Recently, I read a very good set of animal science books called "Nature Stories". More suitable for babies aged 2.5 and above.
First of all, this is a beautiful and elaborate set of books.
Take "Shy Seahorse" as an example, not to mention the painter's excellent painting skills, the design of each page is enough to amaze children. In the page, the seaweed is both the content part of the picture and the decorative part, and the page is turned down, like a handbook.
Even more ingeniously, illustrator John Lawrence uses this page design and division to highlight the focus and organization of the content, and for the children reading this book, there is a comprehensive enlightenment from the aesthetic sense of thinking.
The ring lining design of this book is also very thoughtful, the book mainly takes the Bao's seahorse as an example, telling the physiological characteristics, living habits and multiplication process of the seahorse, but on the ring lining, it is a variety of seahorse picture exhibitions, "pipe seahorse", "short-headed seahorse", "Bao's seahorse", "Ke's seahorse", "striped seahorse", "bean Ding seahorse" and so on, which is like giving children a kind of knowledge radiation, will make children feel that in addition to the magic and richness of this book, there is a broader and richer knowledge waiting to be explored. Arouse children's curiosity and desire to explore. Curiosity and a desire to explore are important internal factors for their future love of learning and curiosity.
The second point is also to highlight, the language content of this set of books is too good.
The language of this set of books is concise and poetic, taking "Going to the North Pole" as an example.
Migration is a very great and mysterious thing on earth, and documentaries on various nature themes will focus on the great migration of various animals. The same is true of our book, To the North Pole: Animals on the Migration Route.
The book begins with a hazy chaos to clarity, like unveiling the mystery of the Arctic layer by layer, and like the carving knife of the seasons, carving out the true face of the Arctic at once.
In the original Arctic, there were only very few animals such as arctic foxes and polar bears, but as plants germinated and the climate warmed, "many kinds of animals will embark on their journey to the Arctic."
In the process of introducing the migration of animals, this book pays great attention to the list and linking of knowledge points.
For example, comparing the gray whale's non-eating and drinking and the tern's walking while eating;
For example, compare the flight distance of birds with the distance of fish swimming.
The complex food chain is also clearly explained by the author, the skua that has been stealing the food of the terns, the gray wolf waiting for the reindeer to be left behind, the mother walrus and baby walrus that hunt shellfish while walking, the Chinese white crane that tears open the grass roots with its huge beak, and so on.
In addition to this knowledge, there is no shortage of beauty in the book, such as the fairy tale silver herring and the horned whale, the epic description of "by the end of May / These migratory animals have gathered on the top of the world / Here, even the coldest frozen sea / is melting", "This is the greatest journey in the world", "New life is everywhere..."
Finally, build your child's connection to books
In the city of reinforced concrete, the distance between children is really too far away from nature, so far that sometimes we are obviously reading popular science books, but it seems to be reading fairy tales. So how do you structure your child's connection to popular science books? Still take "Going to the North Pole" as an example. Gray whales swim through "Los Angeles – San Francisco – Vancouver Island – Anchorage – into the Arctic Circle".
How does the painter express it? On this journey, the background of the gray whale's huge tail fin is a bustling city lined with high-rise buildings; the gray whale emerges on the surface of the water, and the background is a continuous stretch of distant mountains, bridges, and water's edge where mothers play with babies and dogs, and the dog's line of sight looks at the gray whale's head. So this natural science book, like the eyes of the follower dog, closely links the huge animals, surging nature, and human society, so that children in the city also have a sense of substitution.
Another feature of this set of books is also the highlight that attracts children's interest, that is, to use some personality traits to describe animals, "Shy Seahorse", "Mysterious Little Turtle", "Gentle Octopus", etc., I also recently found that when children use some words that express personality and emotions to describe classmates and friends, indicating that it is his emotional moment, when he says "so-and-so is very shy" and "so-and-so is very brave", it is also the moment when his friends effectively project emotions on his body, and the same is true for popular science books.
In short, this set of exquisite illustrations, award-winning natural science picture books, very very worthy of recommendation, now recommended to everyone, but also welcome children, let's talk about this set of books.