What is a picture book for children?
17th century picture books were born in Europe, and in 1930s picture books ushered in a golden age in the United States. In 1950s and 1960s, South Korea and Japan began to develop picture books. In 1970s, Taiwan Province Province began to read picture books, and more and more people loved them.
Generally speaking, picture books are books with close combination of pictures and texts, which usually refer to books created for children to read, but they do not mean "books with pictures". Children's picture books especially emphasize the internal relationship between pictures and texts. Picture books can not only tell stories and learn knowledge, but also help children build up their spirit and cultivate multiple intelligences. In the 2 1 century, picture book reading has become a fashion for children all over the world.
For children, beautiful pictures can catch their eyes and arouse their interest in reading, while simple words and beautiful pictures in children's picture books constitute a short story, which contains many truths and can play a role in moistening things silently. The pictures in picture books often use some exaggerated techniques. The lines and symbols inside can give children a lot of imagination, and simple and repeated words can also improve their language ability. Children's picture books can not only be used as readers for parents to tell stories to their children, but also be read by children themselves to enlighten their thinking.
Characteristics of children's picture books
Reading children's picture books has a subtle effect on cultivating children's cognitive ability, observation ability, communication ability, imagination, creativity and emotional development.
1, providing children with a comprehensive reading situation.
Children's picture books combine pictures and words to create a natural reading situation for children. Children can not only enrich their oral experience in a relaxed and interesting atmosphere, but also communicate and talk with each other in written form. It allows children to read stories and appreciate paintings from pictures in picture books.
2. Promote the development of children's multiple intelligences.
Children's picture books contain rich social life content and complex emotions. Children can naturally increase their knowledge and cultivate their temperament in reading. Reading and participating in related activities can not only develop children's language intelligence, but also provide opportunities for developing children's spatial intelligence, mathematical logic intelligence, personal inner intelligence and interpersonal intelligence.
3. Promote the development of children's creative learning ability.
Children's picture books are the result of imagination and creation. Reading children's picture books can stimulate children's creativity, let them break through the limitations of real space and build an interesting imaginary world. Random guessing and story-making activities can make them fully appreciate the fun of creative learning.
4. Help children learn languages.
Good picture books and pictures play a powerful role, and the writing part is poetic, some like fantasy fairy tales and some like narrative prose poems. Reading poetic and imaginative language to children can help them learn their mother tongue. Especially for children aged 2-5, it is very helpful.
5. Cultivate children's interest in reading.
Children's picture books are easy for children to understand Children can not only read picture books by themselves, but also improve in all aspects in the process of reading picture books. For example, children can learn to read quietly, and more importantly, they can help children fall in love with reading. Through a small picture book, the baby has broken thousands of books and traveled to Wan Li Road, and the world in his eyes is richer and better.
Classification of picture books
In addition to our common picture books, there are three novel picture books.
1, children's stereoscopic picture book
Although three-dimensional picture books are also paper picture books, they use three-dimensional effects. When children read three-dimensional picture books, open individual pages, and the picture will present a three-dimensional effect, which is more vivid and easy to understand, and can also cultivate children's three-dimensional logical thinking ability. Compared with traditional picture books, three-dimensional picture books can attract children's attention and have the attributes of educational teaching AIDS. Because the production cycle is long and complicated, and the price is more expensive than ordinary picture books, three-dimensional picture books are not conducive to preservation.
2. Children's audio picture books
Now there are all kinds of picture books, not just picture books. Audio picture book is a kind of picture book that can make books speak. It uses optical image recognition and digital voice technology, which is enough to print hidden codes related to specific audio files. Audio picture books are relatively more attractive to children, because you can read the words with a point reading pen, but the price of books is relatively high.
3. Children's electronic picture books
Children's electronic picture book is a picture book model that has emerged in recent years, and it is gradually popularized with the development of electronic products. Electronic picture books are a form of transforming picture books of paper books into e-books. It is a picture book that can be downloaded to your mobile phone or computer. When reading, just open the software to watch, which is more convenient and cheaper to buy. Electronic picture books can not only pronounce, but also have the characteristics of animation, and individual dynamic pictures will also attract children. Moreover, electronic picture books also have the characteristics of mutual communication. Children can communicate with animated characters when reading electronic picture books, which can save parents time to accompany their children to read.
Although children's electronic picture books have been popularized and developed continuously, they are not conducive to children's growth and development to a certain extent, not only to children's eyesight, but also may cause children to become unwilling to communicate with others. Therefore, parents must pay attention to controlling the time when reading electronic picture books to their children, and it is best to read them with their children.
How to choose children's picture books
There are all kinds of picture books on the market now, and they are uneven, so parents must be careful when choosing picture books for their children, especially paying attention to the following points.
1, the language is easy to understand
Because the main readers of children's picture books are preschool children, their language understanding ability is not perfect, so when choosing picture books, we must pay attention to the language used in picture books to be easy to understand, close to children's language expression and use simple and uncomplicated sentences. In this way, the difficulty of children's reading will be reduced, and parents can also let children understand the content better when reading on their behalf.
2. Pictures will convey information
A very important part of a picture book must be pictures. For preschool children, reading picture books usually associates the content and judges the meaning through pictures, so a good picture book must first convey information so that children can basically understand the content of the picture book when they look at the pictures.
3. The artistic conception of picture books should be close to children's world.
A good picture book should present the artistic conception to children, which should be the artistic conception of the world in children's hearts. You can choose the content of picture books related to your own life background, so that children's reading interest will be improved. For example, picture books that reflect children's daily life and learning, and picture books that teach children how to love others, are all close to the children's world.
Children's picture book rankings
If parents want to choose the most suitable picture book for their children, they must first understand some international picture book awards. At present, there are seven internationally famous picture book awards.
1, American Cadillac Award
Cadillac Award is the most authoritative picture book award in America. For more than 60 years, it has been praised as the "Oscar" in the picture book industry, and the award-winning works are all recognized masterpieces. Therefore, the award-winning works will inevitably become the best-selling picture books of the year. The standard of selecting excellent picture books is to pay attention to the artistic value and special creativity of the works, especially to the role of "entertaining through education", which can enable children to learn the corresponding knowledge and develop their thinking space in the process of reading picture books. Among them, we are familiar with picture books such as David, No, Three Little Pigs and Feifei is angry-very, very angry.
2. Greenway Award in Britain
Kate Greenway Award in Britain is an award created by 1955 for children's picture books, and it is the highest award for children's picture books in Britain. The selection criteria of the British Greenway Award are strict, which not only emphasizes artistry, but also requires the whole book to be pleasing to the eye in reading, mainly including artistic style, layout, graphic integration, visual impression and other selection items. In the selection, special attention is paid to illustrations, and the integrity of the combination of graphics and text is also one of the criteria for selection.
3. International Andersen Painter Award
The International Andersen Painter Award is held every two years. It is mainly awarded to painters who have made unique and significant contributions to picture books, affirming his lifelong achievements, and is known as the small "Nobel Prize". The significance of the International Andersen Award to painters lies in inspiring children to study, promoting the artistic realm of literature and aesthetics, establishing children's positive values and promoting world peace. In other words, the winner's works must have a positive and healthy spiritual inspiration for the children of the world.
4. German Picture Book Award
The German Picture Book Award is the most important and authoritative picture book award in Europe. It is a picture book award in the German Youth Literature Award. Although it is not as famous as Cadillac Award in America and Greenway Award in Britain, it is also a very important picture book award.
5. Best Children's Book Award at Bologna International Children's Book Fair
Bologna International Children's Book Fair is the largest, most authoritative and influential children's book fair and annual children's book fair in the world. Every year, the most prestigious children's book publisher in the world releases new books. The Best Children's Book Award of Bologna International Children's Book Fair is the most eye-catching award in the world of children's publishing. The selected books are characterized by creativity, educational value and artistic design.
6. Bradis International Illustrator Biennale Award (BIB for short)
Bradis International Illustrator Biennale was held in Italy, which is an international original picture book exhibition specially for children and teenagers. All exhibited works must be recommended by domestic cultural units of BIB member countries. After the selection by the international committee, illustrators all over the world are proud of winning this award.
7. Best Book Selection of Bologna International Children's Book Fair
The Bologna International Children's Book Fair was held in Italy, with a huge scale and participation from many countries. Among them, the best book of the "Calyx Painting Award" was selected from the entries by a 9-member jury composed of a group of Italian children aged 6 to 9. Bologna International Illustration Exhibition for Children's Books has become an international "indicator exhibition" and the most striking focus of the global children's book publishing industry.
How to guide children to read picture books
Picture book is the first book that many children come into contact with, and this book not only has words, but also pictures that attract children's attention most. Picture books are different from ordinary story books. Picture books are good at explaining some truth with some simple stories. Moreover, picture books can bring visual impact to children and cultivate aesthetic feeling. The relationship between pictures and texts in picture books can stimulate children's reading interest. There are various reading forms of picture books, including autonomous reading, parent-child reading and group reading. Autonomous reading and parent-child reading are more common, so parents should give guidance to parent-child reading.
1, found
(1) cover. When parents and children read picture books together, they should first look at the cover, so that children can guess the content through the pictures and words on the cover, which can arouse children's reading interest. For example, there are two rabbits of different sizes on the cover of Guess how much I love you. Little rabbit grabs big rabbit's ear and seems to be talking. Let the children guess what they are doing.
(2) Annular lining. Ring lining is the contrast between the cover and the book block. It's not just a decorative pattern. Many times it is closely related to the main story, and sometimes it will enhance the theme.
(3) the title page. The title page is the page after the ring lining and before the book block. The title of the book and the author's name will be written on this page. From this page, you can tell children who is the protagonist of the story, and sometimes they will tell stories.
(4) the text. Children's thinking is different from that of adults. They can always find the mysterious content hidden in the text, and always tell stories and read unexpected meanings. Parents should respect their children's different feelings, and actively encourage their children to guess the story and integrate into the story while discovering the story.
(5) the back cover. After reading the text, closing the book does not mean that the picture book is finished. Sometimes there will be a continuation of the story on the back cover, which echoes the cover, so parents should guide their children to read the contents of the back cover carefully after closing the book, which may allow them to continue to exert their imagination.
Step 2 think
After reading the picture book, parents can guide their children to reproduce the plot, let them tell their feelings after reading the book and the understanding of people interested in the story, so as to gradually guide their children to associate with their own behavior habits or the surrounding living environment.
Step 3 show
Reading picture books can create a stage for children to express themselves. Picture books can not only help children learn languages, but also enrich their expressions. For example, let children retell stories they have seen, tell stories, perform stories or continue to tell stories, or let children change endings or plots, which can stimulate children's imagination and language skills.