Norman Bethune was a Canadian surgeon who volunteered to help the People’s Liberation Army in the 1930s. Mao held him up as a model for emulation. See an animated storybook of Norman Bethune here and another collection of storybook pages here.
A traditional style Chinese brush painting. The characters on the side are the name and year. You can also see a red artist chop below the characters for the year. This little boy is carrying a book bag similar to this.