Type refers to the physical characteristics of picture books, such as picture, typesetting, etc. Genre is usually used to define the story content of picture books.
Kara Kuskin: A picture book is a work of art that can stand consideration and respect. Even though it has some shortcomings or fallacies, its creative design alone should attract people's attention and understanding.
1, type
The characteristics of picture books are subdivided into: illustrated story books, inserted books, bridge books, cognitive picture books, electronic picture books, toy books and so on.
Bridge book: a transitional picture book, also called introductory reading. Designed for children to read independently, with little or no adult help. Cultivate children's reading ability. Dr. Seuss's Cat in a Top Hat is the first bridge book suitable for children to read.
An effective tool for children's learning. Infant's cognitive ability can be divided into: classification, sorting, counting, time, space and so on. Classification is about the ability to sort and group. Sorting is the ability to recognize the relationship between things and arrange them correctly. Counting is a child's understanding of quantity; The concept of time is children's cognition of time continuity, including children's understanding of the sequence of events and their causal relationship; Space is children's cognition of the position or displacement of people and things, including the relative relationship in space.
Alphabet books: There are three types: theme alphabet books, comprehensive alphabet books and story alphabet books.
Counting books: from simple to complex, from easy to difficult, the same is true.
Other types of cognitive books: color concept books, morphological cognitive books, opposing or relative cognitive books.
Comprehensive cognitive book: not only introduces a certain kind of conceptual knowledge to children, but also involves the synthesis of several concepts, such as introducing colors and shapes, numbers and letters at the same time.
Electronic picture books: In 2008, two service organizations of electronic picture books were established: International Digital Children's Library and Lookybook.
Toy books: called creative picture books, including cardboard books, pop-up books and books with holes.
Toy Book-Cardboard Book: The cover and inner pages of a book are generally made of cardboard pressed by multiple layers of paper, and the four corners of the book are round.
Toy book-pop-up book: Three-dimensional illustrations will pop up when turning pages.
Toy Book-Page Turning Book: The embedded page turning function usually hides a part of the illustration. The special effect brought by illustration increases the interaction between children and books, generates reading interest and enriches children's reading experience.
Toy book-cave book: hide or show the story by digging holes and turning pages, thus promoting the development of the plot.
Ballad books: including children's poems, lullabies, nursery rhymes and other types of children's songs. Folk books contain all forms of poetry.
Children's Poetry: Children's early listening and reading poetry can help them cultivate their basic literary literacy, stimulate children's imagination and encourage children to love reading.
Schnoor's Autumn is a masterpiece of Tibetan poetry.
Calligraphy and painting poetry: This is a kind of children's poetry. The words in the poem are combined into a picture through special typesetting to express or enrich the connotation of the poem. The mouse tail in lewis carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
Free verse: a poem that children can sing at any time and in any rhythm and way.
Haiku: Japanese poetry. In poetry, there is often a word "concubine" which refers to the season and represents the language of the four seasons.
Love poem: an interesting poem usually composed of five lines of rhyming sentences.
Nursery rhymes: originated from human oral communication. Illustrated nursery rhymes books appeared in18th century. Mother goose
2. Type
The genre of picture books is generally divided into animal stories, fantasy literature, realistic literature, historical stories, traditional stories (folklore) and so on.
Animal stories and toy stories: both are realistic stories. Its hero is an animal or an inanimate object with human characteristics.
Fantasy literature: It combines reality and imagination, bringing readers a fantastic visual experience, even an ordinary behavior will surprise and yearn for readers.
Realistic literature: the protagonists are things that children can easily approach, understand and perceive. Features: They are all fictional literary forms based on real ideas, reflecting events in real life and future life.
Historical story: It happened in the past and can be traced back to fifty years or even hundreds of years ago. Biographical picture books are also a brief description of someone's life.
Traditional stories: also known as folk literature, folk stories and fairy tales, are handed down from generation to generation by human beings. Traditional stories are also one of the most popular genres in picture books.
The origin of traditional stories: two different viewpoints: single source theory and multi-source development theory.
The scope of traditional literature is very wide, including many subcategories: animal stories, overlapping stories, fables, fairy tales, folklore, subversive stories, Buddha stories, legends, fools' stories, origin stories, absurd stories and witty stories.
Animal story: The hero is an anthropomorphic animal with human behavior characteristics. The theme is serious and funny. Unlike fables, there is no moral conflict in animal stories. Margot zemach's three little pigs: an old story.
Overlapping story: A story that usually consists of simple and repeated parallel sentences. The actions, characters or language in the story will be repeated regularly according to certain logic and rhythm until the climax of the story, and the repeated structure will arouse children's interest. Janet Winter's house built by Jack.
Fable story: usually a short essay or poem, and the ending of the story must be moral.
Fairy Tales: Fantasy scenes are everywhere and full of infinite possibilities. Rich in content: time travel, magical ability, weird creatures, cool magic and so on. , are happy endings. Cinderella painted by Ruth Sanderson
Folklore: It's a story of ordinary people, with a compact plot and full of plot conflicts. The element "three" often appears in folklore. Jessica Suhami's little house.
Subversion story: it is a crazy imitation and exaggerated adaptation of an author's story or traditional story, also known as spoof story or adaptation story. The true story of three little pigs
Buddha Story: Also known as Buddhist Sutra, it is one of the literary works in Buddhist Sutra. This is a past life story of the Buddha in animal and human form.
Legend: This is a story about a real person. Finn McMahole and his fearless wife.
Fairy story: The story seems to have really happened. It is a statement and speculation about the origin of culture, aiming at exploring the historical context of culture and its significance.
Fool's story: also known as fool's story or stupid story, the plot is humorous and funny. By describing a series of absurd actions made by the fool's protagonist in an embarrassing situation, he is often smarter and wiser than other characters in the story. Andrew glass's soap! Soap! Don't forget the soap! 》。
Origin story: it is a type of children's literature that explains scientific phenomena in the form of folk literature. Rudyard Kipling's So That's It.
Absurd stories: A balance needs to be struck between sober narration and exaggerated drama.
Wit story: A humorous story, whether the protagonist is human or animal, is bound to use witty deception to defeat a stronger opponent. The story of Gail e. Harry