Should the content of children's picture books be in line with common sense?
Wang Ying. In the current era of picture books, parents will add a variety of picture books to their children. In the case of the immature domestic market, the quality of picture books is uneven, and many parents are facing a similar problem: how to choose the right picture book?What should I do if the content of children's picture books does not conform to common sense?
In this regard, Zhu Xinwei, a children's book editor at Shanghai Translation Publishing House, believes that to a certain extent, picture book stories can be understood as a kind of fictional literature, so rabbits can dive, horses can be short-sighted, and mice can drive sailboats, which are all forms of literature.
As for whether picture books should abide by common sense of life, some netizens agree with Zhu Xinwei's opinion, believing that picture books do not have to abide by common sense of life, and can be fictionalized at will to open children's imagination. And some netizens think that picture books should conform to common sense of life.
Picture books are a special literary style for young children as the reading group. Since it is a literary style, it must conform to the characteristics of literature, and some literary expression techniques can be used, such as fiction, personification, metaphor, exaggeration, etc., to enhance the vividness and vividness of picture books.
Imagination is the basic means of picture book creation. Without imagination, without a vivid storyline and characters, just a serious preaching, picture books will have no vitality and will not attract children. And anthropomorphism is the usual expression technique used in picture books, in picture book works, stones can speak, animals and plants can work and Xi like people, and have human thoughts and emotions, such as the Monkey King in "Journey to the West", can go to heaven and earth, fight against the heavenly court, and a heel can turn over 108,000 miles. Humanizing animals and plants through peculiar imagination is easy to stimulate children's interest. But no matter how peculiar the imagination is, it cannot be divorced from real life.
As a children's book, picture books also have an additional function, that is, to enrich children's knowledge, inspire children's wisdom, and shape children's personality. In other words, on the basis of vividness and interest, picture book literature should also take into account knowledge and education. Through the expression of fictional stories, characters and images, children can be educated and nurtured imperceptibly.
A good picture book should have an enlightening and educational effect on childrenIt is necessary to integrate interest, knowledge and education, so that children can learn some common sense of life while appreciating beautiful drawings, bizarre plots, and exaggerated and deformed descriptions, so as to enlighten children's wisdom and cultivate children's good life Xi habits and patterns of life and work. In this way, there is no contradiction between the common sense and the fun of picture books. While visualizing the design, the storyline and characters of the picture book should have a certain degree of relevance to real life, and should not bring common sense misleading to children such as "penguins can't swim".