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The book "Happy Day" is one of the 50 favorite picture books of Nao Matsui, the father of Japanese picture books. It is the silver medal work of the 1950 American Caldecott Award, and the winning work of that year is currently only introduced into the country.
But what was it that attracted this picture book master so much that he made him so highly evaluated?
Take a closer look at this picture book today.
This is a picture book for children over 2 years old.
In the Caldecott Awards, there are not many picture books suitable for young children, but this book is wonderful.
Matsui nao commented on the picture book: "Picture books have no 'use' for young children, they are not used to learn things, but to feel happy." ”
In my opinion, "Happy Day" is a picture book that "acquires knowledge" through "feelings" and leads children to the world of nature and science.
Its content is very similar to the "Snow" in the previous issue of the Caddick Prize picture book (suitable age 5 +, poke here to read that article: 1949 Caddick Prize Picture Book: Treasure Book, Popular Science and Literature Are Greatly Integrated), and the content passed to children is also very rich.
First of all, from the picture book style:
There are only three or four main shades in the book: black and white gray, and yellow.
The snow is white, the bears, squirrels, groundhogs and small snails sleeping in the shells in the cave are black and gray, and the color interprets the depression and loneliness of winter, silent, and through pictures, children can feel the tranquility of winter.
And at the end of the story, when the small animals open their eyes and run to a place, they find a flower on the snow, an orange-yellow flower. This is also the only place in the book that has color. Echoes the orange-yellow color on the cover.
Color can represent emotions, but also has a certain symbolic significance, if most people like to use green to represent life, then the author uses yellow seems to interpret vitality and warmth, as if it is the first yellow spring flower to open in a hundred flowers, indicating that the winter Xiaosuo is about to pass, and the beautiful spring is coming.
These picture information is presented to young children, not expecting children to be able to read and understand like I wrote articles at once, but they give children the cognition and enlightenment of color, and they will also express their emotions by using various colors in the pictures.
Speaking from the language of picture books:
Short, repetitive statements that are perfect for kids.
For example: "Squirrels sleep in trees", "Groundhogs sleep underground", "Bears sleep in tree holes".
XX repeats the sentence in XX sleeping.
"Voles smell and smell", "groundhogs smell and smell", "bears smell and smell", the same sentence pattern that is sometimes repeated repeatedly.
Picture books suitable for young children, repeating rhythmic sentences is easier for children to remember. In addition to "Happy Day", there are also "Dozing Houses", "Good Night, Moon", "Good Night Book for Children", etc., which are repetitive sentence patterns and suitable for selective reading.
From the content of the story:
Easy reading allows children to increase their cognition.
Mr. Matsui Nao said that "there is no use", which means that the content of this book is easy and unsaymatic, and children must "understand what the story tells us" when reading it, but this book uses stories to let children know: bears hibernate in tree holes, voles hibernate in the ground, and squirrels hibernate in tree holes.
If your child is in the "100,000 Whys" period and asks "why hibernate" in an extended manner, then you may wish to tell your child how different animals spend the winter. Parent-child communication unfolds through a book, and there is naturally a topic in parent-child conversation.
Related Other Readings:
The 1949 Caldecott Prize Picture Book: Treasure Book, the popularity and the literature are a fantastic blend
1948 Caldecott Prize: Raising four- and five-year-olds to share consciousness and literary enlightenment