Psychologist Jean Piaget once said:
"A simple touch between people and animals is a building of feelings. By touching, the two build a relationship. ”
Many parents find that their children have a strong interest in animals from an early age. Whether it's the neighborhood's pet cats, dogs, beetles in the park, small fish in the aquarium, or swarms of ants, children will observe with interest for half a day. Curiosity is the nature of every child, and the observation of various animals is the beginning of children's curiosity and exploration of the unknown world.
In the face of the unknown, children are always eager to try and seek answers through various methods. However, for today's children, making friends with animals up close in nature is a very difficult thing. With the increasing rate of urbanization, except for a few pets in the family, the closest contact between children and animals is to visit the zoo with their families. Now the cause of the epidemic is that everyone can't go out, in fact, with the picture book "Zoo", the family can also visit the zoo with their children.
"Zoo" is a volume in the "Zhan Tong Selected Collection" series, drawn by Mr. Zhan Tong, the son of Zhan Tianyou, a famous children's artist, one of the "Three Musketeers" of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, and the winner of the Honorary Award of the "Golden Monkey Award of Chinese Comics" of the Comic Arts Committee of the China Artists Association.
Mr. Zhan Tong is good at comics, has a unique style, and is a respected old artist. He understands the personality and characteristics of children, uses delicate brushstrokes to outline different animals, each animal form is prominent, fresh and gratifying, there is a lot of fun, especially the eyes of various animals, very vivid and attractive. The book also constructs a vivid and lively story through a large animal image, with a small number of children's play and play scenes, so that the pleasure of reading can occur at any time.
The painting style of the whole book is naughty and lively, the colors are light and elegant, the large area of white space and the light ink painting style are very Chinese aesthetics, which can give children a good aesthetic influence. The book introduces 35 species of animals such as rabbits, ostriches, and chimpanzees, which are common to children, as well as uncommon herons, wrens, and cranes.
It is worth mentioning that each animal is equipped with nursery rhymes specially created for it by Lin Songying, a famous children's literature writer and member of the Shanghai Writers Association. Nursery rhymes have a small number of words, condensed language, and rich rhythm, strong sense of rhythm, with children while reading pictures, very happy. Like what:
"Hippos are big fat,
Love lives in the water,
A bucket of potatoes swallowed in one bite,
It hasn't filled my belly yet. ”
In just 28 words, this language describes the characteristics of hippopotamus with a strong body, an amazing amount of food, and living in water, and at the same time, three children in the picture, moving, carrying, loading potatoes to feed the hippopotamus, and the hungry hippopotamus on the right opens its mouth wide to reveal its sharp fangs waiting to eat. The whole picture and the text are harmonious and unified, perfectly integrated, I believe that children will definitely like it more and more.
Getting close to animals and getting to know them is also part of nature education.
Let us follow "Zhan Tong Selection: Zoo" to communicate with various animals in pictures and texts, slowly establish a connection with them, learn to respect life, care for life, and help children grow positively.