Nowadays, young parents are keen on early education, and their children's parent-child reading begins at the age of 0. I also bought picture books in a big way and fell into some misunderstandings. Today, I want to talk to you about my "detour trip".

An animated book as a picture book.

The first set of "picture books" I bought was "Little Picture Book on Emotional Management of Little Foot Duck". My daughter loved reading it, so I started with "Little Picture Book on Behavior Management of Little Foot Duck" while the iron was hot.

If it is a mistake to buy the first set, it is entirely to satisfy my obsessive-compulsive mentality of "summoning the dragon with a full set". As it turns out, everything I bought later is now at the bottom of the box.

Strictly speaking, this kind of comic books can't be called pure blood picture books, but they are highly commercialized and lack an artistic aesthetic feeling.

Aesthetic education is a very important course for me. It can not only open the door to art for children, but also help children identify real beauty in the process of growing up-beautiful things, beautiful quality and beautiful people.

The animated story itself has a lot of preaching elements, and many moral concepts are mechanically rubbed into the story.

Moreover, in the process of reading, there are also wonders of "three views are ruined"! For example, in the book "Mom is not at home", the mother of the duckling goes out and the father is responsible for taking care of the children. But he can't do anything, and finally it's the duckling's turn to clean up the mess. Is this really what the contemporary "widowed education" says?

Chinese-English translation in bilingual picture books

This set of ABC children's bilingual enlightenment cognitive picture books ranks first in Amazon children's picture books, but there are many translation errors. Let my daughter's English father read it to her. He often reads it carefully in unknown so, because many English translations are inappropriate or even wrong. When I read it to my daughter, whenever I make a small mistake, I feel as bad as eating a grain of sand ... so my suggestion is:

-If parents have the idea of English enlightenment and early education, they can only enter the original English picture book.

No matter how old the child is, as long as he has not been exposed to English before, start from the bottom and then gradually deepen the difficulty.

Since my child has been receiving bilingual education since he was 0 years old, I will cover both Chinese and English picture books. My principle is: to buy English picture books, you must only buy picture books created by English writers, not translated ones; When buying Chinese picture books, we will choose the translation of picture books published in China or non-English-speaking countries.

Superstitious book list

In fact, before buying a picture book, I read a lot of books about parent-child reading and bought many famous books at one go, but I found that it did not meet the development of children's reading ability.

I entered Wang Peizan's "Feeding Big Children with Story Books", 1-2-year-old picture books, and some pre-school books. Daughters are not interested in some contents of 1-2 years old, but are particularly interested in some parts aimed at children aged 2-4 years old, which shows that the interests of babies are very different. So how to choose a picture book suitable for your baby really depends on parents' constant trial and error.

Another example is the first famous picture book "Cultivating Children's English Ears" recommended by Wang Peizan. My mother is my baby who is suitable for 65,438+0-5 years old. Children over 2 years old are not suitable for taking a nap, but the little red hen needs to wait until the child is 4 years old. Such an age span is too large, and such a list of books is not suitable for the English enlightenment of babies in the period of babbling. Therefore, my suggestion is: Parents with 0-2-year-old English enlightenment program can look at Wu Minlan's recommendation form. Her book list is very interesting, more about parent-child interaction, which is very suitable for early enlightenment. If the baby is 3 years old, you can pay more attention to Wang Peizeng and Liao Caixing's English enlightenment suggestions.

Read a set of books step by step.

The setting of the book is very affordable, and the protagonists are all the same person, which makes it easier for children to accept familiar roles. So once you read the first book, it's easier to continue the second one.

However, we must pay attention to the method of taking children to read the set of books, and we must not push them in numerical order stiffly, otherwise we will fall into a mentality that "children don't like reading, and they always want to cram them for her to finish reading", which is counterproductive.

If parents prefer to buy a set of books, my suggestion is that we can stretch the front line, let the baby get familiar with one set of books first, and then we can continue to read the next set of books. The choice of the second book, you can choose the scenes that appear in life, so that the baby will be more acceptable.

For example, Small World in Abolin and Brush Your Teeth are my daughter's favorite books, because she brushes her teeth with me every day, which is a scene she is familiar with. She is so loyal to this book that it is difficult to switch to the next one. But Christmas is coming, and we are also preparing for Christmas, so she has the concept of Christmas and understands what kind of atmosphere Christmas should have, so it is much easier to introduce the book "God's Birthday Gift".

Do not do research

It is my most shameful thing to buy rashly without doing research. One drawback of buying books online is that there is no way to see the whole picture. For my appearance association, I thought the cover liked it, so I hastily placed an order.

As a result, in the pile of books sent, except "My Dad and I" that my daughter can understand, all others are "super-first-class", so I have to keep them for later reading.

Later, when you buy a picture book, you usually do a little research in advance. First list the picture books you want to buy, and then make a preliminary search on the following websites:

Amazon.uk This is my most frequently used website. Of course, if you are based in China and/or the United States, you can also find the local Amazon website. The advantage of this website is that the recommended age is more intuitive. In addition, there are many book lovers' comments on parent-child reading. From the comments, we can also get a glimpse of how old children started reading this book, whether it is worth buying, and what they have gained after reading it.

Another website I use more often is:

It has different versions in the United States and Britain.

American websites:

American books are comprehensive, but the recommendation of physiological age is vague. This is because even children of the same physiological age may have different reading levels, so when recommending books, they are given points.

British website:

Book retrieval in Britain is limited to books published by British writers, but the recommendation of physiological age is simple and clear.

Patient Bob Baba Ma Bao can be used interchangeably.

Finally, I want to say that reading is a very private thing. Even if you read recipes for 30 minutes every day, it is also called reading, and you can gain happiness. The purpose of parent-child reading is to establish parent-child relationship first, and then to establish reading habits. Reading doesn't have to be a masterpiece to be called reading. Early reading enlightenment lies not in the quantity of reading, but in the fineness.