Four Seasons of Time - A feast of visual reasoning set off by wordless picture books
Title: Four Seasons
Author: Roterut Suzanne Bernard
Douban score: 9.8
Roterout Suzanne Bernard, one of Germany's most famous picture book authors, illustrators, and winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, won the 2004 World's Most Beautiful Book Award for Four Seasons!
"Four Seasons Time" perfectly shows the advantages and characteristics of the children's book genre of "Wimmelbuch", successfully capturing the hearts of countless parents and children, and once released, it has swept the world!
What is "Wimmelbuch"
It is a children's book genre with a long history in German-speaking countries, buch is a book, and Wimmelbuch refers to a picture book with rich details and plot. Its most prominent feature is that each pair of pages is a large scene, with many characters, rich details, and multiple parallel story lines, even illiterate children can enjoy it.
The universe in the book – the small town of Weimlingen
5 books, 7 scenes, no dialogue narration, the author uses a paintbrush to outline the spring, summer, autumn and winter of a small town.
The inhabitants, animals and even buildings in the town have their own stories: the hats of the walking couples are lost and recovered, the daily police of the town police, the departure and return of the naughty parrots, the small town kindergarten from scratch...
A reasoning game full of Easter eggs - let you have enough detective addiction
The author did not "kindly" help us to lay out the story clues, but "slightly cleverly" hid the key points in each page of the scene, which required us to use the keen eyes of a detective to discover and explore.
A novel reading experience
After I got the book in my hand, I took my children to read it with me. At the beginning, there was a feeling of "no way to start": each book was only 7 pages, and all of a sudden it was turned over, and each page was a large map, which had large and small, dense characters and animals, and I didn't know how to read it, and I didn't know how to tell my children.
Hardened, I looked at it several times, and gradually saw a little doorway, although there was no text description, but I could find that the characters that appeared inside had a storyline, and even the small animals had their own life changes and interesting things.
Sometimes in a scene, new characters that are not in the previous story line are suddenly found, but when I look back, I find that the "new story of the new characters" has long been hidden in the details of the picture, and it takes a little effort to find it.
So there is often a situation: I have just strung together a character story, because of the new clues that continue to appear, repeatedly overturning the previous version of the story, so unconsciously an hour has passed, and my children and I are immersed in this "discovery" fun!
Such a beautiful and fun treasure picture book, both adults and children should not miss it! #Headline Book Group X Youth ##Parent-Child Reading ##生活日记 #
