12 days of Christmas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlK8ujMrhik

 

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1K4wXy2CI

 

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears:

It is a picture book told in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children, which tells an African legend.

 

The story starts with a mosquito telling the iguana who comes to the waterhole, a little something...about a farmer digging yams that were almost as big as the mosquito was!!! The iguana, for his part, is mighty annoyed at being told such tall tales and sticks a couple of sticks in his ears to avoid hearing such nonsense and walks off mek mek mek mek, looking pretty grumpy.

 

He passes by his friend, python, hardly noticing him and thus ignoring his greeting as well. Python for his part misunderstands Iguana's silence and concludes that his friend is angry with him! He slithers off wasawusu wasawusu, to go hide in a rabbit hole!

 

The rabbit panics when she sees the big snake coming and she scurries out the back way, krik krik krik, across a clearing.

 

A crow sees the rabbit running for her life, and decides to warn the entire forest about the impending danger. Kaa kaa kaa...he cries as he flies off!

 

A monkey hears the crow, sure that some dangerous beast is nearby. He starts leaping, kili wili kili wili, through the trees to warn the other animals.

 

As the monkey crashes through the treetops, he lands on a dead limb in one of the trees, and it breaks and falls on an owl's nest, killing one of the owlets. And this is the midpoint of the book.

 

It is morning and Mother owl is not home yet. When she returns, she learns of what happened and in her grief, refuses to hoot for the sun to come out that morning, as she normally does. The night stretches out longer and longer. All the animals fear that the sun will never come back. And this problem is finally taken up by the King Lion himself.

 

He begins at the only point he can....with Mother Owl and why does she not hoot to call the sun to come out. And thus the story rewinds once more, through each scene that happened before it, until we once again arrive at the crux of the story. And the starting point once again becomes its end. The mosquito appears before King Lion and all the animals call for his punishment for setting off the chain of events, beginning with a simple tall tale. Mother Owl, satisfied with the justice, hoots and the sun comes out. Order is once again restored to the kingdom, save for the mosquito who hides out of sight and refuses to come out.

 

驚嚇程度不同:

mosquito    annoyed

Iguana      frightened

python      scared

rabbit       startled

crow       alarmed

monkey     kill the outlet

 

genre:

Folktale- West African Tale: A tale is a story that has been passed down through time.