Every time you open a picture book, you will be attracted by the beautiful picture, but the quality of the picture book is not determined by the beauty of the picture. The focus of picture books is to tell an interesting story through pictures, and the story is the value of picture books. As Song Juzhi said: "Children create a world in stories in their minds through pictures, which can not only cultivate children's imagination, but also help them understand language through words. This is a kind of' ability to turn language into pictures'. "

So, how to choose high-quality picture books? Matsusuka gave the best answer. "Lovely painting" and "bright and beautiful colors" are not essential elements of picture books. What really matters is whether the illustrations can fully express the story. Simply put, form is more important than color. In the picture, "shape" is the protagonist of the story, "color"

It can be said that it is a supporting role to increase the effect.

What are the three elements of a picture book story? Picture books should simply explain "time, place, people, things, why, how" and so on. Among them, time refers to time, place is place, and people refer to the protagonist and other people who appear on the scene. These three elements should be clearly explained at the beginning of the story. To judge the quality of a story, you can look at the words in the picture book, and then describe the plot of the story in your mind to see if there will be a clear image. That is, the "vividness" emphasized by Song Juzhi.

Song Juzhi said: "A good picture book author will tell the story vividly, convey the theme to the children, and at the same time combine the details of the illustration with the whole to express the whole story in a consistent form. This kind of picture book can let children really grasp the theme, believe the author's description and produce sound. " Indeed, if you can't express it in a way that children understand, you can't convey the main idea of the story to children.