15期-1507-喜儿-cher
《An egg lay in the path》[美]P.D.伊斯曼
选自“兰登双语经典”系列丛书，此系列丛书是从美国兰登书屋“Beginner Books”品牌书系中精心挑选、结集而成的读物。
精美的图画、高潮迭起的故事，韵律有没的诗体文字，读起来朗朗上口。同时这些故事既生动有趣，又蕴含生活小哲理。
让我们来仔细阅读《An egg lay in the path》吧：
An egg lay in the path
Aboy came down the path.He saw the egg. He looked around.
He saw flamingos and frogs, and turtles and alligators.
“Whose egg is this?”he called.But nobody answered.
Then the boy looked up. He saw an empty nest in a tree.”Here is an egg without a nest,”he said,“and there is a nest without an egg. ”
The boy climbed the tree. He put the egg in the nest. Then he went away.
Mr.and Mrs,Bird came home.They were surprised to fin an egg in their nest.
“That’s not our egg,”said Mrs.Bird.
“Look how big it is!”
“But it is an egg, It’s in our nest,”said Mr.bird.
“If an egg is in your nest,you sit on it and keep it warm. It doesn’t matter whose egg it is.”
“All right,”said Mrs. Bird.”But I wonder what kind of bird will come out of that egg.”
They took turns keeping the egg warm.
First Mrs.Bird sat on it. Then Mr.Bird sat on it.And sometimes,because it was so big, they both sat on it.
One day Mrs.Bird heard a squeaking noise.
“Help!”she said.”This egg is squeaking!”
Mr.Bird came back to the nest.He listened to the egg. “The egg is not squeaking,”he said.”It’s our baby that is squeaking. He is ready to come out of the egg.”
Mr. and Mrs.Bird waited.
The egg started to crack. Then it cracked some more.
And there was the baby! Mr.Bird was very excited. “It’s Junior!”he shouted.”What a beautiful baby!”
Junior opened his mouth.It was a big mouth. It was full of teeth.
“That’s the funniest-looking baby Iever saw,”said Mrs.Bird.
“Something is wrong. I don’t think he’s our baby at all!”
“He’s in our nest, so he must be ours,”said Mr.Bird.
“His mouth is open. That means he’s hungry, When your baby is hungry, you feed him.”
Mr. and Mrs. Bird went away to get some food for Junior.
Mr. Bird brought a pink worm. Mrs.Bird brought agreen one.
Junior ate both worms in one gulp.His mouth wide again.
“We have to get Junior lots more to eat,”said Mr.and Mrs.Bird.
Hour after hour, day after day, they brought food for Junior.
Mrs.Bird got berries and cherries.
She got butterflies and caterpillars.
She got dragonflies and mosquitoes.
She got ladybugs and tiger beetles.
Mr.Bird got crickets and spiders.
He got grasshoppers and snails.
He got red ants.He got black ants. He got centipedes.too!
“What kind of bird eats so much?”said Mrs.Bird.
“It doesn’t matter,”said Mr.Bird. “He’s still hungry and we have to feed him.”
Weeks went by, Junior never stopped eating.
And he never……stopped growing.
He grew bigger… and bigger… and bigger!
Finally Junior got so big that Mr.Bird said,”It’s too crowed up here.Junior has to leave the nest. It is time for him to fly away.”
“You are right,”said Mrs.Bird.”The time has come.” We must show him how to fly.
Mrs.Bird pushed and pushed.
Mr.Bird showed Junior how to fly.
“Jump into the air like this,”he said. “Then flap your wings.”
Junior got ready.
He took a big breath and jumped.
Up…up…up…into the air he went.
“Flap your wings!”yelled Mrs.Bird.
“Flap your wings!”yelled Mr.Bird.
Junior flapped and flapped.But it didn’t do any good.He didn’t have any wings!
Down..down…down…went Junior.
Down into the water. SPLASH!
It was cool and wet in the water. It was just right for Junior.
“You know,”said Mrs.Bird.
“I doesn’t think Junior was a bird at all!”
“It doesn’t matter,”Mr.Bird said.
“He’s happy now. And just look at him swim!”
整个故事四个大场景，每个场景始终贯穿着“爱”的节奏：
小男孩在路上发现蛋，努力爬上树轻轻的把蛋放到鸟巢；
鸟爸爸鸟妈妈发现窝中的但不是自己家娃，但是还是很细心耐心的孵蛋；等鳄鱼出生后还继续照顾着这只小怪物，辛苦四处找食，努力想让永远都填不饱肚子的小鳄鱼吃饱；
等到小鳄鱼实在太大了，没法戴巢里了 ，善良的鸟爸鸟妈还试图教会小鳄鱼飞起来；
最后小鳄鱼因为不会飞掉入水里了，水里的环境很合适小鳄鱼，鸟爸鸟妈虽然也推断出来小鳄鱼不是他们的孩子，鸟爸爸还是很慈爱的说：“没关系，你看他现在在游泳，他现在多开心啊。”
我在给女儿阅读时，她刚开始觉得鸟妈妈鸟爸爸真是有点“傻”“笨”，被它们的对话逗笑得前俯后仰，最后感叹小鳄鱼真的很幸运 。