[Repost] September 2014 List: Parents Must Read & Red Mud Top 10 Children’s Books of the Year Voting Opens

I can’t help but praise “The Begin­ning of Man.” This is a par­tic­u­lar­ly cre­ative orig­i­nal pic­ture book in recent years, and it comes from a very young artist. It makes peo­ple feel very hope­ful! Come on ↖(^ω^)↗Orig­i­nal address:Sep­tem­ber 2014 List: Par­ents Must Read & Red Mud Top 10 Chil­dren’s Books of the Year Vot­ing Opensauthor:Hong­ni­ba Vil­lageRed Mud Vot­ing Web­site:http://www.hongniba.com.cn/fumubidu

Sep­tem­ber 2014

The Begin­ning of Life (20140901)
Ji Pu Le, Prime Num­ber Blooms; Ampere Dia­gram
Bei­jing Unit­ed Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny 2014
Rec­om­mend­ed rea­sons:
A tiny sperm from Dad­dy’s King­dom and an egg from Mom­my’s King­dom formed a new life. The life slow­ly grew and arrived in a new world, about to begin a new jour­ney. The lit­tle blue sperm entered the pink world, and the mir­a­cle of life began.

Author An Pei, a grad­u­ate of the Cen­tral Acad­e­my of Fine Arts, hopes that par­ents will read this book with their chil­dren, so that each gen­er­a­tion can tru­ly under­stand the process of life and repro­duc­tion. Ji Pu Le, whose real name is Song Xiaoy­an, is a poet and fairy tale writer. Sev­er­al of her fairy tales have been select­ed for annu­al fairy tale antholo­gies, and she is the win­ner of the 9th Tai­wan Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture Mudi Award.

Suit­able read­ing age: 3 years old and above

If you don’t see it at first glance (20140902)
By Ruth Brown (USA); Trans­lat­ed by Liu Jing
Hebei Juve­nile and Chil­dren’s Pub­lish­ing House 2014
Rec­om­mend­ed rea­sons:
The lit­tle cater­pil­lar got tired of eat­ing leaves all the time, so it decid­ed to find some­thing new to eat. Along the way, it encoun­tered all sorts of food that looked deli­cious at first glance. How­ev­er, when it was remind­ed to take a sec­ond look, it dis­cov­ered that those “deli­cious things” were actu­al­ly not what they seemed! If you don’t see it at first glance, then…

Author Ruth Brown has cre­at­ed many beloved chil­dren’s books in the UK. She ini­tial­ly worked as a free­lance illus­tra­tor, pri­mar­i­ly cre­at­ing illus­tra­tions for BBC chil­dren’s tele­vi­sion pro­grams and illus­trat­ing chil­dren’s books. It was­n’t until the birth of her sec­ond son that she began cre­at­ing her own chil­dren’s pic­ture books. She has now become a high­ly regard­ed pic­ture book author and illus­tra­tor.  

Suit­able read­ing age: 2 years old and above

Wind, Flow­ers, and Dan­de­lions + Wind, Flow­ers, and Moth­er Cow (20140903)
Writ­ten by Iwa­mu­ra Kazua­ki (Japan); trans­lat­ed by Peng Yi
Relay Press 2013
Rec­om­mend­ed rea­sons:
“Wind, Flow­ers, and Dan­de­lions” tells the sto­ry of a lit­tle rab­bit, a lit­tle wind, and a lit­tle flower. They go out to play in the fields and see yel­low dan­de­lions. Lady­bugs love the dan­de­lion petals, but­ter­flies love the nec­tar, and bees love the pollen. With the help of the lady­bugs, but­ter­flies, and bees, the dan­de­lions pro­duce many seeds, and more new life emerges.

The author, Kazua­ki Iwa­mu­ra, is a famous Japan­ese pic­ture book mas­ter. At the age of 31, he moved from Tokyo with his wife and chil­dren to the remote town of Mashiko. He built a beau­ti­ful home in the moun­tains, draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from the beau­ti­ful nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment, which also gave birth to his unique pic­ture books. His rep­re­sen­ta­tive work is the “14 Mice” series
“Lit­tle Frog Broth­er and Lit­tle Frog Sis­ter” series, “Mon­key Dan­dan” series, “The Kit­ten Who Wets the Bed”, etc.
Suit­able read­ing age: 2 to 6 years old

Are you awake? (20140904)
Text and pho­tos by Sophie Black­all; trans­lat­ed by Zhao Jing
 Twen­ty-First Cen­tu­ry Pub­lish­ing House 2014
Mom, are you awake? Why aren’t you awake yet? Why did you fall asleep? Why is it still night­time? The lit­tle kid is up all night, ask­ing these repet­i­tive ques­tions over and over again. What does he want? How can a moth­er, abrupt­ly wok­en from her sleep, cope?

“Are You Awake?” is a pic­ture book filled with mater­nal love and wis­dom. Read­ing with your child not only allows you to share the joy of read­ing but also teach­es you how to han­dle a sleep-deprived baby. If your baby, after read­ing, imi­tates the exam­ple in the book and keeps ask­ing ques­tions, why not learn this moth­er’s tips?

Suit­able read­ing age: 2 to 8 years old

1, 2, 3 to the zoo (20140905)
Text and pho­tos by Eric Car­le; trans­la­tion by Sinyi Edi­to­r­i­al Board
Tomor­row Pub­lish­ing House 2014
Rec­om­mend­ed rea­sons:
The first page of the book shows an approach­ing train filled with a vari­ety of ani­mals: an ele­phant, two hip­pos, three giraffes, four lions… Final­ly, ten col­or­ful birds arrive. A clos­er look reveals a tiny mouse hid­den in the cor­ner of each page. This is the first pic­ture book writ­ten and illus­trat­ed by col­lage mas­ter Eric Car­le. Com­bin­ing chil­dren’s favorite ele­ments of ani­mals and trains, with rich col­ors and live­ly ani­mal pos­es, it allows chil­dren to learn num­ber con­cepts while hav­ing fun.

Author Eric Car­le began writ­ing pic­ture books in 1967 and has since cre­at­ed over 70 col­or­ful, imag­i­na­tive col­lage-style pic­ture books. He uses the mag­ic of col­lage to cre­ate unique col­ors in the world; with rich imag­i­na­tion and child­like words, he takes chil­dren into the world of fan­ta­sy.

Suit­able read­ing age: 2 to 6 years old

Body Dis­cov­ery (3rd series, 16 vol­umes) (20140906)
Text by La Zoo (Japan­ese); Illus­tra­tions by Keiko Sug­awara (Japan­ese); Trans­la­tion by Zhu Yanx­i­ang
Hebei Edu­ca­tion Press 2014
Rec­om­mend­ed rea­sons:
Eat­ing, defe­cat­ing, fart­ing, pee­ing, sneez­ing, and toothaches are com­mon­place, yet babies are filled with curios­i­ty about these phe­nom­e­na. The “Body Dis­cov­ery” series has been tai­lored to sat­is­fy these curios­i­ty, with this fun illus­trat­ed guide to the body. The series con­sists of three parts: the first intro­duces the body’s struc­ture, includ­ing the eyes, teeth, mouth, hands, and feet; the sec­ond cov­ers the skele­ton, diges­tion, and touch; and the third expands to cov­er inter­nal organs, blood cir­cu­la­tion, diet, and sex edu­ca­tion. Through a relaxed for­mat, rich with text and illus­tra­tions, the series grad­u­al­ly opens the door to the secrets of the body for chil­dren, allow­ing them to eas­i­ly under­stand its struc­ture and func­tions, learn to care for their bod­ies, and grow up healthy and hap­py.

Japan Learn­ing Research Society—a renowned pub­lish­ing house spe­cial­iz­ing in edu­ca­tion­al books such as chil­dren’s pic­ture books, pop­u­lar sci­ence books, and dic­tio­nar­ies. Its rep­re­sen­ta­tive titles include “Origa­mi Zoo” and “Illus­trat­ed Col­lec­tion of Fish­es.” Illus­tra­tor Keiko Sug­awara is ded­i­cat­ed to chil­dren’s illus­tra­tions, with rep­re­sen­ta­tive works includ­ing “Baby’s First Time,” “Rice Ball Ding Ding,” “If Num­bers Could Talk,” and “We Are Not Giant Pan­das.”

Suit­able read­ing age: 3 to 8 years old