It is true that, when you sit down with the little ones to read a story to them, you can end up enjoying yourself like a dwarf. It has to be the right situation for them to stick to your side looking with that charming gesture of attention. If the story is attractive enough, the task is easier and more rewarding.
At Lóleo Eventos, current children's literature there is a point between transgressive and renovating that sometimes misplaces and in others it results a true discovery in the positive. That is what happens with "The wolves who came to dinner", a story in large format in which images and text are perfectly balanced so that it can be read to children from 4 to 6 years old and even for them to jump into it. reading adventure motivated by highly expressive illustrations, passed through the comic screen that transmits the essence of the comic in each of its 32 pages.
The preceding bestseller of this sequel «The little sheep that came to dinner»Points to the consideration of a modern classic in which an intention to review topics of the fears embedded in children as a method to keep them away from dangers or simply to ensure that they do not approach what does not interest us.
It is true that the investigative spirit of our children must always be duly controlled. But fear is not the best way to accompany personal growth. It is one thing for Little Red Riding Hood to recognize the wolf disguised as a grandmother and another for him to always look out with fear of any difficulty presented in front of him.
So, we return to the peculiar friendship born between the lost sheep in the first installment and the hungry wolf. A fierce but old wolf who ends up discovering that there is something more important than hunger, friendship.
In this second part we transfer this disruptive image between the sheep and the wolf made friends so that the rest of the forest animals show their initial bewilderment, their willingness to avoid that the matter ends badly and their discovery that things are not always the way we are. They have taught about paralyzing fears in the face of the unknown.
Because introducing the lone wolf into the sheep's circle of friends will not be an easy task. In the same way that the wolf will not always be understood by his kind, salivating at the mere presence of the sheep.
Only when the bizarre friends are able to demonstrate the advantages of their union, some friends and others will end up understanding that impossible (from the outset) understanding between alleged predator and alleged victim unable to defend themselves.
You can now buy the story The Wolves Who Came to Dinner, Steve Smallman's book, here: