This is the sixth issue of "Children's Book Couplet List" in 2022. We will screen the newly listed children's books of various brands in each issue, taking into account children of all ages, and pay attention to the enlightening and novelty of the book content in the selection of materials. The readers of the book list are not limited to children, and we will also choose books suitable for parents to read.
Each issue will simply classify books, so that readers can find the books they are interested in. This issue is divided into adult books, picture books, human history, bridge books and pop-up books. Friends who need to buy these books can pay attention to the brand of each book and go to the brand self-operated stores of major platforms to buy genuine books.
The children's book market is rich in varieties, and it is difficult to exhaust good books for each book list. Welcome to the WeChat group (plus Book Review Jun WeChat kanbooksa) to share with us the good books you have read.
Adult books
Your laziness makes me sad: Fitzgerald's letter to his daughter
Fitzgerald/
Andrew Turnbull/Editor
Yili/Painting Jiang Hui/Translation
Houlang | Sichuan People's Publishing House April 2022
Many writers have written letters to their children, but Fitzgerald's letters about many shortcomings in his and his daughter's lives make people feel true. Perhaps in that era when there is no need to talk about his parenting skills, such letters can better reflect the bitterness of a poor father to his daughter who is busy with social activities and neglects his studies: "I am already like this, can't you make progress?"
This book contains 70 letters Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter scottie from 1933 to 1940, which were compiled by Andrew Turnbull, an authorized friend of scottie, and have not been deleted. This is also the last few years of Fitzgerald's life. He stayed away from his teenage daughter, took care of his mentally ill wife and tried to face an unsuccessful career.
Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in his apartment in Hollywood on Christmas Eve (1940 65438+February 2 1) at the age of 44. Before his death, his The Great Gatsby was not widely praised. From these letters, we can see his many feelings about literary creation and many reflections on his own life. He turned them into an experience, sometimes humorous and sometimes extremely worried, hoping that his daughter would understand. At the end of a letter, he wrote: "According to the contribution fee of Saturday Evening Post, this letter is worth $4,000. Since it is specially written for you and contains so many points, aren't you going to read it twice? " However, like most children, Scotty doesn't want to listen to his father's advice.
In his letters, Fitzgerald spread his talents, talked about how to write, talked about choosing courses in universities, talked about making friends with a reliable man, talked about "everything you do from the age of fifteen to eighteen will set the tone of your life", analyzed the shortcomings of yourself and your wife, and told your daughter many times that you should not inherit us. His sorrow is that he knows his daughter's character like the back of his hand, and he has seen her life from his own. The appendix of this book gives a brief introduction to scottie's later life. It doesn't look as bad as Fitzgerald feared, but it's not always smooth.
Children and parents' cognition of the world is often not at the same level, so watching children grow up slowly, only by telling each other frankly can they get to know each other one day. This is probably what these letters mean.
picture book
Eric Carr and his friends (4 volumes)
Eric Carr is waiting/painting Jia/translating
Dandelion | Guizhou People's Publishing House March 2022
Suitable reading age: over 3 years old
There are four books in this set, which are "What bugs do you like best?"? ? ""What animal do you like best? ""What's your favorite food? And "What's your favorite color?" ? From 55 illustrators who have won children's book awards or media recommendations, such as Lauren Castilo, who created Grandma's Red Cloak, Matthew Codel, who created I met a little gray wolf, Dan Santer, who created Little White Looking for Friends, and Benji Davis, who created Little Bear Busy, etc.
Illustrators use their best style to draw insects, animals, food and colors in their eyes and explain why they like them. So readers can see different styles of illustrations in each book. It also inspires us to see that everyone can have their own understanding and expression of things.
Oliver is a sissy.
Tomi ede paola/ Author/Painter Dong Haiya/Translator
Fantasy Country | 2 1 Century Publishing Group March 2022
Suitable reading age: over 3 years old
This is a picture book created by American children's literature writer tomiede paola (1934-2020). There are also two picture books published together: Silence and Little Bird Michael. Together with Oliver is a sissy, it shows three themes: nature and man, man and environment and self-discovery.
In Oliver is a sissy, Oliver is a little boy who loves dancing. Not only that, he also likes reading, drawing, skipping rope and playing with paper dolls. He just doesn't like to play games that little boys often play, just like tomiede paola did when she was a child, so he created this book to comfort children like him or comfort their parents. We always say that boys should look like boys and girls should look like girls, but who stipulates that boys must look like that? Isn't it just as good for a child like Oliver who loves dancing and has devoted time and effort to it?
Di Bola's picture books are well-known in Chinese, such as Grandma Upstairs and Grandma Downstairs, Grandma Witch and Ali's Red Cloak. He likes to express the children's world with clean and powerful lines and modeling design, plus simple words. He also created many children's literature works, such as The Book Department of No.26 Meng Fan Street (all 8 volumes), which is an autobiographical story similar to Oliver is a sissy, telling his childhood when he moved to No.26 Meng Fan Street with his parents on 1938. In addition, he rewrote many folk stories with Italian and Irish traditions. His stories are always full of vitality and friendliness, emphasizing the process of earnest and continuous efforts, which also makes him look like a big urchin who exudes life wisdom.
"Can I leave him? 》
[America] Peter Brown/Wen Hua Hua Yang Ping/Translation
Dandelion | Guizhou People's Publishing House April 2022
Suitable reading age: over 3 years old
Usually we treat our favorite animals as pets, but in this book, the positions of animals and people are reversed!
A bear named Lucy found a lost boy in the forest. She thought the boy would be the best pet in the world, so she took him home and named him Jiale. Mother told Lucy that children are terrible pets. If you want to keep him, it is your responsibility to take care of him. I won't help you. Lucy and Jiale had a good time, but it was also very troublesome to train Jiale. He didn't want to go to the toilet in the sand basin, and the furniture fell apart. ...
Through role exchange, this book helps children realize their own characteristics, see that it is not easy for parents to raise them, and also helps children think about the relationship between animals and the environment.
Legend of friends
Li/Writing, Painting and Writing/Translation
Relay Press, March 2022
Suitable reading age: over 5 years old
This is a relatively heavy picture book with few words. It tells a very tortuous story mainly by pictures.
The two protagonists are Tiger Yellow and Tail Flower. Huang always scares the small animals in the forest, and everyone doesn't like him very much. But one day, a yellow flower grew on Huang's tail. It belongs to MengMeng forever and is very friendly to all animals. Gradually, under the urging of the tail flower, Huang, who is a little indifferent and likes to play tricks on people, began to help small animals and was gradually accepted by everyone. Huang and Wei Hua became best friends, but they fell into a trap while walking. ...
South Korean illustrator Lee won the Best Children's Book Award at the 20021Bologna Children's Book Fair for his "Marshmallows and Monsters". In painting style, she is good at presenting more delicate emotional interaction and hilarious moments in a limited layout with a split mirror.
human history
Aesop's Fables: 500 Years of Illustrations and Stories
[Ancient Greece] Aesop/[Britain] Randolph Cadic, etc. /painting
Vegetation/Qingyun/Translation
Houlang | Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House April 2022
Suitable reading age: over 6 years old
Aesop's Fables is not only suitable for adults to read, but also regarded as an ancient story of children in the early stage of the development of children's literature, which continues to this day and is still producing new versions. Since15th century, many editions of Aesop's Fables published by European and American publishing houses have included illustrations, which reflects the progress of printing and the vigorous development of illustration industry.
This book selects 100 stories from Aesop's Fables, with 3-5 illustrations for each story, covering the edition history from15th century to 20th century, and * * includes 3 18. These illustrators come from 53 illustrators all over the world, including Randolph Kadick, the father of modern picture books, Gustav Dole, the god of French illustrations, Walter Klein, the originator of picture books, and Arthur Lackham, the leader of the golden age of illustration. From the illustration and version information of each story, we can see the illustrator's understanding of the story and the different artistic styles of illustration.
Bridge book
Hedgehog sales
[Bao] Slaoui Stoef/with
[Bao] Matya atwah/Hua/Translation
Red cloak | CITIC Publishing Group April 2022
Suitable reading age: over 7 years old
This is a bridge book included in the latest series of "Little Lighthouse International Award-winning Novels" published by CITIC Publishing Group. The other five books in this series are The Whistling Boy (which can be read as a book review: Life is lonely, but children and old people will be more lonely), The Guardian of snow angels, Anne from the Sea, The Warthog Who Wants to Be Beautiful and The Boarding Diary of Little Red Riding Hood, all of which are marked with Pinyin.
The Hedgehog Trade is a bit dark compared with the other five books. It tells the story of a hedgehog selling hatred in a quiet and harmonious forest. Squirrel bought the first hatred. The hedgehog said to the squirrel, you worked hard to collect acorns, but the acorns that fell to the ground were picked up by the mice. He scolded the mouse for being playful and suggested that the squirrel should not let the mouse pick acorns as a punishment for the mouse. The mouse has no food, so he asks the hedgehog for help. The hedgehog cursed the squirrel in front of the mouse, so he sold a second hatred ... gradually, the beaver and the bird got involved in hatred, and the animals complained to each other. The forest became lifeless, and only the hedgehog stayed in the warm nest and was at ease. Finally, the animals realized that all this was caused by the hedgehog, but after they drove the hedgehog away, they went their separate ways and soon forgot the hedgehog. ...
This book won the White Crow Award in 2020. The writer is a psychologist. He used this story full of interpersonal conflicts to imply the harm of language violence. If we lose our independent judgment and believe hateful comments and information, a harmonious community will collapse quickly.
Pippi stockings special edition (***7 volumes)
[Sweden] astrid? Lin Gelun/author
Ingrid? Wan? Nieman/Wang/Translation
Love Tree | Nanhai Publishing Company May 2022
Suitable reading age: over 5 years old
Pippi Longstocking, written by Lin Gelun, is famous all over the world. This special edition consists of 7 volumes, suitable for children aged 5 to 9. It selected several wonderful stories from the text version of Pippi Longstocking, divided them into five thin books, and added two stories written by Lin Gelun in 1948 and 1949: Pippi's New Year's party and Pippi's moving into the park, which were not in the previous text version.
This set of books has many illustrations but few words. The illustration is also the author and text version of Pippi Longstocking. Wan? Nieman, but the illustration turned into color, and Pippi's unrestrained, free and happy spirit was more clearly presented through the pictures.
For how Lin Gelun wrote Pippi Longstocking, please see our previous article: Lin Gelun who wrote Pippi Longstocking: Fighting for Children's Rights of Expression with a Fighting Attitude.
Popup book
Where are the mice and mice?
Luo/Writing and Painting
Lele, Gansu Children's Publishing House, March 2022.
Suitable reading age: over 2 years old
This is an interesting pop-up book. The story is simple. A child saw the folklore that "a mouse marries a girl" in the kitchen, but when the child came, all the mice were gone. Some of them ran to grandpa's tea table, some to dad's tea urn, and some to grandma's wool. ...
Many pages are equipped with three-dimensional mechanisms, such as bouncing, turning tables, pulling pages, turning pages and so on. The mice seemed to really move, and suddenly they met the "big cat", which turned out to be a tiger hat knitted by grandma. The children quickly took the tiger hat away, and the mice got together again and happily married their daughter in a sedan chair.
Editor/Shen Chan
Proofreading/Cece