The 2022 edition of the Close-to-Native Language Graded Reading List (0-12 years old) was officially released on April 2. Close to the mother tongue has long been committed to the research and promotion of children's reading, aiming to provide a "classic book list worthy of every family's trust".
In the 2022 edition of the graded reading list, the best of the best, a total of 240 picture books were selected for use by children aged 3-6.
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What are the selection criteria for picture books for children aged 3-6?
What are their application scenarios?
Let's follow Teacher Hua Xiying, who is well versed in the psychology of young children and has been engaged in front-line teaching and research for a long time, to reveal the answer!
Hua Xiying
Director of the Practical Teaching and Research Office of Early Childhood Normal College of Nanjing Xiaozhuang University
Adjunct researcher at the Children's Picture Book Research Center of Nanjing Normal University
2020 Ministry of Education Outstanding Children's Picture Book Review Expert
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Selection criteria for picture books for 3-6 years old
Open the recommended books close to the mother tongue 3-6 years old, what kind of world will be presented to the child? Don't worry, let's play a little game about picture books first.
Let's play a game
Q1
How is Fifi in the picture? How did you find out?
"Fifi Is Angry"
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Fifi is angry, and the enlarged red shadow in the picture and the hairs on the cat's body highlight Fifi's angry look. From this we can see: "The picture is not a subordinate to the text, it has its own unique narrative language. ”
Q2
What are elephants doing? What happened between it and the little mouse?
"Little Brother Mouse's Little Vest"
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An elephant put on the little brother's small vest, and the elephant's huge body seemed to break the small vest, which was very embarrassing. The little mouse was panicked and jumped up and down. Isn't the picture very simple and very interesting?
Q3
This book is about "color", but why is it not colorful, but a "black book"? What kind of book is it?
A Black Book on Color
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This book is designed for blind children and introduces the colors of many things. It uses a unique tactile way for special groups to feel the beauty of color. It turns out that colors are not only used to see, but also to touch and feel.
The above three mini games imply the three codes selected by 3-6-year-old children's picture books - cognitive development level, accuracy of scientific concepts and regional and cultural differences, Teacher Hua gave us in-depth guidance, let's interpret them one by one.
Respect your child's level of cognitive development
Children of different ages have different levels of cognitive development, and they need to consider the characteristics of different ages when choosing books.
For example, as far as the development of children in general is concerned, 4-5 years old can understand the concept of the week, and 5-6 years old can know the deformation of various geometric surfaces, such as the flip of tangrams.
3-4 year old children are suitable for math games up to 5 years old;
Children aged 4-5 are suitable for math games up to 7 years old;
Around the age of 6, the ability to think abstractly began to germinate, which was suitable for reading some books on perceiving time, the combination of shapes, mathematical learning and games within 10 years.
In order to respect the level of children's cognitive development, in the bibliography of 5-6 years old, we have added "Seven Good Friends", which is an original picture book featuring the traditional Chinese educational toy "Tangram" to explain the true meaning of friendship and inherit and carry forward the traditional Chinese wisdom. The book contains a lot of basic knowledge about the construction of tangram space, showing ingenious logical relationships and ever-changing wonderful ideas.
Seven Best Friends
Xihe/author; Early Autumn Maru/E-Relay Press
In addition, in view of the cognitive characteristics of 5-6-year-old children, we deliberately chose the time cognition picture book "What Time is It", the hollow simulation clock in the book to help children really touch and perceive time. The combination of different times and different events allows children to have a preliminary concept of the passage of time, so that children can learn knowledge and understand the world in happiness.
What time is it? 》
[de] Daniela Kulot/Text; Xu Miao/Translation
Beijing United Publishing Company
Accuracy of scientific concepts
The evaluation of picture books also requires experts in biological and scientific disciplines. Some scientific knowledge and scientific phenomena require experts to strictly check to ensure the accuracy of the content. The knowledge conveyed by picture books to children must be precise, otherwise, children will have wrong cognition.
Based on the principle of accuracy, we have selected a set of popular science books "Shocking Book : Animals Are So Big" that truly restores the size of animals and presents animals according to their original sizes in 1:1. This book adopts the high-definition close-up magnification presentation method, so that children and animals can get close and safe at zero distance, ensuring the accuracy of knowledge.
The Book of Shock Animals Are So Big (Vol. 2, Vol. 4)
[Japanese] Keiyuki Komiya / Supervisor; [Japanese] Ozaki Ring / Photography; [Japanese] Kashiwara Koo / E; [Japanese] Takaoka Masae / Wen; Wang Zhigeng / Translation
Dolphin Press
In the bibliography of 3-4-year-old children this year, the "Magical Life Series" is still retained, which is a set of picture books that combine creative cave books and flip books, giving children a "play" full of natural observation lessons, life education enlightenment, and telling about plant seed growth and oviparous animal hatching.
Magical Life Series (all 2 volumes)
[Beauty] Jennifer Ward/ Author; [Wisdom] Susie Garemani / Paint;
Zhang Hehe/Translated by Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House
Regional and cultural differences
The choice of picture books also needs to consider "the existing life experience of young children".
For example, the typhoon weather in Nanjing is not as good as in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Zhejiang, and the poems and picture books depicting the image of the wind may have less experience in Nanjing. This requires observing and feeling the wind in daily life with children, enriching life experience, and then reading. An original picture book "Go for a Walk with the Wind" has been added to the bibliography, which brings the romantic wind, the wind full of Chinese culture, and the wind that brings children unlimited imagination, and uses the way of drama to make this walk full of Chinese style become fantastic and romantic.
"Walking with the Wind"
Xiong Liang/Author/Painting Tianjin People's Publishing House
For example, every traditional festival, take your child to walk the old street, listen to the elders talk about the customs of the childhood festival, and the children can read picture books on regional culture and traditional folklore, which is easier to understand. This year, we have specially added the "Riddle" set of traditional folk picture books of the Qingming Festival, inheriting the wisdom of life in the Eastern way and allowing children to feel the original traditional festival atmosphere.
The Riddle
Liu Xun/Wen Tu Tomorrow Press
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Application scenarios of picture books for 3-6 years old
The selection criteria for picture books for 3-6-year-old children have been revealed, so in which scenarios are these excellent picture books that are "discerning pearls"? Let's go through them one by one.
Family
Parent-child reading in the family scene is the most common application scenario of children's picture books. Children in early childhood are very attached to their parents, and with most of them illiterate, reading can act as a good medium. Parent-child reading can effectively enhance the parent-child relationship, promote the growth of children's hearts, and help establish a close connection between parents and children.
In the bibliography, there are many classic works that are very suitable for parent-child reading, such as: "Guess How Much I Love You" and "Runaway Rabbit", which are worth cherishing by every family.
"Guess How Much I Love You"
[Irish] Sam McBreeney/Wen; [English] Anita Jelang/Photo;
Mei Zihan / Translation Tomorrow Press
"The Runaway Bunny"
[Us] Margaret Wises Brown/Wen; [US] Klayman Hurd/Picture;
Huang Yiyu / Translation Tomorrow Press
"Ten Thousand Hugs" is an original work added this year, telling the story of the growth of the little monkey, which is worth reading carefully by parents and their children.
"Ten Thousand Hugs"
Jia Yuqian/Wen Tu China Welfare Association Publishing House
kindergarten
Picture books are widely used. For example, traditional group reading activities, special reading areas, etc. The art area is suitable for art appreciation picture books, the construction area is suitable for architectural picture books, and the performance area can be used to perform games and picture book drama activities. The colorful picture books can also become an important curriculum resource for kindergartens to carry out theme activities.
For example, 3-4 years old "Andrew Painting", starting from a line, breaks the inherent cognition, and opens a creative and breakthrough imagination door for children.
"Andrew Painting Ah Painting"
[Us] Barney Salzberg / Author; Qingdou Children's Bookstore / Translation
Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House
"I'll Draw" in the 4-5-year-old bibliography abandons the boring preaching and tedious mode training, and uses local materials to turn learning to draw into an interesting game.
"I'll Paint" (all 10 volumes)
[b] Gedrena de Rosamel et al. / author;
New World Press
5-6 years old "Let's Build: Planning Our Common Future", build a tunnel, build a castle, build a tower, and together we will build our home.
Let's Build: Planning Our Shared Future
[English] Oliver Jeffs/Author; Ajia/Translation Relay Press
Children's Bookstore
Focusing on parent-child reading, the audio-visual area can use the forms of listening to stories, poetry, watching picture book animations, telling picture book stories, etc., leading children to read picture books, or opening small theaters for children to perform.
You can also hold a reading salon and invite volunteers to tell stories about the interesting "Tale of the Ants" and talk about the vast "Story of the Starry Sky".
The Story of the Ants
[Italy] Turio Kodak/Text; Wang Zhonghua/Translation
Nanjing Normal University Press
The Story of the Starry Sky
James Carter/Author; [West] Mar Hernandez/E;
Gao Shuang, Li Chun/Translation, Chongqing Publishing House
I hope that this carefully polished list of books for 3-6 years old can help children experience the beauty and joy of this world, and can help parents, children's bookstores and kindergarten staff to successfully select suitable baby children's books.
Let's take our children with us and find the "vast world" in children's books.
Later, there is a "whole book" reading guide, please check it out!