Children between 0 and 6 years old need both direct experience of life and indirect experience from other media. The more experience, the more children know about the world and the richer their imagination.
Picture books are providing children with more opportunities to experience.
Books that can be played by 0 ~ 1 year old
For babies who have just begun to explore the world, books have too many functions as [toys].
Therefore, when choosing books for children at this stage, we should pay more attention to [Yan value] and consider playing with children instead of paying attention to [reading].
< < Guess Who I Am > > Series
This set of books is rich in color, simple and rhyming in writing, and the design of digging holes attracts babies to guess that what animals are hidden in the small holes.
At the end of each book, there is a mirror. Guessing, the baby saw himself. What a wonderful design.
It is in such games that babies learn to know various animals.
In addition, this is a set of cardboard books, and it is only the size of the baby’s palm, so it is not easy to tear, and the baby can play with ease.
Bright and Exquisite Touch Book Series < < Billy Rabbit > >
Touch is the main way for babies to know the world. This set of touch books uses simulation materials to simulate the epidermis of animals and plants.
[Fluffy] ducks, [slippery] fish and phosphorus slices, [rough] bark… When reading this book with parents, the baby can feel it with his fingers.
Books that can be read repeatedly at the age of 1 ~ 3
About one year old is the development period of language. Simple, rhythmic and repetitive language is most suitable for children at this stage.
Therefore, this stage of book selection can choose some catchy nursery rhymes, nursery rhymes, and short stories with simple plots and repeated stories.
< < Finger Nursery Rhymes > > Game Book
The content of each children’s song is what the baby can see and the scene that the baby is familiar with. Catchy content is accompanied by finger games. Such game reading can not only promote children’s language development, but also help build a good parent-child relationship.
The writer of this series is German. After mastering the personal interaction skills in the book, parents can also take their children to read < < Chinese Nursery Rhymes > >.
< < Gloves > >
The plot of the story picture book for children at this stage should be simple, and it is best to choose the story that is pushed forward step by step in continuous repetition. For example, the plot is repeated, but the roles in the story are increasing.
Ukrainian folk story < < Gloves > > is a similar good choice.
A big glove fell in the forest, and animals kept coming in. Such stories make children feel safe in the reading process and happy with the continuous addition of new members.
< < Baby Bear > > Series
It covers all aspects of children’s life, from the details of eating, sleeping and going to the toilet to the social experience of saying hello and making friends.
The plot in the book is pushed forward in the expansion of a single picture, and the language is repeated continuously, which enables young children to fully enjoy reading while recognizing and learning skills.
< < Guess how much I love you > >
Love is an important emotional experience in childhood. Picture books are a good medium for parent-child relationship. If they are also picture books with the theme of love and kinship, they will definitely bring double pleasant experience to adults and children.
< < Guess how much I love you > > This classic picture book can not only be read to children, but also learn from children about the rabbit mother and baby in the book and express love in concrete ways.
< < Hen Rose goes for a walk > >
When looking for the meaning of picture book reading, fun cannot always be ignored. Therefore, we should find more picture books for children that can bring pleasant experience and humor.
This book “Hen Rose Going for a Walk” is a choice that cannot be missed: the hen walking leisurely does not know that there is a fox behind her who only wants to eat her falling out. At the same time, it is also a classic work that perfectly combines pictures and texts and conveys richer information.
You can read the picture with your child and tell the plot that is not described in the text.
Picture Books for Children Aged 3 ~ 6
The choice of picture books at this stage is much broader, which can be stories with slightly complicated plots or popular science books that increase knowledge.
Parents can also choose picture books according to their children’s gender, personality and experience.
1. Picture books that blend the four seasons and nature into stories.
< < 14 mice > >
This is a large series, with a total of 12 books, which have been published for more than 30 years and have not lost their charm.
The picture book tells the story of a big family composed of grandpa, grandma, father, mother and ten little mice.
The self-sufficient mouse family living in nature is really enviable. The author uses large cross-page pictures and few words to express their life.
One of the great pleasures of reading this series of picture books is [looking for].
In the rich pictures, you can not only find all kinds of creatures in nature, but also distinguish the ten mice in the picture from the eldest to the eleven. It is really fun.
2. No Word Book
The book without words should tell a complete story in pure pictorial language. When children read the book without words, they will certainly mumble the story out to themselves.
< < Dream Flight > > < < Snowman > > < < Secret of the Seabed > > < < DreamWorks 7 > >
Because there is no fixed text, whether parent-child reading or children reading alone, as more details in the picture are found, the story told each time will not be a fixed version, which is itself a good attempt to practice language expression.
David Wisner, author of Fantasy Flight, believes that a book without words can do the following things:
- Leaving mystery for picture books; Let imagination have room for galloping. Let readers get closer to these illustrations and participate in them as they please, creating their own stories with their own inner voices.
3. Emotional Cognition Picture Book
< < Beast Country > > (also known as [Place of Beasts])
This book is described as [the first picture book in the United States that recognizes that children have strong emotions] and is suitable for children aged 4 to 6.
Max, the hero of the story, began to use his wild fantasy to resist and vent because he was punished by his mother.
Anger and fear are [wild animals] that need to be tamed in children’s hearts. This book may help children to understand and balance their emotions imperceptibly, and also enable adults to face up to and accept all kinds of emotions that children may show.
< < Mother-in-law Hua > >
Children of five or six years old are eager for stories with more complicated plots, and < < mother-in-law Hua > > uses a picture book to cover a person’s magnificent life.
This book is the author’s autobiographical story, which tells the story of Miss Luffith’s three things that she promised her grandfather in her whole life in a flashback way. The third thing [must do something to make the world more beautiful] makes people deeply moved.
The painting style of the whole book is quiet and agitating, pays attention to details, and has high artistic quality.
4. Popular Science
Boys may prefer such books, but that doesn’t mean girls definitely don’t like them.
< < the coolest and most complete means of transportation > >
This is a super-large pop-up book that can attract children in terms of color value alone. Children over the age of three can read it.
It has more than 60 movable pictures, including loose-leaf, rotating shaft, tie rod and rotating wheel designs. Parents can learn to take their children to understand how mechanical equipment and various vehicles work in the game.
Dk encyclopedia series
This set of books is suitable for children over four years old to read, including popular science encyclopedias such as history, geography, space, animals, dinosaurs, nature and various ability training encyclopedias.
There is no need to repeat the functions of encyclopedias. It is suggested that children can walk out of books after reading and approach various science and technology museums, aquariums, museums, planetariums, etc. nearby, so that children can have more concrete experiences of these knowledge.
Have you ever bought these picture books for your children? Is there any what picture book worth recommending? Do you have any what experience in purchasing picture books? Share it with you in the comment area!