Many parents have reported that their children will be entering elementary school at the beginning of the school year, so it is possible to recommend some transitioning from "parent-child reading" to "independent reading" book lists.
The 6-8 year olds are entering elementary school from kindergarten, and in addition to a new learning environment, they will also be facing language and mental development, which is a critical time to establish independent reading habits.
Many experts suggest that children in elementary school should begin to transition from picture book reading to purely text-based reading, hence the emergence of "bridge books". "Bridging books" refer to the concept of Bridging Books in Western bibliographies, and are publications that are designed to help children in the lower and middle grades make the transition from picture reading to text reading.
Bridging books are small in text, supplemented by illustrations, and close to a child's life experience. Through careful editing and design, they cultivate the habit of reading independently, enjoying the sense of fulfillment of being able to finish a book independently, and willing to keep reading because of the pleasure of the reading process. Today's list of books is for parents to choose from.
01 The Light in the Lighthouse
[U.S.] Julia L. Saul
[U.S.] George Schreiber
Translated by Dong Xiao-Nan
Morning Glory Publishing Company
Ronnie and Aunt Martha live together. One day, the lighthouse keeper comes to visit Martha and asks her and Ronnie to keep the lighthouse for him for two weeks, promising to pick them up personally when the day comes. Ronnie, like all children, is intrigued by the unknown of life at the lighthouse. Over the course of time, Ronnie grows to love the waves crashing against the rocks, the lighthouse's curving spiral staircase, having a room all to himself, and lighting the lighthouse every night.
But as the days pass and the keeper fails to keep his promise to take them home, an angry Ronnie can't help but spurn the keeper's behavior. With his aunt's wisdom, Ronnie gradually understands the significance of the lighthouse and understands the keeper's behavior.
Growing up is sometimes a long process, and sometimes it happens in a flash, and occasionally it can play hide-and-seek with us, creeping up on us without us realizing it. Ronnie, a young boy, never imagined that growth was hidden in a journey he embarked on with his aunt. Ronnie not only lights up the lighthouse, but also the light in his heart called responsibility.
02 Over the Storm
By Guido Baldassari
Painted by Maria Cristina Pretli
Translated by Qiao Qiao
The People's Literature Publishing House, Everyday Publishing House
The protagonist of the story, Larrousse is the only seagull who can fly over the storm. The main character of the story, Little Larrus, is the only seagull that can fly in a storm. He likes to explore new things and is full of curiosity and desire for knowledge. In order to answer the questions in his heart, he bravely embarks on a long and arduous journey alone to find the answers.
The simple story contains a deep sense of life, the plot ups and downs, fun and philosophical. The story conveys positive energy such as kindness, bravery, optimism, and strength to children, and teaches them not to give up in times of difficulty.
03 Harry's Magic Feet
[English] Alexander McCaw-Smith
[English] Sam Usher
Translated by Zhu Ye
Qingdao Publishing House
The book tells the story of Harry, a magical Indian boy. And his life becomes sinister and strange as if he has been enchanted. ......
His integrity brings joy to people, and he also uses his wisdom to fight with the bad guys, and eventually he awakens the true goodness and beauty in people's hearts with his dance, making the world a better place.
04 Stealing a Cat
By Lin Shuwen, illustrated by Eel Eggs
Zhejiang University Press
Ms. Nana is a librarian, and one morning when it was raining heavily, she picked up an abandoned kitten in front of the library. However, cats are not allowed in libraries, and where she lives, her landlord is even more strict about not keeping any pets, even goldfish that don't make noise ......
Miss Nana had to put the kitten in the library's staff lounge for the time being. However, paper can't hold fire, and more and more people find out about the kitten. Will the kitten be kicked out of the library? What will be the unexpected ending of the story? This bridge book is an easy and lively read for lower elementary school students.
05 Occupy the Orchard
[Korea] Hwang Sun-mi by [Korea] Kim Hwan-young
Wang Ce-yu [Korea] Baek Chang-yong translation
Ha Van-sang reviewer
Relay Publishing House
This is an animal novel, in which there is a piece of orchard in a corner of the city, and the grandmother has been living there for a lifetime. Grandmother has lived in the orchard for her whole life, and she doesn't want to leave.
The orchard is peaceful, with patches of pear orchards, fields, and hills, forming a beautiful pattern. Under the leadership of the grandmother, the ducks happily catch bullfrogs, those mice, tiger cats, big willow trees, and Ojon birds all coincidentally run to the orchard ...... away from the hustle and bustle of the city, looking for a quiet place.
The work is full of peace, clear beauty and laughter, from each kind of small animals, describing their meticulous life, the orchard became a peaceful pure land, where Grandma greeted the new life. Seeing how the little animals get along with each other, they discover the complexity of life and marvel at the breadth and depth of life. The grandmother's family, in the midst of nature, will also listen to the sounds of nature and understand that beauty is all around them.
06 The Boy with the Antlers
By John Yeoman
By Quentin Blake
Translated by Li Liangyu
Nanhai Publishing Co.
The Boy with the Antlers
This book, written by Cambridge literature researcher John Yeoman and international Hans Christian Andersen Award winner Quentin Blake, is about a boy named Billy. This book, written by Cambridge University literary researcher John Yeoman and Quentin Blake, winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, tells the fantastical school story of a boy, Billy. The teacher says, "If you focus on it and work hard, there's nothing you can't do." Do focus and hard work really work? "So can you make horns grow on your head through them?" Billy decided to accept the challenge. The next day, he found two bulges growing on his head, growing bigger and bigger and longer, and his life took an unexpected turn.
This book combines the familiar school life with a fun, wildly imaginative long fantasy story with simple, dynamic illustrations, encouraging children to look at life and discover the incredible things that are hidden in ordinary days. The stories are organized in short chapters, which are suitable for children in the lower primary grades to read independently. While bringing children a joyful and enjoyable reading experience, it allows young readers to understand the value of dedication and hard work, to bravely pursue their dreams, and to grow up positively.
07 Camir?o, the King of Big Appetites
[Brazil] by Ana Maria Machado
Translated by Sang Dapeng
People's Literature Publishing House
Camir?o is the king of big appetites, it's very lazy and very gluttonous, but it doesn't want to know how to work to make ends meet, and it likes to go to friends' houses to dabble in food. ...... This is a thin collection of fairy tales, but the interesting stories inside seem particularly rich, full of creative language, with its humor and easy character and unexpected imagination to bring readers endless fun.
08 Jumping Rope Isn't That Hard
By Iwao Fukuda
Translated by Jun Zhao
Reader's Publishing House
The whole class has learned how to jump rope, but Kurata can't do it yet. It's so frustrating. I've watched the video, and my dad has helped me practice, but the rope still hits his feet. To add to the frustration, friendships are also in trouble. Does Kurata finally learn to jump rope? How did he learn?
Japanese children's literature is always so real and relevant when writing about the psychology of children. The small difficulties and confusions in a child's growing up may seem trivial, but they are heavenly to the child - children's literature writers are always the ones who can help children preserve the feeling of childhood.
09 The Adventure of the Little Hedgehog: The Key Who's It For
[Japanese] Yuko Sugano Author
[Japanese] Yehu Kitami Painting
Translated by Xiu-Juan Tian
Nova Publishing House
"Please _______, please." A warm fill-in-the-blank question filled with expectations of life, understanding of life, and desire for the future. The book makes full use of the young children's strong curiosity about everything in the world, driven by curiosity, the interpretation of natural and warm life stories, the lines are laid out in a beautiful and warm imagination, and the logic of the matter and the logic of life is very strong, the translation is natural and vivid and warm, in all respects, this book is a good book to recommend.
10 "Can't Find the Principal"
Cen Pengwei by Lin Xiaocup, illustrated
Guizhou People's Publishing House
"Can't Find the Principal" reminds us of the principal of "Little Bean by the Window," which is the kind of person a child would not want to meet. What child wouldn't want to meet such a good principal who understands children and loves them with more fun and interesting ideas than the stars in the sky? Even if the paper is fictionalized by the text is enough to let people feel his like in front of the affinity, infectious.
11 Step by Step Frogs Love to Jump
Lin Xiaobian wrote/painted
Beijing Union Publishing House
The author of this book, Lin Xiaobian, is a renowned picture book writer in Taiwan. This book has more pictures and more text, and can be recommended as a picture book. The name of the frog is Bu Bu, he loves to jump, and there are many interesting stories around his jump.
Lin's stories are philosophical and funny in a Frog and Toad sort of way, a very advanced form of expression in children's literature. For example, swimming was an innate skill when Steps was a tadpole, and then forgot how to swim when he became a frog. Lin's drawings have always been characterized by their "childishness," and this book continues in that vein, but on closer inspection, the drawings have their own quirks.
12 I'm Sorry, I Didn't Mean It
[Japanese] Hatako Hanada
[Japanese] Iwao Fukuda
Translated by Perry Chen
Beijing Union Publishing House
Lying is an inevitable phenomenon of a child's growth process. In our traditional education, lying is regarded as a kind of bad behavior and moral badness, so much so that children are burdened with heavy moral pressure and have to cover up their lies with more lies.
In the story, Yodu, driven by vanity, lied about his summer vacation to his grandpa's house, saying he went to Hawaii, and finally admitted to telling a lie in his self-accusation. Unexpectedly, all the children admit that they have lied, even their teachers. "What is lying" and "Is there such a thing as a good lie?", this book is excellent fodder for discussing the above topics with your children.
13 The Little Child with the Bow and Arrow
In The Little Child with the Bow and Arrow, Cheng Wei doesn't shy away from the sensitive topic of children's growth, and gently holds the hands of the young readers to touch the love, and corrects the children's behaviors with the dialectical view of love, which is then extended from the narrow definition of love to the broad definition of love, and gives a vivid lesson to the children with the literary expression of full of artistic wisdom. The book is a vivid lesson for children. The book is medium in length and richly illustrated, making it a great bridge book for younger children.
14 The Boys Go Forward
Eleven-year-old Me has signed up for a long-distance race. On the eve of the race, he follows his mom on a visit to Harry, an old man in his twilight years. Harry happily recalls to the boy a long run to the sea when he was young, thus stringing together the old man's ordinary and brilliant life.
"Start well, cheer up, and you'll have a beautiful life." The old man's dying words are not only an encouragement to the teenager, but also the literary eye of the book. Almond, winner of both the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Ringling Prize, has a more concise and less fantastical story than his other works, but expresses a deeper philosophy.
15 Don't Believe the Shark
By Shinko Takeshi
Illustrated by Jun Takabatake
Translated by Su Yizhen
Beijing Joint Publishing Company
Don't Believe the Shark is a bridge book, and can be read in one sitting. However, it contains philosophical ideas that can't be understood at once. The shark loves to sleep and grows fatter and fatter, how can we make the shark lose weight? Then give the shark an alarm clock. The alarm clock hides a lot of small crabs, they hold a small drum, a small gong or a small trumpet, but can not wake up the shark. In the end, the crabs had to raise their pincers to tickle the shark.
Alarm clock, in the end, is the ringing called alarm clock, or as long as the object to wake up called alarm clock?
This is a philosophical question. This is also a philosophical question. This book meets the standard of classic children's literature, a light story with a heavy dose of philosophy.
16 The Rainbow is Beautiful!
[Austrian] Renate Welsh
[Austrian] Monika Maslovska
Translated by Liu Haiying
Guangxi Normal University Press
The Austrian children's tale Rainbow is Beautiful! The story is light and funny, but also contains philosophy. The little boy sees a beautiful rainbow by chance and starts his indomitable journey to find it. Along the way, he encounters salamanders, birds, badgers, lizards, frogs and other animals, and almost every time he meets with something happy, each experience brings him a kind of "color".
Finally, the frog tells him that where the rainbow begins or ends, there is a treasure, and happiness is the precious treasure. When Dot realizes that he has friends and colors, he feels happy and sees the rainbow. The illustrations are bright and colorful, with exaggerated compositions that add a lively whimsy to the written story.
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