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Many parents will feel very confused when choosing books for their children, which is a very typical choice syndrome after overloading information.
This is especially true for children. A foreign educational institution recovered more than 6,000 questionnaires on children's reading surveys, and after statistics, found that 41% of children were not easy to find the books they wanted to read, and 29% of parents said they needed to help their children choose books.
I have a super useful reference standard when buying the original book, which is dedicated to the treatment of children's book selection difficulties.
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International Hans Christian Andersen Award
Point 1: Refer to the original picture book when purchasing
Focus 2: The essence of the award is the Writer's Award and the Illustration Award
Suitable for: young children
Newberry Prize for Literature
Focus 1: Purchase original children's literature
Focus 2: The primary selection criterion for the award is text quality
Suitable for: older children
3218 days of reading miracles
The fame of the Hans Christian Andersen Award is too big to talk about, and I have received a lot of high-quality picture books according to the order. But when the child was about 7 years old, he could already read children's literature with pinyin with adults, and I, who had always boasted that I was very good at buying children's books, also began to be blind.
I first learned about the Newberry Prize for Literature in a book called "Reading for Love: Dad and My 3218-Day Reading Engagement." The father in the book is a librarian, from the age of 9, he read books for his daughter, in fact, it is currently a very common "parent-child reading", not only our family, very many families are doing this, but the father and daughter insisted on 3218 days, almost a full 9 years of time! !
What intrigued me the most was that
How was the father and daughter able to hold out for 3218 days without interruption?
How do they choose books? Because the choice of books to read together is the biggest obstacle I am currently facing, if a book looks boring, it is a big obstacle to insisting on reading together!
What books did they read in 3218 days?
Can you get their co-reading list???
In this way, I will no longer worry about buying children's books and falling into difficulties in choosing!!!
I used to choose books according to the sales volume of the online store, which was a safe choice, but I knew that children read nothing more than some popular children's books.
In addition, I will also select books according to the list of winners of the "International Hans Christian Andersen Award", but the essence of the Andersen Award is the Writer Award and the Illustration Award, which can only be used as a reference for the purchase of picture books for young people.
In "Reading for Love", the author lists all the works that the father and daughter read together, and a large part of the book is indicated as coming from the "Newberry Prize". The Newbury Awards (the primary criterion for text quality) are far more informative than the Hans Christian Andersen Prize when it comes to selecting books for parent-child reading.
Newbury Children's Literature Award
The Newbury Prize for Children's Literature has a long history. Born in 1713 in England to a peasant family, Newberry was self-taught, and in 1744 he wrote and published the world's first specialized, inexpensive children's book, The Beautiful Little Book. Subsequently, the world's first specialized children's book printing plant and bookstore were opened, which was later called the father of children's literature.
Icon of the Newbery Gold Medal for Literature newbery Medal
Icon of the Silver Medal for Newbery Literature at Newbery Honors
In 1922, the American Library Children's Service Society created The Newbery Medal for Best Children's Book, the world's first children's literature award. The "Andersen International Children's Literature Award", which is highly recognized by Chinese readers, was only founded in 1956.
The Newbury Awards are awarded annually for outstanding works of English children's literature published in the previous year. The judging criteria are meticulous:
Interpretation of the theme or concept of the theme or concept of the book
Presentation of information including accuracy, clarity, and organization The accuracy, clarity, and organizational structure of the presentation of information
Development of a plot the development of the storyline
Delineation of characters character portrayals
Delineation of a setting is set in the background of the story
Appropriateness of style. The style is just right
All books that have won the Newbury Award are included in the must-read books for teenagers in English-speaking countries. The theme is mainly "children's perspective, children's growth", and in addition to the clever design of children's fears, sadness, fantasies, humor, adventures and other psychological aspects, the content also contains the care for global human beings and natural things.
It can be seen that these scoring dimensions overlap well with the reference dimensions and judging criteria for a child writing a story essay. With high-quality input standards, children can have the potential to produce their own good stories.
"Read aloud for Love" customized book list!!
Share the Newberry Award works read by the father and daughter duo in "Reading for Love", everyone collects this article, when there is a discount, you can search for the title of the book to buy and buy according to the order.
In addition, on the second-hand book platform "Catch More Fish" search for the "Newbury" label, there are also 19 books on sale.
The books marked * are already available in Chinese editions:
Richard Atwater Florence Atwater Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
*"Boss Capone Washes My Shirt For Me" by Jennifer Choldenko
The Giver by Lois Lowr
Arthur Bovey Chrisman Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
The Wanderinger by Sarah Creech
*My name is Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
*The Hand Axe Boy [Beauty] Gehry Burson Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
* The Legend of the Silver Earth [Beauty] Charles · J. Finger Tales From Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger
Paul Fry Schumann Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Scott O'D'Orell Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
The Islander by Cynthia Rylant
Virginia Solinson Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
The following books are not available in Chinese editions:
The Half-A-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman
The Barn by Avi
A Few Moments: A Diary of an English Girl A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan W. Blos
Eleanor Estes
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli
By Louis Sachar
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Journey by Patricia MacLachlan
It's Like This Cat by Emily Neville
Pam Munoz Ryan Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
"Love Bowright Home School Survival" [Beauty] Stephanie · S. Tolan Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles (National Book Award)
Love by Deborah Wells, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
In addition to the above excerpt from the Newbury Prize book list, "Reading for Love" also details all the reading materials of the father and daughter for 3218 days, and for 9 years, this book list is a very good graded reading reference.
Read together for love
For young children, reading is a good means of parent-child companionship.
I firmly give up the desire to indulge in mobile phones and read well with my children, such as high-quality parent-child companionship like reading together, parents and children will be very beneficial, just watch the story of my daughter in "Reading for Love".
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This screenshot is an answer I saw on Zhihu before about the importance of "parent-child companionship". This picture has been placed on my desktop as a self-prodding, and the author has been untestable.
For older children, reading is the best way to develop writing skills.
A few days ago in the Shanghai Book Fair to participate in Ye Kai's "Writing Lesson" sharing activities, Ye Kai to brush Weibo such fragmented reading instead of deep reading, brush drama brush movies such as fast food reading instead of systematic reading, painfully appealed to everyone to pay attention to the importance of systematic deep reading, he also listed a very reference to the list of higher grade books in the "Writing Class". Ye Kai is the editor of Harvest magazine, the editor of well-known writers Mo Yan and Ah Lai, and his book list is also worth a good MARK.
Finally, let's make another point:
Reading Aloud for Love: Dad's 3218-Day Reading Engagement with Me is easy to send a book, but your time and undistracted attention are the best gifts. A list of 100 classic books for parents and children is included, and the outer poster is transformed into a 28-day reading note.