After entering the "picture book pit", I don't know if you have ever been a little confused? Every time I chop my hands, I will ask a soul torture - so many books, which one is suitable for my child? Which books are really good for children's physical and mental development and which books are just mixed into this market?
As ordinary parents who do not work in the children's book industry, it may be difficult to identify, of course, we will also receive a lot of suggestions, such as the best-selling lists on the major e-commerce platforms of Dangdang and JD.com, and there are also many reading promoters and bloggers who give you some book list suggestions as a reference.
But it seems that referring to these can not help you completely. So, for parents, reference is only one aspect, and more importantly, look at their own children: how good is the child's reading ability? What kind of books does he usually like to read? What are the points of interest? These individualized influencing factors can only be mastered by parents.
If you want to solve the problem from the root, that is, the parents grasp the criteria for choosing books, and combined with the child's situation, it is possible to choose the books that the children love to read.
Select picture books, age is the first criterion
Baby is to read the age of the book, sometimes parents choose books will blindly look at some of the big coffee book list or best-selling list, and then buy back to the baby to read, and did not consider whether the baby is age-appropriate, if it is a young baby, choose some books beyond his age, he not only does not like, but also hit the enthusiasm for reading, if it is already a big baby, and then choose some low books, may feel too simple point of interest is not high.
That age-appropriate meaning is that the choice of picture books is in line with the characteristics of children's cognitive and psychological development at each age, and according to this standard, it is more likely to choose the picture books that children like.
Next, Xiaobian summarized the characteristics of physical and mental development of different ages for everyone, and what kind of books should be matched in general, for your reference.
0-2 years old: the enlightenment period, the baby's first experience of reading
For small babies, they do not understand the use and function of books, they are in the exploration period, everything around them, for them, as a "toy" to play, so we also have a book at this stage called "toy book".
At this stage, we provide him with books that can be played, and the diversity and richness of picture books are the main points of book selection.
What we need to choose for him is:
First, exercise small hand flexibility, the material is strong and tear-resistant safety book;
Second, picture books with rich and bright colors that stimulate visual development;
At this stage, they are very interested in bright colors and pictures, and the picture at this time should not have too many elements, and they should choose pictures with bright colors, prominent images and simple backgrounds;
To sum up, for young babies, the most important principles of book selection: pluralistic forms, bright colors, prominent images, strong interactivity, repetitive sentences, simple plots, in line with some of these principles, are suitable for children under 2 years old;
In fact, low books, in the children's book industry, from the appearance is also very good to distinguish, cardboard, small folio, rounded corners, holes, flip, pull the form, special-shaped design, etc., most of them see such books, that is, the baby is right to see.
Moreover, the picture books read during this time, heavy quality is not weight, repeated reading of certain books that children like super much, is also their way to establish a sense of security, constant repetition, so that they are more interested in books.
Picture books such as Pu Pulan's blockbuster "Baby Bear" series, "Change" and "Bungee" have vivid pictures, simple backgrounds, close to life, and can interact with children, which are suitable for reading at this stage.
3-6 years old: story period, the golden period of baby reading
Entering the stage of 3-6 years old, this stage can be described as the golden period of baby reading, if the family is practicing parent-child co-reading, they may find that babies over three years old, their reading has undergone a great change:
It is not surprising that a book has been read repeatedly, turned over, and read dozens of times, but after the age of three, his interest in repeatedly flipping through a certain book will gradually decrease, and the breadth of reading will increase suddenly;
At this time, the baby has also entered a period of great development of language ability, imagination improvement, and has a strong understanding ability compared with before, more like books with storylines, the types of books can be rich and diverse, do not limit his imagination.
We can read them more picture books of the story, in which they feel family, friendship, warmth and love.
Children over 6 years old
Stick to reading and cultivate the habit of reading that will accompany you throughout your life
Children over the age of 6, in the cognition, language, comprehension, expression of the development of a relatively stable stage, they look forward to more knowledge, the real world is full of curiosity, at this time, we need to provide them with a variety of picture books that can open their eyes, touch the world, including nature, science, art and so on.
In reading, do not stay in the picture book itself, discuss the details in the picture book with the child, summarize and describe the story that happens in the picture book, which is very helpful for his reading thinking.
We can show children some popular science books, through the reading of popular science books, cultivate children's general reading ability, but also do a good job of connecting with follow-up subject learning.
It should be noted that many picture books will have a suitable age tag, which can be used as a reference, and there is no particularly strict restriction, so it can be selected according to the child's cognitive and comprehension ability, and do not be too restricted.
Choose a book that must look at your child's interests
In fact, look at this list of books on the Internet, as everyone knows, as long as it is a book that children like, it is a good book, do not frame the child's reading range because of their own taste, just like some books that are not within our aesthetic range, children like it, different styles, in fact, you can try more.
Follow the child's interest, what they like is naturally valuable, let the child purely enjoy the reading time, enjoy the fun of reading between the lines, find happiness and interest in reading, will really love to read, if the child does not like, even if the most famous master works, in the child's reading will not have value.
In addition, good at discovering children's interests, and following the line of interest has been expanding no problem, in my experience, boys are very fond of cars and dinosaur books, you can start from this point, read books on the same theme, extend a wider surface, or go deeper, dig deeper points.
When he loves to read, follow-up reading more topics of books are also followed, and the point of interest requires parents to know their children well enough to discover their reading interests, which cannot be given by any book list.
Select masters and award-winning works
Finally, to give you a reference dimension, that is, the master works and award works, the master needless to say, very personal style of picture books everyone if there is a child likes, the other works of the same author, the probability of children liking is also relatively high.
In addition, there are the awards, so many people will say, are the gold content of these picture book awards really high? Are all the picture books included in the award worth seeing? Xiaobian believes that the picture book award is screened layer by layer, can stand out in thousands of troops, naturally has unique features, if it is a work of award, the probability of stepping on the pit will be much smaller.
The internationally famous picture book award, Xiaobian also summarized a few for everyone:
U.S. "Caldecott Award"
It was founded in 1938 by the American Library Association for the nineteenth-century British picture book painter Randolph Caddick, and eventually developed into the most authoritative picture book award in the United States, known as the "Oscar" of the picture book industry.
Kate Greenaway Award, UK
Created in 1955 by the British Library Association for children's picture books, the awards are created primarily in honour of the great children's book illustrator of the nineteenth century, Ms. Kate Greenaway.
The Kate Greenaway Award, with its Kate Greenaway Award and Nomination Award, is the highest honour for a British children's picture book, but the winners are not limited to illustrators of British nationality.
International Hans Christian Andersen Award
The Hans Christian Andersen Prize, also established in honor of Hans Christian Andersen, is sponsored by Queen Margaret II of Denmark, named after the fairy tale master Hans Christian Andersen, and is selected every two years, and is known as the "Nobel Prize in Children's Literature".
The above is only the general sense of the principle of book selection, according to the above principles to choose, just for everyone to list a general scope and space, but specific to which one, but also need to combine the child's cognitive and psychological development ability, hobbies, actual reading ability.
Practice out of the truth, when you can't stop on the way to buying, buying and buying, you have learned the relevant theories and knowledge, and you can also understand the child's interest and acceptance ability, then your book list is the best book list tailored to the child!