Having never been to the Ocean World Kingdom, it is really difficult to express to young children how big the blue whale is, and can only tell the child with his hands: "The blue whale is very big!" ”
In the picture book "Hello to Animal Friends: Hello, Mr. Blue Whale", the cute Mr. Blue Whale is described very appropriately in the colorful collocation.
"Meet the biggest animal on earth, the blue whale. It's even bigger than the biggest fear! ”
"The Blue Whale can grow up to 33 meters, almost as long as an ordinary airplane!"
"The heart of the Blue Whale is the size of a car!"
The analogy of familiar things makes the content easy to understand, and the younger children constantly exclaim: "Wow! It's so big! At the same time, their minds finally don't have to look at their parents' gestures to make up the size of the animal!
The book "Hello to Animal Friends: Hello, Mr. Blue Whale" introduces not only blue whales, but also other interesting marine animals: octopuses, seals, seahorses, jellyfish, turtles, lobsters, sturgeon, dolphins, etc. In addition to drawing their images with brilliant brushes, the books also introduce their physical mysteries, eating habits, shelter, and survival skills.
The book combines watercolor paintings, crayon drawings, graffiti and paper-cut collages in a variety of artistic expressions, the picture is rich, flexible, full of childlike fun, while the color combination is fresh and soft, in line with the aesthetics of most modern readers.
Sam Boughton, author of the "Say Hello to Animal Friends" series of picture books, is a British illustrator who graduated from the University of Bristol with a bachelor's degree in illustration and later a master's degree in illustration from the Cambridge School of Art.
In this picture book, her style is fully displayed: animals are first colored with watercolor, then painted with crayons and chalk, children's images are painted with colored lead, stones and trees are collaged, pencil graffiti can be seen everywhere... The changeable and natural creation makes all the pictures full of vitality, just like the paintings of children, with extraordinary appeal.
Most importantly, the ubiquitous page turning and pulling pages not only allow young children to interact intimately with the animals in the book, so that the cognitive process is full of surprises, but also exercise children's hand-brain coordination.
On the other hand, the lively and humorous characteristics of the language also make this picture book particularly suitable for parent-child reading.
In this picture book, the words and language are simple, vivid and lively, and many marine animals will be explained in the book when they are young: for example, the seal baby is called "seal cub", the turtle baby is called "baby turtle", and it also covers the knowledge that even adults do not know, for example, the seahorse is responsible for the pregnancy of the baby by the father, and they load the baby with the second generation, just like the kangaroo.
This is a very interesting marine world animal cognition and popular science picture book, in play, talk, flip over, not only improve the adult cognition, but also meet all the children's curiosity about marine animals.
Dive into this picture book of the underwater world with your kids and say hello to 10 interesting marine animals!