Many parents have such a distress, even if the family books are piled up, the child still does not like to read, even if you say how interesting the story is, the child is still indifferent.
But in those cartoons, even if a wolf catches a sheep that is repeated hundreds of times, the child enjoys watching it with relish.
If you have such a dilemma, you may wish to check out this set of "Detective Dog", let the protagonist of the story, Detective Dog, tell the child the power of reading. You don't have to worry about children not liking it, because the whole book is presented in front of the child like a movie sub-shot, and who doesn't like books like movie animation? And this set of "Detective Dogs" with their own strength to prove that they are popular with the public, according to the data show that this set of books has now sold 43 million copies, has forced "Harry Potter", "Little Ass Diaries" to the New York Times bestseller list for 108 consecutive weeks, "Publishers Weekly" once commented on it: can make readers of any age, from the beginning to the end. Some people also commented on Dave Pilch's work: saving people who don't like to read.
I guess you're curious, where did this detective dog come from?
It turns out that he is a "dog-headed" super police detective, he is kind-hearted, athletic, loves to read, and from time to time he will be stupid, like to jump around on the sheriff, and will also be depressed because others say that he is an outlier.
So what kind of charm does such a sometimes smart and sometimes stupid dog have that adults and children like?
1. Be good at using pictures to show the content of the story
I believe that "Tom and Jerry" is a childhood memory of many people, in this cartoon, there is almost no dialogue, even if you turn the TV volume to mute, it still does not prevent you from laughing forward and backward during the watching process, because the cat and mouse expressions in the animation will tell you what interesting things happened.
The book "Detective Dog" is like "Tom and Jerry", the author uses exaggerated expressions to express the emotions of the characters, even if the children cannot read the plot. Moreover, the Detective Dog really can't speak, it can only bark "quaint".
Arthur, editor-in-chief of the well-known French children's book publishing house "Happy School", once said: To pick a picture book for children, it is necessary to see whether the characters in the book "write emotions on the face", giving priority to "you can see the emotions at a glance".
"Detective Dog" is such a set of good books that can capture children's hearts just by looking at them.
2, it seems childish painting style, but let the children eager to try
I remember reading a writer say, I want you to write and draw on my book, so that you can prove that this book is really useful to you.
When I first watched "Detective Dog", I wondered if this writer had not learned how to draw, how the whole painting style looked so childish, even the children at home drew The Detective Dog was better than his painting.
In fact, this is deliberately done by the author, and it should be known that Dave Pilch is the author and illustrator of the Caddick Prize-winning work "Newsboy".
Usually, we will also show children exquisite picture books, but after reading it, there is no follow-up. It's like if we go to a museum and just leave a few exclamations and it's gone.
The seemingly childish painting style of "Detective Dog" can most enter the child's heart and stimulate the child's desire to do it.
The children at home drew the Detective Dog according to the drawing steps at the back of the book, saw that they drew better than the book, and the tail was going to the sky, and said that they must be stronger than the Detective Dog and could draw better cartoons.
Seeing this, I remembered a sentence that high-level hunters all appeared as prey, and had to admire the author's intentions.
3. The humorous storyline with a big brain hole allows children to feel the power of reading in laughter
Good-looking skin bags are the same, interesting souls are one of the best.
So how can you have a soul as interesting as the Detective Dog, who tells you: Read, children, read!
In the "Detective Dog" reading book, the villain of the story, Pitty, goes to find the clever answer of the Detective Dog. He sneaked to the detective dog's house, it turned out that he was reading a book, through a series of tests, found that the dog reading the book is getting smarter every minute, it turns out that reading makes you smart.
Petit used tools to change all the words in the book, so the world was in chaos, people could not communicate normally, and there were many funny scenes.
Later, Pitty found that the detective dog had given all the books in his library to the children, and he had suffered a lot in order to get the books, and was hit by the children with a swing, pressed to the ground by the seesaw, and pressed by the spring double area.
I believe that as long as the child remembers this picture, he can remember the truth that "reading is very important".
In addition, in "Detective Dog 3", "Detective Dog 3", "Detective Dog 5" mentioned a number of famous works, such as "A Tale of Two Cities", "East of Eden", etc., the author uses a small story to tell children: if you want to create a better story, you must read more.
It can be said that Detective Dog is a "reading promoter", he did not use paternalistic preaching to tell children the importance of reading, but the memorable exaggerated storyline subtly conveyed the power of reading to children.
In addition, the author also calls for reading for small animals in the book, just imagine that letting children play the role of teachers, is it more able to stimulate children's initiative in reading?
It is said that the children have come back from kindergarten to serve as our little teacher to teach us to recognize words, and now they can compose words and their vocabulary has increased a lot.
Therefore, as long as the child's initiative is stimulated, the child will naturally enjoy the process of learning knowledge.
4. Easy healing and passing on the philosophy of life
Do you feel like you're an outlier?
I think there will be a moment in everyone's life when they feel like they are out of place and out of place with the people around them.
Detective dogs are also known as aliens, in the crowd, everyone says that he has too much dog smell, in the dog group, the dog feels that he has too much human smell on him, he seems to be unable to melt in anywhere.
After experiencing various difficulties, friends around me said:
In fact, all of us are outliers.
Everyone feels like an outlier, which means you're no different from everyone else.
There are many healing points in the book, which can always soothe our adult hearts, such as when I see this picture of Pitti crying, I can't help but cry.
In addition, the book also mentions the influence of the original family on people, Pitti's original family is very lacking in love, when he was ready to do something big, he was betrayed by his companions and led to his dismissal, so he felt that life had lost its meaning, and simply went to do bad things.
He always felt that Petit Jr. was a clone of himself and should be a bad person like himself, but Petit Jr. healed Pitty with his own words and deeds: it doesn't matter what we used to be, what matters is what we can become.
In this set of books, I especially like the end of "Detective Dog 7", when Petty Jr. discovers that Pitty's father has taken everything from the house, and Petit Jr. thinks for the first time that the world is a terrible place. But Pitti reassured: The world has many problems, but it is by no means a terrible place.
After sending little Pitty to the Detective Dog's house, Pitty walked on the road, he picked a handful of wildflowers that were going to die on the side of the road and put them in an empty bottle, looking at the starry sky, even if he stepped on the mud pit, he still smiled.
Looking at the starry sky, I was reminded of "The Moon and Sixpence".
Russell once said that there is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, to love life after seeing the truth of life.
This is probably the philosophy of life that the author wants to convey to the children.
At last:
If you read the story about the writer later in the book, you will know that Dave Pilch was diagnosed with dyslexia in the second grade of elementary school, which is now known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), his parents encouraged him to read the books he wanted to read, and soon he fell in love with comics, and when he was punished by his teacher, he took the opportunity to create his own comic book.
Some people say, is there a genius in this world?
I think there is, but I think that behind every genius there is a person who silently supports himself, who may be a parent, a friend, or a lover. Just like Tang's "genius conductor" Zhou Zhou, his success is inseparable from his father's encouragement.
There is a term in psychology called "self-evidence prophecy," which refers to the fact that people will unconsciously act according to known language and eventually let the prophecy happen.
When we blindly criticize the child, the child will only develop towards the worst result we say, and if we take the way of encouragement and learn to see the advantages in the child, then perhaps one day those words of encouragement will come true, just like Pilch, counterattack success, and achieve their own side of the world.