Roughly crafted and content disqualified! Some children's books are wonderful, "Children are not suitable"
With the rise of domestic children's reading demand, the children's reading market has gradually expanded. However, some children's books, which are crudely fabricated and disqualified, flow into the market and are likely to have adverse effects on children.
There are many wonderful things in children's books
A picture book for children named "Little Bear's Birthday" has recently caused heated discussion on the Internet. In this picture book, many friends attended the bear's birthday party, but one friend disappeared while eating the cake, and there was only a roast chicken on the table. The story implies that a friend "goes" to the table. Netizens have said that such content is unreasonable, and such wonderful children's books are unacceptable.
Other children's books are loaded with discriminatory thinking, projecting distorted ideas into the work. A children's humorous novel describes the girl who is discussing the problem as a "long tongue woman". Some parents worry that the children's books are full of such words, which will not help children to shape the correct gender concept.
There are also some children's books that nakedly show blood and violence. There is an impressive picture in this book: Daddy Cat is driving his family, and under the wheel is a rolled mouse. In the illustration of another children's book, the cartoon character was carrying a bloody package, the person killed by the police was lying on the stage, the treasure box was bleeding, and the umbrella was stuck in the head.
Guangzhou citizen Li Xinran said that buying children's books is to help children develop good reading habits, but some bad children's books have a negative impact. "I bought a set of children's books for my son before. The protagonist in the book lost his temper, and the son also learned."
Children's books are not suitable for children
Behind the poor quality of some children's books is publishers' disordered competition. Nowadays, many content production institutions have turned to the children's publishing market which mainly relies on paper reading. According to data released by Beijing Unwind Information Technology Co., Ltd., as of September 2019, a total of 555 publishing houses in the country participated in the children's book market competition, and the competition pattern of the children's publishing market has changed from the original professional children's publishing house "far ahead" to various publishing organizations. "Flock of males competing".
"A large number of publishing houses that were not originally engaged in the publishing of children's books came to'divide the cake', and many people lacking relevant professional qualities entered this industry, resulting in uneven quality of children's books." The head of a well-known publishing house in Guangdong told Hanyue Tan reporters.
Blindly seeking novelty and quickness, it is also easy to lead to the lack of norms in the content of children's books. Sun Yunxiao, chief expert of the China Youth Research Center, believes that some publishers do not focus on intensive work on original content. "Even if a certain new animation work was just aired, the publisher spent a few days planning a set of picture books. Under the rough design, the quick children's books forcedly implanted language and plots that were not suitable for the original characters."
The relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Children’s Library said that some publishers are trying to find ways to protect intellectual property, rubbing classics and IP, and shaming masterpieces.
Children's books must be both ideological and artistic
In response to the current situation of the children's book publishing market, industry experts believe that on the one hand, publishing houses should establish a sense of responsibility; on the other hand, the regulatory authorities should increase the supervision of corresponding publications.
Miao Wei, director of the Book Center of the China Children’s Press and Publishing Corporation, believes that the content of children’s books should guide children’s health and upwards, cultivate their good habits and noble morals, promote their mental development, and enrich their spiritual world.
Children's books should follow a strict publishing process and must be both ideological and artistic. In the topic selection planning, children's book editors must reach a certain ideological height; in the creative stage, high-level authors must be carefully created; post-processing must also carefully polish the published works.
It is worth noting that the "seedling action" implemented by relevant state departments in recent years has severely investigated and dealt with a large number of illegal and harmful publications for minors. According to the relevant provisions of the Publication Management Regulations, publications targeted at minors must not contain terror, cruelty and other contents that impair the physical and mental health of minors. However, what kind of situation is considered horrible and cruel, and the detailed rules are not clear, which is not conducive to supervision and crackdown according to law, and the relevant rules should be improved.
Xiong Bingqi, vice president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, suggested that the children's book publishing industry should set up a book review committee to allow education experts to review values and educational significance.
In addition, parents are indispensable when children read children's books, and parents can adopt accompanying reading. Sun Yunxiao said: "In the process of parent-child reading, parents can choose children's books suitable for children's reading according to their own experience, to avoid bad books from entering children's reading channels." )