Father of Japanese picture books
Nao Matsuei
Who is Matsuei?
Nao Matsue (1926-2022.11.2) was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the Japan Publishing Society, a member of the International Children's Council of Japan, an assessor of the UNESCO Asian Cultural Center, vice president of the Sino-Japanese Children's Literature and Art Exchange Center, and is known as the "Father of the Japanese Picture Book".
Mr. Matsunori once said, "I want to make picture books that can be read by three generations of people."
He discovered and nurtured a large number of outstanding picture book creators: Koya Anno, Taro Gomi, Tatsui Matsuoka ...... Mr. Matsuei Naoto is also an enlightened mentor of Chinese picture books, and has contributed a lot to the spread of Chinese picture books. Throughout his life, Mr. Matsue has written many books about picture book reading, and he has reinvented the meaning of picture book reading from the perspective of a children's book editor. Picture books are not books for children to read by themselves, but books for adults to read to children.
Nao Matsuhisa's curated works
Mr. Matsuhisa himself curated the world's first monthly scientific picture book magazine, which has published more than 600 volumes of classic picture books over the past 50 years, and has won numerous awards.
The authors of the books are Tatsui Matsuoka, Tamotaro Gomi, Riko Kakuriko, Ginichiro Yanagi, etc., all of them are "masters of picture books" and "sales champions"; and the books are translated by children's literature writer and translator Peng Yi.
The content of the book is close to children's lives, giving them the first scientific enlightenment and encouraging them to experience the world from their own experience, feel the world in a delicate way, and naturally get close to science.
Nao Matsue's Picture Book Works
Motaro
The classic picture book of folktales, "Momotaro," has everything a child would love. Created by Sueyoshi Akabane, an international Hans Christian Andersen Award-winning artist, and Naoto Matsue***, the "father of picture books" in Japan.
The Story of Peach Blossom Garden
In 1995, Nao Matsuhisa came to China to meet the painter Cai Gao, who led Matsuhisa to visit the Peach Blossom Garden in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, and the two decided to join forces to create the picture book.
Matsuju Naoto's Picture Book Works
The Clever Carpenter
Nippon Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award Grand Prize Works. A model of storytelling that is humorous, tense and laugh-out-loud funny, and engages children to read it in one sitting, aloud.
The traffic light blinks
Matsuju Naoto and the author of "Cabbage Little Brother", Nagashinta, have joined forces to create a transportation picture book, which establishes a sense of safety from an early age, and has been selected as one of the Chinese children's graded reading books in the mother tongue.
The Theory of Matsuhisa's Picture Books
Matsuhisa uses the classics as a model for his in-depth explanations of the language and pictures of picture books. Using Picture Books as a Medium, Finding the Trick to Connect with Children's Minds
The Power of Picture BooksPicture book guru Naoto Matsui, clinical psychologist Hayao Kawai, and documentary writer Kunio Yanagida talk about the power of picture books and their impact on adults from their respective fields of expertise.
How to Read Picture Books to Children
Parents will learn to look at picture books through the eyes of both children and adults, ways to read picture books to their children, tips on how to read and understand pictures, and the broad perspectives needed for parent-child reading.
The Seeds of Happiness
The happy image of "parent-child **** reading" is a warm memory of a child's growth. With his own childhood growth, parenting experience, and reflections on the children's book publishing industry, Naoto Matsuhisa tells parents about the important role of picture books in children's development.