"My daughter just went to the first grade of primary school. It's a holiday, and I want to buy her some extracurricular reading materials. However, if you look online, almost all the bestsellers are imported foreign books. " Recently, Ms. Liu, a citizen of Zhengzhou, turned to reporters for help. Can she recommend some children's books written by China people themselves?
Ms. Liu said that she bought a large number of educational games and popular science books for her daughter, more than 90% of which were foreign language books, and her daughter couldn't put it down. However, with her daughter entering primary school, how to get her to start learning China classical culture has become Ms. Liu's heart disease. "Ancient Chinese children can't understand; Simple adaptation, she doesn't like to watch. I am really helpless. "
In order to verify Ms. Liu's words, the reporter logged into Dangdang and Qiyou's well-known online book buying websites. On the children's bestseller list, the reporter noticed that most of the books that occupy the first place are imported books, and most of the top 10 works are "imported".
According to Dangdang's annual bestseller list, among the top ten best-selling children's books in 20 1 1, except Dream of the Wolf King, which was written by Shen, and Little Newton Kindergarten, which was published by popular science education books in Taiwan Province Province, all the books were imported.
This situation is not accidental. In 2065, among the top 10 books in Dangdang's children's books sales list, 438+00 books were directly imported from abroad, except for "Four or Five Fast Reading-Children's Fast Literacy Reading Method (Volume I)" written by Yang Qiduo, who ranked tenth. Similarly, on Amazon online shopping, the ranking of 20 1 1 the most popular children's books is also full of "foreign flavor".
Meng Lili, director of the children's department of Zhengzhou Book Center, said that in terms of book placement, domestic and foreign reading materials are almost equally divided. As far as sales volume is concerned, the sales volume of domestic literature books is obviously higher than that of similar foreign books; However, among children's popular science, games and picture books, the sales of foreign language books are obviously dominant, especially picture books, which account for more than 80% of the total sales. In Zhongyuan Book Building, the situation is similar.
However, Meng Lili also said that there are many well-received writers' works in contemporary domestic children's books. For example, Yang's Naughty Ma Xiaotiao series and Shen's Animal Legend series. In addition, the works of Cao Wenxuan and Wu Meizhen are also very popular. Meng Lili analyzed that due to the long-standing traditional culture of China and the efforts of many children's literature writers, the sales situation of literature books in China is gratifying. In the fields of popular science, games and picture books, there are many advantages of foreign authors, such as humor, simple explanation and rich imagination, and finally a cultural feast presented to children, which is easy to understand and fascinating to read.
In recent years, many domestic authors and publishers have realized this problem and made many useful attempts, such as cartoon editions of classic works, picture books and so on.
Everyone's pursuit of "foreign books" on the Internet is one-sided. What about the physical bookstore?
Yesterday, the reporter went to the children's book department on the fourth floor of Zhengzhou Book Center to check. Walking into the building, I saw many children reading with relish. A little boy was giggling alone with a copy of Land Animal Kingdom imported from Korea. "I like this kind of book, which is very interesting. I can remember it once I look at it. " The little boy said.
"Foreign children's books have simple words, short stories and beautiful illustrations, so children like them. In comparison, some of China's books have a strong preaching flavor. " A parent said.
For the confusion of parents like Ms. Liu, the manager of Zhongyuan Book Building thinks that these parents who like online shopping are generally young, highly educated, better aware of the advantages and disadvantages of education at home and abroad, and tend to let their children learn nutrition from overseas books, which is understandable. However, she also reminded these parents that they should give consideration to both Chinese and western cultures and not neglect one thing at the expense of one thing.
"Foreign children's books are interesting, while domestic children's books are informative and educational, and there is no absolute difference between good and bad. However, from the perspective of children's long-term development, as China people, it is very important to master China's traditional cultural knowledge. " Zhangyan said that she suggested that parents should combine surfing the Internet with visiting physical bookstores, take online sales charts as a reference, make regular comparisons with physical bookstores, and then choose the most suitable extracurricular reading materials according to their children's hobbies and long-term development.