"Mom, do you know what the biggest flower in the world is?"
Ah, well, although women especially love flowers, the knowledge reserve of flowers is limited to the resident varieties of ordinary flower shops. The biggest thing is that the knowledge in the brain is shy and really can't be taken away. I can only honestly answer in front of the children: "I really don't know!"
"It's Wang Hua, so, you see, it looks like this." The child is holding a book in front of me. It turned out to be a big picture book. Although I bought a lot of picture books for my children, I really didn't spend too much time studying the content carefully.
This is "My Hand-painted Museum: Natural Wonders". The cover color is very nice, light turquoise. The elephant on the cover is hand-painted at first glance, which is quite realistic. Fading down the hidden animal patterns next to it shows that there are many "protagonists" in this book.
Turn to the page that the children said. Sure enough, the flowers in the page are huge. Arnold's big flower Isn't this grass? Look at the introduction below, oh oh, also called Wang Hua. Looking at the introduction carefully, "they are parasitic on vines, with a diameter of 1 m and a weight of 7 ~ 1 1 kg." God, does a flower weigh more than ten or twenty kilograms? This is not only the biggest, but also the heaviest flower, right? Is this just a big king flower, or a big fat flower? Ha ha.
The children were amused. I continued to read to them, "This flower has no stems and leaves, only five petals."
Get out of here! /Really? Forget it without a pole. How can you breathe without leaves? I am surprised at my limited knowledge of biology. Nature is really amazing. I have heard of figs, but there are leafless flowers and stemless flowers.
The following sentence subverts my original understanding of flowers.
"Flowers give off the smell of carrion, which attracts flies to pollinate them."
I have seen fragrant flowers and flowers without any fragrance, but really few flowers are smelly. The words "the smell of carrion" and "pollination by flies" have given me a picture of this strange flower and grass.
It's big and smelly, even if it looks good, it won't tie a bouquet. Who can hold it?
I saw the biggest flower, and then I turned to the "smallest insect" page, "fairy bee", what a nice name. It is popular to call people fairies now, but I didn't expect it to be popular in the insect world.
"The body length is about 0. 17 mm". Pinch two fingers together, and then separate them as small as possible, which exceeds the size of a bee and is very difficult to draw. Fortunately, there are schematic diagrams in the book. With an enlarged picture, we can see its wings and the small fluff on them.
Fortunately, it is painted, so lifelike. Otherwise, I might think there is ink on the book!
After turning over a few pages, I found that all the paintings are realistic and vivid. Not only the animals and plants are clearly drawn, but also the background is clearly drawn, all of which are drawn with fine pens and faint watercolors. The style of painting looks very comfortable, and the pale yellow paper is like enjoying a watercolor painting that has just been painted.
I was shocked when I turned to the front page. There is a blue whale, the largest living animal in the world, hidden in an unfolding fold. The book spans three spans, pale blue as a starry sky, as if the stars were shining. The blue whale is really beautiful.
The length of a blue whale can reach 2 1-33 meters, and a baleen whale is one meter long. It is bigger than the biggest dinosaur. It's amazing.
Fast flip, followed by the greediest mammal, the smallest hummingbird, the smartest animal, the fastest bird, the slowest mammal and so on. But there are more than one hundred kinds of animals.
It is inconceivable that the longest bird that continues to be popular in the world can fly in the air 10 months.
The strongest animal is it!
There is also the largest continent, the largest ocean and, of course, many plants.
Just now, we saw the biggest flower, the king flower, and the book also talked about the tallest tree, which can actually reach 1 10 meters, equivalent to 40 stories high. This is amazing and really informative. There are many natural wonders that we don't know about. These "best of nature" alone are enough to amaze us for a long time. Watch with the children and exclaim together.
After reading this book, it is really like the title page of the book. "Everywhere is full of miracles and always surprises us." Natural scenery and interesting animals and plants are vividly displayed by Emmanuel Zuckerell, the scientific illustrator of this book, with superb painting skills.
The binding of the hardcover edition also makes this book feel very good. No wonder children always watch it and watch it over and over again.
Reading such natural science books not only let us know some unfamiliar animals and plants, but also let us know how amazing nature is, with so many interesting species and so many unexpected "best of nature", which broadens readers' horizons and enriches children's lives. Watch them seriously discuss the knowledge in those books. If they love the life that nature loves, they need to teach it again. The wonder of nature will attract them to take the initiative to understand.