Belgian Picture Book Master Anne Herbauts' Poetic Picture Book Collection: An Adventure on a Rainy Day

It's going to rain.

Wei Xiaodu S Code | Ages 3+
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It’s going to rain, and the two little hedgehogs, Neal and Nur, are observing the weather outside from their garden home. The adults inside the house are also watching the changes in the sky. Finally, it starts to rain. The small river in the garden flows swiftly, and Neal and Nur decide to go upstream before the heavy rain traps them. Where are they going? What difficulties and surprises will they encounter? Neal and Nur are like two children, full of curiosity about new things, with anxiety and fear of the unknown, but also brave enough to explore a new world.
【Editor's Recommendation】
When the heavy rain pours down and the water flows rapidly, Neal and Nur go ashore to take shelter from the rain, make a fire, and find a place to stay. Their previous anxiety and worries transform into their practical actions at this moment. Their life wisdom and brave and determined hearts lead them to find a new home. Without unease and fear, their hearts are peaceful and tranquil.
★Created by Belgian picture book master Ann Eepper and renowned European children's book publisher Casterman, with a unique style, full of innovation and philosophical meaning.
Ann Eepper's sensitivity, imagination, and artistic talent make her picture books and fairy tales fresh and refined, full of poetry, thought, and fun, standing out among many picture books. Her works have won various major European children's book awards, including the Bologna Children's Book Fair Award (Italy) and the Prix Sorcières (France), and have been nominated multiple times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Her works "What Color Is the Wind?", "What Does the Moon Do at Night?", and "Little Dot" have been published in China and have been widely praised by experts and readers.
Casterman is a children's book publisher renowned in Europe and America, whose Tintin series comics have achieved enormous global success. It has a daring spirit of innovation and pioneering, with content creation and arrangement that is unconventional and unique, constantly creating epoch-making books and well-known character children's books, such as "Ernest et Célestine", Corto Maltese hero comics, Alix adventure comics, and Le Chat humorous comics. Its publishing philosophy is highly compatible with Ann Eepper's creations, forming a strong and complementary partnership.
★A poetic picture book perfectly integrating imagination, artistry, and philosophical depth, nurturing children's temperament and character, and opening up their perception of "beauty."
The author once said: "Imagination is also a way of looking at life, a game, and children have the ability to play games." When reading Ann Eepper's picture books, you will find that this "imagination" is by no means the concept we usually understand. It will revolutionize our understanding of "imagination" – there are no dramatic plots here, but rather a quiet, gentle, and relaxed atmosphere. It will evoke memories in adults, allowing them to savor the taste of time flowing, but for children, this may be truly real.
This feeling is the unique aspect of the author's creative style. She is exceptionally good at using images and text to engage the reader's perception, for example, "Then night falls, calm, blue, very blue, navy blue," which gives a sense of peace, vastness, and being by the sea. When reading carefully, one is unconsciously drawn into that atmosphere. For children, this will be an edification, subtly nurturing their temperament and character, and perceiving another quiet and gentle "beauty" in daily life. It is also very suitable for parent-child reading or as a bedtime picture book.
★Exquisite language, rich and diverse imagery, and a profound story, inspiring children to express, create, and think.
The text in the book is not only catchy but also uses many rhetorical devices: metaphors, personification, synesthesia... which can cultivate children's language sense and lay a good foundation for writing classes in primary school. Parents can also encourage children's imagination during parent-child reading and let them express themselves freely. For children in the lower grades of primary school, this set of picture books is excellent material for writing classes.
Secondly, the illustrations integrate a variety of graphic elements, stimulating children's artistic creativity. The author uses various techniques such as watercolor, gouache, crayons, printmaking, and photo collage to express unique hand-drawn brushstroke textures (using flowing watercolors to depict the rainy sky, clear brushstroke textures to show the surging and rapid river, and dense brushstrokes of different thicknesses and colors to depict various types of rain), and combines animated videos with picture book creation, allowing picture books to explore richer and deeper themes. There's no need to worry about whether children can interpret the profound meaning of the story; just as children should read poetry from a young age, their subconscious will have the ability to understand and accept.
【Celebrity Recommendations】
Ann Eepper is always experimenting with different artistic techniques to discover new ways of "speaking." Philosophical meaning permeates her childlike innocence – this is a child's dreamscape and a fairy tale in the hearts of adults.
——Xiong Liang, renowned original picture book author and art educator
In children's hearts, words, pictures, unheard sounds, intangible poetry... are all their "languages." The world they see through them is much larger than what adults see.
——Tong Zi, children's poet and winner of the Bing Xin Children's Literature Award
Ann Eepper's picture books are delicate, soft, bathed in moonlight, and faintly carry the sweet scent of baked muffins.
——Teacher Da Mao, bestselling author and renowned educator

2020-08-01

海豚出版社

Unread · Weixiaodu

32

9787511052933