What books children should read at home during the winter and summer vacations is a concern for parents. Recently, the Jing'an Father and Son Reading Alliance released a list of recommended books for the winter vacation of 2022.
Founded in 2011, the Jing'an Father-Son Reading Alliance is led by the Jing'an District Family Education Guidance Center, and has formed an alliance with schools in the district to promote regional parent-child reading.
The alliance continues to carry out many classic activities, such as inviting well-known writers and illustrators at home and abroad to the campus to bring high-quality lectures to parents and children; parent-child reading experience workshop, using excellent picture books as the medium, creating real reading tasks according to the theme, so that parents and children can carry out reading activities in a variety of ways; and recommending the latest and highest quality books for families in two seasons of the year.
This season's book list, a total of 7 keywords, 20 books.
Among them, there are not only suitable for kindergarten to junior high school children to read, but also recommended 4 books for parents and teachers.
Into the history of the Party
"Childlike Heart to the Party • Centennial Glory" series
"Red Boat, Red Boat", "Light"
"Glittering Square", "City of the Future"
Wang Xiaoya, Gu Shu, and others
Jiangsu Phoenix Children's Publishing House
Target Audience: Middle and lower grades of primary school
There are 16 volumes in the "Children's Heart to the Party • Centennial Glory" book series, and the winter book list is 4 of them, "Red Boat, Red Boat", "Light", "Glittering Square" and "City of the Future".
Unlike traditional party history books, these picture books reveal the big theme with small incisions, that is, to show the history, thought and spirit of the Chinese Communist Party through the perspective of children and children's stories.
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Half-Hour Comic Party History (1921-1949)
Shanghai People's Publishing House, half-hour comic team editing
Written by Wu Bo
Shanghai People's Publishing House
Reader culture
Target Audience: Middle and upper grades of primary school
When serious party history meets lively cartoons, what kind of sparks will collide?
In the form of "cartoons + words", "Half-Hour Comics party history" focuses on the May Fourth Movement, the founding of the Communist Party of China, the National Revolution, the Agrarian Revolution, the Long March of the Red Army, the Anti-Japanese Salvation, and the National War of Resistance... These important historical events in the centenary of the founding of the party have made serious party history easier and easier to read.
Love and growth
"I am a tiger who I am afraid of"
Wang Zumin Wang Ying Text/Photo
Target Audience: Kindergarten
The tiger king is not afraid of anyone, he is not afraid of lions, not afraid of big bears, not afraid of elephants, he also likes to play pranks, plug the keyholes of the fox's house with gum, pluck the whiskers of the rabbits, and fling the tail of the mouse in a circle to amuse...
Tiger King's birthday is coming, Tiger Mother made a good and beautiful cake, Tiger wants to invite friends to dinner together, but none of them come...
This picture book allows children to learn to empathize, what is the right behavior to interact with people, and how to really win the hearts of friends.
"True Friends"
[de] by Hem Hayne
Translated by Cheng Wei
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
What is a true friend?
German nationally renowned picture book master Hem Hein gave his answer.
In his pen, Franz the Rooster, Jonny the Mouse, and Valdemar the Fat Pig, the three of them have very different appearances and personalities, but they are really good friends. They like to stick together, know that they should help each other, never watch their friends in the rain, and are willing to sacrifice themselves for their friends in an emergency...
30 interesting stories that illustrate the true meaning of friendship.
Jack's Bear and Jack the Bear
[English] Dawn Gult-Kruttenden by/illustrated
Translated by Ma Ainong
Target audience: Kindergarten - Primary school grades
This is a picture book based on a true story.
Seven-year-old Jack suffers from autism, and Bear is his best friend and bridge to the world around him. After Bear's accidental disappearance, Jack fell into endless sorrow. At this time, people around the world sent many, many bears and letters full of words of encouragement... Although Jack was unable to retrieve the bear he had once loved most, he gained more and more precious love.
"The Water Demon Who Teaches the Fish"
Written by Zhang Qiusheng
Target Audience: Lower primary school grades
The ingenuity of Zhang Qiusheng, the author of "Little Slap Fairy Tale".
A bridge book for children in the lower part of elementary school.
The book contains a total of 5 short stories, each of which is warm and moving, teaching children kindness, mutual help, tolerance... Let children harvest the wisdom of growth while listening to stories.
Odo the Rhino
[Denmark] By Ore Lun Kirkegaard
Translated by Zhang Tong
This is a Danish version of the story of "Magic Pen Ma Liang". The little boy Top got a pencil by chance, and he was surprised to find that whenever he finished writing and drawing with this pencil, the words and pictures would disappear.
Topp, in order to show his good friend Vigo this magical pencil, drew a large yellow rhinoceros on the wall. Something strange happened – the rhino came back to life! But how to raise such a big rhinoceros in the city...
The author of the book, Ole Ren Kirkegao (1940-1979), had a profound influence in Denmark and europe. He always insists on looking at children from the child's point of view, and uses humorous and funny words and pictures to show the naughty world exclusive to children in his works.
"Boom boom"
Iron condensation
Zhejiang Children's Publishing House
This is a selection of short stories from Tie Ning, which includes representative articles from many writers, including "Hope", "Oh, Fragrant Snow", "Joyful And Soaring" and so on.
Reading these stories, we seem to have gone to the era when the writer lived, met different boys and girls living there, and saw their lives and growth.
Create beauty and fun
Motionless Competition
Rag King Text/Photo
This is a very cute and simple picture book.
The cat father wants to find the kitten to play football with, but the little cat just doesn't move, what is going on? It turns out that the kitten is playing the game of "motionless", so the cat father also joined the game!
Through this picture book, we would like to pass on a concept to everyone - join the children's games and enjoy the games with the children!
The Forest Girl
Xiang Hua [Day] Small Cabinet Smile Fan Xi by
World Book Publishing Company
This is a unique "handmade + photography" picture book, written by picture book writer Xiang Hua, handmade by Japanese natural handicraft artist Xiao Cabinet Laughing, and photographed by young photography artist Fan Xi, which lasted for five years.
It's also a story about discovering beauty and creating it. The forest girl has a pair of skillful hands that can make the most beautiful handmade in the world. People from all over the world brought all kinds of materials from the local area, penguins brought ice cubes, kangaroos brought dead grass and dead leaves, turtles brought rough sand on the seabed... These most common raw materials have become the same exquisite objects under the girl's skillful hands.
This story tells us that as long as we have a pair of eyes that can find beauty and hands that create beauty, ordinary objects can become infinitely beautiful.
After reading this story, we also hope that everyone can exert their own creativity, do handmade works with children to do a good job, and truly extend picture book reading from parent-child reading to parent-child play.
Explore discoveries
The Book of Enlightenment for Children
(38 volumes in total)
By Gayle Gibbons
Zhejiang Science and Technology Press
Target audience: Kindergarten - Lower primary school
It is an encyclopedic picture book covering 8 major themes including plants, animals, astronomy, weather, nature, transportation, life and sports.
From the child's point of view, with easy-to-understand language and colorful illustrations, tell the child rigorous and accurate scientific knowledge, so that the child can easily fall in love with science.
The Secret of the Origin of All Things
(8 volumes)
Yang Yuejiang, Zhu Lingyun, etc
Dolphin Press
Delicious food, efficient transportation, fun sports, beautiful musical instruments... These are all things that children can touch in their daily lives, but they may not know their history, the production process...
This set of books uses easy-to-understand language to guide children to explore the science around them, understand the historical evolution, production process and interesting stories of 33 things.
In addition, each theme is designed with fun interactive mini-games, manual tutorials, etc., which increases the fun of reading.
Man and nature
Polar Bear Moving
Dai Yun
[Russian] Igor Orenikov painted
Guizhou People's Publishing House
Dandelion Children's Book Library
Dai Yun, author of the Feng Zikai Picture Book Prize, and Igor Oreynikov, winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Prize For Illustrator, co-created a picture book based on the real events of the 2019 polar bear "invasion" of the Russian town of Beluga Bay.
As climate change causes sea ice to melt, polar bears are unable to prey on seals. In order to find a suitable living environment, a pair of polar bear parents led their children on a moving journey...
With a black humor, the author tells the real dilemma faced by polar bears and leads us to think about the way people and nature get along.
The course of life
The Sun and the Ephemera
Soup soup by Large bread painted
What is life?
This question is a profound problem for both children and adults.
Tang Tang, winner of the Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award, in this picture book, through the dialogue between the sun and ephemera (a long life, a life with only one day), let the child truly understand and think about what life is, and understand that no matter whether life is short or long, every life can live with taste!
"When the Monster Knocks"
By Patrik Nice
Jim Kay draws
Sunray Press
This is a work that makes people cry after reading it. A deeply moving work about life, loss and love, it is also the only children's literature work that has won two major awards, the Carnegie Prize and the Kate Greenaway Prize.
Many parents are always secretive about the topic of death. But if the change of family and the death of a loved one are placed in front of the child, how will he face it?
The protagonist of the book, Connor, encountered such a problem. Ever since my mother fell ill and the treatment process didn't go well, I started having nightmares every night. One day, when he woke up screaming again at midnight, an uninvited guest appeared outside his window. It is a monster transformed from an ancient, mysterious yew tree, and it wants to tell Connor three stories in exchange for the secrets that Connor has buried deep in his heart and dare not show...
History and culture
Silk Road
(Illustrated Version for Teenagers)
By Peter Frankophan
Painted by Neil Parker
Translated by Li Jianmin
Elephant Press
Target audience: Middle and upper grades of primary school - junior high school
When we think of the Silk Road, we immediately think of the trade routes opened up by Zhang Qian on his mission to the western region.
But is the Silk Road a real path? Did it only exist in the Han Dynasty? Is it just a trade route? ......
Peter Frankophan, a professor at Oxford University and a well-known historian, told us about the historical events and stories that took place on the Silk Roads.
You will see that the Silk Road is not only flowing with exotic and rare goods and people of different nationalities, identities and destinies, but also spreading ideas, art, science and technology, as well as diseases and violence that cannot be avoided.
《Kanji Jingqi Shen》
Zhang Yiqing
Century scene
Target audience: Middle school, teachers and parents
When children are young, we often hold cards to teach children to read.
Starting from the most basic Chinese characters, until going to school, children will learn a lot of Chinese characters, but how these Chinese characters evolved, what was the meaning of the original expression, and why it became the current meaning...
Focusing on the three keywords of "self-cultivation", "responsibility" and "homeland", this book selects some representative Chinese characters, starting from its origin, expounding the philosophical speculation of ancient artificial characters, and feeling the meaning behind Chinese characters.
This book is suitable for children, but it is also suitable for adults to read.
Between Light and Darkness: The Biography of Lu Xun
Sun:Written by Tsuneki Maruo
Translated by Chen Qingqing
Shanghai People's Publishing House, Guangqi Bookstore
In our reading era, we have read many works of Lu Xun, such as "From ah Q Zheng biography" and "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookhouse".
In our impression, Lu Xun is a fighter.
But reading this book will give us a more three-dimensional understanding of Lu Xun, and will let us see the weakness and pain that Lu Xun shows when he faces the shackles of his original family, the loneliness of studying abroad life, the bitterness of his career, the death of his friends, the anti-eyes of his brothers, the entanglement of arranged marriages and true love, and the greatness and perseverance he shows after overcoming these pains. At the same time, it will also let us understand the influence of historical events on Lu Xun and his works.
Teachers and parents read
Emotional Learning: How Children's Literature Teaches Us to Feel Emotions
[de] Ute Freffert et al
Translated by Huang Huaiqing
Are emotions innate or nurtured?
How do the children's literature classics we read from childhood subtly affect our understanding and perception of emotions?
This book brings together thirteen experts in the history of emotions, and explores how children and adolescents learn how to feel and learn emotions through reading by examining more than 100 classic children's literature and education manuals around the world, outlining the century-old history of the basic emotions of anxiety, trust, piety, sympathy, empathy, love, shame, pain, fear, bravery, homesickness, and boredom.
Why Families Get Sick
Chen Jianjian
Mechanical Industry Press
The "loyal guardian" who saves the family by being sick;
Anxious mothers, withdrawing fathers and children trapped in the home;
Adolescent children who "refuse to go to school" because of discord between their parents;
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These are real-world cases that happen in the psychiatric clinic, where people who come to ask for help have problems big or small, and behind them are problems with our family system.
Starting from the perspective of the family system, based on the theories and methods of psychology, especially family therapy, and the author's rich experience in psychotherapy, through vivid cases, tells us: how the family shapes an independent individual, why the family gets sick, how to avoid the transgression behavior caused by the unclear boundaries of the family, how the family in distress seeks positive change, how to better understand themselves, their families and psychological problems from the family system, so as to grow into a healthier and more complete individual. Build happier families.
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai