The children's book market is roaring all the way, what kind of excellent children's book works do we need? Not long ago, the 33rd Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award was announced, and it has been the 40th year since Mr. Chen Bochui, who "writes great literature for children", has established the prize, and the creators of children's literature have followed the goodness and warmth, or single-handedly or called on friends, to go forward, sowing more and more children's seeds, and the big tree full of fruits is growing more and more leafy.
Today, the "33rd Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award Series Activities and Yangtze River Delta Reading Alliance Literary Salon" was held at the flagship store of Duoyun Academy in Shanghai Center, sponsored by the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award Council, undertaken by the Baoshan District Culture and Tourism Bureau, and co-organized by Baoshan District Library and Yangtze River Delta Reading Alliance.
At the salon site, text reviewer Lu Mei, picture book reviewer Zhang Hong, four-time book (text) award winner Jian Ping, and 2021 book (picture book) award winner Luo Ling exchanged views. Lu Mei and Zhang Hong discussed the selection requirements and contemporary significance from the two dimensions of children's literature and picture books respectively; in terms of how to maintain a high-yield and high-quality creative state, Jian Ping sent a message to young creators to calm down and polish the text; Luo Ling told the interesting things about the cooperation with Liu Haiqi, the author of "Three Friends".
As one of the series of activities of the "1+6+X" Chen Award, the "'Child's Heart on the Tip of the Pen' - Chen Bochui Children's Literature Creation Competition" has been held for 7 sessions so far, and nearly 10,000 works from all over the country have been received. A total of more than 1,700 submissions were received in this competition, and the list of 30 winning works was freshly released in this salon. The person in charge of the organizing committee of the competition said: "The competition emphasizes the storytelling and originality of the works, pays more attention to the creators' profound life experience and life experience, and highlights the literary creation spirit of integrity and self-discipline. In the future, it will provide a broader publishing platform and an opportunity to improve the level of literary creation for outstanding works emerging in the call for papers and their creators. ”
As an important review of the past 6 creative competitions, "The Phoenix Flew Over the Plane Tree - "The Child's Heart on the Nib" Chen Bochui Children's Literature Creation Competition Winning Works Selection" was first released. This book is selected into 40 outstanding award-winning works of previous competitions, and the creators have a large age span, different creative styles, strong readability, and suitable collections for all ages.
Qin Wenjun, a children's literature writer and vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association, wrote a preface to the book, "The Phoenix Has Been Flying, Always Flying", "This is a book that has the painstaking efforts and efforts of many people, a book with different feelings." Looking forward to the readers' judgment, looking forward to it to inherit The rain and dew of Mr. Chen Bochui's literature, and also looking forward to the literary newcomers with unlimited possibilities in the book to continue to work hard, bloom the enthusiasm of literature and the energy of writing, like the phoenix in the book, it has been flying and has been flying. ”
Over the years, the organizers have been committed to promoting the spillover effect of the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award, cooperating with Century Duoyun on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its establishment, and the first time after the release of the award-winning works, 4 Duoyun bookstores were listed offline, so that the public could read 65 kinds of award-winning works in the past years and the latest in the first time, and other works of the award-winning writers will also be permanently exhibited in Duoyun's bookstore. The bookstore Fang said that it hopes that in this way, more readers can understand the Chen Award and feel the charm of children's literature together.
At the event site, 8 kinds of the latest award-winning books were sent to the representatives of the yangtze river delta reading alliance member libraries, and this book donation allowed readers in the Yangtze River Delta to borrow the award-winning books of the Chen Award for the first time.
It is reported that in order to further enhance the brand influence of the "Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award" and benchmark the national development strategy of "Yangtze River Delta Integration", Shanghai Baoshan District Library proposed the establishment of the "Reading Classics and Lighting Children's Hearts" Yangtze River Delta Reading Alliance in 2019, which was formed by more than ten libraries in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places such as Xuhui Library, Changning Library, Jiading Library, Jinshan Library, Baoshan Library, Zhang Yuanji Library, Yancheng Library and so on. Baoshan District Library has successively launched activities such as "Recitation of Classic Works of Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award", "'I and Chen Award' Video Special Series", "Famous Artists Entering Schools and Communities", etc., to trace the evolution and inheritance of Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award, to explore the vastness of the world with the power of literature, to appreciate the broader spiritual world, and to feel the charm of children's literature.
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Editor: Xu Yang
Editor-in-Charge: Wang Yan
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