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Come to Central Park
Important Ideas are included in our Children's Book,
Come to Central Park
We call our book an “Interactive Reader”
and we invite readers and listeners to actively
interact and have discussions about
some of life's essential ideas!
Ethics Caring Friendship Individuality Humility Intuition Fair Play Effort
Awareness Obeying Rules Kindness Discipline Balance Being Free
We hope the paintings are
doorways to the imagination.
1. The Earth spins around just like the carousel. Explore the laws of nature and gravity: the Earth rotates or spins about and then revolves around the sun.
2. What does it mean to be a hero and not talk about it, or what does it mean to be humble and not boast?
3. Time stops when the oars are lifted can lead to a discussion about stopping, slowing down and noticing the world. Just stop and look and see!
4. If we look and see we become curious like Alice in Wonderland and our curiosity leads to new understandings and new discoveries.
5. Everyone needs someone to tell a secret to. Secrets can be our dreams and goals and what we know inside. You can tell your secret to the Angel Bethesda and she will never tell anyone!
6. If the child doesn’t know what “tacking” is, thinking about tacking the boat across the lake can lead to a lesson is geometry.
7. A lesson in metaphor, describing something in terms of something else, which is at the heart of our thinking, is exemplified in the metaphor “Central Park is a green oasis amidst canyons of concrete, glass and steel.” All the attributes of an oasis—it is refreshing and a source of life—are applied to Central Park and the child learns how we use one thing to help us understand another.
8. Hans Christian Andersen’s stories teach children to be kind because those stories, like fairytales in general, have kindness as an essential theme. Where there are three brothers in a story it is always the kind brother in the tale who wins out in the end.
9. Children love to be actors, play dress up, and pretend they are someone else. Acting helps them imagine who they want to be. Acting in a play or even watching one helps grow the imagination and with that grow the mind, as well.
10. When we learn to skate we have to learn to have balance, and balance is a skill that we can always use. Keep your balance all your life. What a great seed to sow. The idea of balance can also lead to a discussion of justice and fair play. Children really want things to be fair.
11. To keep having fun and going down the hill, you have to work hard and pull the sled back up. Work and fun can go together which calls for another kind of balance.
12. Without a doubt, we have to learn there are rules in the world like “Don’t feed the wildlife” in the park, which we should adhere to. Life has rules. Human food just isn’t good for the animals.
13. At the end, we read that Central Park is a wonderful place to feel free. If we can feel free, we can be happy! Being joyful can be a wonderful goal in life. Maybe it is the essence of everything.