Picture books are a strange world.

I benefited a lot from reading this book. The Picture Book Should Be Read This Way was written by Peng Yi, so I will write down my picture book carefully at home.

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Picture book is a kind of book specially created for children. Generally only 30 pages, with different formats. It tells a complete story by combining a series of pictures with a few words and pictures.

Although most picture books are created for children, not only children can read them, but also many adults like them very much. With a good picture book, people of different ages can read different feelings. For example, a cat that has lived 654.38+00,000 times, and my grandfather turned into a ghost are my own favorites.

If you want to know picture books, you need to know some special terms, which are explained in detail in the figure below. The picture book consists of cover, front pocket, front ring lining, title page, back ring lining, back cover and back pocket. A spread is a scene of two pages, and a single page is a scene of one page.

The second important part is how to read.

This book shows us the seven steps of reading picture books.

The cover is the soul of a book. The cover of a picture book has both a title and a picture. The title tells a general story, and the picture shows the protagonist and the main story.

Another function of the cover is to introduce us to the creators and publishers of picture books. Write XXX/ book, that is to say, the writer and painter who created this book are the same person, writing and drawing by themselves. Generally, the works that I write by myself are excellent. If the picture is written in XX/documents, it means that this picture book was written by two people, one is a writer and the other is a painter. If it is a foreign picture book, the translator's name will be added.

The name of the publishing house is also very important, because an excellent publishing house is the guarantee of a good picture book. Read more and you will know which publishing house published the picture book. (For example, Hebei Education Press, Beijing Science and Technology Press. )

Read the story before reading it, and then read it again after reading it. There are some pictures on the back cover, some of them can write a lot of words, and the ending of the story, as well as what award was won for the summary of the story, how the world media evaluated him, and how celebrities recommended him. This information can let us know that it is a classic and award-winning work in just a few minutes.

Hardcover books generally have ring pages, but paperback books don't.

In many people's eyes, a ring liner is a piece of paper with nothing printed on it or colorful patterns printed on it.

If it's white, you can turn it over.

If there is a color, please take ten seconds to see what color it is and what kind of psychological hint it will give you. Please accept his hint, adjust your mood with him, and then walk into the story.

An experienced painter will never choose the color of the ring lining for his book at will. The color he chooses must be the closest to the theme and atmosphere of the story.

For example, the next two pages are the front and back ring pages of rainbow flowers. Do you have such a question? Why these colors? What do they represent? Is there any difference in the meaning of different color sequences before and after?

Of course, if there are patterns, you should stay a little longer and have a good look patiently. They must have some connection with the story in the book.

Picture books don't just look at words or pictures. The combination of words and pictures is the so-called third story.

A book includes at least three stories, the first is a story told by words, the second is a story told by pictures, and the third is a story produced by the combination of words and pictures.

The relationship between pictures and words in picture books is a bit like a pair of close lovers, hand in hand complement each other. If you can learn to read pictures and words to tell stories, you will enter the inner world of stories and readers.

The book Lion and Mouse has only a few words. If you don't observe the picture carefully, you can't understand the story.

A good picture book must have a good story, which fascinates you and makes you have to read it in one breath.

A good story has a plot and suspense, and there is a causal relationship one after another. These causal relationships are hidden in the story, just like a pre-designed question and answer, which will stimulate your curiosity.

Always ask questions on the previous page, and the next page may not tell you the answer until the last page.

Besides the repetition of questions and answers, attracting readers to translate picture books is also a common skill.

If you have read enough picture books and read them carefully enough, you will find that the characters in the picture books always move from left page to right page. If you want to catch up with him, you have to follow his direction and turn page by page.

On the right is naked David, which makes people can't help but turn the page and look at the content behind.

If the spread is not a picture, but two independent pictures, then the page on the right often has a stronger sense of action than the page on the left, which will drag you to the next page, and a small hint of the next page will appear in the lower right corner or upper right corner of the previous page. ...

The picture on the right is much more dynamic than that on the left. Draw your attention to the next page and wonder what happened later.

If you really want to read picture books, there is no other shortcut. There is only one way, that is, read the text carefully again and again, at least ten times.

Words include words and pictures.

Because picture books seem to tell you everything, in fact, there are too many things hidden quietly without him, waiting for you to discover, discover and feel.

How to read carefully? Careful reading also requires skill.

For example, on a seemingly simple page in Zhujiajian Island's story, try it. How many images of pigs can you find? Actually, nine. You won't look carefully the first time.

For another example, the same doorknob and switch were normal when the children came in, and Mr. Zhu became a pig as soon as he came in.

Generally speaking, an experienced and good painter will make a design sketch for him before drawing a picture book. The film director calls him a story version.

Some pictures are uniform in size, some are large and small, some are spread out as a whole, or two pictures, some are viewed as a complete picture, some are cut out, some are dedicated to one page, and some are arranged under or inside the picture.

How do you feel about the layout and colors of mom and dad in the following Zhujiajian Island story?

There are many topics that can be discussed after reading a book, from cover to text, from text to pictures, but the most difficult topic to discuss is probably what the picture book tells us.

Many things will be presented in words and pictures. As long as you look carefully, you will find them.

But there are still many things, such as its theme, his views and thoughts, which the author may not say naked. They are hidden where you can't see them, and they are things at the level of consciousness. You must use your thinking ability to find them.

I'm a little tired, and it's a job that requires racking my brains, but it's very important, because even if you understand everything in a fairy tale book, you can only read half of it. Only after reading what he said behind his back can you consider the book thoroughly.

Are you surprised that a good picture book hides so many secrets and thoughts? I think this is also the reason why children like him.