What a sweet children's book Pakkun the Wolf and His Dinosaur
The story is simply adorable: one day, while Pakkun the Wolf and the Hen were speaking peacefully an egg of the hens rolled out from the nest falling in a hole. The unknown. A hole represents this. It can be a good surprise, as it happened for Alice in Wonderland, but it could be also a horror-story.
Ops: what to do now? The Hen cannot abandon the nest and so Pakkun offers his help: he will search for her egg, wherever it is. Starting his trip in the hole.
The scenario changes abruptly and Pakkun can't understand anymore where he is, until he discovers that he is arrived in the Land of Dinosaurs; weird, strange creatures he hasn't never seen before. Will they be friendly?
Pakkun the Wolf doesn't lose his courage and asks to the weird creatures he meets along his way if for case, they have seen somewhere a little hen's egg. It starts a wonderful trip in seas, skies, magical ancient lands 'till at the arrival of the Valley of Dinosaurs Eggs. In that land there are many eggs and one of them is not an ancient, distant egg of a creature disappeared, not anymore existing but of a hen.
This portion of the story whispered to me the taste of remote past; the help that we receive from the past, from dead people, they can be our neighbors, parents, friends, but also from people of literature and other creative arts, for understanding the world where we live in.
Back in the common and more known world we know better, Pakkun the Wolf is seen more than heroically for the poor hen who would have been devastated if she would lose her chick forever.
In this sense joy and happiness are here the main thematic. The reunion with the other siblings of the chicken, and the joy of her mother-hen are immense.
The return of that chicken has lived by the hen with an incommensurable joy and with immense gratitude.
The morals of this story are many; that help can make the difference in the living of a person. Pakkun wouldn't never have found the egg if assaulted, if hated, if damaged by the rest of Dinosaurs, creatures he doesn't know at all.
It's more than a moral, this one. Being helpful and at the same time receiving help is priceless because also if you must climb a mountain you can do that with the help of others; in opposite case it would be impossible to do that.
The past is another moral: we musn't never think that the past is buried and doesn't speak to us. We are connected with the present too much but sometimes answers can be found in the remote past for sorting out contigent problems of every sorta.
The third moral is that in the differences that there are between creatures, and a wolf can be nasty with animals more little than him, we see solidariety, we see dialogue, we see inter-connection and inclusivity. Maybe Pakkun that day stopped by for speaking with the hen just for saying her: hi! and then seeing she was in difficulty, he was in grade of being helpful. In every possible way.
It means that dialogue, open-minds, dedication, inclusivity are the only ways for staying happy all together and for building a cheerful, happy society.
The fourth moral is that the unknwon sometimes scaring at first, can be absolutely good.
For children and parents, this children's book in its complexity offers various readings and morals.
Absolutely recommended for your children!
I thank Museyon Inc. for the copy of this ebook.
Anna Maria Polidori
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