wall war

If, no one will let anyone

Everyone wants to paint all the walls themselves

What will the world look like? !

★The latest masterpiece of "Feng Zikai Children's Picture Book Award" winner Lin Boting, a profound fable about seeing the big from the small - using "wall" to symbolize the "world", the specific "small" between two boys During the conflict, through various wall graffiti and window views one after another, various issues about life, education, history, human rights, freedom vs. imprisonment, peace vs. war... we may call it "issues" are presented, but In fact, it is a daily part of the world, thereby triggering readers’ associations and conversations.

A boy who likes to draw treats the wall as his canvas and can paint whatever he wants.

He was very satisfied with his work, and even if he caused some chaos, no one paid special attention to it.

He painted from the west wall to the east wall, and then from the low wall to the high wall. He wanted to paint all the walls by himself...

However, on the way he met another boy who also loved to draw.

Neither of them gives in to the other, and the "wall war" is about to break out! ! !

The entire story is told through graffiti on the walls. Seemingly innocuous actions may trigger "conflicts/wars" and cause unmanageable chaos due to uncontrolled "doing one's own will" and the indulgence and neglect of the surrounding people. How will this "wall war" end? …

The very concrete dispute between the two boys (and their subsequent actions to face the consequences) makes it easy for young readers to sympathize and resonate. However, corresponding to the simplicity and simplicity of the text, the images reveal a strong sense of humor from the title page (which imitates ancient murals). Through various wall graffiti and window views one after another, we construct either past history (such as Jewish suffering in World War II, the Berlin Wall), or contemporary life (such as children's education, the gap between rich and poor, blindness vs. facing up, confinement vs. freedom). )... allows readers to think in the reading process of constantly exploring the image information: If we are the ones holding the brush, what kind of world do we want to paint? How can we understand, dialogue, care and act in this conflict/war-riddled world?