Now picture books have become an indispensable artifact in our parenting process, pictures are more words and few words, children love to read, and they can learn a lot of knowledge and life principles, and parents are also worry-free. reference
But many people don't know that picture books are also good and bad. If you accidentally buy a "poison picture book", it will not only destroy the child's interest in reading and imagination, but also may have a bad impact on the child.
People's Daily once published an article pointing out that many picture books on the market are "poisonous" picture books, which will not only bring harm to children's physical and mental health, but even affect life safety.
Therefore, parents must pay attention to the problem of "poisonous picture books" and don't let the good things of reading become bad things. Love with a baby has summarized several types of common poisonous picture books, don't buy them, not only waste money but also endanger the child's body and three views! Be sure to avoid lightning!
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Pirated picture books
The content of pirated picture books may not necessarily be harmful, but pirated picture books will choose cheap inks and glues to compress costs, which contain heavy lead and hexavalent chromium. Children who read such picture books for a long time, the brain and central nervous system will be damaged, causing irreversible effects on children, and hexavalent chromium has more carcinogenic risks.
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In addition, pirated picture books have poor paper, dark colors, messy pictures, and there are bugs such as printing errors, and long-term reading of such picture books, eyes are also easy to fatigue, increasing the chance of myopia in children.
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Cottage picture book
Everyone should be familiar with copycat products, in order to rub the popularity of some well-known brands, many bad businesses will produce products with extremely similar names and packaging, and consumers may step on the pit if they do not pay attention.
But unexpectedly, now the picture book market is also mixed with a lot of copycat products, mostly imitating well-known picture books at home and abroad, with similar themes, similar names, consumers are easy to confuse, more fatal, the content of these cottage picture books is often very imprecise.
In the name of "David, no! This classic picture book as an example, the original version is like this:
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Copycat version of Harry, no! is like this:
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It seems that it was moved over from "painting the tiger according to the cat", but in terms of content, it can be said that it is very different.
In the original version of "David Can't Wait", the children's image is plump and well-proportioned. Electrocution is a dangerous behavior, which is expressed in terms of results, and does not teach children how to play with sockets.
And the copycat version of "Harry, no! The illustration style is hideous, the content of the story is not correct, and the dangerous details and actions are clearly demonstrated to the child, which is called "the treasure of the bear child as a death book" by parents.
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Children do not have the ability to discriminate, and it is easy to induce children to imitate these picture books that over-describe bad demonstrations, and once an accident occurs, regret is beyond reach.
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Three "poisonous picture books" with incorrect views
"I can't stand practicing the piano, I don't want to practice anymore, I want to commit suicide..." Can you imagine that this is the plot of a children's picture book?
In "Naughty Pack Horse Little Jump Series: Innocent Mother", the protagonist runs away from difficulties and wants to commit suicide, and also discusses in detail with his classmates "which way of suicide is better".
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Parents are terrified: This kind of detail is suspected of luring children and teenagers to commit suicide.
Children don't necessarily imitate right away. However, if they treat life as a child's play and do not understand the importance of cherishing life, accidents will inevitably occur in case of setbacks, impulses or bulls.
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"Poison picture book" with intimidating guidance
Children need frustration education, but they do not need to combat education and intimidate education.
The book "The Tragedy of an Ugly Duckling" is called a "dark fairy tale" by parents.
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An ordinary-looking duckling, after listening to the story of "The Ugly Duckling", insists that he is "just a swan", he does not listen to the advice of the duck mother, and runs away from home for this.
The duckling catches fish by the river every day, and not long after the happy days, it is caught by the peasant woman, slaughtered and turned into a delicacy on the table.
The consequence of disobedience is to be served to the table? A person who has been indoctrinated with gray and pessimistic ideas since childhood can know how to bravely face the difficulties of the world?
Children are young and may be frightened and obedient, but this kind of intimidating education will cause serious psychological shadows to children.
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Picture books with bad sexual innuendo
A book published by Jiangsu Phoenix Children's Publishing House "Sweat! In the picture book, two boys hold the girl's arm with both hands and stick out their tongues to lick. The boy licked his arm while saying, sister, you are so beautiful, what does your sweat smell like? Another boy said, well, it's salty too.
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Such a vulgar painting style is very "uncomfortable"! The picture book was eventually "taken down" from the shelves.
There are also some picture books under the banner of sex education, but the content is full of bad hints, which not only will not play a positive guiding role, but may also be counterproductive.
The whole set of picture books of "Don't Touch Me Randomly" is nothing more than "poisoning" children.
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Nominally with safety education knowledge, but behind the scenes, the X invasion is described in detail, which makes people simply unappetizing. Is this really a safety education knowledge? There is no need for the child to know the details, and if he does, the result is certainly not what people want to see.
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How to choose a safe picture book?
We know the importance of reading for children, but the books on the market are too mixed, how do we choose a good children's book? Love to bring a baby to introduce you to the criteria for choosing picture books:
1. Choose a classic/award-winning picture book
International Hans Christian Andersen Award: is the highest award in the field of children's literature, known as the "Little Nobel Prize";
Caldecott Award: the most authoritative picture book award in the United States;
Greenway Award: is the UK's most authoritative picture book award;
Feng Zikai Children's Picture Book Award: the most influential award in the domestic awards;
If you don't know what picture book to choose, or if you see picture books dazzled and see that there are these types of awards, it's okay to buy them with your eyes closed.
2. Check publishers and authors/translators
More classic publishing houses: Xinyi Culture, Pu Pulan, Suzuki Press, Beidou Children's Book Publishing House, CITIC Publishing House, Beijing United Publishing Company, etc.;
Well-known picture book authors: Grandpa Carl, Anthony Brown, David Shannon, Leo Leoni, Tatsuya Miyashi, etc.
3. Buy genuine books
Don't buy pirated books, although pirated books are cheap, they are inferior in material and not safe to bind.
I really don't know what books to choose, it is definitely right to give preference to classics, to some extent, reading classics is also one of the compulsory courses for children.
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A few nagging words
The poisonous picture books mentioned by Ai Daiwa today have basically been removed from the shelves, but there are still some picture books with controversial content on the market that are still on sale, and parents must keep their eyes open when buying.
Now many book buying platforms have set up content trial reading. When choosing a picture book for your child, you can first look at the trial reading part, at least to ensure that the content of the picture book is safe and the picture is in line with the child's aesthetic taste.
If you have any picture books that are suitable for children, welcome to share them in the message area, and if you have encountered any picture books that step on thunder, you can also share them with you.