Mr. Nao Matsui said:
"Picture books have no 'use' for young children, they are not used to learn things, but to feel happy."
"Seeds of Happiness: Parent-Child Reading Picture Books" is a masterpiece by Mr. Nao Matsui, who is known as the "father of Japanese picture books".
With his own childhood growth, parenting experience, and profound understanding of the children's book publishing industry, the author systematically introduces the important role of picture books in children's growth, breaks many of today's parenting myths, and lists many vivid examples of how to teach parents and teachers how to select excellent picture books for their children and how to guide children to read.
"Seeds of Happiness: Parent-Child Reading Picture Book" makes the happy picture of "parent-child reading together" become a warm memory that children will never forget in the process of growing up.
The author recalls that when he was three to five years old, his mother read him the picture book "The Country of Children".
Even after more than twenty years, he can still clearly remember the nursery rhymes and illustrations in the picture books.
However, in the textbooks he studied during school, he could only think of a few words with difficulty.
But why can't the nursery rhymes and illustrations that have been deliberately studied remain in the depths of memory, while the knowledge that was painstakingly learned during school cannot be remembered?
Picture books originated in Europe, has a history of more than 300 years, after World War II introduced to Japan that is, in 1953, developed in Japan, picture books in English called picturebook picture books, spread to Japan, Japanese called え ほん, translated into Chinese is called picture books, because it is imported, some people call picture books, some call picture books.
Nao Matsui is the pioneer of Asian picture books, he founded the picture books "Momotaro" and "Children's Friends" are well-known in Japan, everyone knows, he also wrote a lot of books for adults to guide the reading of picture books, such as "The Power of Picture Books", "My Picture Book Theory", "How to Teach Children to Read Picture Books" and "Seeds of Happiness" today and so on.
Parents read stories to their children sentence by sentence, just like sowing the seeds of language.
When the seed takes root in the child's heart, the intimate relationship between the parent and the child cannot be severed, and what really makes the parents and the child closely linked is not the household registration book or birth certificate, but the gentle, humane language.
An Italian educator said:
"It is not enough to love children, we must also make them feel loved." The picture book is a bridge, allowing adults to talk to children through picture books, so that adults and children can feel each other's love. ”
We undoubtedly love our children, but whether this love is felt by children is another question.
Reading books to children is a way to make children feel love, and children who grow up under the infiltration of the world of picture books must be happy.
In The Seeds of Happiness, the handwriting of a mother is recorded.
The mother stumbled upon a picture book called "Children's Friends", and she was so fascinated by the story and illustrations in the book that she began to read it to her daughter who was less than 1 year old. This kind of parent-child time lasted for many years.
Later, my daughter went to school. Not only did she develop the habit of reading, but she would also tell the stories her mother had told the night before to the children at the next table.
One day many years later, the mother was reading a picture book to her youngest son, while her daughter was reading a book. The mother thought that her daughter was reading a novel, and her daughter actually held "Children's Friend" and watched it with relish.
When a mother reads a picture book to her child, she actually plants a seed of happiness in her child's heart. This seed will gradually take root over time, blending with the child's thoughts and behaviors, allowing happiness to emanate from the inside out.
However, there are many kinds of picture books, and not all picture books are suitable for children aged 3-6.
A good picture book can not only improve children's interest in reading, but also enhance children's happiness.
Matsui has always focused on the picture book perspective of the big pattern, and in the early stage of the industry, he studied the editing and creation of picture books in various countries, paid attention to theoretical thinking and academic research, and formed his own mature and systematic picture book view.
In his view, picture book reading is the spiritual bond that connects parents and children, and other values are based on this.
The rich language communication between parents and children is the greatest wealth of a family, and the communication with picture books as the medium helps adults and young children to communicate with each other.
One father said of himself with his children:
I have a 5-year-old who is in kindergarten and every night before going to bed I will definitely hold his hand and read to him.
The father read to him every night, what a happy thing for the child, this father must have a great influence on the child, and this child, may not forget to read to his father in his life, and the father's warm hands.
It is precisely because of the warm language of living every day full of emotion that babies can become "people".
We know that if babies grow up in wolves, they will have wolf nature, and if they are raised by apes, they will grow into monkeys who do not speak human language.
Parents use gentle caresses and language to nurture their children and nourish the soul, while picture books are responsible for sowing the seeds of vocabulary into the soil of the soul one by one.
People who have repeatedly experienced this feeling in early childhood have full and self-sufficient spiritual growth, and they can truly feel the taste of happiness when they grow up.
In the 59-page "Daddy's Picture Book" in "Seeds of Happiness", the author argues:
"The child's name should be decided by the father, so that the father recognizes the role and responsibility he will play next."
"In any case, buying a picture book for a child for the first time means a lot to the father, and mothers may wish to leave this opportunity to the father."
Mothers always do too many things for their children, and fathers are isolated and have no chance to intervene.
Sometimes fathers who don't know anything but want to give advice and opinions on parenting are actually because they want to find a sense of existence.
Father's rights should be returned to fathers.
Men tend to be more open-minded than women in terms of thinking, just like a father in the book used pictures from old magazines and old newspapers to diy his child with a unique book that belongs to the child, which is really wonderful!
The author also points out the shortcomings of Disney picture books, the author said that after reading Imamura's "Manga Film Theory", he understood the secret to the success of Disney cartoons, which lies in "expressing color with light" and applying the impressionist color theory to movies.
Its color is different from the color of oil painting and printing, and it seems to glow, making people's eyes bright. But their books don't feel that way at all.
The author also pointed out that Disney's picture books are based on world famous works, but the essence of the famous books has been removed, and the changes have been made without authorization, and something similar to the content of the original book has been made. All the picture books that claim to be world famous books are concise versions and are forgeries imitating the original works.
At the end, the author lists his fifty favorite books, as well as a list of picture books with different themes, and he hopes that school and family can be organically combined.
Write at the end
In the book "Seeds of Happiness", we can understand the basic theory of parent-child reading, and more importantly, we have come into contact with the picture book concept of the father of Japanese picture books.
Mr. Nao Matsui's contribution to the promotion of picture books and children's research is self-evident, and more importantly, he breaks the myth of adults about "innocent and cute" picture books, and sharply points out the problems in the theme and form of picture books from the perspective of commercial society and adults.
In the final analysis, for children, after many years, he may forget the content of the picture book, but the warm memory and spiritual growth brought to him by the picture book are the source of happiness that can be cherished for a lifetime.
At the end of the book, the old gentleman said with emotion:
For a person, what is true happiness, where is the meaning of living, and what should people rely on to survive, this storybook after storybook has made the answer clear in different ways.
Reading with children, in fact, the meaning is not to read, picture books are only the way to the heart.
The most important thing is to find and experience with a tender heart, to find and experience this life, this world, that you and your child really need.
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