Eric Carle's The Lonely Firefly

Posted by tyan (Singapore, Singapore) on 12 October 2009 in Animal & Insect.

We are into Eric's third bug-previously we did the Busy Spider, the Hungry Caterpillar and now the Lonely Firefly. Eric's hard cover books are expensive but i found a soft cover-magazine-like Firefly at Borders that costs a lot cheaper($9.95). It was also fun with glittery stickers for the children to stick as the story unfolds. I drew an anatomy of a firely and cut out the different parts for the boys to piece it up, then we glued glow-in-the-dark stars at the abdomen area to see it glow at night. Too bad we cant see fireflies in Singapore,it would be so much fun. I got a few book titles on fireflies and tried to look for them at the Sengkang Library in vain. But i found 3 of them at Bishan library! Bishan has a good range.

I felt nostalgic and downloaded the lyrics for 《萤火虫》by 伊能静 and sang it as part of my firefly 'story plot' during our daily drive to Caleb's school. Watch the MTV on youtube by original singer.

萤火虫萤火虫慢慢飞
夏夜里夏夜里风轻吹
怕黑的孩子安心睡吧
让萤火虫给你一点光

燃烧小小的身影在夜晚
为夜路的旅人照亮方向
短暂的生命努力地发光
让黑暗的世界充满希望

萤火虫萤火虫慢慢飞
我的心我的心还在吹
城市的灯光明艳闪耀
还有谁会记得你燃烧光亮