polite and gentle personality, however, the monkey who is small and short are always be treated bad by others, even policeman. What the author trying to tell us is that, this world is the practical society and the children can learn this phenomenon form this book much earlier. And for the bright side of this book, the author are trying to let us realize the friendship around us in everywhere of our daily life. To sum up my opinion, I would highly recommend that the children can learn this real world and realize more about this world. As a result, they can see the bright side of this society as well.

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