In a session that hosted an Iraqi critic and an American artist

Sharjah Reading: Is it the task of writers and artists to make fun?

  • The seminar discussed the link between children and joy and how books, drawings and puppet shows can make children fun.

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The 12th edition of the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival, organized by the Sharjah Book Authority, held a cultural session entitled "Making Fun", in which the Iraqi academic and critic Dr. Hussein Ali Harf, and the American artist Kevin Sherry, discussed the link between children and joy, And how books, drawings, and puppet shows can make children fun in a world of modern technology.

Dr. Hussein Ali Harf started the talk during the session moderated by the media, Laila Muhammad, by saying: “What Arab writers and writers write focuses on educational discourse, values, principles, and others, and this is an important matter, but we want to realize the needs of the child that relate to the emotional side and express the nature of kinetic energy in Inside it, we should make the child laugh, make him dance, meditate and be amazed.”

He continued, "The child reads the story in order to enjoy and imagine. That is why Arab writers must present the technical aspect related to making fun and enjoyment, and make the child enjoy all his senses when he reads the story. We want the story to contribute to making the child jump from his place, and to make laughter inherent. For the child, because it is a psychological and psychological treatment. The child reads not to learn in the first place, but to be happy.”

Harf pointed out that the writer of children's literature should be a psychiatrist, a painter and a comedian, explaining that art is an aesthetic function that achieves pleasure, and this is the basis for presenting successful works for the child.

In turn, the American artist Kevin Sherry said: “The puppet theater opened up to me this big world through which I entered into writing, writing and drawing for children, and I worked on comic books and presenting performances in schools, and I realized that when children line up in front of you, they usually turn off their brains and think that you are boring, but As soon as you put the bear's head and sing and start screaming and interact with them, you will see them dancing in front of you, and here I have their interest.” He continued, "It is good to employ social networking sites to present children's favorite works, and I think that there is a big difference between a child looking at something on the screen and others looking at you directly. For them, they do not find this great pleasure that they find in the theater, so the reality remains more beautiful and more It is important to upgrade their knowledge, experience and intelligence.”

Sherry stressed that children pay attention with all their senses to the subject presented to them, and language is not an obstacle, explaining that youngsters draw their attention to body language, movement and expression, because this opens the horizon for them to imagine and enter into new and amazing worlds.

Ali Harf:

• “We must make the child laugh, make him dance, meditate and be amazed.”

Kevin Sherry:

• “The kids in front of you turn off their brains and think you're boring until you put the bear's head down.”

• The writer of children's literature must be a psychiatrist, a painter, and a comedian.

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