Today's article wants to talk to you about what many friends want to know, and recommend Chinese bridge books!

do you know what a bridge book is? Simply put, it is a transitional book for children from graphic reading to pure text reading.

When we first started parent-child reading, children were exposed to picture books. At this time, pictures actually played a very important role in reading, such as Guess how much I love you. Picture information almost became the dominant clue of the whole book, and children could understand the meaning of the book even if they didn't know words.

After children go to primary school to read independently, the books they read are like this. If children don't understand the meaning of the words themselves, they can't continue reading. The following are the I survived series and The Wizard of Oz that my children are watching.

Don't underestimate such a change. In fact, the cognitive challenge to children is not small. Song Juzhi, reviewer of UNESCO Asian Cultural Center and vice president of China-Japan Children's Literature and Art Exchange Center, pointed out:

"When children aged five or six read books, they mostly stare at words or pinyin one by one, that is to say, they are not reading books, but reading words. In this case, children are unlikely to understand the story in the book, let alone enjoy it, and the content of the book will not stay in their memory, so it will not bring spiritual growth to children. "

So in order to avoid killing children's interest in reading prematurely, bridge books are gradually emerging in this atmosphere. As a kind of books between picture books and pure text books, bridge books help children to make a good connection and realize the transition from "pure reading pictures" to "reading words but unable to contact meaning" and then "independent reading".

In today's article, @ Lin and I will tell you about it.

the ratio of text to picture is about 1:1, and the ratio of text to picture is half, or the ratio of text is a little larger.

The obvious difference from picture books suitable for young children is that the plot of the Bridge Book is mainly explained by words, and the picture is a supplement, not the protagonist, but a tool to help children understand the words.

Bridge books are not unique to a certain language. It can be said that there are bridge books in any language in the world.

For young children in the transition period, the bridge book is a good companion. The function of bridge books is to help children transition from parent-child reading to independent reading, from reading pictures to reading words. Therefore, the bridge book is especially suitable for children from kindergarten to grade one or two in primary school, with an age range of 4-8.

The painting style of Bridge Book is diverse, and the form is not unique. So many friends often can't tell the difference between "Bridge Book" and graded reading. Let me make an intuitive metaphor to help you understand "Bridge Book".

Graded reading series can be said to be dinner, while Bridge Book is dessert. Dinner is to eat full, scientific and nutritious, and dessert is the light of life to enhance happiness.

Broadly speaking, the graded reading series is very suitable as an assistant to study in class, helping children to further improve their reading ability and language ability because of its synchronization with the class and exquisite selection of articles.

I have written an article on Chinese graded reading before: Book Selection Guide: How to Choose a Good Set of Chinese Graded Reading?

As an interesting and personalized theme book, Bridge Book is more about expanding children's reading field. The length of the story is moderate, and the theme generally does not instill profound concepts, but is close to children's lives, so as to arouse children's interest in reading.

Bridge Books encourage children to choose their own themes and enjoy their favorite genres.

The purpose of bridge books is to help children with little literacy to transition to independent reading and stimulate children's interest in reading to the maximum extent, so the difficulty of the text, language style and aesthetic feeling of the picture are very important.

Today, for the evaluation of Bridge Book, we generally make a star evaluation according to the three aspects of characters' interest, readability and aesthetics, and give a comprehensive index of recommendation, which is combined with comprehensive evaluation and explanation.

The classification of picture books can also be roughly divided into two categories: "funny stories" and "interesting world" according to subject areas.

Among them, the "funny stories" recommend fictional works with the theme of telling funny stories; "Interesting World" recommends works that introduce science, nature and history through stories.

The bridge books involved in the following are all selected by Lin from a large number of bridge books, based on her evaluation and the actual use of children (sometimes the children our parents love may not necessarily buy them, which you must have a deep understanding of).

children have been familiar with and read each set of books for more than 2 months, and they are full of sincerity with a large number of real photos, hoping to bring you the most authentic use feedback.

Now, let's go to the recommendation section of Bridge Book. There are thirteen series of * * * recommended today:

"Fun Stories"

1. Different carmela (all 46 volumes)

2. Dog Detective Series (all 5 volumes)

3. Dolphin Picture Book Garden: Hansbill Picture Book Series (all 6 volumes) < p 8 volumes)

5. Fairy Tales of Kenji Miyazawa Woods (all 11 volumes)

7. Crazy School (all 6 volumes)

"Interesting world"

1. Science knows everything (all 24 volumes)

2. Magic School Bus Bridge Book Edition (all 24 volumes) Adventures (all three volumes)

4. Entomology for children in China (all six volumes)

5. I like history so much! A Concise History of China for Children (all 11 volumes)

6. Comic Idioms of Mi Xiao Circle (all 5 volumes)

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1. Different carmela (all 46 volumes)

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This book is a favorite of my children. It tells the story of small animals on the farm, centering on the carmela family and their good friends.

My children not only read it by themselves, but also watch it while listening to the audio, and now it is a heavy material for our parents and children to read every night before going to bed: one book every night, he reads one page, I read one page, and take turns to read it.

Almost every book in this set can make children laugh and roll all over the bed with pictures and texts. The characters in it are vivid, lovely and very three-dimensional, which combines fictional stories with many historical figures and events and is very innovative.

I've heard that many children are big fans of this book, which is equivalent to Peggy Piggy's position to young children.

Through my observation, it seems that no child, whether boy or girl, doesn't like this series of stories. Moreover, the translation style is also good, the words are vivid and accurate, and there are many idioms and proverbs.

The conclusion is that parents can close their eyes.

2. Dog Detective Series (set of 5 volumes)

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This is another set of books that no children are not enthusiastic about. This is not a bridge book in the strict sense. After all, it is mainly comics with very few words.

However, as a comic book that focuses on independent reading, it needs a certain cognitive threshold, and children who are too young may not understand the humorous logic behind comic books. So I put this set of books in the recommendation of Bridge Book.

Our family laughed at Sisyphus Bookstore after seeing it, which affected the reading of the children around us, so the old mother had to buy the baby and leave quickly. When the house was quiet, a burst of crazy laughter suddenly broke out, basically when he was reading this set of books.

As a mother who has undergone strict literary training, I couldn't accept this pure American funny book at first, and I felt that I lacked the necessary nutrients. Really, as a big book buyer who never hesitates to buy books, I resisted this book when I bought it.

now I realize that this is definitely my prejudice. I have always said that children should try different styles. Why do they start to resist humorous cartoons with double standards?

Reading should never be so serious, but should be daily and relaxing. The English version of this set of books sells well, and the Chinese translation is also a sales miracle in China. This fully shows that the humor of this set of books can really attract children.

3. Dolphin Picture Book Garden: Hans Biel Picture Book Series (all 6 volumes)

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This set of books is the work of Hans Biel, a Dutch child painter. I bought this set of books because I was attracted by the style of painting. The painting style of this set of books completely poked my ideal imagination of fairy tale scenes and characters when I was a child, and I felt beautiful, clean and warm, so I didn't hesitate to start.

The story style is also a story between small animals that are very loving and warm. The story conflict is not strong, and it is not won by the ups and downs of the plot. I call this kind of book a light plot.

So, I don't know whether our children have read a lot of stories with strong plots, or whether this style is more suitable for the aesthetics of little girls. Our children have a general reaction to this set of books, but my old mother has read it with relish many times.

You can buy it and have a look. I think it's a very good picture book with very good aesthetics. But you know, just like us adults, reading novels is very exciting, while prose is relatively flat. This is a similar feeling among children, which is equivalent to the feeling that we adults read lyric prose.

4. The Adventure Series of Pointy Rats (***8 volumes)

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Personally, I prefer Japanese picture book style. Because I read a Ph.D. in design and read a lot of books and works on Japanese design, I almost accept the more famous Japanese children's books on the market.

The aesthetic style of Japanese children's books, like design, is particularly diverse, and each category can achieve the extreme of this category.

For example, Miyanishi's dinosaur series and Mouse Little Brother series have completely different styles, but they all win the children's love. I think they are also good aesthetic education materials. The same is true of this set of "The Adventure of Pointy Rats".

The author is both a writer and a painter. The whole story revolves around the theme of nature, which is very interesting and vivid. I really love the sharp mouse inside.

However, because the illustrations of this series of books are black and white, it is inevitable that their appeal to children will be somewhat weakened, and parents need to guide them. When the children get into the context of the story, they will have no problem reading it at all.

5. Fairy Tales of Kenji Miyazawa Woods (complete set of 11 volumes)

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This set is also a children's book by Japanese people. Let's take a look at the official evaluation and author's introduction first.

The whole set of books is recommended today, with the smallest proportion of characters and the largest characters. In terms of stories, some ideas of the stories around nature are novel. But this novelty is not necessarily very fun, but the idea is a little different. Therefore, our children sometimes feel a little confused about the words when reading, haha, it's especially fun.

I always cherish the novelty of reading, just like when you travel to a place, the local special food makes you particularly surprised, and you must feel as if you were shocked at that time. You can't even tell that it must be a good feeling. But this special experience is actually very precious. Perhaps this is the most memorable part of your trip.

The same is true of reading. It's no problem to keep reading according to your own taste, but as a rich person, we should always try everything. The same is true of the books we give our children. Parents inevitably choose books for their children according to their own preferences. In fact, sometimes they are partial to food.

I highly recommend this book, but the reason for recommending it is a little different, that is, I hope everyone can see different beauty and give children a change.

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This set of books is the kind of ups and downs that grow on children's jokes throughout the book, and it is also a classic book series. There are two little mice at home.