Meeting for the first time in 80 years is not just an expression.
With the popularity of parent-child reading and the introduction of a large number of foreign picture books into China, the Cadic Prize, which was originally confined to the United States, has become an Oscar in children's books and a weather vane for domestic Shuye Tong circles and mothers to choose books.
The Cadic Prize was established in memory of Randolph Cadic, an English painter in the19th century. Awarded annually by the American Library Association to the most outstanding children's picture book artist in the United States.
From 1938 to 20 19, in the history of 8 1, face of china is rare. In addition to Yang Zhicheng, who is regarded as the "China veteran of Cadillac Award", Chen and Lin Peisi won 20 18 and 20 19 Cadillac Silver Awards respectively.
Let's take a look at how Kadik Prize evaluates the Grand Canyon-Chen recreates the ingenious landscape with watercolors, gouache and ink, shows the epic panorama of the Grand Canyon with shocking pages, and shows the evolution of many floors over hundreds of millions of years with diagrams, sections and illustrations of animals, plants and fossils based on field trips.
Throughout the 80-year winning works of Cadillac Award, most of them are fictional story works, and few of them can barely be regarded as popular science. Looking back on the subjects that Chen dabbled in, it is not an exaggeration to call his works "hardcore science popularization".
In the past 80 years, the popular science picture book created by China people won the Cadic Prize for the first time. It can be said that Chen is a creator who combines the expressive ability of artists, the rigorous spirit of scientists and the childlike creativity of children's book writers.
Chen, the author of The Grand Canyon
After graduating from Syracuse University majoring in illustration, Chen worked in a children's bookstore in Manhattan, new york, where he read a lot of picture books and finally chose natural science as his main direction of independent creation.
Since the publication of Crossing the Jurassic Primitive Forest in 2009, Chen has published Crossing the Cambrian Coral Reef, Gravitation, An Island in Six Million Years and The Grand Canyon. Since her debut, her works have won many awards, and in 20 18, she won the Cadillac Silver Award of Grand Canyon.
It is not as easy as picking up a leaf on the side of the road to win the Kadik Award with storytelling, artistry, creativity and entertainment functions as the main criteria.
Take children to measure the world.
The Grand Canyon is far away in the western hemisphere, which is a big crack in the blue planet on which we human beings depend. This huge canyon with a length of 446,000 meters and a width of 29,000 meters inadvertently reveals the geological history of 1/3. Every gorgeous hand-painted fantasy realism in the book comes from the spectacular sight the author and his children saw when they visited the canyon. The feelings brought by each paragraph are conveyed by the author's immersive and inner shock.
There are a large group of people in America who take their children to travel outdoors when they are very young. In 20 15, a 25-year-old hot mom became popular on social networks because she took her to the Grand Canyon for hiking since her child was a few months old. From time to time, news about taking children to travel around the world or having an outdoor experience in China is widely spread.
If our parents want their children to win a place in the future global talent flow, then they should not simply care about a mathematical formula or an English expression.
Children in the future should be world citizens with a global vision and care about the fate of the earth and mankind. Reading a book or not reading a book makes no difference in our daily life. But between children, the distance has widened a little.
Children's homework is important, but besides Chinese, math and English, our children should feel the world more. Even though many things in reality prevent us from taking our children around like the author, at least we can tell our children that the world is big and there are many scenery you can't imagine. When buying books for children, we should not only learn English and Chinese, but also choose books that can broaden children's horizons and understand the world.