Today, I read the picture book Eye written by Lin Zhenmei, which greatly broadened my horizons and regretted not seeing this book earlier.
Who is Lin Zhenmei? Senior researcher of children's literature, picture book reading promoter. She graduated from Imperial Japanese Tea Women's University with a master's degree in children's studies.
In the early rehabilitation work for disabled children, she found that picture books can build a bridge connecting the world for these special children. After more than 20 years, she promoted picture book reading activities in the community, which promoted the reading atmosphere of parents and children everywhere.
Regarding picture books, I must admit that I had almost no knowledge before. I have always liked reading, so after my son was born, I bought him many picture books intermittently. But today, after reading teacher Lin's explanation of the history of picture books, I am deeply sorry to know the importance of picture books in the process of children's growth.
If you can see the relevant knowledge earlier, you can choose some high-quality real picture books for your son during the critical period of his childhood study, and then accompany him to study seriously and with high quality. I believe that children will have a deeper understanding of knowledge, lay a good foundation for his reading habits, and open a more interesting door to knowledge for children.
Any history has a source, and any knowledge is a leap. I really didn't think of a small picture book, which has experienced a hundred years of development history.
Those beautiful picture books are all written by masters. With their love for the world and their children, they dedicated their life experiences and the most sincere wishes to their children.
When I was a child, I read picture books, also called comic books. These simple comic books have long since retired from the historical stage. When a child is young, he will buy him some books with pictures, but the knowledge content of these picture books is really different from the real picture books.
Most children like to read books with pictures, and comic books are very popular now. These various comic books are flooding the market, affecting children's reading habits.
It would be great if these children read real picture books when they were young. I believe that their childhood life will absorb more knowledge essence because of these picture books.
The author said that her childhood was never accompanied by picture books, so it was wonderful to meet them. She is fascinated by the words and pictures in the book. She often holds a newly discovered picture book and appreciates it all day: "How can there be such a magical and beautiful book so close to the children?" . It seems short and pithy, simple and fresh, but in fact it is rich and interesting. Even behind the combination of beauty, there are many secrets that adults can't see through at a glance.
Seeing the author's description, I can't help but be moved by her feelings, and I can't wait to plunge into the world of picture books like her. Unfortunately, after all, it is much late. The child has grown up, and I don't know if it is still suitable for reading picture books. Even if it is not suitable, you can share this content with more parents whose children are still in childhood, which is also a kind of love spread.
As early as the end of UK 19, Walter Klein, Kate Greenway and Randolph Cadic laid a solid foundation for the picture books of the 20th century.
Walter Klein's picture book style focuses on the exquisite decorative art in the Middle Ages, and attaches great importance to handwork in production. Its gorgeous and meticulous narrative way declares that adults should pay attention to cultivating children's aesthetic feeling.
Kate Greenway has been capturing the innocence and innocence of innocence from beginning to end. Randolph Cadic was the first person to set up a model of picture books.
In his picture books, the characters are all based on ready-made narrative poems or nursery rhymes. He can grasp the pulse of the original text and boldly narrate with his "talking picture", which revolutionizes the concept of illustrations in children's books and makes the picture leap from the role of ornament to the "background music" of the narrative subject or the whole narrative. He even created a new creative form, which brought flowing effect and visual impact when turning pages through the ensemble of pictures and words.
Reading picture books needs to be read with children. In the process of reading, children can quickly integrate into picture books without saying anything. The author said, you can see how clear and flexible children's eyes are when turning pages.
There are children in the picture book. We must look at pictures with our eyes and listen to sounds with our ears, just like them, so that we can really listen to and appreciate the essence of a good picture book.
Adults are used to rational thinking and are good at "down-to-earth", but picture books are teaching us to see the world with the third eye. We should abandon the existing prejudices and ways that belong to the adult world and regain people's original keen sense, so that we can gradually see the picture book world that attempts to subvert the purpose of adults and deliberately care for children in the United States and China.
John boyne Hamm, a British writer, rose in the 1960s and has been writing for 40 years. He is a heavyweight in the picture book industry. His picture book Going to the River with Uncle Gan won the 1970 Kate Greenway Picture Book Award, which is a traditional picture book with strict structure and proper matching of pictures and texts.
But in 1977, he created Lisa, Away from Water, which broke the traditional picture book and subverted everyone's existing understanding of picture books. This book describes a day trip to the beach for a family of three. In the picture, the writer broke the routine that the left and right pages must be coherent, and replaced the literary narrative with his mother's trivial words.
He said that picture books are certainly the nourishment of children's childhood, but creators don't have to be limited to tailor-made for children. It can be used to express yourself, and at the same time, personal expressions can be put into the works without leaving the children's world. In this era when the reading boundaries between adults and children are gradually disappearing, there is no age limit for readers of picture books.
Seeing this, I feel a little happier. It seems that even if I miss the spring of reading picture books, I can still meet autumn!
Based on his own cognition, John will pay attention to readers with two different characteristics: children and adults. On the one hand, he gives joy, consideration and satisfaction to children and those who have children in their hearts, on the other hand, he takes the opportunity to severely criticize and question the adult world. It seems that his picture book is also worthy of parents' serious study.
"Eye of Picture Book" tells the story of the birth of picture books, tells the classic picture books of all ages, tells the story creation process and achievements of writers of all ages in detail, then talks about the golden age of American picture books, and finally talks about story analysis and picture book language, including the picture books and texts of sweet relationship. This book is not knowledgeable, but it is very important for parents with young children.
Parents with young children, or novice parents who are about to become parents, can learn all aspects of picture books, as well as the origins of many classic picture books, and learn how to read picture books correctly with their children, and finally cultivate their children's better world outlook and life values through the high-quality parent-child reading mode of picture books.
As the title page at the back of the book says, by reviewing the development of picture books around the world and analyzing the important works of important writers, we will know how picture books have a "chemical effect" on children and adults and why the effects are so different.
Let us look at pictures with our eyes and listen to sounds with our ears like children, so that picture books can become our third eye to see the world, break through the shackles of the adult world, let us regain our childlike innocence and better understand children through picture books.