The Map in the Front · Reading Room #5 | How Does a Map Work? | Avery's Toolbelt

Avery's book has a map at the front, and she always skips it to get to the words. This time Mom stops with her hand flat on it. There's the wood, the river, the town - and a mountain in the far corner. Everywhere the story goes is on there. Which means they're going to have to go to the mountain, and Avery isn't sure she wants to know that. Then Mom puts an empty cup on the table and says: draw that, from straight above. Avery does - and the cup is a circle. Gus, meanwhile, draws a map of the kitchen entirely from the side, and will not be moved on it. What children find out: a map is what a thing looks like from straight above. Stand over a cup and it's a circle. And everything on a map is made smaller by the same amount, so you can walk it with your fingers. For grown-ups: an episode about the nervous feeling of knowing what's coming, a mom who names it and doesn't tease, and a choice to keep looking anyway. Avery's Toolbelt is a calm, hands-on show for ages 3-6: real tools, real cars, real kitchens, and a grown-up's hands on anything that's hot, sharp or moving. Avery 的書最前面有一張地圖，她每次都跳過去，直接看字。這一次，媽媽把手平放在地圖上停了下來。那裡有森林、有河、有小鎮——遠遠的角落裡還有一座山。故事裡去過的每個地方都在上面。也就是說，他們總有一天要走到那座山，而 Avery 不確定她想知道這件事。 然後媽媽把一個空杯子放在桌上說：從正上方往下看，把它畫下來。Avery 畫了——杯子變成了一個圓。同時，Gus 畫了一張廚房的地圖，全部都是從側面畫的，而且誰說都不改。 孩子會發現：地圖就是從正上方往下看到的樣子。站在杯子上面往下看，它是一個圓。地圖上的每樣東西都縮小了一樣的比例，所以你可以用手指在上面走一走。 給大人：這一集講「知道接下來會發生什麼」的緊張感，一位媽媽說出這種感覺而且不取笑，還有一個決定：還是要繼續看下去。