The world-famous educator Hillier once said: History is the most important cornerstone of children's growth.
Therefore, the habit of reading, the interest in history, is cultivated as early as possible.
But in the thousands of years of human history, how to choose and where to start learning?
The recommendations are:
First, start with the history of the world, start with ancient civilizations, and start with the history around us
Ancient civilization is the most essential part of human history, which embodies the oldest and most mysterious wisdom of mankind.
In many casual daily traditional life scenes or original lifestyles, you can touch the pulse of ancient culture, make the traditional customs that have gradually blurred clear, and find the cultural attributes of our individuals or peoples.
——Ji Xianlin (famous historian and writer)
History is the memory of human beings, is a kind of retrospection and root search for human civilization, ancient civilization and we have a very close relationship, many of our contemporary human behavior habits, in fact, can be found from the distant ancient civilization traces.
Learning such history can make children more engaged and more receptive.
Two examples:
All of the world's alphabetic scripts originate from ancient Egyptian secular scripts, such as Phoenician script, Arabic, and also the Hanyu Pinyin we use.
More coincidentally, ancient Egyptian scripts such as "sun, moon, mountain, water" and the ancient Chinese characters are extremely similar.
Hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt
The toothpaste we use today, the bread we love to eat, and the crystal clear glass are actually invented by the ancient Egyptians, which shows how smart the Egyptians were at that time.
Our history has always been so continuous, and the modern civilization we enjoy has been created on the basis of the wisdom of generations of predecessors.
Therefore, if we want children to have a deeper understanding of our world today and a deeper understanding of history, we cannot but follow the long river of time and return to thousands of years ago to explore those lost ancient civilizations.
Second, it is in line with the taste of children and is entertaining and educational
The history books recommended by teachers are often considered from the perspective of teaching. Although this kind of book is rich in knowledge, it has many words, or it only focuses on major historical events and characters, and pays attention to the interpretation of the background meaning of various events.
These reading materials are often difficult to understand, not to mention that children do not like to read, and even adults may not be able to read them.
Therefore, when we choose history books, we should try to fit the tastes of children, first establish an interest in learning history for children, and then slowly and gradually.
Think back to what books children love to read on weekdays?
Caricature? Tale? Or an adventure?
If there is a book that can combine boring knowledge and these elements, children will definitely love to read.
Needless to say, I really found such a set of books, which can satisfy all the fantasies of parents and children about a good set of books.
It is this set of historical science adventure picture books ——
"Let the child fall in love with the ancient civilization"
This set of books can be said to have won numerous awards, and won 9 international children's book awards such as the Silver Birch Award, the Blue Spruce Award, and the Red Cedar Award.
Here I would also like to mention the Silver Birch Award, also known as the "My Favorite Children's Book" award.
This is a special award set by the Canadian Book Association for children's books, by students from thousands of schools across the country, from their own children's books, self-voting for their favorite one, the gold content is super high!
So what is the magic of this set of books?
Vivid and interesting paintings
Break the dullness of history
Scientific studies have shown that children aged 4-12 are mostly intuitive reactions to things and have weak abstract thinking skills. Interesting characters and adventure stories are more helpful in attracting children's interest in participating in fresh abstract situations
"Let children fall in love with ancient civilization" is such a set of vivid and interesting historical science adventure children's books.
The whole set of books covers the five ancient civilizations, cleverly adopts the form of time and space travel, adventure, etc., leading children to adventure to different civilizations, each crossing journey is like encountering different topics in school, when children overcome the difficulties in the process of exploration one by one, they also gradually grow in life.
At Magic Time Travel Agency, the little protagonists Josh, Emma and Libby flip through the exclusive travel guide of travel agency owner Pettigrew and begin a wonderful and exciting time travel:
Build pyramids with the Egyptians and hide from crocodiles in the Nile in reed boats;
Join the Greeks in the thrill of the Olympic Games and listen to the philosophers' debates in the square;
Every time you open a book, you will start a fantasy journey into a new world, and you can let your children appreciate the beauty of the five ancient civilizations without leaving home.
Every adventure is a process of knowledge learning and a spiritual growth.
The five stories are independent of each other, there is no mandatory reading order, and no matter which one you pick up, the child can quickly enter a new journey through without any reading barriers.
By reading this type of adventure story, children can also stimulate their imagination to experience and experience different cultures and histories with the protagonist.
Coupled with rich and interesting pictures with a wide field of view, it accommodates more details and is vivid and interesting.
The city-states and buildings of ancient Greece turned out to be like this.
The winding Great Wall is majestic and magnificent.
Expressing distant eras and characters with vivid pictures like this is more in line with children's cognitive habits, easy to understand, and helps to eliminate the difficulty of reading.
Thrilling storyline
More fascinating than cartoons
Some comic book science books forcibly bundle pictures and knowledge together, and still just a boring pile of knowledge cloaked in a comic shell, severing the connection between pictures and knowledge points. If the child does not have the desire to explore this knowledge, it is difficult to continue to read.
But this set of books is different, it uses adventure stories to connect those small knowledge, with strong coherence, the storyline is vivid and interesting, just like watching cartoons. Children are easily drawn to stories, one after another, and can't stop.
In the book, the children travel to China and accidentally see the process of raising silkworms for silk, which is the top secret of ancient China, and peeking is about to be caught.
The children of the Bingkton family were chased by the mighty Chinese soldiers all the way, and they accidentally entered the palace and took a trip to the ancient Silk Road.
Along the way, "passing through the barriers" and "escaping" while understanding the customs and customs of ancient China, it is endlessly interesting.
The Bincktons travel to Europe, the Ice Age, 20,000 years ago.
The Ice Age was a mysterious time when humans were not yet fully evolved and were scarce, but animals were everywhere, and some of them were quite dangerous, and it was not easy for humans to survive in such an environment. Unfortunately, many of the animals of that time are now extinct.
On the way, they learned about prehistoric humans who appeared on Earth at least 100,000 years ago, modern Homo sapiens, also known as the "Cro-Romano" people. They already look a lot like us.
Seeing the woolly rhinoceros trembling with fear, the protagonist Emma cleverly uses her knowledge in a wildlife show to avoid the animals of the Ice Age.
After encountering a snowstorm, he was rescued by modern Homo sapiens, lived with them, and learned about the food, clothing, and shelter of prehistoric humans.
When the siblings were separated in a blizzard, they did not abandon or give up, bravely went to find their sister, and eventually the sister was rescued and became friends with the mammoth.
The three brothers and sisters not only gained knowledge in their adventures, but also gained love and courage from it.
The style of the whole book is like this, the embedding of knowledge is not blunt at all, and it is perfectly integrated with the plot.
Coupled with humorous and witty texts, relaxed and interesting explanations, full of knowledge, endless fun, and will not feel boring at all.
Lots of hardcore knowledge
Multidisciplinary perspectives are full of dry goods
There is a lot of rich and fresh knowledge in the book, which can fully satisfy children's curiosity about unknown civilizations.
Today, the Olympic Games, a sporting event that countries are competing for, actually originated in ancient Greece more than 2,000 years ago, when the Olympic Games were to celebrate the world master believed by the ancient Greeks, Zeus. The ancient Greeks attached great importance to the Olympic Games, so the Olympic Games also had the effect of stopping the war at that time.
The use of fire dates back a hundred thousand years, when fire was very important. Even now, drilling wood for fire is still an essential skill for survival in the wild.
To build a pyramid, you need to keep these tips in mind.
In addition to history, it also involves a large amount of geographical, cultural, philosophical, religious, social and other knowledge.
For example, the ancient Egyptians built the exquisite pyramids of one of the eight wonders of the world without measuring the ruler. And the rich mathematical principles contained in this are still unsolved mysteries.
In order to carry heavy stones to the top of the pyramid, the ancient Egyptians invented slides made of logs and oil or water thousands of years ago, and the rich physical and mechanical principles involved in this were discovered by scientists thousands of years later.
Ancient Chinese were also great inventors. From keel water wheels to compasses, from seismometers to gunpowder, there is amazing wisdom everywhere.
Chinese also invented a lot of "weird" things, such as kites.
Unlike today's entertainment, in early China, kites were mainly used to send signals and transmit intelligence in war, and the battlefield was comparable to drones.
There are also giant kites that are enough to carry a person into the sky. This sounds fun, but it's actually very dangerous because it's often used as a punishment for criminals.
These can not only help children broaden their knowledge and establish a comprehensive knowledge system, but also give them a macro understanding of the ancient civilization world.
The picture hides the "careful machine"
Lower reading barriers
The fit of words and pictures is extremely high, but at the same time it has relative independence, even if you do not look at the knowledge points of textualization, you can feel the mystery of ancient civilization from the pictures and stories, which greatly reduces the difficulty of reading for young children.
For example, how do people dress differently in different civilizations?
The weather in ancient Greece and ancient Egypt was quite hot, and the clothes were mostly loose and light.
The peasants of the Middle Ages were very poor, their clothes were often few and worn, and the clothes of the nobles were much more elaborate and gorgeous, and you can see from the pictures that the texture is very different.
As good travelers, they often need to carry a lot of things, so ladies often carry knives, combs, needles and threads with them, which look like necklaces. In order to make it easier to hold the sword, the men often pin the pin that fixes the cloak to the right shoulder.
It doesn't matter if you haven't been to a medieval castle, you can get a good idea of its internal structure in the book.
Mammoths are ice age behemoths, about 2.75 to 3.5 meters tall and possibly weighing 6 to 7 tons. If you have no idea about this number, just look at the pictures to see how far apart the size of humans and mammoths is.
With rich pictures, children can intuitively feel these contents. In light and interesting pictures, this knowledge is naturally remembered, and it can also leave a pictorial, three-dimensional memory in the mind.
At the same time, the author abandons important historical figures and events, starting from the details of food, clothing, shelter and transportation that are closely related to everyone's life, and presents the lives of ordinary people in various ancient civilizations.
Although it is only the most ordinary daily life, if you pay close attention, you can find thousands of years of human wisdom contained in it.
In this process, parents can also teach their children to use tabular methods or mind maps to summarize and sort out knowledge points independently.
This can not only improve the child's ability to summarize and cultivate divergent thinking.
These sorted knowledge points will also become children's future writing materials and learning libraries, which will be of great help to future learning.
This arrangement design meets the various reading needs of parents and children, whether it is independent reading or parent-child reading, which is very suitable.
It is recommended that for smaller children, it can be led by the parents to read together and read repeatedly.
The first time you can first appreciate the strangeness of the story, and the second time you will integrate the following specific knowledge, so that the knowledge will be remembered more solidly, and the child will have a clearer understanding of the ancient civilization.
Don't worry about the historical facts you already know, or the children's books are too simple. Because history is timeless, every time you read, you will have a different understanding, read history with your child, and you will grow up with him.
For older children, children can read independently and think independently.
From parent-child co-reading to independent reading, children's ability to solve problems independently is gradually cultivated.
At the same time, there is no dense text in the book, but vivid and interesting pictures, which greatly reduces the reading burden of children. The language is concise, and the text is relatively simple and repetitive, which helps to strengthen the learning of Chinese characters and can be used as a transition for children from picture book stories to pure text reading.
The font size is moderate, not easy to hurt the eyes, and the ink also uses green and environmentally friendly materials to protect the health of children in an all-round way.
Strong creative team, ultra-rigorous historical knowledge
For a children's book with historical popular science themes, it is not enough to be interesting. After a good book arouses children's interest in reading, it also needs high-quality content, solid historical knowledge and meticulous narrative logic to support the responsibility of shaping children's historical outlook and worldview cognitive system.
"Let children fall in love with ancient civilization" has a strong creative team and is a set of highly authoritative historical science adventure children's books.
The author, Linda Bailey, is Canada's premier children's book author.
In her more than 30-year career, she has created dozens of classic children's books that are popular with children's readers, and her works have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Polish and Danish, and has won 118 international children's book awards such as the Canadian Ministry of Education's "Reading Time" Award and the Youth Best Book Award.
Painter Bill Sleven, a Canadian artist and children's book illustrator, has collaborated with a number of children's book authors to create more than 100 children's books, with deep painting skills, vivid and varied characters, and endless interest.
The two children's book masters joined hands, one still and one moving, one writing and one painting, with a relaxed and humorous painting style, showing us the different styles of the five ancient civilizations.
Let the children unconsciously remember the ancient civilization, read the ancient civilization, and fall in love with the ancient civilization.
More than 20 professors and scholars from around the world, such as the University of California, the University of Toronto, and the Royal Canadian Museum, participated in the compilation. Famous translators on both sides of the strait, Chen Yaqian, Huang Xiaoyin, Cai Huijing, Zhou Siyun, and Shakova, jointly translated. Huang Yongchuan, director of the Taiwan Museum of History, made a preface recommendation.
It ensures the rigor and readability of the content, so that every historical knowledge has a history to rely on, there is evidence to follow, and fully meet your "obsessive-compulsive disorder" of knowledge.
Fascicle contents
"If You Go to Ancient Egypt"
Travel back to ancient Egypt with the children of the Binkton family and sail along the Nile in a reed boat to explore the mysterious pyramids.
"If You Go to Ancient Greece"
Travel back in time to ancient Greece, tour the ancient Greek theater, listen to philosophers debate, attend banquets, and watch the most original Olympic Games.
"If You Go to Ancient China"
See a variety of magical inventions in ancient China and experience the wonderful wisdom of ancient Chinese.
"If You Go to the Middle Ages"
Want to know how a qualified knight is refined? Then come to the Middle Ages and go with the little protagonist Joe Ten from peasants, soothsayers, clowns, kitchen helpers, and waiters to the identity of knights!
"If You Go to ice age"
During the million-year-long Ice Age, discover the secrets of the social life of cavemen and the extinction of paleontology.
Make friends with extinct ancient behemoths and admire the beautiful and extraordinary art of the Ice Age.
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