Children who don't like to use their brains and don't have creativity will look at it!
The picture book recommended today is "Joseph Has an Old Coat"
This is a 2000 Cadick Gold Medal, a picture book made using a kind of art material and a hole punching technique. The hole design in the book attracts the reader's attention to the connection between the shapes of the upper and lower pages.
Looking at the layout of the whole book, we can find that whenever Joseph's clothes are worn and old, the picture is him alone, and when he changes the clothes into another new dress, there are many people around, and the picture seems lively and lively. In such repeated comparisons, it can be seen that although Joseph lived in poverty, he was full of enthusiasm for life.
This book can exercise the child's observation, logical reasoning ability, concentration, language expression ability and imagination, when reading, first let the child look at the cover, ask him what he saw, guess what this story will be related to?
After reading, you can ask the child, what did Joseph change from the old coat? Why did Joseph's clothes keep having holes?
If you were Joseph, what would you change your old clothes into? problems, so that children can get the improvement of thinking ability while reading picture books.
There are many details in the picture, such as the address on the envelope telling us that Joseph lives in Poland, and he collages many pictures of people on the walls and books, many of whom are accomplished Jewish writers, philosophers, artists, etc., in addition to a large number of Jewish proverbs, such as: when the coat is old, only the holes on it are new, a person has it himself, he does not want it, he wants it but cannot have it, and so on. The content begins with an old coat and ends out of nothing, and in this steady stream of plot changes, we see an archetype of folk wisdom that is full of whimsical creativity and at the same time unpretentious.
From Joseph's "tailoring" and coping, we feel a positive and optimistic attitude towards life.