This is a 2023 Caldecott Silver Award book, what is the concept of the Caldecott Award? It is the "Oscar" of this year! What kind of work will win this award? In addition to artistic value and special creativity, the work must have the function of "entertaining and educating".
It is interesting to note that this award from the United States is only given to American citizens or residents, but the name of this award is indeed in honor of British picture book painter Randolph Caldecott.
Title: The Owl Rider
Author: Christopher Dennis.
Translator: Yang Di.
Producer: @心喜阅童书.
Two days ago, I went to watch Jia Ling's movie "Hot and Hot", in the movie she had a dream - "I want to win once", and later through hard work, she lost the game, but won herself.
The little owl in the book also has a dream of becoming a knight, and every day before going to sleep, he imagines himself to be a real knight, brave and intelligent, and has many friends. But it's just a dream!
Until one day, the knight began to disappear from the castle.
The little owl applied to the knight's school and was accepted, he was an excellent student, although he could not use a sword yet, nor could he lift a shield, and even dozed off during the day. He studied hard and successfully graduated.
The little owl was assigned to the Legion of the Night Watch, and the other knights would fall asleep during the vigil, and he did not care, and appeared alone on the city wall, and then he felt like a real knight.
Phew—shh—" The voice was strange in the dark, quiet night, and the little owl in the armor widened its eyes!
Whew-shh
Whew-whew-".
The little owl responded to the strange voice, "Who? Who? Who is ......”
Whew—me? A deep voice appeared.
Who are you? "I'm a hungry dragon. ”
Although the little owl was afraid, he plucked up his feathers and said in a loud voice, "I am an owl, a knight of the night watch." ”
A lot of times when you look at various stories, the bad guy and the protagonist Rory are rambling, and then the protagonist turns defeat into victory, so the opponent who can generally nag will not be a bad result in the end.
Therefore, the little owl and the dragon broke their heads, and they were still discussing that they were not small enough to take a bite, and their hair was not delicious, and the dragon didn't care so much, until the little owl took out a pizza, but I didn't expect that the dragon liked pizza very much, and they chatted while eating, and they actually had so many common topics.
Next, no more knights were missing. The little owl got his wish, was brave, smart and had many friends ......
If you want to ask why pizza captured the dragon's heart, it's because it was inspired by the family at the pizza dinner.