Now that we have mastered the correct reading posture, what kind of visual enjoyment does this book bring us? What are the characteristics of this wordless book and how to interpret the story? According to children of different ages, what kind of starting point should be used to read?
First, the title of the story
Watlu and Trafalgar were two battles initiated by Napoleon, namely Waterloo and Trafalgar. Both campaigns ended in failure, which also ruined his political life. Taking two battles as the topic, the author expresses that war will bring irreparable trauma to human beings, and human beings should step out of the position of mutual peeping and incompatibility, enter the integration circle and become a family. In the editing of the story, Houlang took "Two Little Soldiers" as the title, making a story of seeking peace through war more popular, not only staying in the handling of the relationship between countries, but also showing the mutual integration between people and the extroversion and introversion of people in detail. This is what the publishing house wants to tell young readers. People can be antagonistic or tolerant, and different perspectives will present different scenes.
Second, the details of the story
The little orange soldier cocked his head, curled his mouth, crossed his hands on his chest, and was squinting at the big bluebird, looking very angry. "Why is this guy here?" But the Jade Bird closed her eyes leisurely, completely ignoring the anger of orange Xiao Bing and lying on the wall of orange Xiao Bing. Chen Xiaobing's anger comes from the color of the big bird, which also depicts Chen Xiaobing's inner activities at that time. After all, it can't represent all Lan Zhanshi, it's just one color. At this moment, Chen Xiaobing suppressed his inner anger, but he was dissatisfied with the big blue bird lying on his own turf. The author vividly shows the image that he wants to get angry but can't all break out.
I think the author has already made a profound analysis of the characters when painting each work. It is the best and most unique place of this picture book to express such inner activities with eyes, movements and body language. Through intensive reading of the works, children can find more details, that is, gain insight into their hearts through appearances. The author gave us a telescope to help us open the inner world of the two soldiers in the work through painting.
Third, book typesetting design.
1. In the tone of the picture book, the main colors of blue and orange are selected. On the basis of pencil drawing, the two soldiers were painted orange and blue, and the clever coloring made the two camps have a great contrast. The warm orange soldier is also a caring person, which coincides with the color. Two colors can be understood as two countries, two ideas, two incompatible things of two races, and so on. Finally, we can understand each other and skillfully express them in two colors. Plants, animals and two objects of different colors are side by side, which is what the author expects to achieve.
2. Clever hole design
In the cover, two soldiers look at each other in a round peeping lens, which can be understood as two protagonists coming out. It feels like these are the two soldiers seen in the camera. The clever background design makes the stories of two soldiers with different backgrounds slowly open after opening the front ring lining, but in the same background of the back ring lining, the two soldiers are gone. Why? Where did they go? You can let the children think about it.
After the first snail incident, many small stars appeared in Lan Zhanshi camp. Let two incompatible colors miraculously appear in each other's camp. This is also the author's clever bedding for the follow-up story.
3. Creative paging design
The ingenious pagination of picture books allows the story of the same scene to be displayed in the process of turning pages through the way of dividing pictures. This kind of design makes the story full of motion and makes the reader immersive.
4. How should children of different ages interpret stories?
According to children's cognitive development, different interpretation methods can be adopted.
Children aged 3-6 are still in the process of reading and understanding pictures. We can discover the details of the wordless book with children, including the expression of the characters, so that children can understand the meaning of the story through discovery. At this stage, children also have their own creative ideas according to different cognition. Every interpretation is a process of thinking with their brains, so don't easily destroy children's imagination, but realize the continuous improvement of children's cognition through guiding questions.
Children aged 7-8 have their own understanding, and usually have a completely coherent understanding of this story, so it is necessary to find out the details and turn the picture information into text information. It's like looking at a picture and talking. It should be emphasized that this is not homework, but an interpretation based on the plot and derived from children's interests. Because of the richness of picture description, children can look at pictures together, or express their understanding and language expression on a certain picture separately. At this stage, children's language is more mature, and their language organization ability and logical thinking are more meticulous.
10- 12 children have entered the senior grade of primary school and can have a complete insight into the nature of things. It is better for her to express her thoughts on the topic of two soldiers. Innovative stories and ideas covering the article itself.
Some people say that picture books are children's patents, but I don't think so. The information expressed by painting itself is far greater than the meaning expressed by words. Therefore, looking at pictures is still something that children can't give up after reading. When we can only understand the author's intention through words, the painter's thinking and creativity are covered by the writer's aura. So read the picture books and read the words carefully. Every tiny link should not be missed.
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