The Development History of the World Baby Board Book [Part 1]

     

1. About the Baby Board Book for Kids:

     

"The Baby Board Book is the first book that children see on the road of life, and it is the most important book that a person has read in a long reading career. How much joy a child can experience from the Baby Board Book, will Determines whether he enjoys reading throughout his life." - Dorothy White, New Zealand librarian, "Baby Board Book About Children"

     

     

2. The birth of Baby Board Book

     

Baby Board Book was born in Europe in the 17th century. In the 1930s, the mainstream of Baby Board Book spread to the United States, and Baby Board Book ushered in a golden age. In the 1950s and 1960s, Baby Board Book began to emerge in Korea and Japan. In the 1970s, Taiwan also began to read Baby Board Books, which subsequently led to a boom in Baby Board Book reading. Although Baby Board Book has a history of more than 100 years in European and American countries, it is still very unfamiliar to most domestic parents.

     

 

    

3. Baby Board Book reading and classics:

     

"Baby Board Book uses pictures and words to narrate a complete story. It is an ensemble of pictures and texts. In Baby Board Book, pictures are no longer the appendage of words, but the life of the book." ——Peng Yi, children's writer "Baby Board Book Reading and Classics"

    

     

4. What is Baby Board Book

     

"Drawing" is the lifeline of Baby Board Book, and children can use pictures to understand the context of the story. Therefore, the painting of Baby Board Book is not an illustration, it is not just to express the part of the content that the text has already expressed, it is not an "assistant" of the text, but an independent and complete creation. The most important thing about Baby Board Book is its literary and artistic quality. It's not just words to read in Baby Board Book, it's to read stories from pictures. The high-quality pictures and texts in Baby Board Book have an immeasurable and subtle influence on cultivating children's cognitive ability, observation ability, communication ability, imagination, creativity, and emotional development, etc. There are very few words in the Baby Board Book, but because of the small number of words, the requirements for the words are higher: the Baby Board Book must be concise, and use short words to build a story with ups and downs; the Baby Board Book must be funny and lively, in line with the children's language Habit. The relationship between children and the paintings in the Baby Board Book is to see stories or knowledge and information on the paintings. For children, this is the first entrance to reading.

    

     

The world's Baby Board Book theory master Matsui Nao used a concise mathematical formula to explain the characteristics of picture books:

Text + drawing = illustrated book

Text × picture = picture book

     

    

"People and books are not innately attracted to each other. At the beginning, there must be a medium, parents, relatives, neighbors, teachers or librarians, to bring the Baby Board Book to the world of children." - Jim Choi, a famous American reading expert Liss

       

5. The meaning of reading Baby Board Book

     

Baby Board Book is the best book format for children to read. Baby Board Book is not only about telling stories and learning knowledge, but also can comprehensively help children build their spirits and cultivate multiple intelligences. Children's ability to recognize graphics starts to develop slowly from a very young age. Although the children at that time were illiterate, they already had a certain ability to read pictures. If parents can consciously read the Baby Board Book with their children at this time, create a warm environment, read words to them, read pictures and tell stories with them . The children will taste the art of painting in the Baby Board Book, and will recognize words and understand literature in the appreciation of pictures.

     

     

6. Jan Arms Comenius was the "Father of the Baby Board Book":

     

The world's first illustrated Baby Board Book was born in the 17th century, a book titled by John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), the founder of pedagogy, published in 1658. Illustrated Baby Board Book for The World Baby Board Book (Orbis Pictus).

Comenius regards children as readers, and realizes that combining text and pictures, children have fun and pleasure in pictures, can make teaching easy and effective. "World Baby Board Book" is recognized as the prototype of Baby Board Book, and Jan Arms Comenius is regarded as "the father of Baby Board Book".

     

    

7. The father of the modern Baby Board Book --- Randolph Caldecott

     

The birth of Baby Board Book is attributed to the invention of color printing technology in the 19th century and the pioneering of British painter and publisher Edmund Evans. He not only devoted himself to color printing technology, but also raised him to an artistic level, thus creating Three pioneers of picture books. Among them, Randolph Caldecott was hailed as "the father of the modern Baby Board Book" by later generations.

   

    

8. The Mother of Modern Baby Board Book---Atrix Potter

     

In the 1930s, the mainstream of English-speaking Baby Board Books gradually moved to the United States, and Baby Board Books ushered in its golden age. In 1902, the British painter Beatrix Potter's "The Story of Peter Rabbit", the Baby Board Book, was officially published. This small format Baby Board Book is recognized as the world's first Baby Board Book with the best combination of graphics and text, and is a milestone. Atrix Potter is also considered to be the "mother of the modern Baby Board Book".