Elephant News Andying.com reporter Liang Xinhui
On April 23, on the 27th "World Book Day", the 9th "China Children's Book List" online award ceremony was held, announcing the results of the 2021 "Best Children's Book Award", "Excellent Children's Book Award" and "Best Editor Award", and releasing the 2021 "China Children's Book List" Top 100 Book List.
Initiated by Zhu Yongxin, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, and spokesperson for the national reading image, with the participation of nearly 100 well-known scholars, writers, state-level famous teachers and reading promoters across the country, the "China Children's Book List" adheres to the tradition of public welfare, purity and authority, adheres to the purpose of "selecting the most beautiful book for the most beautiful childhood", and finally determines this year's children's book list through the four links of preliminary evaluation, specially invited expert recommendation, re-evaluation and final evaluation.
The 2021 "China Children's Book List" was selected as a children's book, which is nearly a thousand kinds of children's books submitted from hundreds of publishing houses across the country, and after four rounds of careful selection of "preliminary evaluation - re-evaluation - expert recommendation - final evaluation", among the books participating in this children's book list, picture books account for 33%, popular science accounts for 24%, literary books account for 33%, and human books account for 10%; Original children's books accounted for 77%, and imported children's books accounted for 23%.
Among them, 12 kinds of children's books such as "Lost Child", "The Journey of the Elephant", "Magpie's Nest" won the annual "Best Children's Book" award, and 12 kinds of children's books such as "The Stories I Tell Are Not True", "Ten Toes to Travel", "Big City, Little You" won the title of "Excellent Children's Book" of the year.
Gao Hongbo, former vice chairman of the China Writers Association and former director of the Children's Literature Committee, said that the "China Children's Book List" with its public welfare, purity and authority, the full support of a group of industry experts, the authority has been widely recognized by the society and readers, and sincerely congratulates the works on this year's list, these books are rich in types, complete in variety, and diverse in age, this is a big gift package given to Chinese young readers in the spring of the Year of the Tiger, which will leave a beautiful and unforgettable page on their reading memory.
It is reported that since 2014, "reading for all" has been written into the "Government Work Report" for 9 consecutive years. In the reading section for all, children's reading is the top priority, because children are the future.
Zhu Yongxin, the initiator of the "China Children's Book List", the national national reading image spokesperson and the founder of the New Reading Research Institute, said that since the birth of the "China Children's Book List", it has been aimed at "selecting the most beautiful children's books for the most beautiful childhood". In the past ten years, the new education firefly parent-child reading public welfare project has set up more than 100 urban and rural sub-stations and held more than 10,000 related public welfare activities, which is committed to pushing parent-child co-reading to the vast countryside and to thousands of households.