1 First, we have to take out an A4 piece of paper. At this time, we can align the short side of A4 paper in half, and then align it in half.

Then we turn it over, fold it in half according to the long side, then open the folded one to the first step and divide it into four parts.

Then we tear the vertical line in the middle by hand. Don't tear it to the end, don't cut it with scissors, try to be original, and then open A4 paper.

Then we align, fold in half on the long side and tear in the middle. Holding both ends with both hands and pushing hard to the middle, it becomes a book-turning sample.

Picture book is a foreign word, which is a picture book. This word is taken from the Chinese meaning of "ぇほん" in Japanese picture books. As the name implies, it is a "drawn book", which refers to a book mainly based on painting with a small amount of words.

Picture books can not only tell stories and learn knowledge, but also help children build spiritual world and cultivate multiple intelligences. Picture books are the first choice for children's books in developed countries, and it is internationally recognized that "picture books are the most suitable books for children to read".

Picture books are designed for children, such as the British classic picture book Twinkle Little Star, and also for adults, such as Jimmy series.

Picture books originated in the west and were born in Europe and America in the second half of the19th century.

In Asia, countries and regions with better picture books are Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan Province Province. The picture books in Taiwan Province Province of China started in the late 1960s, and gradually got better after 1980s. In Chinese mainland, picture books were only the initial stage of the Renaissance.

All human civilizations have a tradition of picture narration, and characters also originated from pictures, so does the Chinese nation. According to archaeological findings, there are pictures left by ancestors in the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins in China, such as rock paintings, pottery paintings and murals, which can be regarded as the earliest record of describing events with pictures in China.

Pictures on bronzes in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, stone reliefs in Qin and Han Dynasties, tomb murals in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, scroll paintings in Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties, woodcut illustrations of operas and novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Generally speaking, although these illustrations have the ability to tell stories at first, they lack a very important element. They are not telling stories from the perspective of children, nor are they works for children. As an independent individual, children were discovered only after the May 4th Movement.