Once laughing with friends, children's books supported half of the mainland publishing industry.
I have always been envious of today's children, with a variety of picture books to read and a huge amount of resources.
When the resources are abundant, it is easy to mix fish and dragons, and the fish eyes are mixed. The picture book children's book market is hot, which has bred a lot of acne, and there are many copycats and pirated copies. If you are not careful, it is easy to get caught.
Today 315 fake, to take stock of several cottage picture books we found, to remind you.
Baby Bear Picture Book
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Good habit picture book
"Baby Bear" is a very classic set of young baby life enlightenment picture books. The protagonist is a cute little bear with bunny, mouse, elephant, piglet and so on.
Most of the background of this set of books is blank, the picture is fresh, simple and cute. The text is short and repetitive, and the plot is closely centered around the daily life of infants and young children, making it easy for infants and young children to understand and accept.
It can be said that it is a set of baby hands, and there are many bloggers recommended, but there are also many copycat pirates of this set of books.
In a certain east search for "baby bear", the cottage version even ranked first. The main picture of the product also has the words "Cui Ytao Recommended" in capital letters. Sales are also very high, some people in the parenting group have bought this version, I also bought a set, mainly to see the difference between the imported version and the motherland version.
Sales are very high, the price is low, 40 books are only 44 yuan, and one book is only 1 yuan.
The contrast of paintings
The first thing that is obvious is the difference between painting, aesthetic is more subjective, I try to describe objectively.
The imported version, the animals are round and cute, very cute. Each small animal is delicately painted, and the animal's furry hair feeling is delicately presented. Different light and shadow angles, color shades transition naturally.
Imported version from Japan
The expressions of the animals are rich, whether it is surprise, happiness, embarrassed sneaking laughter, shyness, etc., there are rich portrayals.
The gap between the paintings and figures in the motherland version and the original version is quite large, a very obvious problem is that the portrayal of the characters is not as delicate as the original version, looking at the mother bear in the painting below, plus the hair on the head, I even feel like a horse.
Domestic version
The character image is very similar, and the expression is not as rich and delicate as the original. Cover up the clothes, the bear father, the bear mother, the bear baby all look the same, in fact, is the computer mapping of the character image, careful observation of their faces, facial features are almost the same.
From this point of view, children do not appreciate the traces of serious creation, lack of personality and aesthetic taste.
The expression is very simple, not as rich as the original.
Comparison of content
In terms of content, first of all, both revolve around the daily life of young babies, and many themes are very similar. The imported version is first, and the motherland version is later, so it is natural that the motherland version "borrows" the imported version.
Let's take a theme from both sets of books – Brushing Your Teeth.
The imported version of "Brushing Teeth" is a very interesting story.
Bears, mice, monkeys, rabbits and hedgehogs happily go to play with the crocodiles. At this time, the baby crocodile is brushing its teeth at home.
(This set of books, our family has read too many times, relatively old)
Seeing the little crocodile brushing their teeth, they all remembered that they had forgotten to brush their teeth.
So they hurried home. "Little crocodile, wait a minute, we all forgot one thing"
The picture turns to the bear, who is brushing his teeth carefully with a blue mouth cup and a green toothbrush.
While brushing, I also chanted the words "brush your teeth, don't forget"
The little rabbit holds a purple toothbrush, a red mouth cup, and brushes his teeth with his mouth wide open.
"Tell your mother okay, brush your teeth after eating."
The little mouse's mouth is so wide open!
"The teeth above, the teeth below, the teeth on the front, the teeth on the inside, the teeth on the inside!"
The little monkey took a sip of water and puffed up his cheeks.
Grunt Grunt.
Hmm-poof! Mouthwash spit out!
Brushed up!
If you have not read the brushing of teeth on the same theme of the motherland version, you will not realize the excellence of the original version. The original version perfectly integrated the brushing of teeth as a good habit and the steps of brushing teeth into a small story, and the language was concise and catchy.
There is no preaching, just through the story of this group of cute little animals to make the child accept the matter of brushing teeth.
Come, Let's appreciate the domestic version.
At first glance, the cover is almost the same as the original. This degree of similarity to clear-eyed people will feel that it is "borrowing". But if you look closely at the past, it looks rough. The hair is not as delicate as the original, and the outline line of the animal is relatively thick, without the softness of the original.
But the outrageous thing is that when you open the cover, you will find that the content part has changed dramatically, and the cover and inner pages are like not a book.
Look at the text specifically: Bear came to the bathroom, he held a toothbrush in his right hand and squeezed toothpaste with his left hand. Turn on the tap, fill the cup with water, then take the toothbrush in your right hand and the cup in your left hand.
(Little bit of spit: really can't stand it, this kind of Cue process-like language, what picture books to see, which parents will not teach so?) And why emphasize what the left and right hands do separately? 2022 is over, and I don't want to see left-right bias anymore)
The text is still journaled and dry. Take a sip of water, spit it out, brush your front teeth, brush another brush.....
On the picture, many pictures are actually repetitive, just do a mirror flip, or directly copy over, it looks like the page is full, in fact, just copy and paste, can not see the author's intentions.
Another problem with this set of books is the use of split shots, many pages have storyboards to show the plot, for picture books suitable for 0-3 years old babies, storyboards are not suitable for this age group, beyond their understanding, storyboards generally appear in picture books for babies over 3 years old.
After reading the two stories, the high and low appeared.
The original "BrushIng Teeth" takes the cute story of small animals forgetting to brush their teeth and going home to brush their teeth as a clue, step by step to let children know how to brush their teeth. Naturally, children are highly receptive.
The brushing steps, the text part is catchy, and it is also equipped with the favorite onomatopoeia of young children. Children will love it, and I also used this book to make my baby gladly accept brushing her teeth - when brushing her teeth, it was enough to read "The teeth on the top, the teeth on the top..." were enough.
The domestic version is too rough, no story, that is, dry brushing steps, the sentence pattern is the same. It is difficult to set up a plot of "looking at the picture and speaking", but the picture has no hint at all.
Stylized, preachy
In addition to the high similarity of the image and theme to the original version, there is also a big drawback of the cottage version, that is, the strong "preaching".
This is not in the original version, the original version wants to guide children to develop good habits, are through interesting and plot of the small story, the story they lined up, they brushed their teeth, clean up the toys, the small animals subtly as a good little example, the child to imitate.
The domestic version is full of "didactic meaning" or one-on-one flowing teaching, no story, not attractive. For example, The Bear has to go to the toilet.
In the picture book, you have to take off your pants, then sit on the toilet, and then pull and pull, wipe it clean, and flush it.
In short, this set of books did not realize the excellence of the imported version before I saw the domestic version. It really doesn't hurt if there is no contrast.
By the way, this set of picture books currently has more than one copycat version, I have searched for others, and sales are also very high.
If you buy, look for the picture writer is Yoko Sasaki.
Cognitive encyclopedia for 0-4 year old children
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Bilingual cognitive encyclopedia for children aged 0-4 years
The former is a classic set of cognitive encyclopedias for young children, imported from Japan. It is a star product in Japan's young children's cognitive books. Cognitive content covers almost all of the things that children will come into contact with in life, and is classified according to the attributes of the items or different scenes.
The latter is the motherland version, and the form, like the former, is bilingual cognition. The content is closer to the actual situation of China, including some historical sites, festivals, traditional culture and other contents in China.
First of all, I have to say that these two sets of picture books are very similar, and the title, printing, binding and content are basically twins. If you don't do your homework in advance, it's easy to buy the wrong one.
I bought the imported version first, and the child really likes to read it, so the three books have more obvious signs of wear and tear from use. Someone in the parenting group posted the motherland version I only knew the existence of this set, after watching the motherland version, I can more deeply appreciate the excellence of the imported version.
Painting contrasts
In the Japanese version, the lines are thick, the contours are rounded, and the overall tone is bright. Mainly rely on lines to outline the main characteristics of things, relatively simple, no excess lines and color blocks.
And the drawings in the book are very detail-oriented, such as the theme of the following costumes, the highlights on the boots, the lines of the hats, the blingbling of the necklace, etc. are all exquisite and beautiful.
The shape, pattern, size, color, and proportion of the items are all compared with the real thing, and try to fit the reality as much as possible.
The lines of the motherland version are thinner, the outline is not as rounded as the Japanese version, the overall tone is darker, and the painting style is more freehand. Mainly rely on color blocks to highlight the characteristics of things.
The degree of refinement and reduction is not as good as the Japanese version. The proportion of a necklace is more like a bracelet.
Content comparison
There are many similarities in content such as body, family, hospital, street, restaurant, etc.
As a popular science book, there are many imprecise points
Pistachios are only a kind of nut, but they are labeled nuts, and blueberries are only one kind of berries, but they are labeled as berries;
The shrubs are painted from green like "sand piles".
Deer, monkeys, squirrels and raccoons are put into the "suburbs" classification, followed by a separate "animal" classification, which is more confusing. The continent's current suburbs are most likely to see squirrels, not these animals.
As the Mid-Autumn Festival is generally expressed as mid-aut, here is given the mooncake festival.
Contrast of scene senses
The content understanding of the motherland version is very dependent on the text, and the scenes of the picture are almost non-existent. Removing the text, it is not easy to see what the festival is. The same imported version of the festive scene is vividly portrayed.
This set of books, children like too much, often look over, so it looks old.
The motherland version has very little sense of picture scenes, such as the theme of the restaurant, and the motherland version is to list the various elements of the restaurant.
The introductory version has a specific restaurant scene, where the family eats around the table and the chef in front of the bar cooks. Marking various related elements in the scene allows children to organically connect various nouns and integrate understanding.
The scene is also more convenient for children to write down the names of these common items and learn to use them naturally in life.
There is also the theme of hospitals, and the problem is similar.
Take the theme of family.
The motherland version, on the one hand, is a colloquial father and mother, but on the other hand, it is a very written (foreign) grandfather (foreign) grandmother, confused; the uncle's wife is generally an aunt in the country, and is rarely called an aunt.
My family, my parents, grandparents and other family members are all from my point of view, but the nieces and nephews below are only from the perspective of my parents, confused.
A brother is a person, and a sister is also a person. For small babies, this theme is very confusing.
(Outside) grandfather (outside) grandmother, brother, sister, cousin (cousin) brother, cousin (cousin) sister, are one person divided into two roles, for young babies, difficult to understand, confused.
The problem with the imported version is mainly the cultural difference.
The logic and rationality of the content
Also by the sea, the two pages of the introduction version are one page of seaside related items, and the other side is the beach scene.
The motherland version is rare to put on the full scene, but in detail, there are many unreasonable points:
Sunscreen painted bigger than a beach ball;
Picnic mats on the beach?
Straw hat or sun hat? Straw hats are generally log color;
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The problem here is only an example of a part, it is really no better than not knowing, one is more than frightened. I hope that when you buy this set of picture books, you will pay attention to it, the original author is Junko Yoshida.
"David Can't"
Harry Can't
"David Can't" is also one of the classic picture books, almost everyone has a set. Caddick Silver Medal works, popular all over the world.
A set of three books, namely "David, No", "David Gets into Trouble", and "David Goes to School". A highly similar version of the country is Harry's No.
The image of the original protagonist David can be said to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Round head, pointed teeth, naughty bag. All kinds of mischievous tricks, scribbling on the walls, turning the bathroom into a swamp, wearing an iron pot and banging on the head...
In particular, the picture of him picking his nose and is simply deeply rooted in people's hearts.
This set of books also has a "motherland version", which is also a naughty little boy, and the image is different from David, but the plot and title are the same.
In addition to the cottage version picture books listed in detail above, there are other picture books that are also hard-hit areas, such as "Our Body", the version is also very many, we must pay attention to screening before buying, do not spend money, and show children cottage books.
In addition to the above copycat picture books, there are also pirated picture books that are also rampant. I bought a pirated version of Guess How Much I Love You, which was almost identical to the original and had poor print quality. It was really a careless pit.
Today's exposure of these cottage picture books is to remind everyone that reading is a good thing, but when buying books, we must be careful not to buy these cottage picture books for children.
We reject copycat picture books because most of them are junk books. What good books can be made by those who succeed by stealing other people's labor? The purpose of their books is to make profits and make quick money, so pictures, content, logic and other aspects are fast, do not care, such books are really "toxic".
Picture books are bought for children to read, and I think the original intention of all of us parents to let children read must be honest, trustworthy, and respect for these beautiful qualities. And these are not available in the picture books copied by the copycats.
Genuine books, from my experience in buying books, and from the situation I learned from the publishing house, generally from the following ways to buy picture books, is no problem:
Online: Dangdang, JD.com's self-operated, publishing house's flagship store;
Offline: Xinhua Bookstore, other regular bookstores with relatively large scale
However, because the copycat picture books are also procedurally compliant, these channels cannot avoid the cottage picture books. How to do it, can only buy the book before doing more strategy, a little more understanding.
Strategy:
1: You can look at the recommendations and picture book interpretation of mother and baby bloggers (such as me) to understand some basic information of picture books in advance.
2: It is also recommended that you sometimes take your child directly to visit the offline bookstore, so that you can directly see the physical object, and the child's preferences are also easy to distinguish, and it will not be said that the child does not like to buy it.
If you accidentally bought the cottage version before, don't worry too much, the child's fault tolerance rate is very high, as long as you don't often read these cottage books, you won't be damaged because of one or two sets of problematic books. But we as parents still have to take care of it and buy high-quality original books for our children.