Among them, Korean artists have won 1.7 million praises for uploading their own "Color in the Secret Garden"!
With the blessing of celebrities, The Secret Garden has topped the best-selling list of Amazon in many countries and has been in the top ten of the best-selling list of Amazon in the United States for a long time; South Korea's online store sales are among the best; In Taiwan Province Province, bloggers came to bookstores and once soared to the fourth best seller list!
With so few words and so high popularity, what's in this book?
This is a black-and-white magical world composed of exotic flowers and plants. On every page, you can find some looming reptiles and strange creatures, and there are traces of wasps, butterflies and birds among the flowers.
Some people say it is a decompression tool, which can be used for coloring and treasure exploration, entertainment and design reference.
The pattern is exquisite and beautiful, and the painting is free and easy. It is a rare work of art.
The charm of words can only be felt with a certain literacy foundation, but the charm of pictures is suitable for all ages.
Perhaps this is also the reason why more and more parents attach importance to the enlightenment of choosing picture books for children.
Picture book, which is taken from the Chinese meaning of "ぇほん" in Japanese, is a "painting book", which refers to a book mainly based on painting with a small amount of characters.
Generally speaking, a picture book mainly tells a complete story. In the process of reading picture books, children can not only exercise visual stimulation, but also learn a lot of knowledge, such as various animal information, or the guidance and establishment of various excellent spiritual qualities such as courage, friendship and hope.
The process of parents and children reading picture books together can promote the harmony between parents and children. Therefore, in developed countries, many families prefer to show their children picture books. It is internationally recognized that "picture books are the most suitable books for children to read".
Among all picture books, the effect of strengthening the inspiring intelligence of picture books is the most remarkable.
In German-speaking countries, there is a kind of children's book called wimmelbuch, which is a book. wimmelbuch refers to a picture book with details and plots of buch, which translates into "enhanced picture book" or "situational cognitive picture book".
The so-called intensive reading picture book is a picture book with a large amount of information, dense pages, many pictures, few words or even no words, and usually presents the content in the form of cross-pages.
The famous one is "Where's Willie?" There is also a very powerful picture book, The Four Seasons, written by German picture book writer Rotrau Susanna Bernard.
Rotrau Susanna Bernard is one of the famous picture book writers and illustrators in Germany. In 2004, 2008, 2009 and 20 10, her works were nominated for the Lindegren Children's Literature Award, the largest international children's literature award in the world.
20 16 She won the Forca Hede Academy Award. In the same year, after being shortlisted for the highest honor of children's literature-the International Andersen Award for three times, Susanna won the honor of the Illustrator Award (the International Andersen Award is awarded to a writer and an illustrator every two years).
In the "Four Seasons Time Series", Susanna created a lively and smoky Wemlingen town for readers through five books: Warm Spring, Midsummer, Cool Autumn, Winter and Moonlight Night.
Through the changes of four seasons, the natural scenery and cultural activities of seven locations in Wemlingen town are fully displayed, which is close to the picture of life, so that children can experience the world and know all kinds of familiar impressions in life without going out.
With amazing creativity and imagination, Four Seasons Time Series has been published and sold well in 27 countries and regions, such as Germany and the United States, and has become an important enlightenment cognitive reading for young readers around the world.
The author Susanna was evaluated by the media as "improving the artistic level of this type of children's books by herself", and this work has also become the most popular and favorite situational cognitive picture book.
"Instead of building classrooms for adults, it is better to build schools for children." I hope adults and children can linger in this small town with four distinct seasons. The four seasons are beautiful, and the eyes are full of innocence.
1. How to read Four Seasons Time
Talking about the progress and content of picture books is something I can master, and I can also control the time when I read them.
As soon as the four seasons open, I feel that I have entered an all-round and multi-detailed virtual world.
The author Susanna used five books, seven scenes and 35 pictures to show us the environmental evolution of the small town of Wimlingen all year round, as well as the changes of people and other things in the town.
Residential buildings, farms, railway stations, kindergartens and cultural centers, department stores ... all these buildings in our daily life are in Weimlingen town. Children can learn about animals and plants, transportation, occupation, clothing and other common information in books without going out.
In the big environment, children can empathize with these countless things, associate with them and learn new knowledge much faster. In this way, I feel that all kinds of personal study cards I bought him before are useless!
Back to the four seasons, the five books in this book are arranged in an interesting order, not the usual understanding of spring, summer, autumn and winter, but from winter, there is an introduction to the book.
Each book has seven pages, which spread from a main street to other places. There are more than 40 characters painted alone, so the whole life of the town residents is so vivid.
Although there are not many pages, it is not easy to carefully track all the scenes contained in each page and find their changes over time.
For example, open the first three pages of the first book "Winter".
I felt dizzy the first time I saw the first page. There are too many things in every household at home. Even if you just look at the street, there are passengers in the car, pedestrians in twos and threes.
There are many page elements, and there are no reading tips. I made a mistake at first, too. I don't know where to start.
For example, the first page, mainly residential buildings, as well as street bus stops in front of the door.
We can see that there are five passengers and a driver on the bus, and four passengers and a dog are waiting at the bus stop.
On the second page, the bus goes on and passes a farm.
At this time, from left to right, there appeared an old woman in yellow with an umbrella. It seems that she wants to catch the bus with great strides. Looking back at the first picture, we can find that she just went out in the residential building, probably because it was too far away, so she missed the bus.
Then a little girl walked slowly. A father with a child riding a bicycle appeared behind the bus (the father was on the first page, greeting the child by the car downstairs), and a boy in blue ran in front of the bus.
In the third picture, the bus comes near the railway station.
Continue to observe pedestrians along the road. Grandma Huang in the picture above is still chasing, and has surpassed the little girl who walks slowly. Judging from the action, she should be chasing the bus, but even if the bus stopped at the station just now, it didn't catch up.
The angle of father and son riding bicycles has changed a little. Combining these three pictures, we can find that they have been watching colorful parrots.
The boy in blue has been running.
Looking at the car again, it is another interesting story to compare the three pictures one by one.
First of all, the reader in the back seat has been reading, absorbed in nothing (in the following scene, she was still reading until the bus last appeared);
Among the other four passengers who have been there, we can see an interesting social event: the child was very naughty and pulled off Uncle Green's hat. When Uncle Green turned around, the child's mother took the child back to restrain herself and returned the hat to each other. From the smiling faces of both sides, we can also guess that the mother apologized for the child's naughty, and the man in green didn't care and tolerated the child;
The four passengers who came up later mainly started the story around the puppy: in the third picture, the puppy was not in the car on the side of the road, and the owner in the car raised his hand in horror. It is not difficult to guess that the puppy should have slipped out of the car when the bus stopped just now, and this action also attracted other passengers to watch.
This is just a roadside scene in the first three pictures. There are all kinds of characters and scenes in the distance, and there are more magic to explore.
There is no supporting role in life, everyone is the protagonist, and the complete stories of so many characters are hidden in these five little books, waiting for the detectives to use their talents to find clues!
2. Children's interesting enlightenment
As a situational cognitive picture book, Four Seasons Time is not only informative, but also suitable for guiding children to perceive colors and contact the world. It is also a rare intellectual enlightenment book.
At the bottom of each page, the author intimately marks all kinds of commonly used Chinese and English words in the book, so that children can find the specific location of the image according to the map, which is also a cognitive exploration;
Older children can also follow the changes of scenes and seasons in the book and have a richer perception of social life:
For example, according to the season guide of each book, let children know about the scenery in different seasons and what people will do. For example, people usually wear thick clothes when they go out in winter, and some people will wear scarves;
In the pages of residential buildings, we can also let children identify the details, what others have, who has books and flowers, how many colors and how many quantities. ...
There are not only residential areas in the town, but also farms. These lifelike animals can also be used to give children animal cognition.
Asking and answering questions in this way, connecting with life, can let children immerse themselves in it and actively seek treasure. Unconsciously, children's thinking of reading pictures and telling stories can also be well dispersed.
1 this book = 1 this wordless book+1 this life cognition book+1 this visual discovery game book+1 this word book.
No wonder many people say that such an intensive picture book is equivalent to 20 sets of picture books with specific stories!
Oliver jeffs, a famous British children's literature writer, wrote down the most important events in his life in Here We Are: A Father's Notes on Life on Earth. These things are in turn:
1. Know our location.
2. Understand the environment in which we live.
3. Eat, drink and wear warm clothes.
4. Respect and treat life well.
5. Cherish time.
6. Love the earth and protect the environment.
7. Know how to ask for help and have the spirit of cooperation.
In this way, time quietly flows through the four seasons in the town, and the people in the picture write their own poems in the story of time.
From one end of the street to the other, the constant lens angle statically records the dynamic life that is changing all the time: some families have ushered in a new life, the kindergarten in the town is ready to open the park to welcome new students, some girls have changed their skirts into autumn clothes, and some shops have quietly closed. ...
There is no shortage of beauty in life, only the eyes that find beauty and the heart that is sensitive to things.
With the opening of children's all-round cognitive sense of touch, we can ask them to be guides and explain to us those fragments of the four seasons that may have been ignored by us, but they are actually shining.
For adults who are busy with real life all day, reading such a set of intensive picture books with their children is actually a process of getting rid of troubles, forgetting to invest, returning to the truth and re-understanding the world.
Discover beauty, love life, and ultimately guide children to respect nature and protect the earth, which is also the ultimate law for all children to grow up healthily and freely.
Professional picture books let children know the world. In fact, they can also let parents feel the truth of life again, live and learn in life. Perhaps it is also the belief that the four seasons want to convey to everyone.
I hope this set of four seasons can bring more fresh and beautiful experiences to every family.