The children's books and authors mentioned in the book are well-known, but the stories behind their creation are little known. Chen Sai made an in-depth excavation with curiosity. The interview with the author brings more first-hand information to readers, and the interpretation of life, nature and various possibilities of life makes children's books no longer simply understood as children's books.
Chen Sai said that a curious person will not be lonely or tired of life, paranoid or trapped in the self-locking of the soul, and will not listen to other people's suggestions, but will listen to and imagine different perspectives and viewpoints. No matter what troubles or hardships there are in life, he can always find a balanced road with a free and flexible mind and a healthy mood. This is probably the secret that she can read the breadth, height and depth of thin children's books.
Savagery and tenderness: the self-cultivation of animal parents, translated by Jennifer L. Waldolin, Li Yushan, Commercial Press, 202 1 June.
The reproduction of the next generation goes through three stages: conception, childbirth and rearing. At each stage, people learn a lot from each other's experiences and evaluate the results. The results are divided into good, bad, better and worse. Therefore, when human parents choose which parenting experience to use, they often feel confused and feel guilty because of their lack of investment or uncontrollable eccentricity.
The author of this book, Waldolin, is a resident scholar at Duke University. His main research field is animal behavior. She found a new way, went out of human territory, looked for similar parenting problems in the animal world and saw how animals solved them, thus providing inspiration for human parenting.
Because he has no children and has made many friends who have had children, Waldolin often observes how friends raise children with a bystander's attitude and often imagines them as some kind of animal. In the book, her friend's story, human parenting confusion and animal handling methods appear alternately. We can see wrinkled sharks who have been pregnant for more than three years, giving birth to babies with their mouths, letting children eat their own desert spiders in order to get off to a good start, and female hornbills who are full-time mothers ... Compared with humans, we don't think this is a book about animals, but the parenting methods from animals are enough to make people open their eyes and bring some comfort.
The Secret of IQ, written by Florence Pirlo and painted by Severin assus, China Friendship Publishing Company, July, 20021year.
Suitable reading age: over 7 years old
"This child is really smart", which is probably a common expression when parents say hello, but I wonder if the children who keep hearing this kind of evaluation have summed up the criteria for adults to judge intelligence: big head is smart, academic performance is smart, memory is smart, eloquence is smart, and father is smart, but is this really the case?
In this book, the author puts forward 15 questions about IQ, which not only explains IQ in theory, but also corrects those well-known prejudices. It helps children (and adults who read this book) realize that cleverness in daily spoken English is not a well-defined word, and academic performance certainly cannot fully represent IQ. Different people are good at different things, and the foothold of IQ is different. Only by learning to look at yourself from multiple angles can you not be influenced by the arbitrary evaluation of adults.
The painter Severin Assous used to be the artistic director of advertising, and now he focuses on the illustration creation of children's books. His illustration "Hello, Robot" was recommended by us in the sixth issue of the new product list.
The second series of "Ass Detective" (volume ***4), written/painted by trolls [Japan], Popland | 2 1 Century Publishing House, 202 1.
Suitable reading age: over 5 years old
Ass Detective is a popular detective novel in Japan. The picture book version has always been loved by children and often recommended by readers. It not only integrates maze, crossword puzzles, passwords, puzzle games and many other elements that children like into detective reasoning stories, but also builds a beautiful world with a correct view of good and evil. Because of the popularity of books, NHK began to make animated versions in 20 16, and the broadcast of animated versions in 20 18 pushed the craze of ass detectives to a new height. Ass detective has also become a household name in Japan.
The newly published second series of four books, each of which consists of two stories. The first story is serious cases, such as robbery and theft, and the second story is mostly strange things that happen in life. Like the first episode, young readers should observe and think according to the tips of the ass detective in order to find the answer.
"Whose bike is this?" [Japan] Gao Tuochun wrote/painted, Magic Elephant | Guangxi Normal University Press, 202 1 July.
Suitable reading age: over 2 years old
This is a picture book with a speculative nature. A little boy is riding a bike. Suddenly he saw a long bike different from his, so he asked, whose bike is this? On the next page, a crocodile appeared riding this bike. Then the crocodile saw a gray bike with a bucket on it. It also asked, whose bike is this? On the next page, there are elephants riding bicycles ... New bicycles are constantly appearing behind them, and each one is different according to the characteristics of animals. The young readers read and guessed, which was easy and interesting, and arranged an unexpected ending.
The Lion in the Attic, [Germany] Ute Klaus/Painting, Fantasy Kingdom | Dolphin Press, June 20265438 +0.
Suitable reading age: over 4 years old
It is a common bridge in fantasy literature to enter a secret passage from a certain space in the home and reach a new world. This picture book tells the story of Carla, a little girl, meeting a stone lion in the attic. It taught Kara to calm down and listen to the world, and taught her to play wonderful music with the cello. However, as Carla went to play all over the world, she gradually forgot how to listen, and the cello no longer played wonderful music, so Carla went back to the attic to look for lions. ...
The theme of this book is "Listening". Listening helps Carla get along well with the noisy family. For a musician, listening makes her feel the beauty of music. For people with inner anxiety, listening helps them realize themselves. Listening is like a bright lamp, which awakens the sleeping people.
Enlightenment of Children's Famous Paintings (5 volumes * * *), Zeng, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 202 1 June.
Suitable reading age: over 6 years old
This is a set of enlightening books on art and humanities for children. The text avoids some books of the same type being too colloquial, but it is not serious and academic.
The illustrations in the book are all from ancient famous paintings in China, with a total of more than 300 * * *, such as The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, The Story of Peach Blossom Garden, Preface to Lanting Collection, Tracing Words, Pipa Opera and other corresponding famous paintings handed down from ancient times, as if you were in the world of the ancients, following them to taste poetry, history, architecture and art. Most of the poems in famous paintings are classic literary masterpieces, so
100 Super Simple Children's Steam Game, by Andrea Ska Zoe, Hunan Science and Technology Press, 202 1 June.
Suitable reading age: over 5 years old
This is a practical book for all kinds of scientific experiments. There are 100 simple and interesting activities, covering the enlightenment knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, programming, aesthetics and other disciplines, emphasizing the fun of doing experiments.
These experiments are not difficult. Some children can do it by themselves. For children who can't read independently, parents need to understand the operating principle. Most of the experimental materials are taken from common objects in daily life, such as making a maze with the paper core of roll paper; Fold them with potato chips and finally form a circle; Draw on the ground with a mop handle, and so on.
Harriet the Little Spy, edited by Louis Fitz, translated by Ran Li, Yilin Press, 202 1 July.
Suitable reading age: over 9 years old
The "little spy" in the title may make readers who pick up this book for the first time regard it as a detective novel, but in fact, the "spy" here is about equal to "gossip". 1 1 year-old girl harriet's spy action is to quietly observe all the people around her and immediately write her thoughts and judgments into her diary. She will also find new clues from other people's chats, further look for the best observation points, and even sneak into private houses, just because she is curious about why this strange and exaggerated rich woman spends her time on the phone every day.
Of course, she is not smart, but a girl who is not kidnapped by external standards and is very loyal to her feelings. The reason for this gossip is that Koryo, who has been taking care of the nanny and loves literature, told her that the best way to become a writer is to write down all the people and things you see.
But one day, Harriet's private diary was discovered by her classmates. Her straightforward but mean record triggered a war between the whole class and her, and the seemingly simple interpersonal relationship on campus became complicated. This is probably a question that harriet never thought about when he was immersed in observing people and becoming a writer.
Although Harriet is the protagonist in the book, the way she records others makes her look like a narrator. She didn't let us see a "perfect child", let alone beautify campus life. Therefore, this children's novel published in 1964 is regarded as the pioneering work of "new realism" in the history of American children's literature, which has led the creative atmosphere of a generation.
"Children's University: Enlightenment Lessons for Children by Scientists" (3 volumes * * *), edited by Ulrich Jansen/Ulla Steuernagel, drawn by Klaus Ensikat, Chihiro | Chen Guang Publishing House, 20021July.
Suitable reading age: 10+
The themes of these three books are "Nature", "Humanity" and "World". Authoritative scientists from various professional fields are teaching content at Tubingen Children's University (a children's activity organized by Tubingen University in Germany in 2002, in which professors from Tubingen University taught scientific knowledge to children aged 8 12, which has been extended to many universities). The two editors are the editors of "Schwaben Daily" in Tubingen, and the painter won the 1996 International Andersen Illustrator Award. At the end of each book, there is a brief introduction of professors in children's universities. It's not a regular life story, but how they fell in love with their major.
Each book consists of eight chapters, and The World contains topics such as the extinction of dinosaurs, volcanic fires and the origin of human beings. The book Nature contains topics such as plant growth, dreaming, cloning and why I am me. The book Humanities contains topics such as gender, ultrasound, mathematics, doctors and athletes. Each topic represents a discipline, three books and 24 disciplines.
Some topics are touched by children in the reading stage of picture books, such as plant growth and human origin. But there are not many topics, such as ultrasound, cloning and so on. Each topic is much more profound than the picture book. It explains "Why are Greek statues naked?" For example, the content of this chapter comes from archaeologists and breaks down into "Can cemeteries talk?" "Why are the middle school students in Greek sculptures all naked?" And "didn't ancient Greek artists know how to draw?" Wait for six small questions to discuss.
Although it is general reading, it is not easy for children who have been able to read independently if they are not interested. In addition, the original edition of this set of books was published long ago, so we can see the hot word of 265438+early 20th century: cloning.
Editor | Shen Chan, Luo Dong
Proofreading | Liu Baoqing
The picture comes from the picture book "What clothes did people wear in the past? Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 》。