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Hello, everyone. I am Ting’s mother.

For some reason, Tingting School entered the winter vacation early, and there is still one day left for the exam. Some books were left at school and I didn’t have time to get them back. In previous years, there was a winter vacation homework, but there is no one this year. . When studying at home, Tingting and I mainly focus on reading.

Although Tingting is already in elementary school, she still likes me to read picture books to her.

I think of what the famous picture book theory master Mr. Matsui Nao said: Picture books are not books that children read by themselves, but books that adults read to children. I am also calm.

But, are you confused when you see this sentence? Aren’t picture books just picture books? Aren’t picture books just books for children?

Mr. Matsui Nao believes that children’s real picture book experience is their own re-creation while listening to others reading picture books. While they are listening to articles with their ears and looking at paintings with their eyes, they are also spreading the wings of their imagination and using their imagination to describe the world in the story. This kind of unified reading of pictures and text is the real picture book experience.

Mr. Matsui Nao is a member of the Japan Publishing Society, a director of the Japan International Children's Board (JBBY), the vice president of the Sino-Japanese Children's Literature and Art Exchange Center, and a member of the UNESCO Asian Cultural Center.

Mr. Matsui Nao has written many picture book theory works, such as "My Picture Book Theory", "The Seeds of Happiness", etc., as well as many classic picture books, such as "Momotaro", "The Carpenter and the Carpenter" Ghost Six", "Signal Light Blinks", etc., and is known as the "Father of Japanese Picture Books".

Under normal circumstances, when we read picture books with our children, we read the text first and then the pictures. However, some illiterate children often use pictures to imagine the stories they hear.

There are some classic picture books, and there is even no word in the whole book, only pictures. Through the pictures with rich plots and strong stories, children can read from beginning to end because they give full play to their imagination.

For example, "Crazy Tuesday" is a particularly famous wordless book that has fascinated countless children. There are only four sentences in the whole book, plus 37 words with punctuation marks. The picture book tells the story of a frog that suddenly became able to fly one day and embarked on an interesting journey.