Read new books in the new year, and start thinking about the new year. Guangxi Normal University Press's three distinctive children's book brands ,"New Children", "Magic Elephant" and "Mysterious Island" have always been committed to extending the humanistic spirit and humanistic temperament of Guangxi Normal University Press from adult readers to young readers.
This time, we have selected 23 sets of excellent children's books to be published in 2022, including picture books, story books, and game books that are loved by children, as well as related books such as education and children's philosophy that are suitable for parents to study repeatedly, and strive to meet the knowledge demands and ability cultivation of readers large and small.
The children's education book brand under Guangxi Normal University Press, adhering to the mission of laying the foundation for children's growth, is positioned to discover children, respect children, and is committed to making educational publishing that is truly suitable for a new generation of children.
"Once Upon a Time There Was a Story: A Collection of Fairy Tales from Dragon Xiangmei"
Author 丨 Long Xiangmei
Time to market: Spring 2022
This book is a set of fairy tales suitable for children aged 7-12, including "The Story of Nothing", "The Little Man Who Lives on the Roof", "The Crumpled City", "Grow a Cherry Tree for You", "The Elf Who Stayed behind" 5 fairy tales, is a set of quite personal style, beautiful original fairy tale masterpieces.
These fairy tales with typical oriental overtones will lead young readers into a world between reality and fantasy. Telling the story of discovery and searching in growth, parting and reunion, protection and love, it is a timeless and pure fantasy story with profound meaning. Let children harvest kindness, fraternity, tolerance, integrity, optimism, bravery, honesty in reading... Young illustrators are specially invited to draw beautiful illustrations to give children a silent and beautiful education.
A new book in the "Young Science Popularization" series
Editor-in-Chief: Shi Jun
When traditional culture meets science, "When Ancient Poetry Meets Science", "When Small Ancient Literature Meets Science", and "Naturalism in Li" are new books in the "Young Science Popularization" series.
This set of original popular science children's books for children aged 7-12, the new book integrates the big language with science, tells the poetry, ancient texts, and interesting naturalism in "Journey to the West", enhances children's diversified thinking ability, and opens the channel of "general reading". Each book has more than 200 knowledge points + popular science tips, and uses the way children are happy to accept the narrative to make science come alive. The author team is mainly a scientific worker, taking into account both childlike fun and realistic hand-drawn illustrations, so that the beauty of science jumps on the paper.
"Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Shadow Story"
Author 丨 Natural creation
Listing time: August 2022
This book is the first book in the series "Playing out of the East, Playing with Childhood", which aims to reproduce the charm of traditional stories and traditional toys to children, and stimulate everyone's love for traditional Chinese culture and interest in shadow puppet art.
In the form of shadow paintings, this book depicts the traditional Chinese story of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, telling the story of the eight immortals Lü Dongbin, Zhang Guolao, Lan Caihe, Tie Quan Li, Han Zhongli, He Xianggu, Han Xiangzi, and Cao Guozu, each using a magic weapon to cross the sea, and then encountering the Dragon Prince, and launching a great war, under the persuasion of Guanyin, the flag was extinguished and the clouds traveled in all directions. The manuscript invites the Natural Creation team to draw illustrations, accompanied by shadow puppet toys and corresponding story audios across the sea, allowing readers to feel the charm of traditional stories and traditional toys.
The Quest for France
Editor: Shanghai Museum
Painted: Rune signs
Text: Sun Danyan
Listing time: March 2022
This book is a picture book about calligraphy edited by the Shanghai Museum, which describes the story of a little boy jumping and following the brush elf Little Bamboo, exploring the mysteries of calligraphy in "Book France", and visiting the great calligrapher. The creators carefully selected the collections of the Shanghai Museum, set up sections such as "Calligraphy Knowledge" and "Calligraphy Games", supplementing the basic knowledge of calligraphy and enhancing the interactive experience of young readers.
Little Symphony Orchestra
Author: School of Design, East China Normal University
Listing time: October 2022
This is a children's music enlightenment picture book that can sing, based on the research project of early childhood synesthesia of East China Normal University. The picture book tells the story of the dream journey of the little musician Musician. This is not only a warm picture book that dares to chase dreams, but also an audiobook for children's artistic enlightenment. In the book, there are introductions to six Atlantic instruments and classic songs, so that children can read interesting stories, but also know the knowledge of musical instruments, feel the beauty of classical music, is a fun and good sound picture book.
"Reading Nursery Rhymes from a Young Age"
Author: New Children's Editorial Department
Listing time: January 2022
"Reading Nursery Rhymes from Childhood" carefully selects the classics of nursery rhymes, collects 288 widely sung nursery rhymes, and compiles them into 12 volumes according to the theme, including "I Am Chinese" and "Festivals? Festivals", "My Home, My Love", "Animals and Plants", "Nature Observation", "Common Sense of Life", "Fun", "Develop Good Habits", "Question and Answer Songs", "Tongue Twister", "Riddles", "English Nursery Rhymes", the content involves all aspects of children's growth, including children's thousands of worlds, so that children can know life, know the world, experience culture, and love their country when singing these nursery rhymes.
"Reading Nursery Rhymes from a Young Age" is an excellent material for children's enlightenment, providing rich educational resources for children's learning in terms of content, method and form. May readers be able to sing this nursery rhyme with their children, harvest knowledge with them, enjoy the beauty of rhythm, and harvest the sweetness of parent-child relationship.
"The Big Concept of Small Children: How to Start a Discussion on Children's Philosophy from a Picture Book"
Author: (American) Thomas M. E. Whartenberg
Translator: Wang Ruoyu Wei Caiyun
Listing time: June 2022
This book is a well-known expert in children's philosophy education Thomas E. Whartenberg to introduce to teachers, parents, and students of relevant colleges and universities how to carry out children's philosophical enlightenment education through children's literature, especially classic picture books. Through clear and practical interpretation, the author guides adults step by step to discover the philosophical value of classic picture books, and inspires children to think about open-ended issues by constructing a "learner-centered" classroom.
The author selects well-known classics such as "Vole Afo", "Love Tree", "Gunash Rabbit" and other well-known classics, and through chapters such as "Philosophical Enlightenment Education at the Primary School Stage", "Teaching Preparation" and "Story", step by step guides readers to easily enter the temple of philosophy, leading children full of curiosity and desire to explore, and creating infinite possibilities.
"Magic Elephant" is a children's book brand launched by Guangxi Normal University Press in early 2015. "For the sake of children, let's read aloud together, let love become magic!", parent-child reading is the concept that magic elephants have always adhered to. Let your child meet the best children's books and spend poetic and joyful years.
The Mischievous Architect
Author: Tadao Ando
Illustrated by: [Japanese] Qin Haoshilang
Translator: Huang Shaoan
World-class architect Tadao Ando gave children an architectural enlightenment.
One day, Ryota and Lisa go to the Osaka "Children's Book Forest" Children's Book Museum to play. As soon as they entered the children's bookstore, they were deeply attracted by the walls of books. They walked along a narrow aisle by the bookshelves, stumbling upon an empty and quiet space ahead, and they were feeling curious and puzzled when an architect approached them and revealed to them the secrets of this strange space.
What Can Hippos Do? 》
[Beauty] Mike Taylor X Lee Cheuk Ying
Well-known Chinese and American creators work together to create the latest masterpieces
What can a hippopotamus do? firemen? mariner? Courier? painter? ...... Hippos have tried many, many careers and have suffered many, many failures. The indomitable hippopotamus is full of confidence every time, and the path to growth seems to become clearer and clearer in one failure after another. But hippos not only know how to try, he also knows how to relax, after countless attempts, he also gives himself a vacation, lie down comfortably, may wish to think about the past failures, think about what he is good at and like to do.
Every child has unlimited possibilities, adults should be a little more patient, so that children can have the courage to trial and error, have leisure to relax.
"My Little Stool"
Original parent-child game picture book
Umeko Kan X Kawamura Hatsuya
The powerful alliance between Chinese and Japanese masters
My little stool is my best friend and my best toy, it can change cars, trains, planes! Sitting on a small stool, I can go far away, and Mom and Dad will come and play with me!
Mei Zihan, a famous children's literature writer and scholar, and Kawamura Yakuyuki, a Japanese painter in Europe, cooperated to launch it. Parent-child game books for young children, many ordinary things at home can become props for parent-child games, as long as parents spend a little time to give children a little more companionship.
The Great Book of Animal Portraits
Painting: [Croatia] Xue Lan? Jonakovic
Translator: Zhang Yi
This very special atlas, inspired by portraits from major museums and art galleries around the world, brings together masterpieces from the Renaissance to the 19th century, such as "Dürer's Self-Portrait", "The Girl with the Pearl Earring", "The Woman Holding the Silver Sable", "Dr. Nicholas Dürr's Anatomy Class", "The Death of Marat", "Portrait of Henry VIII"...
Xue Lan ingeniously replaced the protagonists of all portraits with animals, perfectly restored the gestures, costumes and colors and atmosphere of the people in the paintings, and carefully interpreted each painting with relaxed and humorous language. This unique collection of world famous paintings will enable young readers to understand the stories behind famous paintings in a pleasant reading atmosphere and experience a fun aesthetic education journey.
The Joy of Picture Books: Learning the Tradition of British Picture Books
Author:【Sun】Shinichi Yoshida
Translator: Children's and Children's Library of the National Library
The National Diet Library of Japan International Children's Library holds a series of lectures on children's literature every year, and its themes cover fantasy literature, Japanese children's literature, and the multimedia of children's literature. This book is a lecture notes from the library on the history of british picture books. Through six chapters, this book introduces us to six heavyweight creators in the history of British picture books, and explains the history of British picture books from the perspectives of tradition and development.
"Lullaby for Grandma"
[Poland] Evana? Chimilleska
Translator: Xu Lihong
This book is a lullaby dedicated to The Baby Hurda. Hurda is Evana's grandmother, and Evana slowly tells the story of her grandmother's growth in the book, and the fabric collage full of age brings together a microcosm of the era.
Born into a family of textiles, Hurda's life is closely related to cloth: her family wraps cheese in cloth, rough cloth when wiping the floor... Different cloths have different usages, and the book is also made of cloth. The book is fascinating and full of aftertaste.
This kind of associative game of shape can inspire children's creativity, and parents and children can also bring games to life and create their own works.
The Silk Road
Author: Wu Jing
Once upon a time, there was a large basin on the land of China, and the basin was surrounded by lofty mountains, and it is said that there are great rivers and rivers outside the mountains, and people have to go to other places to cross very high mountains and cross very wide rivers. There are Shu people living here, and they can raise silkworms and spit silk and weave silk.
One day, the migratory birds of the south brought the end of the world - "there" saw, so the Shu people took a unique specialty: silk, embarked on a journey to find "there"... During the journey, they encounter magical animals and characters, and a thrilling and unbearable adventure occurs, and the Shu people overcome difficulties all the way, optimistically moving forward, and finally because of silk, they walked out of the basin and opened up a road to the vast world.
"Yabi on the Shore" & "Late Autumn in Yabi"
Author: [Japanese] Pear Wood Xiangbu
Translator: Ei Ozawa / Hidejuan Eida
I work as a teacher at a boarding school by the lake. On a sunny summer day, I rowed into the jungle of the lake for lunch break, and I came across a small animal like a hedgehog, so I began to communicate secretly with this small animal.
This little animal is called Yabi, and it knows human language, and its family lives in the dense forest by the lake. As soon as we got acquainted, Jabby began to tell me about the life of the Yabi family with the wonderful events it had experienced, such as the erudite Father of The Yabi in the history of the Shuyab family, and the adventures with the forest animal partners... Through my interactions with Jabby, I rethinked the relationship between humans and animals.
Mystery Island is a youth culture brand under the Guangxi Normal University Press Group, with the purpose of "growing up with children" and the mission of "introducing the world's outstanding youth books and publishing original high-quality books".
Noodle Joe on the Road, Hey, Girls
Author: (Slovenia) Aksinga Komanna
Illustrated by Zwanko Cohen (Slovenia).
Translator: Li Xixi
Follow the noodle Joe who does not yield to his own fate to break into the world and give everyone in the world? What does a child say? A story of will to change destiny. Special fonts, font sizes, colors, Braille designs, sign language illustrations, sign language videos that can be scanned and viewed, and touch-recognizable UVs can be immersed in the charm of reading in their own habitual way.
A kind of special education and care, touching the book, the child's empathy can be inspired, in the tactile feeling, the child experience is not? In this way, the diversity of the world can be more deeply recognized.
The Unicorn Who Only Says No
Author: (de) Marc-Uwe Koling
Illustrated by (de) Asdid Hearn
Translator: Hu Bo
In a fantasy forest in the land of dreams, a group of unicorns live happily. One day, a beautiful little unicorn was born here, but this little unicorn is different from everyone else, and what everyone likes to do, he is not willing to do, unwilling to communicate with people, and will always say "no"... This book breaks with traditional practices, encourages children to bravely say "no", stick to themselves, and is a funny, humorous, funny, anti-traditional beautiful fairy tale.
Autumn Reality
Text: Zhou Guoping Zhou yin sequence
Illustrated by: Prosperous Shunjing
The whole book tells the story of a green grasshopper who loves life, does not worry about the life that is about to die, still works hard for the sweet fruit, although it has experienced many foraging failures, the bullying of the old grasshopper, the temptation of the female grasshopper, and even almost preyed on by the rooster, but through unremitting efforts, it ushered in a miracle!
The story is easy to understand, but under the details, you can appreciate the "don't worry about the sky", "blessings and misfortunes, misfortunes and blessings" shown through the carefully deconstructed six-paragraph situation, and Teacher Zhou Guoping's philosophy on what is happiness in life.
"Children's Self-Confidence Development Picture Book" Series (all 3 volumes)
Author: Andy Catbier
Illustrated by Russell Eitu
Translator: Hong Yu
This series is a hilarious and warm parenting story created by the British Award picture book author and illustrator Russell Aitu and the well-known picture book author Andy Carterbile, which has been sold more than 350,000 copies worldwide, and through the story of marjorie the cow raising the chicken Daisy, let the reader see the selfless maternal love of an extraordinary cow mother.
"My Mind Energy Gas Station" Series (all 4 volumes)
Author: Sofia Gill (Spain).
Illustrated by Andrew Linas (Spain).
Translator: Liu Wenjun
This is a set of senior psychology experts, yoga teachers, professional children's book illustrators written to children's psychological healing picture book, divided into "ideas", "relaxation", "love yourself", "social skills" 4 volumes, the main service "children who encounter troublesome things", by explaining some practical tips to help them recognize and understand their wrong ideas, let them learn to relax and concentrate on themselves, let them love themselves more, and know how to maintain appropriate social proportions in the group, so as to gain the respect of others. Build a strong inner world and have a better quality of life.
Our World
Painted by Tania McCartney (Australia).
Translator: Wang Yang
This is an "admission ticket" to a wonderful show that travels around the world, a "book of answers" that satisfies your curiosity about the world, and takes you to experience the countless miracles between seven continents and four oceans!
This is a light popular science book suitable for primary school students, leading children to understand the unique animals and plants, customs and cultural relics around the world. The whole book is mainly in the form of small knowledge points and illustrated books, with rich content and clear painting style, so that children are interested in exploring slowly, so as to expand their horizons and systematically understand the world.
"Family Growth Picture Book" Series (all 8 volumes)
Painted by: (Fa) Yar Hassan
(French) Sophie Rustgar et al
Translator: Hu Jing
This set of books shows the 8 most common intimate relationships between fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, grandparents, etc. with children, from different perspectives, to solve the key problems of family relationship parenting, each story is full of educational significance, to help children feel and accept the warmth and love of the family. The story is warm and meaningful, with deep reflections on life and a tribute to the world's literary giant O.R. Henry. Each book teaches children a profound philosophy of life, and each book shows a touching family relationship!
The Future of Work
Author: Sofia Erica Rossi (Italy).
(Italy) Carlo Canepa
Illustrated by Luca Polly (Italy).
Translator: Xu Chunyang
The book uses easy-to-understand language and lively illustrations to describe the next 16 kinds of work for children, while effectively inputting the concepts of caring for the environment, protecting biodiversity of biological species, and protecting the earth. The book explores the future work according to the following logical framework: 1. Describe the work content, work scenarios and main tools of a certain work in the future; 2. Explore why this kind of work occurs in the future based on the knowledge of physics, geography, biology and other disciplines and the latest research results, and derive scientific knowledge about ecological crises and other issues; 3. Explore the effective solutions to the above problems such as ecological crises.
In the new year, I hope that reading can become a source of inertia and fun in every child's life.