? Xue Yan, the author of this book, and her team are fully aware of the importance of picture books in the process of children's growth. As early as a few years ago, they began to explore the picture book reading course, and made a useful attempt on how to build a school-based curriculum, which made a good demonstration for everyone. The book "Doing this in the Picture Book Course" comprehensively shows their efforts in the construction of the picture book reading course. I was deeply impressed by their understanding of the value of picture books, the design of picture book guidance and the records of classroom teaching.
? From the perspective of children's growth, picture books play a very unique role in children's language development, thinking training, emotional enrichment, aesthetic cultivation and imagination cultivation. A classic picture book works, will make children fondle admiringly, listen and say over and over again, and every reading and telling is given a new meaning. Picture books are told to children more often. Although children can't read, they can remember the contents of each picture and string together the whole story completely. Children's language and thinking have been well trained in this respect. All kinds of stories presented in picture books are not fabricated out of thin air, and are inextricably linked with children's lives and the author's experiences, showing readers the joys and sorrows in life. Reading these works can help us better understand the beauty, ugliness, darkness, hope, death and war in life and become a more emotional person. The best part of a picture book is painting. While reading picture books by authors from different countries and styles, children are also tasting different artistic styles, which can not only enrich their artistic experience and improve their aesthetic ability, but also guide them to learn to observe the details of things and enjoy beauty in search and aftertaste. Picture books are full of sense of humor and imagination because of their unique forms of expression. They integrate images, characters and colors, leaving a broad imagination space for children and are a very important carrier for developing children's imagination. Zheng Songju said: "Picture books are an important starting point for imagination." In addition, diversified images, rich plots and interesting stories in picture books can also increase children's experience, which is the source of imagination.
? Reading is a fascinating adventure again and again, and leading children to read picture books is to lead them into a wonderful fairyland. In order to make this beauty more exquisite, they developed picture book reading into a course, including nine core courses: children's wisdom opening, children's psychological healing, children's philosophical enlightenment, children's interpersonal communication, children's aesthetic appreciation, children's family appreciation, children's moral cultivation, children's international understanding and children's creative expression. These nine curriculum sections basically cover the relationship between children's life growth and picture book reading, taking into account picture book reading knowledge, picture book reading aesthetics, picture book reading theory and picture book reading practice. It should be said that in terms of curriculum construction, their consideration is very comprehensive.
? How to implement this course? According to the conventional understanding, picture book reading should be an extension of Chinese curriculum, and it is more suitable as a Chinese expansion course. Xue Yan and her team members don't think so. In their view, picture book reading class is not a Chinese class, an art class or an ideological and moral class. It is not affiliated with any course, but an independent course. Therefore, the picture book reading course has entered the curriculum, and it appears in children's daily life as an independent course like Chinese, mathematics, music and art. With the continuous implementation of the curriculum, the picture book reading course has been integrated with Chinese, art, ideology and morality, mathematics, science and other disciplines, and the algebraic expression picture book reading course has emerged as the times require, which has become an important breakthrough to incite school curriculum reform.
In this book, the author not only gives the core content of each theme course, the case of reading guide design and the course teaching record, but also provides readers with a guide to the picture book reading course, including the core elements such as course background, course objectives, course content, course guarantee and course evaluation, which helps readers to understand the whole picture of the picture book reading course more deeply. The bibliography of picture books reading courses for grades one to six listed in the book is also very valuable, which can help readers understand the internal relationship between these picture books and children's growth, as well as the significance and value of curriculum creation and implementation.