Because it is an instinct to infer the story picture book of Arabian Nights, it is different from other ordinary picture books and can only carry single digits or single-digit story themes. It is extremely logical and intriguing, and new discoveries will be made after repeated rereading. The hidden ambush is enough for you and your children to explore for years.
Four Seasons Time is a brand-new picture book-intensive picture book. Frankly speaking, I seldom come into contact with such picture books.
It usually adopts a panoramic perspective and presents the content in the form of cross-page, with many pictures, few words or even no words.
Before introducing this picture book, I think it is necessary to introduce the author of this picture book-Rotrault Susanna Bernard, who is one of the most famous picture book writers and illustrators in Germany. She has published many picture books with amazing creativity and imagination, among which the Four Seasons series and Carl Rabbit series are internationally renowned and won the 20 16 International Andersen Illustrator Award.
Her picture book Four Seasons Time won the world's most beautiful book award in 2004, and because of this picture book, Susanna Bernard was evaluated by the media as "improving the artistic level of the children's book type Intensive Reading Picture Book by herself".
"Four Seasons Time" describes the daily life of the small German town of Wemlingen from winter to summer night, including these seven scenes, namely: residential building, country farm, railway station, kindergarten and cultural center, commercial street in civic square, department store and lakeside park.
This picture book uses a panoramic perspective, based on place and time, and depicts a long scroll with multiple story clues in the same season and at the same time, so that children can recognize the situation, identify things, track the plot, logically reason, make great visual discoveries and tell stories by looking at the picture without pressure. ...
Many parents feel that they can't start with this kind of enhanced picture book, but for children, colorful pictures have natural interest, so parents don't have to worry that their children can't understand them. Therefore, when reading this set of picture books with children, parents only need to patiently guide and listen, and leave the rest to the children to play freely.
First of all, we can start with the basics. ...
In the box at the bottom of each spread of Four Seasons Time, there are many small icons of articles, all marked in English and Chinese. Parents can ask their children to name the article, and parents with good spoken English can teach their children to read the corresponding English words by the way.
Then find the corresponding items from the big screen. Some of these items are conspicuous and some are hidden. Children must have the patience to find them. Parents can give their children appropriate tips. For example, where will tableware appear? Kitchen or living room? Wait a minute.
There are more than 600 life words in this picture book. These words are not randomly arranged, but have certain rules to follow. Parents can let their children find it themselves and summarize it themselves.
Parents may find this game of "looking around" boring, but as far as children are concerned, they enjoy it. As long as things are discovered by them, they can gain great confidence and satisfaction. Moreover, in the process of this entertaining game, they not only learned English and Chinese, but also cultivated their observation ability, logical reasoning ability and concentration.
More importantly, it can make them familiar with the environment around the object quickly and devote themselves to this picture book. ...
Then, we can ...
As an intensive picture book, Four Seasons Time has a variety of individual elements. At first glance, the intricate picture will feel that there is no way to start.
But in fact, there are many characters and stories hidden in every painting, and every character and even animal in the book will have their own stories. This kind of strong logic and reasoning is incomparable with other picture books.
To understand this picture book, as long as you calm down, you can weave a unique story, lock a single character as a clue, track the whereabouts of the character through every scene and every time period, and infer the plot.
I would like to add here that the four seasons do not follow the traditional order of "spring, summer, autumn and winter", but start from "winter", followed by "warm spring", "summer", "cool autumn" and finally "moonlit night". It has been three years.
In order to let everyone know this picture book more intuitively, let's do a simple warm-up exercise first, taking the picture book Winter as an example.
Open the first page, the first thing you see is a three-story residential building. In front of the building is the station and the expressway, behind the building is a wilderness, with two big trees on the left and right.
After understanding the general environment, let's lock the characters first-the grandmother on the second floor, with gray hair, wearing a black hat, a yellow cotton-padded jacket, an orange bag on her shoulder, a red glove and a blue umbrella. Come on, give her a name first!
Her son gave her an interesting name: "Grandma Scud" (the author named this grandmother Andrea). Naming roles can actually stimulate children's interest in language application, so parents should not ignore this link.
Then we give the initiative to the child, let him carefully observe the pictures, and weave his own trip to Wemlingen according to his own thinking and interests.
First of all, we can imagine: "What is this scud grandma going out for?" ,
Is it chasing a bus? Go shopping? Or visit relatives and friends?
All we have to do is follow grandma Scud and look through picture books, and we can find the answer. ...
In the second scene, she runs very fast with an umbrella ... what seems to be chasing? Is she chasing a bus?
In the third scene, grandma Scud passed the farm, and she was still running and walking like a fly! I can't believe I've been tracking bicycles and buses. ...
At the cultural center, grandma Scud finally stopped and seemed to be attracted by something. Following her eyes and the eyes of the public, it turned out to be the parrot that caused the traffic accident (then whose parrot could it be? You can look back at the picture book)!
The above reasoning is a typical situational cognition, which allows children to make their own judgments and conclusions by observing the places, scenes and character movements in the picture, combined with their own actual situation.
When passing by the civic square, she was still running with an umbrella. ...
At the mall, she is still running ... and parallel to the bus. Grandma Scud runs too fast! She kept running down except that she was attracted by the parrot and stopped for a minute. Does she have anything urgent to deal with?
It turned out that she had an appointment with her friends to meet in the cafe and have afternoon tea together! At the moment when the answer was announced, did you feel particularly fulfilled?
In fact, there are many similar stories in Four Seasons. We just need to observe the details carefully, then think about its rationality, put forward a guess appropriately, then cross-verify, analyze the reasoning plot, and weave all kinds of wonderful "Arabian Nights".
In the whole process, it is necessary to fully mobilize the children's ability to cooperate and coordinate with each other among their hands, eyes, brain and mouth, which can also greatly improve their logical thinking, reasoning level and expression ability.
Basically, when a character comes down without a teacher, the child will understand the rules of this picture book. Every time they turn a page, time and space will change and the plot will continue to advance.
When we reason out many wonderful "short stories", then we can capture a whole set of picture books to reason out colorful biographies.
Taking time as a clue and choosing the same scene for comparison, we can intuitively feel the changes of various animals, plants and people in a year.
The big tree on the right side of the amusement park is full of flowers in spring, and the warblers are whispering. Summer is lush and fruitful, but in late autumn, leaves fall and the cold wind is bleak, leaving only bare branches covered with snow in winter.
And the contrast between day and night. During the day, all kinds of people are engaged in different jobs, and at night, animals haunt them, but many people stick to their posts and take pains. ...
In the time cycle of "Four Seasons Time", we can also lock a character and infer all his whereabouts and life tracks from the cold winter to the summer night of the third year. You will find that each character will have his unique personality and living habits, and everyone is trying to manage his own life, just like a "biography" of a character, which is interesting and unforgettable. ...
I named this little girl with a long ponytail Tingting (author's name: Lynn). After reading the complete picture book, you will get the following information.
All this information was summarized by my son. I asked my son, "How do you know Tingting saves and cherishes her own things?"
He replied, "Look! Her goldfish lantern ... "
Being pointed out by my son, I found that my son's observation ability is stronger than mine!
In the cool autumn, the town of Wemlingen will hold a pumpkin contest (a special activity in Germany), and children will hold their own lanterns to celebrate Halloween.
Other children may change a different style of lantern every year, but Tingting is carrying the lantern she bought last year (or maybe last year).
Only on the page of "Cool Autumn", there is no goldfish lantern hanging on the ceiling of Tingting's bedroom (because she holds a lantern for the holidays). Whether it's cold winter, warm spring, midsummer, cool autumn or the summer night of the third year, all kinds of furnishings and furniture in the bedroom have changed. Only goldfish lanterns are safely hung on the ceiling of Tingting's bedroom and displayed in front of readers in different postures.
Seeing this, do you think the four seasons are too strong? Every detail of it is close to life, logical, traceable and worthy of reasoning. ...
Apart from Tingting, the character I listed, as long as you carefully observe and reason, you will find many such stories and interesting stories of the four seasons, and understand the unique personalities and living habits of different characters (even animals).
Although there is not a word in the picture book Four Seasons Time, if you write down the story of every character or animal in the picture, I think it will be endless like a year and a night. ...
Generally speaking, the intensive reading of the picture book Four Seasons Time is close to children's daily life, with clearly classified Chinese and English words, interesting visual "find it" and multi-clue image "story collection" like prose poetry, which is simply a clear stream in the picture book industry.
A thrilling picture book like Four Seasons Time, I think it is worth having for every child!