"Our Ancestors - The Story of Chinese Surnames"
Gao Honglei, China Children's Publishing House
This book is a storybook for young people to introduce the origin of Chinese surnames, the above ancient gods as a clue, interspersed with more than 100 common surnames in life, one by one to explain the origin and development of Chinese surnames. The origin of Chinese surnames is closely related to the history of China, the traceability of surnames is the exploration of Chinese history, the author has a certain theoretical basis in writing Chinese history and culture manuscripts, has published "The Other Half of Chinese History", "Another Civilization", "Capitalized Western Regions", etc., this book tries to help children think about the problem of "who am I and where do I come from" by tracing the source of surnames.
Children's Picture Book of World History (8 volumes)
Written and illustrated by Honghong Luobu, CITIC Publishing Group
This series of books is a set of original minimalist history picture books, in the form of national history to explain world history, to create China's original historical enlightenment picture book, the book selects the world's historical development process of far-reaching, important and has been closely related to the country, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, the United States, Japan and India. The illustrations in the whole book are highly artistic, restoring the geographical features, architectural styles and historical scenes of various countries in the world, and each country adopts a different painting style, which artistically presents the different cultural characteristics of each country.
I Can Go Anywhere Today: Ryoji Arai Poetic Fantasy Picture Book Series (all 3 volumes)
[Japanese] Ryoji Arai, illustrated, translated by Bian Daiyu, CITIC Publishing Group
Ryoji Arai is the first writer in Japan to win the Swedish Lindgren Memorial Literature Prize, and this series of books includes three volumes: "I Can Go Anywhere Today", "Apple Trees in Tyrol", and "Eggs of the Universe". Whether it is the cosmology and life concept in "Cosmic Egg", or the exploration and love of the unknown world and the future in "Today's Me, I Can Go Anywhere", or the love of the land and the search for roots in "The Apple Tree of Tyrol". These simple emotions and open-minded outlook on life of human beings themselves, through poetic condensed words and unbridled pictures, let young readers feel life, feel nature, love, and pursue.
Monster Inn
[Japanese] Kashiwaba Sachiko, [Japanese] Takahata Jun-e, translated by Tian Xiujuan, Love Tree| Nova Publishing House
At the end of the city, between the old post office and the small park, there is a dilapidated three-story building. During the day, it is quiet, and people think it is an empty building. However, whenever night comes, many monsters come and go here. The centipede with 50 shoes on his feet, the vampire who loves to drink tomato juice, the white bone brother who is ready to go on a date... Because, this is actually a monster hotel!
The Snowman and the Little Snow Dog
Raymond? Bligwen, Tu, translated by Li Mingyi, Xinyi | Tomorrow Publishing House
In the cold winter, a little boy piled a snowman and a small snow dog came to life! They embarked on an incredible journey together, and the little boy received a very special gift from Santa Claus... Two-time Kate Greenaway Award-winning work by British author Raymond Blig, sequel to the classic picture book The Snowman.
"The First Adventure of the Little Subway"
[Japanese] Gong Xida also wrote and painted, translated by Zhou Longmei, Dolphin Media| Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House
There was a small subway that was put into use for the first time and he felt very nervous. What does the outside world look like? Will it encounter a malfunction? If a big Basilisk comes to sneak up on the subway line, what can I do! He asked a subway that ran a metro line what the outside world was like. The subway told him that people live in boxes-like buildings. Putting people in boxes? That's not weird! The little subway began his imagination. There was a subway that ran exclusively on airport lines and told him that planes could often be seen outside. The plane is like a big bird of steel carrying passengers... With his imagination, Xiao Metro imagined a lot of magical animals that didn't exist. Oops, the outside world is so strange! But that's okay, little subway, let's explore it together. Miyazida, the popular Japanese picture book king and has tens of millions of "dinosaur fans", is also a new work.
Curious Garden
Peter Brown, Picture, translated by Sun Huiyang, Dandelion Children's Bookstore| Guizhou People's Publishing House
It's a story about the curious boy and his curious garden. The boy Xiao Lai found an abandoned railroad track, and through his own efforts, he made the plant that was about to wither into a beautiful garden. This is no ordinary garden, it is like Xiao Lai, full of curiosity about the whole city. They wandered through the city, spring to winter, year after year... Thanks to their efforts, a dull and boring gray city has become a lush green world, and with it the people who live in it. They became friendlier, more accommodating and also more helpful.
Too much! 》
Emily Grevert, Pictured, Translated by Macmillan | Twenty-First Century Publishing House Group
This book is a new work on breaking away from the British Award picture book author Emily Gravid, which tells children the truth of the right to stop and too much. Mei Mei and Ah Shi are a magpie couple who struggle to build a nest in order to lay their perfect eggs. At first, they built it out of dirt, branches, and grass, but soon they decided that such a nest would not satisfy their perfect baby, so they began to collect more things and keep piling them into the nest. From cuckoo wall clocks to mops and socks, strollers, bicycles, and even a real car – their desire for more seems endless. Until the inevitable happens...
"Sunflower Chasing Light", "Megalith", "Jungle Dream"
Liu Haowen, Tu, Yu Tian | Chenguang Publishing House
Liu Hao's "Art Enlightenment Series Picture Books" has been published in four volumes, namely "Parasol Camille", "Sunflower Chasing Light", "Megalithic" and "Jungle Strange Dream", these picture books skillfully combine famous masterpieces with virtual stories, telling stories while telling art.
"Van Gogh's Night Sky"
[Us] Bab Rosenstock, [US] Marie Grande Pletu, translated by Hou Zhiming, Dandelion Children's Bookstore| Guizhou People's Publishing House
This is a picture book about the biography of the artist Vincent van Gogh. Poetic language subtly presents van Gogh's tortuous life. Van Gogh could not sleep, and he imagined the swirls of color and the shape of the starlight on one night after another. He spent his whole life exploring the colors of the night. Eventually, Vincent van Gogh completed the sun-like starry night during his treatment in the sanatorium, and he was finally able to sleep peacefully.
"Oliver is a Girl"
Written and illustrated by Tommy Deborah, translated by Dong Haiya, Fantasy Country 21st Century Press
This is an autobiographical picture book by the author, inspired by his real childhood experiences. Boy Oliver likes to read, draw, play with paper dolls, because he is not good at ball games, does not like to play the games that boys usually play, and is ridiculed and excluded by other boys. Thankfully, Oliver got a pair of tap dancing shoes that allowed him to play to his strengths in the dance class. Oliver also competed in a talent contest and performed a masterful tap dance. In the end, he did not win, but the phrase "Oliver is a girl" on the school wall was changed by his classmates to "Oliver is a big star".
A Year in the Woods
[English] Alice Melvin, pictured, translated by Chen Jing, Inspired Culture | Beijing United Publishing Company
Rats and friends live together in this big forest and live a quiet and beautiful life. In January, when the snow and ice first melt, the rats doze off on the warm beds at home; in February, the rats walk in the morning fog, the squirrels prepare meals at home, waiting for the rats to come to the guests; in March, the hedgehogs are awakened by the spring wind, and the rats come to the hedgehog's house to help him dry the sheets; one day in early April, the rats sit on the cherry trees and watch the trees bloom...
Jingle Bells and Jingle Bells: Let's Go to the Rainy Forest Together
[Japanese] Kazuya Doi, translated by Ke Wei, Shanghai Jiujiu Reader| People's Literature Publishing House
The "Jingle Bells and Jingle Bells" series is the most popular series by Japanese picture book artist Kazuya Doi, and Let's Go to the Rainy Forest together is the seventh book in the series, six years after the artist created the sixth book. Countless adults and children have been captivated by the forest of Chiba Prefecture in the author's pen, falling in love with the pink morning light, the frozen hot spring pool, the starry sky on the snow roof, the blue underground lake, the cave full of flowers, and the hot peanut ice cream, badger sushi, bear's jam bread, and cotton thread dyed with various flowers.
"How big is it, how far is it"
[de] Doroth Salk Lennart, [than] Yang Van der Wiken, translated by Song Yushan, Houlang | Tianjin People's Publishing House
Compare everything to everything, a picture book that makes the concept of measurement no longer abstract. In the book, you will find that the double-forked rhinoceros turtle can lift something equivalent to 850 times its own weight, it takes only 8 days to ride the world's fastest elevator across the earth, and the blue whale's heart is the size of a Harley locomotive... Quantity, volume, weight, length, time... These abstract and difficult-to-grasp measurement concepts become easier for children to grasp in the clever contrasts that blend into the scene.
"Unveiling the Forbidden City" series (all four volumes)
Happy Fun 丨 Future Press
The series of books consists of four volumes: "Unveiling the Secret of a Day in the Forbidden City" (Wang Zhilin, Yuan Lin Huiwen, Zhang Hongleitu), "Revealing the Festivals of the Forbidden City" (Zheng Yuhanwen, Ge Mengtu), "Revealing the Four Seasons of the Forbidden City" (He Jiawen, Zombie Diagram), and "Revealing the Past and Present Life of the Forbidden City" (Zheng Ningnawen, Shao Luyuntu). The Forbidden City is the material carrier of the spirit of traditional Chinese culture, the "Unveiling the Forbidden City" series selects four major themes, covering the knowledge of history, architecture, cultural relics and other fields, more than 320 pages to turn the Forbidden City in a way that children like to open the Forbidden City for 600 years, so that children fall in love with traditional culture.
The Silk Road in Ancient Poetry
Wu Shujing and Zhang Siqiao, editors-in-chief, Children's publishing house
"The Silk Road in Ancient Poetry" is divided into two volumes, "City Chapter" and "Wind and Objects", which is a Silk Road poetry and cultural reading book written by the Doctor of Literature of East China Normal University for young readers. The series of books selects 50 ancient poems, with more than 100 hand-painted illustrations of the national style, using the ancient overland Silk Road as a clue, showing the ancient and modern styles of 25 Silk Road cities and the cultural landscape associated with the Silk Road cities.
"Small Hand Flip Series : Bilingual Point Reading Edition" (all 8 volumes)
[Italian] Philip Jordanu, [French] Sylvie Bessa, Translated by Yao Feijie and Xie Mu, Red Cloak | CITIC Publishing Group
"Little Hands Flipping" is the treasure of the town community of the french long-established Baya Publishing House, co-created by the illustrators of the Bologna Illustrator Award for 5 years, artistic aesthetics and sense of humor, bilingual point reading edition of a total of 8 volumes, for the close to the theme of nature "Four Seasons", "Small Animals", "Garden", "Farm" and enlightenment cognitive theme "Numbers", "Color", "Shape", "Collision", Bilingual comparison in Chinese and English, a total of 900+ positions can be clicked.