picture books should take into account common sense and fun
wangying (special commentator)
At the moment when picture books are popular, parents will buy various picture book reading materials for their children. With the domestic market not yet mature, the quality of picture books is uneven, and many parents face similar problems: How to choose the right picture books? What should I do if the content of children’s picture books does not conform to common sense?
In this regard, Zhu Xinwei, editor of children's book at Shanghai Translation Publishing House , believes that to a certain extent, picture book stories can be understood as a type of fictional literature, so rabbits can dive, horses can get myopia, and rats can drive sailboats. These are all expressions of literature.
Some netizens agree with Zhu Xinwei's view on whether picture books should abide by common sense in life, believing that picture books do not need to abide by common sense in life, and can be fiction at will to open up children's imagination. Some netizens believe that picture books should be in line with common sense in life.
picture books are a special literary style with young children as the reading group. Since it is a literary style, it must conform to the characteristics of literature. Some literary expression techniques can be used, such as fiction, anthropomorphism, metaphor, exaggeration, etc., to enhance the vividness and image of picture books.
Imagination is the basic means of picture book creation. has no imagination, no vivid storyline and character image, just a serious preaching, picture books have no vitality and will not attract children. Anthropomorphism is a common expression method used in picture books. In picture books, stones can speak, animals and plants can work and learn like humans, and have human thoughts and emotions. For example, in "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong , can go to heaven and earth, fight against the heaven, and one can go a long way. Humanize animals and plants through strange imaginations, which can easily stimulate children's interest. But no matter how strange the imagination is, it cannot be separated from real life.
As a book for young children, picture books also have an additional function, namely enriches children's knowledge, inspires children's wisdom, and shapes children's personality . In other words, on the basis of vividness and fun, picture literature must also take into account both knowledge and education. Through the expression of fictional stories, characters and images, children can be educated and influenced subtly.
Good picture books should have an enlightenment and educational effect on children. should integrate fun, knowledge and education, so that children can learn some common sense of life while appreciating wonderful drawings, bizarre plots, and exaggerated and deformed descriptions, and then enlighten children's wisdom and cultivate good living habits and patterns of being a person and doing things. In this way, it seems that the adherence to common sense and interesting nature of picture books is not contradictory. While designing the picture book, the plot and character images of the picture book should have a certain degree of correlation with real life, and should not bring common sense misleading to children such as "penguins can't swim".
(Author Wang Ying, special commentator of Dandelion Comment. This is the first work published by Dandelion Comment website. Please be sure to mark the source for reprinting, violators will be prosecuted.)
