“You can open these books by yourself, and see what you like. Dad will buy them for you.” Yang Yi said with a smile, he was also worried that his daughter was bored and didn’t know what to do in the bookstore.
Finding books to read in the bookstore is also a lot of fun!
Xixi nodded ignorantly. She turned her head and focused her attention on the bookshelf. The little books seemed to attract the attention of the little girl just like the wonderful patterns before.
However, Yang Yi saw Xixi look left and right, and finally stretched out his hand to the large-format picture book. Those small-format, thicker little booklets were ignored by the little girl.
Perhaps it’s because the large format has more vibrant colors and richer patterns?
I saw the little girl clutching a large-format picture book tightly with both hands like she was holding a bowl. The book was the size of her face, resting on the edge of the bookshelf, and she was a little worried about falling.
At first, she was overwhelmed. But after glancing at the little brother next to her, the little girl opened it in a dignified manner. However, she was wearing gloves and her fingers were a little clumsy, and she opened it directly to the middle of the album.
Yang Yi squatted down, helped Xixi to hold the book, and then said funny: “Come on, Dad will help you take off the gloves, how do you read with gloves on?”
“But, but I’m afraid of the cold.” Xixi stretched out two small hands, but still said to her father worriedly.
“Don’t be afraid, it’s not cold here.” Yang Yi took off Xixi’s two small gloves, then held her two small hands in his palms, breathed a warm breath, and smiled, “Look, it’s not cold now right?”
“Oops!” The little girl suddenly opened her eyebrows and giggled.
Let her read the book by herself, and Yang Yi also flipped through these villain books.
However, after a while, Yang Yi also discovered some problems. Most of these villains are comic books. Although the number of words is small, and a few pictures constitute a small story, its plot is not very suitable for Xixi to read.
Like this comic book about school jokes.
A child said to his tablemate: “Why are you eating French fries again?” (Note 1)
The second picture says: “I hate foreigners the most!”
And in the third picture, he asked him silently at the same table: “How dare you tell me, what is that box on your table?” (In the comics, there is also a large box on the protagonist’s table. , exactly like the box of fries at his table.)
As a result, in the fourth picture, the protagonist smiled cheaply: “Who said that, this is obviously fried dough sticks.”
In the comics, the opened box is filled with fritters stacked like chips.
It’s not that it doesn’t look good, but the problem is that Yang Yi couldn’t help but smile when he looked at it, thinking it was very interesting.
The stories or jokes told in these little books are obviously not just for children, but adults can also read them.
Of course, just looking at this story, Yang Yi doesn’t mind letting Xixi watch it. But looking at other stories, Yang Yi saw that the author used some feces and urine jokes, used some topics of love between boys and girls, and even used jokes such as pornography, lipstick, and masks. .
For comparison, these villains are just like “Crayon Shin-chan”, and they are positioned more like comics read by adults-although later “Crayon Shin-chan” has a lot less gender-related content, but the content Still more adult.
So this can be called a children’s cartoon? Obviously not suitable for children like Xixi who haven’t started school yet! Yang Yi didn’t want Xixi to be exposed to these adult ways of thinking at such a young age.
What makes Yang Yi think that the problem is very serious is that this kind of comics is not a special case. Most of the comics in this small book counter in the children’s book area are similar to it.
Yang Yi remembered a column article in a newspaper by a director of the Guangdong Writers Association named Yu Qian that Fu Jun had shown him. Although Fu Jun showed it to himself, it was because Yu Qian recommended his first “Xixi’s Bedtime Story”, so that his book sold out in Guangdong Province, but Yang Yi still remembered Yu Qian’s opinion in that article. Commenting on children’s literature works, she said that China’s children’s literature has entered a misunderstanding. Many writers who write children’s literature use adult thinking to conceive, and the stories they write are not suitable for children to read!
Yu Qian is also a mother. As a writer, she has always encouraged her children to read, but in her eyes, only “Xi Xi’s Bedtime Story” written by Yang Yi is really a book suitable for children to read , not only the story is full of imagination, but also the choice of words and sentences will not deliberately use gorgeous words.
Yang Yi now brings Xixi out to buy books, and finally understands Yu Qian’s feelings.
After looking around, Yang Yi found only a few decent children’s books.
One is called “The Adventures of Little Fish”, which describes a small sea fish. After birth, it begins its adventures in the sea. It does not have a particularly thrilling plot, but is a bit like a popular science book. In Zhang Zhang’s beautiful illustrations, get to know the ocean world.
There is also a book called “Pug Clown”, which is a bit like the story of the ugly duckling. The pug clown is disliked by other pets in the family – the ghost knows how this family has so many pets, indifferent cats, fierce dogs, arrogant parrots, A naughty squirrel, a greedy pig, and an old talking lizard. However, unlike the ugly duckling, the pug clown has not become beautiful. He is very active in the face of dog life, bravely faced challenges, and gained the friendship of other pets in the family in the little stories.
Wait…
There are four books in total. These fairy tale books can still be read, and they are all large-format, full-color pictures, which are a bit more expensive, but Yang Yi gave them to Xixi, and the little girl liked them very much.
The problem is, there are hundreds of books in the small bookcase of children’s books, and Yang Yi found less than four books suitable for Xixi to read.
No, I ended up buying five copies.
Because Xixi bravely explores on her own and finds a book she likes.
“I still want this!” The little girl was holding a 20-size book and looking at her father with hope, just like she usually sees a good-looking doll, she can’t move her feet, and wants her father to give it to her. She bought it back.
Yang Yi took a look and found that this is not a story book, but a popular science children’s book with many cartoon illustrations introducing the animals and plants in the forest.
“Do you like this?” Yang Yi asked in surprise.
“There are little rabbits and little mushrooms on it!” Xixi nodded, but said to her father seriously.
It turned out that she also “requested books” by looking at pictures. For Xixi, she couldn’t understand the stories described in words in those books. On the contrary, the more beautiful and colorful the pictures in them, she the more you like it.
Of course, Yang Yi is still willing to buy a popular science book for Xixi.
On the way home from the purchase, Xixi was very happy. She sang to her father the nursery rhyme she learned in kindergarten, and she excitedly talked to her father, as if she went out to the bookstore and bought a bunch of dolls. , great fun!
However ~IndoMTL.com~ Yang Yi is not as happy as Xixi. From this shopping, he deeply realizes the seriousness of the problem that Yu Qian described about children’s books.
Although he doesn’t have the leisure to worry about the country and the people, he also needs to consider what his daughter will read after reading these books?
Even if Xixi grows up and has other books to read, what about her and Murphy’s second child?
These problems are unavoidable for Yang Yi to face.
Of course, Yang Yi can write it himself, but how many books can he write that are suitable for children?
Yang Yi has almost been hollowed out by Xixi for inspiration. He has not seen many children’s stories in his previous life, and most of them are stories he made up according to the settings of some fairy tales he knew. If he continues to talk nonsense, what he writes will, like those villain books, carry the thinking patterns of many adults.
Besides, there is a limit to what he can achieve with his own efforts.
What should Yang Yi do?