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If I Were A Cloud

Written by Alia Abu Shmeis, illustrated by Sawsan al-Majidi, Publisher: by Kul Shay’a

“If I were a cloud, I would change my appearance as I wish…” tells us the cloud/child and reveals to us her wishes, her likes and dislikes and what makes her happy and sad.

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“if I were a cloud”, the child imagines and shares how she lives, and what she wants and needs in her tiny childish world: the warm secure feeling with adults, playing and sharing secrets with her friends, exploring the world around her. And the child – the cloud tells us about the child’s ...

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if I were a cloud”, the child imagines and shares how she lives, and what she wants and needs in her tiny childish world: the warm secure feeling with adults, playing and sharing secrets with her friends, exploring the world around her. And the child – the cloud tells us about the child’s fear when her parents are not around – as a child told in a different book at Al-Fanoos library “my cheeks like roses, cannot stand that much of joking”.

Dear parents,

We share with you few ideas for enjoyable reading with your child.

Family Activities

  • Talk with your child about what he/she feels similarly to the cloud in the books. Do they have things in common? What?
  • The cloud enjoys moving above different places. If we were a cloud where do we want to go?
  • The cloud feels lonely when its parents hang out at night, so she spends time with her cloud friends. We can talk with with our child about his/her feelings when we are away, and think together about things that can help our child feel secure (such as talking on the phone, or staying with a person he/she loves and feels comfortable with).
  • The cloud is happy to play with its friends. What do we like to do with our friends?
  • We can invite our child to write his own book: “If I were a cloud”.
  • In Autumn the sky is full of different shapes of clouds. It would nice to lay down in the garden and watch the clouds. What shapes do we see?
  • Clouds in our house! We can look for materials at home which can help us making clouds: such as, cotton balls, shaving soap and can add food coloring to make colorful clouds!

المربّية العزيزة،

عادةً ما يتماثل الأطفال الصّغار مع شخصياتٍ خياليّة، قد تكون من الأفلام أو من أدب الأطفال، ويتقمّصون صفاتها، خاصّة صفة القوّة، والشّجاعة، والقدرة على القيام بأعمالٍ خارقة. هذه مرحلة طبيعيّة في مسار نموّهم تجيب على حاجاتٍ عاطفيّة واجتماعيّة مختلفة لديهم.

الغيمة- الطّفلة في كتاب "لو كنت غيمة" لا تقوم بأعمالٍ خارقة، وإنّما تعبّر عن عالم الطّفلة الدّاخلي: ما يفرحها، وما يحزنها، ما يخيفها وما يُثير اهتمامها. يمكّن قناع الغيمة العديد من الأطفال التّعبير عن مشاعر يصعب عليهم الحديث عنها بلسانهم.

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