Choosing a good picture book for a child is like finding him a good childhood friend. It may be more important to choose a good picture book for children who have just come into contact with the world, because the picture book conforms to children's thinking characteristics and can stimulate children's reading interest.

When children are young, teachers and parents should first consider how to cultivate their reading interests and habits. Picture language is more intuitive than text symbols, more in line with the characteristics of children's thinking in images, and more able to stimulate children's reading interest. Picture books are beautiful and meaningful, which can give children an artistic aesthetic influence.

At present, most of the excellent picture books are the works of world-famous illustrators, which are not only exquisite in painting, but also rich in connotation. Reading picture books cultivates children's emotions and develops their artistic aesthetic ability. For example, Newton loved to explore popular science picture books, which were created by internationally renowned painters such as Korea, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the United States, Ukraine, Russia and Switzerland. , which has sold more than 654.38+0.6 million copies worldwide, is a popular science book for children all over the world.

Picture books can cultivate children's creativity. The story of picture books crosses national boundaries and various cultural backgrounds. Through words and pictures, let children enter different worlds, let children have rich associations with stories, and expand their creativity and imagination infinitely. For example, in stories such as Little Newton loves to explore popular science picture books, going for a ride in the solar system, exploring the history of the earth, the disappearance of Tuvalu and the growth of small coconuts, the knowledge of region, culture and geography is immersed in various wonderful environments, which will not make children feel abrupt at all.

Parent-child reading has many benefits, and parent-child reading picture books is the best parent-child way. Parent-child reading time, text and images of picture books will stimulate children's visual system and cerebral cortex. At the same time, when parents read stories to their children, the communication between words also contains a lot of real-life information, which will improve children's overall processing level of information. When children are reading stories, those warm and ordinary stories are often more touching to children. Through parent-child reading, parents are more likely to establish close and harmonious relationships with their children. In the process of reading, parents should not be indifferent bystanders, nor authoritative narrators and judges, but equal participants. Of course, the selected picture book can not only arouse the interest of children, but also arouse the interest of parents. For example, Caroline's classic picture book "Love and Growth" series, under the author's brand-new idea, we see that we like the little hedgehog who loves to dance, "The Trouble of Leaves", and move our ears with me.

The choice of excellent picture books can be analyzed from the following two aspects:

First, in the story content, the story should be based on something close to children's life, preferably something that children are familiar with, but there should be some changes that are different from normal, common sense and natural feelings, so that children feel familiar, strange, novel and interesting. The plot of the story must be a simple and clear description, so that children want to know what will happen next. Kind little squirrel in the trouble of leaves: In autumn, the leaves change color, yellow, orange, green and brown, and all the leaves are falling slowly ... The little squirrel thinks that the big tree is sick, so he wants to help the big tree stick the leaves back with his sister. The story is simple and not bizarre, but there is no lack of creativity.

Second, the picture should be visually beautiful and the color should be used appropriately. For example, in The Little Hedgehog Who Loves Dancing, the little hedgehog always dreams that he is dancing, twisting and spinning, jumping from one foot to the other, and spinning until he is dizzy. The butterfly danced in the sun, and Harriet couldn't help dancing with it. But butterfly refused to dance with her, because butterfly can only dance with butterfly. Sad Harriet danced happily again under the comfort of her good friend! The color is warm, and the elegant little hedgehog dances. In this way, the image in the story will be more vivid, and it will also stimulate children's desire to read. Picture composition is also an important means to create the visual beauty of the story. High-low contrast and scattered composition can visually arouse pleasure, focus on the main characters and plots of the story, and enhance children's understanding of the story.