I am a literary giant in Japan

Because she is always taking care of Aiko and Sadako, Mayumi Aso comes into contact with far more children than the average adult.

So she understands children's peculiar thinking better than many people.

Children in kindergarten like to create some imaginative paintings.

In the eyes of most parents and teachers, those paintings are weird, have nothing to do with art and beauty, and are all nonsensical and bad works.

Only a very small number of them have some talent and creativity, but that is only relative to those bad works.

They don't understand the fun of those paintings, and just brag about them insincerely to make their children happy.

Mayumi Aso is just the opposite.

Because of her own experience and creative direction, she can understand children's thoughts and their wonderful paintings.

This is also the reason why Aiko and Sadako like to hang out with her and often ask her to help them look at paintings.

The painting of "python swallowing a big beast" in front of us looks like the purest "children's painting".

The charm and thoughts conveyed by the paintings touched her heart directly!
She was almost certain that Mr. Kitagawa must have studied children for a long time, so he could guide the illustrator to draw works that looked so much like "children's paintings"!

Just from this one illustration, you can see the care and profound meaning of "The Little Prince".

Mayumi Aso has read at least hundreds of children's literature works. In order to allow her daughter to thrive in a healthy environment, she even purchased a large number of overseas children's literature books online.

But among so many children's literature works, none is like "The Little Prince", where even the illustrations are carefully designed.

She couldn't wait to continue reading.

The first chapter describes the "adult world" from the perspective of "I" in the eyes of children.

In my opinion, the "adult world" is boring and dull.

They don't understand pythons, primeval forests, and stars.

They are only interested in boring things like bridge, golf, ties, politics, etc.

In order to cater to their preferences, I pretended to like that kind of thing and started talking to them.

The adults were very happy about this and thought I was a reasonable child.

However, in my heart, they are so boring and uninteresting.

Mayumi Aso once accidentally overheard a conversation between Aiko, Sadako and other children.

Indeed, in their eyes, the "adult world" is so boring and tedious, and adults seem to be always revolving around some very boring things.

Some "little adults" will cleverly "accommodate" adults' preferences, do what they like, and say what they want to hear.

Without exception, these "little adults" have become "smart kids" in the eyes of adults and are growing up as "other people's children."

In fact, these "little adults" know very well that they do these things and say those words just to get praise from their parents.

These things are actually not uncommon.

But Mr. Kitagawa introduced it into the children's book with such a unique story and style, which makes it feel very novel and interesting!
Mayumi Aso reads "The Little Prince" from an adult's perspective, which not only allows her to understand the feelings of a child like "me", but also allows her to feel "the world in the eyes of children" from a God's perspective.

This is much more interesting than the average children's book.

Not to mention the children.

The novel is written from their perspective, which will inevitably make them empathize and have a strong sense of involvement.

Each chapter of "The Little Prince" is not long. Mayumi Aso reads it very quickly and turned to the second chapter in no time.

It was only when she read the second chapter that she was shocked.

It turns out that the “I” in the first chapter is the narrator of the novel, the “childhood perspective” of the pilot in the introduction.

In the second chapter, he was lost in the Sahara Desert due to a plane crash and met the innocent and lovely little prince.

Like a little child, the little prince wanted me to draw him a sheep, but his request was very strange, and he was like a stubborn person, not listening to anything and just wanted the sheep.

"I" agreed because finally someone could understand my paintings.

In the end, I lost my impatience and simply drew a box and told the little prince, "This is a box, the sheep you want is here." The little prince smiled happily and was finally satisfied.

He clapped his hands and asked me if the sheep in the box would need a lot of grass.

Seeing this, Mayumi Aso couldn't help laughing and found the little prince's naivety amusing.

As she laughed, she suddenly looked over to the side, who were looking at her beloved son and Sadako with starry eyes. For a moment, she felt that the little prince's figure completely overlapped with theirs.

"mom!"

"Aunt Aso!"

"Hmm?" Mayumi Aso, who was flipping through the pages of a book, looked down at them.

"This book seems very interesting. Can you read it to us now?"

"Yes, yes, those illustrations are so pretty, I want to listen to them right now!"

The two little guys couldn't bear it any longer, and each of them held one of her arms, shaking and begging.

Mayumi Aso smiled, nodded, and turned the magazine back to the first page.

"Okay, okay, I'll read it to you now."

She picked them up and sat them on her plump thighs, one on each side. Then she pointed at "MOE" and began to recite "The Little Prince".

The two little guys were a little noisy at first, but as they listened, they were soon attracted by the interesting little story.

".I am telling you these details about the asteroid B612 and its number because of these adults.

These grown-ups just love numbers.

When you tell adults about your new friend, they never ask you substantive questions.

They never ask: 'How does he sound? What kind of games does he like? Does he collect butterflies?'

They will only ask you: 'How old is he? How many brothers does he have? How much does he weigh? How much does his father earn?'

They think this is how they get to know your friend.

If you say to grown-ups: 'I saw a beautiful house built of rose-colored bricks, with geraniums in the windows and pigeons on the roof.'

They could never imagine how good such a house was, because their world was so small and filled with money and politics.

If you want them to understand such a beautiful thing, you must say to them: 'I saw a house worth 100,000 francs.'

When they hear this, they will exclaim: 'Oh, what a beautiful house that is! '

If you say to them: 'The proof that the little prince exists is that he is very beautiful, he smiles, and he wants a sheep. He wants a lamb, and that proves that he exists.'

They will definitely shrug their shoulders and treat you like a child!
However, if you tell them: 'The planet the little prince came from is asteroid B612', then they will be very convinced and will not bother you with a lot of questions.

That’s how adults are. Children should be more tolerant of adults and not blame them.”

This is the content of the fourth chapter of "The Little Prince", which uses a "teaching" tone to tell children what the adults' thinking logic is like and how they should "accommodate" adults.

When these words came out of Mayumi Aso's mouth, she felt a little strange.

But to Aiko and Sadako, they found it very useful.

The two little ones nodded in agreement as they listened, as if The Little Prince had touched their hearts. A high-end kindergarten in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

The female kindergarten teacher who was hired at a high salary held the "MOE" in her hands and read the contents with an expressive look.

The children below sat in rows, their backs straight, all listening attentively to the story of "The Little Prince".

At first, the female kindergarten teacher was a little reluctant to use the children's literature picture books on the market to educate these "second-generation rich" and "third-generation rich" people.

The children who can attend this kindergarten are either from wealthy or noble families, and their parents and even grandparents are all high-ranking officials.

They attach great importance to children's childhood education.

Kindergartens have always liked to use Western education models to teach them.

Not to mention textbooks, all of them are imported from overseas, and domestic textbooks are absolutely not used.

Early this morning, as soon as she entered the office, the head teacher came in breathlessly holding a box of "MOE" and asked all the teachers in all classes to replace the textbooks in their hands with it.

"MOE" is quite famous in Japan. She has also watched several issues and to be honest, the quality is pretty good.

But after seeing the children's literature in the Western world, she really couldn't accept that children's picture books of this quality could be read by the descendants of these elites.

At first, all the kindergarten teachers unanimously rejected this idea.

Even if it was the director's order, if the children went home and told their parents, those elites would be unhappy when they knew it, and they would definitely be the ones who would suffer in the end.

But the head teacher was determined to change the textbook to MOE, so they had no choice but to do so.

In order to convince them, the director even took out the official approval document from the Ministry of Education.

The young female kindergarten teacher then realized that this issue of "MOE" seemed to have a great writer serializing a new children's literature work.

She has no fondness for Japanese pure literature.

People like her who grew up with a deep Western education have basically assimilated Western culture into their minds.

Japanese pure literature is very popular in China, but to "quasi-elites" like them, it is just ancient cultural dregs.

A while ago, Kitagawa Hidekazu and many other local writers competed with each other, and she just watched for fun, occasionally chatting with her colleagues, and complaining about the decline and feudalism of Japanese literature.

I heard that this time, Mr. Kitagawa was not nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature due to "personal issues" and was banned from running for five years by the board of directors and the jury.

This made her feel that Japanese literature was completely hopeless.

However, due to the official approval from the Ministry of Education and the attitude of the principal, she had no choice but to disobey and try her best to recite "MOE" to the children.

Anyway, as long as the story is boring, these smart kids will definitely raise objections at the first opportunity.

Wouldn't it be fine if we could just change the textbooks back then?

But as she read on, not only was she deeply absorbed in the story of "The Little Prince", but the children sitting in rows below were also fascinated and completely captivated by the lovely little prince in the novel!

The same scene also appeared in other kindergartens in the Tokyo area.

In addition, in many public and national elementary schools, many elementary school students also read "MOE" attentively during breaks.

On the afternoon of July 7st, less than half a day after "MOE" was released, more than ten well-known private elementary schools in the Tokyo area required all elementary school students to recite "The Little Prince" in full during their activity classes, and it would be best if they could recite it word for word!

In the evening, after Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko put Toru and Midori to sleep, they went to the computer and opened various literary forums.

All I saw were posts about "MOE" and "The Little Prince".

Baobab tree, forty-three sunsets a day, a red-faced man who only knows how to count, like a mushroom
The strange creatures and interesting stories that appear in "The Little Prince" have made netizens crazy about it.

They never thought that a children's novel for children could be so interesting and so imaginative.

They also realized for the first time that children’s thinking and the world they see are so different from their own.

After watching "The Little Prince", some young parents finally understood why it is so difficult to communicate with their children.

Children and adults are like two colors in a black and white world. They do not blend or understand each other.

The Little Prince written by Mr. Kitagawa is like the boundary between black and white in the black and white world.

Through this boundary, they can finally see each other's world and begin to try to cross the boundary to truly embrace people from another world.

Among the countless comment posts, one post that was read over 100 million times deeply touched Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko.

The post first listed a conversation between "I" and the Little Prince.

During the conversation, "I" and the little prince argued about whether the thorns on flowers are useful or not.

This is what the little prince said.

[Flowers have been making thorns for millions of years, and sheep have been eating flowers for millions of years.

Isn't it a serious matter to understand why flowers go to so much trouble to produce themselves with useless thorns?
Isn't the war between sheep and flowers important?
Isn't this more important than the account of that fat, red-faced gentleman?

If I know a flower that is unique in the world, that exists only on my planet and nowhere else, and a little sheep accidentally destroys it, is it not important?

If someone falls in love with a unique flower among the millions of stars, when he looks at the stars, this is enough to make him happy. He can say to himself: "My flower is on one of the stars."

But if the sheep eats the flower, it will be as if all the stars have gone out at once! Isn't that important?!]

After saying this, the little prince suddenly burst into tears.

And "I" also realized that the two people were not arguing about the same thing at all.

"I" am frantically exploring the necessity and rationality of flowers growing thorns. In "my" adult world, there is no romance, no beauty, only boring rationality and reality.

The little prince looks at this matter with emotional and romantic thinking.

It doesn’t matter whether the thorns of a flower have any meaning or whether they can prevent sheep from eating it.

He cares about the thing itself.

This is the biggest gap between adults and children.

The innocence of children is like the thorns on a rose. Adults only think that it is childish, immature and unnecessary.

But in the minds of children, that is everything to them!
In the novel, after listening to the little prince's words, "I" put the hammer, screws, hunger, thirst and death behind me.

He realized that on a planet, on a planet, on "my" planet, on Earth there was a little prince who needed comfort!
I held him in my arms and said to him, "The flower you love is not in danger. I will draw a cover for your lamb. I will draw a suit of armor for your flower. I"

I didn't know what to say. I felt that I was too clumsy and didn't know how to comfort him.

The author of the post wrote at the end of the post, feeling lost: “Thank you Mr. Beichuan for writing The Little Prince.

I lost my child to leukemia this year.

But until the moment he left, I still felt that there was an insurmountable gap between him and me.

I can't understand what he wants, I can only love him with all my heart.

But I never considered whether he needed my love or whether he felt suffocated by it.

When he was dying, he was not much happier because of the love I gave him.

After reading "The Little Prince" and reading this passage, I finally understood.

My little prince, he just wants me to understand that the fact that roses have thorns is everything in my world. " (End of this chapter)