When Han Han was in the first grade, he went to school to have a parent-teacher conference. In America, parent-teacher conferences are usually one-on-one between parents and teachers. At that time, I asked my teacher a question about how to improve my inclusive language ability and academic performance. The teacher replied, of course, to increase reading! As soon as I listen to reading, I am happy to say that there must be a lot of simple reading. Any teacher also smiled and said that the books you let your children read are story-based picture books. If you want children's reading ability to a higher level, you have to expose them to non-story picture books, especially conceptual picture books. Concept picture books are very important for children's language development and learning, and can also expand their knowledge and stimulate their creativity. What is a concept picture book? Next, the teacher told me a general knowledge of conceptual picture books, and then said that primary schools in Silicon Valley generally require students to read more such picture books in order to increase their knowledge and improve their creativity. Parents pay too much attention to the story picture books in our community library, and children's picture books are divided into story and non-story categories. Every time he goes to the library, Han Han runs to the story bookshelf and reads it with relish, but rarely goes to the non-story bookshelf.

Since the teacher talked to me about reading, I began to pay attention. I found that it is not only simple stupidity, but also most children and parents. Every time we borrow books, everyone holds a thick stack of story picture books. Why do parents and children prefer story picture books? Because there is a protagonist in the story picture book, and the development of the protagonist's role will lead to a story, children will be very interesting to read, and it is easy for parents to tell stories to their children. After a story is finished, many topics can be discussed, such as what happened? Who did the right thing and what did they learn? Non-story picture books, including concept picture books and biographical art, are far less readable than story picture books, especially concept picture books, which often introduce mathematics, science, history and other knowledge, without storylines or even story characters, far from being lively and interesting.

Without proper guidance from parents, children will feel bored after reading it, but parents feel like a boring concept after reading it and don't know how to say it. The importance of concept picture books is often to describe an object or some abstract concepts. For example, the concept picture book will focus on the structure of the car, such as the wheel steering wheel engine, and pay attention to explaining scientific knowledge. The story picture book personifies the car into a car story, focusing on telling a story. Concept picture books are generally divided into the following mathematical concept picture books. These picture books are all around a mathematical theme, some talk about shapes, some talk about logical laws, some talk about calculations, and some talk about numbers.

I don't like that kind of big and comprehensive textbook, because once the textbook covers too many knowledge points, it is likely that every point will not be too detailed, resulting in a small range of knowledge for children. Therefore, it is particularly important to choose some picture books with mathematical themes. For example, I tell Han Han about graphic movement, because it covers several knowledge points such as translation, flip, rotation and symmetry, so as to analyze these knowledge points thoroughly. The concept of science picture books covers a wide range of science, including chemistry, physics, mechanics, astronomy and so on. This kind of picture books are often aimed at small fields. For example, the Bashe series is one of the best, and each book is talking about a small knowledge point. I borrowed a lot of Basher books from Han Han, from the periodic table of molecules and atoms to the space of the Milky Way. In addition, there is a set of popular science books called Me, which is also very good and sells well in the United States. It explains the concepts of measuring body time chart, family space and so on to children with relaxed pictures and language. I remember taking Han Han to the physical examination one day. He saw a mannequin hanging in the hospital. He stared at the mannequin excitedly and showed me various organs of the human body. He learned all this knowledge from me.