Just last year, a movie called Doraemon: Nobita and the New Dinosaurs evoked my childhood memories, and I didn't expect my son to love it too much.
The storyline of the film is not complicated. Nobita found a dinosaur fossil, originally to gamble with his classmates, he begged Ding-Dong to let the fossils hatch the dinosaurs, but unexpectedly hatched a pair of dinosaur twins Xiaomi and XiaoXiu. They even have a series of adventure stories for Xiaomi and XiaoXiu's return to the Cretaceous.
What struck me the most in the story was the relationship between Nobita and the dinosaur twins. He would sleeplessly take care of the dinosaur twins when they got sick, and would read the Dinosaur Encyclopedia to learn about the dinosaur twins' species type and ask others how to raise dinosaurs.
So, when my 4-and-a-half-year-old son saw the set of "Elementary School Museum Encyclopedia Dinosaurs" that I bought, he asked me, "Is this Nobita's dinosaur encyclopedia?" I really smiled: "Oh yes, this is the dinosaur encyclopedia that Japanese children read!" ”
This set of "Elementary School Museum Encyclopedia Dinosaurs" is a thematic encyclopedia about dinosaurs, and the original author, Yukimitsu Tomita, is Japanese. The whole set of books is clearly structured, rigorous in content, and informative in materials, and comprehensively introduces the living environment of dinosaurs, the characteristics of different types of dinosaurs, and the systems of dinosaurs. I think my son is right – if Nobita has an encyclopedia of dinosaurs, it must be this book.
Don't talk about children, just read the catalog of "Elementary School Museum Encyclopedia Dinosaurs", my old mother who does not understand dinosaurs has an unusual harvest and successfully mastered the classification of dinosaurs.
After a preliminary introduction to the era and environment in which dinosaurs lived, "Elementary School Museum Encyclopedia Dinosaurs" starts from "What is a dinosaur", introduces the definition of "dinosaurs" to children in the form of pictures and analogies, and then introduces the classification of dinosaurs. The whole book takes the classification of dinosaurs as the main line, and introduces 49 dinosaur groups such as sauropods and ornithopod dinosaurs one by one. Children reading the table of contents of this book can have a complete understanding of the overall situation of dinosaurs, which shows the author's ingenuity.
Although it is an encyclopedia science book, this "Primary School Museum Encyclopedia Dinosaur" sweeps away the slightly dull characteristics of the current encyclopedia science books, and is good at using analogies to let children understand specific science knowledge.
For example, when introducing "What is a dinosaur", this "Elementary School Museum Encyclopedia Dinosaur" deliberately compares crocodiles and dinosaurs that children are very familiar with. If you think about it, dinosaurs and crocodiles really look a bit similar. Looking at the different orientations of crocodiles and dinosaur legs, we can understand the "difference" in the definition of "dinosaur" and "crocodile". Combined with pictures and questions, children can intuitively distinguish between dinosaurs and crocodiles.
About each dinosaur is from the definition, and then introduced one by one, super systematic. For example, in the introduction of theropod dinosaurs, through a huge iconic dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex picture to introduce the commonality of theropods - dagger-like sharp teeth, walking on two feet, most of them carnivorous dinosaurs. The largest and smallest theropod dinosaurs are also described at the bottom of this page, using the height of humans as an analogy. When children see the pictures, they will have a more intuitive understanding of the size of the introduction of spinosaurus and the first Chinese feather dragon.
Each "class" dinosaur is described in one or two pages, concise but informative. The book is described according to the family name, full length, eating habits, living era, and area where the fossils were found. In the process of introduction, it also takes into account the fun, and adds a lot of dinosaur common sense or dinosaur fossil content.
For example, in the relevant content of the explanation of the Akebonos, the naming of dinosaurs is also specifically mentioned. It turned out that the name of shu benlong actually took 15 years. It seems that Nobita has discovered a new species of dinosaur, and it is estimated that it will take a long time to name this new species of dinosaur.
The whole book covers a wide range of content, and the Tyrannosaurus rex, spinosaur, pterosaur, etc. often mentioned in picture book stories are introduced, which can meet the interests of children. And although it is labeled as "Elementary School Hall", it is also excellent for parent-child reading with four-and-a-half-year-old children.
In reading this book, it is recommended to cooperate with other dinosaur storybooks. While observing the dinosaur images in the picture book, the child flipped through the dinosaur characteristics in the book, believing that there would be different gains.