I believe everyone has this experience. When they were young, they really wanted to read the books that their parents read. However, they always said, "You are still young, read it when you grow up." Over time, peeking at my parents’ books under the covers with a flashlight became a particularly exciting thing in my childhood.

When we grow up, the situation will change again. When you become increasingly tired of living in the adult world of chaotic black and white, the simple black and white of the children's world may be easier for people to like. This may be why many people bring piles of children's books to their homes in the name of buying books for their children. Because they like to watch it too.

This is first of all related to the poor reading environment when we were young. As an advertising person said, when we saw the picture books that our foreign colleagues often read when they were young, we saw the extremely rich imagination and detailed pictures in them. , the beautiful language completely overturned her understanding of children's books since she was a child, and she was deeply moved by the fact that someone was willing to spend so much energy writing books for children to read.

Also, there is a child in every adult's heart who will never grow up. The catchphrase "I'm still a baby" is not just a frivolous and quickly forgotten quip, but there is a serious psychological mechanism behind it. For example, James Barry's play "Peter Pan", its subtitle - The Boy Who Never Grows up, actually reveals the conflict between childhood innocence and adult responsibility; and the little boy in "The Tin Drum" , did not want to join the adult world and mutilated himself, falling into a dwarf with a height of 94 centimeters... Children who do not want to grow up appear repeatedly in literary works, which itself is a serious proposition.

So adults love picture books. On the one hand, it is probably out of a compensatory psychology. To compensate for not having so many books, so much outdoor time, and so much kindness and love for themselves when they were children; on the other hand, picture books It can trigger a protective mechanism, allowing innocence to help itself against the cold world.