1 IMPORTANT PEOPLE, IMPORTANT GORILLAS

IVY + BEAN, ONE BIG, HAPPY FAMILY by annie barrows

常春藤+豆子，一个大的，快乐的家庭安妮巴罗斯

IMPORTANT PEOPLE, IMPORTANT GORILLAS "My Important People," wrote Bean at the top of her paper. Whew! Seventeen letters! Time for a break. "Bean," said Ms. Aruba-Tate. "Do you need help?" "I'm resting," explained Bean. "Nobody else is resting," Vanessa said. Her table was next-door to Bean's. She was already drawing pictures of her Important People.

“我的重要人物，”比恩在她的论文顶部写道。 唷!17个字母!休息一下。 “豆子，”阿鲁巴-塔特说。 “你需要帮助吗？”“我在休息，”比恩解释说。 “其他人都没有休息，”凡妮莎说。 她的桌子在比恩的隔壁。 她已经在画她的重要人物了。

"Thank you, Vanessa," said Ms. Aruba-Tate, in a way that really meant, Stop talking. Then she said "Bean" in a way that really meant, Get to work.

“谢谢你，凡妮莎。” 阿鲁巴-泰特的意思是，别说话了。 然后她说“豆子”的意思是，开始工作吧。

Bean sighed and picked up her pencil. My Important People. Okie-dokie, line 'em up. She drew her mom. She drew her mom eating a whole cake by herself. Her mom liked cake.

比恩叹了口气，拿起她的铅笔。 我的重要人物。Okie-dokie，排好队。 她画了她妈妈。她画了她妈妈一个人吃一整块蛋糕。 她妈妈喜欢蛋糕。

"Mom," she wrote. Then she drew her dad, with a wooden spoon. He was making more cake for her mom. "Dad," she wrote. Bean scrunched her older sister, Nancy, down in a corner. She drew some flies buzzing around her head. "Nancy," she wrote. Bean looked around the classroom. Everyone was drawing like crazy. Eric was drawing so hard his tongue was hanging out. Marga-Lee had made frames around each of her Important People. Bean wished she'd thought of that. She went back to drawing. Grandma. Grandpa. Other Grandpa. Two uncles. Three aunts. Four cousins. One cousin who wasn't a real cousin, but Bean liked him a lot anyway. He had a pet alligator. Bean put the alligator in there, too. Cool! Now Ivy.

“妈妈，”她写道。然后她用木勺画了她的爸爸。 他在给她妈妈做蛋糕。 “爸爸，”她写道。比恩把她的姐姐南希抱在墙角。 她画了几只苍蝇在她头上嗡嗡叫。 “南希，”她写道。比恩环顾了一下教室。 每个人都疯狂地画画。 埃里克画得太用力了，舌头都伸出来了。 Marga-Lee给她的每个重要人物都做了镜框。 比恩真希望她能想到这一点。 她继续画画。奶奶。 爷爷。其他的爷爷。两个叔叔。 三个阿姨。四个堂兄弟。 一个不是真正的堂兄，但比恩还是很喜欢他。 他养了一只鳄鱼作为宠物。比恩把鳄鱼也放进去了。 太酷了!现在艾薇。