Children's Story Books to Read with Parents

    

1. Issue 21 of "New Children's Story Book":

   

This is the 21st issue of "New Children's Story Book". In each issue, we will screen the newly launched children's Story Books from various brands, taking into account children of all ages, and focus on the inspiration and novelty of the contents of Children's Story Books in the selection.

   

Our recommended children's Story Book, its readers are not limited to children, we will also choose books suitable for parents to read into the book list.

This issue recommends 9 (sets) books. Among them, 1 adult book and 8 children's Story Book (sets). Welcome to the WeChat group, tell us which one is your favorite, and recommend other good books to us.

   

     

2. Children's Story Book: "It's Better to Tell a Story"

    

"Telling the truth is worse than telling a story"

[US] Joseph Salosi [US] Silke Rose West

Translated by Cao Jingxiang

Light Dust | CITIC Publishing Group November 2021

    

The Chinese title of this small children's Story Book is excellent, surpassing the original English title: How to Tell Stories to Children. The Chinese name of children’s Story Book has more meaning than the English title: children like to listen to stories rather than reason, but adults are keen to reason.

    

But this children's Story Book is not to guide parents to buy and read more story books for their children. The "storytelling" here refers to "making up stories". The author of children's Story Book advises parents not to always be superstitious about other people's stories. Well, on the contrary, they can make up their own children's Story Book for the children to listen to. The process of compiling children’s Story Book is a relationship building, an emotional bond and shared experience between parents and children. Only parents can customize the most “tasty” stories for their children.

    

The two authors are experienced kindergarten teachers. They have probably come into contact with too many children. Many classic stories of children's Story Book can no longer satisfy children's appetite. For example, use squirrel squirrels to allude to conflict between children; when you see a child barefoot, tell a story about her shoes going for a walk by the creek. Stories like this make children giggle while feeling like they are part of the story, and feel valued because they find the characters and events in the story from real life.

   

This children's Story Book can give us such an inspiration: adults are keen to choose picture books and story books for children, in fact, children are not so picky about stories. If we mistakenly believe that stories are in fierce competition for the attention of children, we abandon this path of strengthening parent-child relationships by creating children’s Story Book stories for children.

       

    

3. The New La Fontaine Fables: 55 Modern Animal Stories children’s Story Book

     

[French] Pascal Tullard

[Switzerland] Illustrated by Adriana Balmain and translated by Chen Xiao

Waves Blossoms | Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House October 2021

Applicable age: 7+

This children's Story Book is a new take on La Fontaine's Fables. La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French poet, famous for his "Fables of La Fontaine". "The Fables of La Fontaine" is a French free poem adapted from fables collected by La Fontaine from all over the West and the East. It is divided into 12 volumes and contains 239 fables, ranging in length from a few lines to several hundred lines, full of humor and satire, considered a classic children's Story Book in French literature. Originally intended for adults to read, they were later adopted by the educational system, requiring children to learn, especially the rhythm of poetry.

   

Why is this children's Story Book an adaptation of La Fontaine's fable? Children's Story Book author Tollard wrote the answer in a long preface. This is a very interesting preface. A group of animals came to visit Toulard, claiming to be "La Fontaine's team", and jointly "participated" in La Fontaine's fables, but they are now very dissatisfied with these fables.

    

Turtle said, "Young people are addicted to social networks today, and they don't read fables very much." Fox said, "The role positioning in the fable is very clear. The dog represents loyalty, the ant represents diligence, and the donkey represents poverty..." But the donkey protested this The generalization is really unfair; the crow is indignant, the current popular elements are vampires or zombies, there is no animal, and when it comes to animals, everyone only thinks of pets; the vulture is even more angry, it has been playing tricks in the troupe, La Fontaine only made it appear in the fable once... So the animals wanted to ask Toulard to write the modern fable children's Story Book, rearranging their characters so that the story was still philosophical, but more modern, and Avoid stereotypes.

   

So Tullard wrote these 55 verse animal stories in accordance with the requirements of the animals. You don't need to read La Fontaine's Fables to understand this children's Story Book, maybe when you read the fox and the crow as the protagonists, you will think of the famous version in Aesop's fables, but in this children's Story The fox in Book has another funny ending. Can you guess what this ending is?

    

    

4. "Brother Axe is Amazing" children's Story Book

     

[Japanese] Kaguriko Written/painted by Yuan Xiumin

Love Tree | Sunray Publishing House September 2021

Applicable age: 3+

   

This is the children's Story Book created by Kaguriko (1926-2018), the author of "The Crow Bakery", which depicts the role of various tools in a cheerful and fun atmosphere.

  

Brother Axe cut down a big tree, and his little friends—big hatchet, small hammer, chisel, etc. came one after another, slicing, beating, beating, and the big tree miraculously turned into a sturdy and beautiful wooden chair! Scissors, tweezers, diamond drills, wrenches, screwdrivers and other tools continued to appear, and they worked together to make small robots, clothes, and pianos. In the end, the robot wore beautiful clothes, sat on a wooden chair and played beautiful music. All the tools came out to cheer and applaud.

   

There are many tools in this children's Story Book, some common and some uncommon. At a time when the busy modern man is no longer making or tinkering with everyday objects, this children’s Story Book seems to remind us of the unique charm of handicrafts.

     

   

5. "Their Home: Houses of Different Ages" children's Story Book

     

[French] by Natalie Lescaille-Mulinas

[France] Illustrated by Sebastian Plassal and translated by Wang Qian

Waves Blossoms | China Friendship Publishing Company October 2021

  

Applicable age: 5+

  

From tents that can only shelter from the wind and rain to modern smart homes, how have the houses we live in become more and more functional and more beautiful?

   

This children's Story Book is great to read alongside stories that tell a brief history of mankind. It starts with the tents of the Cro-Magnons in the late Paleolithic, and along the timeline, introduces the huts of the Gauls in the late Iron Age, the stalls of the craftsmen in the late Middle Ages, the houses of the merchants in the Age of Enlightenment, and the houses of the merchants in the period of the Industrial Revolution. Mansions for the rich, modern homes from the 1960s and green buildings today. It is equivalent to selecting a house in each important historical period, facing its section, and introducing why the house is structured in this way.

   

The emphasis in the children’s Story Book is on the functionality of the house, and the addition of new facilities and inventions compared to the previous era. These inventions include shutters, folding metal windows, composite panels, and more.

  

Each page of the children’s Story Book has a house, which looks like a toy hut in section. Building their own little house is indispensable in children's games, and perhaps this children's Story Book can add some content to their imagination.

    

 

    

6. The Mole Morris children’s Story Book

    

[America] Dan Jaccarino Written/Illustrated by Li Yishun

Tianlue | Beijing United Publishing Company September 2021

Applicable age: 3+

This children's Story Book can also be called "The One and Only Morris", "Morris, Be Yourself". The children’s Story Book is about Morris the Mole living underground with his brothers, but he is always different from his brothers and insists on his own practices and ideas. The brothers were trying their best to dig down, but the little mole had to dig up. As a result, he came to the ground and opened up a new world. The little mole met the fox who wanted to eat him, he saved himself with his wit, and brought rich gifts for his brothers.

     

Author Dan Jaccarino is a renowned illustrator and author who has won several children's Story Book awards. In addition to creating the children's Story Book, he is also an animator.