That year, a neat row of "100,000 Why's" was displayed on the bookshelf, proudly explaining to friends why solar and lunar eclipses occurred and what sunspots were, which was the wish of every child in our time.
Now that I have children and pay attention to popular science books, I find that there is a very famous name DK in children's popular science books, which is almost quality assurance: not only the knowledge is accurate, vivid and interesting, but also illustrated, which can be called an upgraded version of "100,000 Why".
What is DK? Baidu looked at it and found that it is called Dorling Kindersley (English: Dorling Kindersley, often referred to as DK), which is an international publishing company in the UK. China Encyclopedia Publishing House has introduced many children's encyclopedias published by the publishing house, and DK has gradually become familiar to domestic children and parents.
Important Things published by China Encyclopedia Publishing House is a comprehensive encyclopedia, which is different from special encyclopedias. It combines the characteristics of young children, and selects six plates, including the earth, geography, animals, human beings, me and others, to give children all-round knowledge of popular science.
To what extent does this book cover knowledge? Let's take a look at the dialogue between our baby's father and grandfather about this book!
So, what's in the book?
For example, in the first section of Earth-related Knowledge, the thin two pages mentioned the Earth's rotation and talked about the 4.6 billion-year history of the Earth's inner mantle, outer core and inner core. Let me, a liberal arts student, suddenly return to geography class in high school.
For example, in the second section of geography, we can see the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and other landmark buildings. Remember the exam questions of a private primary school in Shanghai Yousheng Primary School? Ask the students to tell which country the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower belong to.
The third section of animal-related knowledge organically combines popular science with fable, and the last page is the well-known story of "tortoise and rabbit race".
I'm still doing research on the farm. If I take my children to the farm to play, I will explain this page later. It's awesome.
And the knowledge about human history reminds me of the book A Brief History of Mankind, which is popular in the adult world recently. Of course, this book is much simpler than that one. The style of painting on this page is another style. The pages close to the earth color convey rich knowledge with simple and generous color matching, and are also organically compatible with cave murals.
But to say my favorite section is the knowledge about "I". Nowadays, children's science popularization is easy to ignore this knowledge. In fact, knowing yourself can better understand the world.
And the "bottom" of other knowledge is not simple. It covers many aspects that children are interested in, such as language, color, national flag, zodiac, work vehicles and so on. You can explain this page while playing color games with children.
Although it is a popular science for children, the index is set at the end of the book. The degree of care can be seen.
Great books, even I, an adult, feel full of color and knowledge. Tell my "curious" baby something with my favorite book, which is believed to be a different life experience for him and me.
DK "those important things", you deserve it!