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Children's books .. Can they withstand the "iPad" and smart phones

• Writers: What books are presented to a child today should be more impressive than what is presented through other media.

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Those working in the field of children's stories, including writers, illustrators and publishers, face a set of challenges to make the story presented to the child attractive and keep pace with his life, amid all the technologically advanced media that he is exposed to, especially at the level of image and content. The question posed by "Emirates Today" to a group of writers and publishers was about the ability of children's books to withstand the "iPad" and smart phones, to which a number of them answered, stressing the need for the writer to develop himself and his tools in order to attract today's child, and be able to compete with these media.

Jordanian writer Wafaa Al-Zumar saw that the impressive options that are offered to the child today through social media, confirms that it is useless to look at the child of today in the same way that was treated with the child of yesterday, noting that this attractive content may lead to child addiction. for this media. Al-Zumar considered that attracting today's child to other media through dazzling may lead to his addiction to them, and for this reason, writers must provide the child with an inspiring book that can compete with other media, and keep him away from them. Al-Zumar put forward a set of factors that can make the book attractive to the child, starting with the attractive non-stereotyped title, and the story that suits the intelligence of the contemporary child, as the writer must rely on asking questions to the child in order to attract his attention and interest. She considered that it is necessary to be brief in addressing the child through short stories, because today's child does not like to sit for a long time and listen to stories, as he is looking for everything that is fast and atypical.She stressed the need to pay attention to the image that supports the story told to the child, praising the experiences of Emirati publishing houses that were able to bring drawings by international artists in the published stories, with the aim of enhancing the importance of the book.

As for the Saudi writer, Faraj Al-Dhafiri, he believed that the writer of children’s stories should arm themselves with science and knowledge in order to develop his writing style to keep pace with the current generation and its way of thinking, pointing out that the vocabulary of writing must be developed as well, as it changes with time and in all societies. Al-Dhafiri considered that today's child is characterized by great intelligence, and therefore the writer must respect the intelligence of the child who keeps pace with the world through the surrounding technical world, which constitutes a large part of his intelligence and his interaction with the world. Al-Dhafiri described today’s child as a passive recipient, pointing out that this makes the writer need to make more effort in the way of presenting stories and books for children, as it is necessary to find attractive content primarily and then present it in a form that fascinates the child, and it is possible to rely on interactive formulas In publishing books to attract the child more.He pointed out that the effects added to books, whether interactive images or sound, will transform the child from a reader to a reader and listener, and this in turn will make the child able to read more quickly.

The Egyptian writer, Al-Tayyib Adeeb, spoke about the fact that attracting the current generation to the book should not overlook the importance and strength of heritage, and that the role of the book lies in invoking the heritage, understanding it and re-presenting it in an attractive way for the new generation, whether in stories, poems, theater, etc., with the aim of developing a sense of The imaginative, aesthetic and cognitive in children's lives. He pointed out that most countries of the world began to return to their heritage in order to derive their strength from it, and re-present it to future generations, pointing out that the process of recalling heritage is not easy at all, but rather needs the writer to be familiar with the aspects of heritage and read a lot, for heritage is presented to adults and young people, but the coming tide Through technology, satellite channels, children's games, and others, this means that there is always a need for translated children's literature that evokes children's imagination and cognitive beauty.He stressed the existence of some electronic games that are considered today as competition to the book, but they carry some negative effects on children, including those in which the English language is used extensively, in addition to the possibility of identification between the child and the personality in a negative way, as the child may perform some negative actions or even lose strength His language is Arabic, and for this reason, the language and identity must be presented in an exciting way for the child.

Interactive graphics

The Egyptian plastic artist and publisher of children's books and stories, Magdy El Kafrawy, explained that it is necessary to attract the child to the book through content and images, noting that what should be presented to a child today should be more impressive than what is presented through other media so that the book can take priority have the child. He pointed out that this task is not easy at all, because what is presented to the child through books are two-dimensional drawings, which cannot be highly attractive to the child in light of the games and three-dimensional and four-dimensional images available to him. How to amaze a child by what is different.He pointed out that what must be taken care of by the painter who paints for the child, is to raise questions and ideas for him and provide different visual indications, considering that every development in technology comes at the expense of the soul, as what is presented to the child from hand drawings is completely different from what is presented from digital drawings. The latter has a mineral spirit that the child cannot live with for a long time, and for this reason the visual fascination can only be through arousing his curiosity

• Writers should recall and understand the heritage and re-present it in an attractive way for the new generation.

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