Consultation for parents "Books in your home." consultation on the topic

8 Basic Rules for Reading Aloud to Young Children

Children to whom their parents regularly read aloud in preschool age do better in school, write more competently, and express their thoughts more comprehensively and beautifully.

However, all these benefits of reading aloud only occur if parents read to their child correctly. Unfortunately, according to child psychologists, few parents know how to read aloud to their children the way they should be done. As a result, such a useful method of child development as reading aloud to him turns into sheer boredom and melancholy. Incorrect reading does not bring any benefit, but only instills in the child a dislike for reading.

When reading aloud to a child, you need to stop, explain to the child incomprehensible points and draw his attention to certain important details.

A child’s favorite books should be reread many times, always discussing what they read and encouraging the child to retell and comment on what he heard.

The reader must pronounce the words loudly and clearly, without any childish lisp.

The younger the child, the better he reacts to singing speech. The text chanted should be pronounced somewhat louder, higher and slower than usual. This enables infants to differentiate syllables from whole words. Chanting is often called maternal reading. However, men should also read to babies this way.

Children should only read books with a happy ending.

The reader should try to pronounce the text according to the roles and make the correct acting accents.

And now answers to several questions that parents most often ask child psychologists.

At what age should you start reading aloud to your child?

According to the latest scientific assumptions, a baby should read aloud from the age of 9 months.

How often should you read aloud to your child?

At least twice a day, every day. It is very good if the second reading is timed to coincide with the child’s bedtime.

How long should you read aloud to your child?

The minimum reading time should be 5 to 10 minutes depending on age. The maximum is dictated by the child’s interest: until he gets tired.

How long should you read a chant to a child?

Until approximately three years of age.

Book is an integral part of raising a child. With its help, he will be able to find answers to questions that interest him, explore the world and himself, experience the stories of the characters, and fantasize about the development of further events in a particular work.

A book is an educator of human souls . The baby is growing, which means that every day more and more new impressions await him, he is actively exploring the world and making many discoveries. He receives more and more diverse information necessary for further proper physical, mental and mental development. Children receive new knowledge from the people around them, primarily from their parents, and also from books.
The book introduces a child to the most difficult thing in life - into the world of human feelings, joys and sufferings, relationships, motives, thoughts, actions, characters. The book teaches you to “peer” into a person, see and understand him, and cultivates humanity. A book read in childhood leaves a stronger impression than a book read in adulthood.

The task of an adult is to reveal to the child the extraordinary that a book contains, the pleasure that immersion in reading brings. In order to attract a child to a book, an adult must love literature himself, enjoy it as art, understand complexity, and be able to convey his feelings and experiences to children.

In children aged five, the reading experience becomes more complex. To understand the work, a child no longer needs an illustration for every turn of the plot. When characterizing the characters, children most often express correct judgments about their actions, relying on their ideas about norms of behavior and enriched personal experience. At the same time, when perceiving literary works, the child does not set himself the task of evaluating the hero or events. The attitude of children to literary facts has an effective, vital significance. A child of 4-5 years old is, first of all, an active participant in the events depicted; he experiences them together with the heroes.

At the age of 4-5 years, vocabulary is activated,
development of coherent speech. When reading literary works to a child, you need to pay attention to individual words and expressions. You can teach retelling short texts of Russian folk tales. Slowly start memorizing poems.
At this age, you can introduce your child to fairy tales by foreign authors, heroic folk tales, stories about nature and animals; children get acquainted with Russian and world folklore in all its diversity of genres - from lullabies, nursery rhymes, counting rhymes, teasers, riddles, proverbs to fairy tales and epics, with Russian and foreign classics (works by V. A. Zhukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, P. G. Ershov, C. Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, H. C. Andersen), with the works of K. I. Chukovsky , S. Ya. Marshak and many others.

By reading together, you open up an interesting and colorful literary world for your child. And remember, in this simple way you give your child a huge amount of happiness and love.

A book comes to anyone's home.

Touch its pages
She will talk to you
About the life of animals and birds.

You will see the rivers flooding,
You will hear the horse's tramp
Both Chuk and Gek will come to you,
Timur and Uncle Styopa.

The evil blizzard is not scary for her
And the mud is not scary
She's talking to you
Like a smart travel companion.

Well, suddenly he gets sad,
Don't be too upset:
Like the best true friend
A book will relieve boredom.

(Arkady Markov)

In order for a child to love a book, parents need to work hard

Tips for parents.
Talk more often about the value of the book;
Foster a caring attitude towards books by displaying your family's book heirlooms;
You are the main example for your child, and if you want your child to read, then you should also spend some time with a book;
Visit the library and bookstores together;
Buy books that are bright in design and interesting in content;
Rejoice at your child’s successes, and don’t focus on mistakes;
Discuss the book you read among family members; Tell your child about the author of the book you read;
Have family readings more often.
Reading for children should become a daily habit, a necessity.

Rules that will make reading aloud attractive:

Show your child that reading aloud makes you happy. Don’t mumble as if serving a long-tired duty. The child will feel this and lose interest in reading.
Show your child respect for the book. A child should know that a book is not a toy, not a roof for a doll’s house, and not a cart that can be carried around the room. Teach your children to handle it carefully. It is advisable to look at the book on the table, pick it up with clean hands, and carefully turn the pages. After viewing, put the book back in its place.
Maintain eye contact with your child while reading.

An adult, while reading or telling a story, should stand or sit in front of the children so that they can see his face, observe his facial expressions, eye expressions, and gestures, since these forms of expression of feelings complement and enhance the impressions of reading.

Read to children slowly, but not monotonously, try to convey the music of rhythmic speech. The rhythm and music of speech enchants the child, they enjoy the melodiousness of the Russian tale, the rhythm of the verse.

During the reading process, children should be periodically given the opportunity to talk about their feelings, but sometimes you can ask them to simply silently “listen to themselves.”

Play with your voice: read sometimes faster, sometimes slower, sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly - depending on the content of the text. When reading poems and fairy tales to children, try to convey in your voice the character of the characters, as well as a funny or sad situation, but do not “overdo it.” Excessive dramatization prevents the child from reproducing in his imagination the pictures drawn in words.
Shorten the text if it is clearly too long. In this case, there is no need to read everything to the end; the child still ceases to perceive what he heard. Briefly summarize the ending.
Read fairy tales whenever your child wants to listen to them. Maybe it’s a little boring for the parents, but for him it’s not.
Read aloud to your child every day and make it a favorite family ritual. Be sure to continue reading together when the child learns to read: the value of a good book depends largely on how the parents reacted to the book and whether they will find a proper place for it in their family library.
Don’t persuade him to listen, but “seduce” him. A useful trick: let your child choose the books himself.
From early childhood, a child needs to select his own personal library. Go to the bookstore or library with your child more often. You should buy books gradually, choosing what interests children, what they understand, in consultation with the teacher.
Read aloud or retell books to your child that you yourself liked as a child. Before reading a book you are unfamiliar with to your child, try reading it yourself to direct your child’s attention in the right direction.
Do not interrupt your child from reading or looking at a picture book. Again and again, draw children's attention to the contents of the book and pictures, each time revealing something new.

In conclusion, some advice for parents: be careful when choosing books to read and organizing the reading process to your children.

For example: for children 6-7 years old, fairy tales are still in first place among all genres of fiction, only fairy tales are added to folk ones. Therefore, they can be introduced to the works of Eduard Uspensky and the funny stories of N. Nosov.
Children 6-7 years old should buy bright books with large print and lots of beautiful pictures; the plot of the book should be interesting so that the child wants to read to the end. A book at this age should be enjoyable. When choosing a book, pay attention to the number of dialogues in the works, because you will be able to read by role.

consultation for parents. "Books in your home"

"Books in your home"

Consultation for parents.

Tips for designing a children's home library.

Educator: Saraeva Elena Anatolyevna.

It would seem that it could be simpler than organizing a children's library at home: buy books, put them on the shelf and the job is done. But not everything is as simple as we would like, because the formation of a children's reading circle depends on many factors: the age characteristics of the child, his interest in literature, as well as the goals that we pursue when creating a home children's library. It would be possible to omit the conversation about this altogether if we, adults, at the stage of preschool childhood, fully fulfilled the main task of developing interest and caring attitude towards the book. But this, unfortunately, rarely happens, because books in our house have powerful rivals: TV, video, computer.

Have you ever thought about the question: “What can a book give a child?” But children draw a lot of knowledge from books: the first ideas about time and space, about the connection of man with nature and the objective world, which helps to expand the child’s horizons. Through literary works, children for the first time experience courage and perseverance, good and evil, learn such universal human values as honesty, justice, friendship, sympathy, that is, books cleanse and open the soul, cultivate good feelings. In addition, books are an inexhaustible source for the development of intelligence and creativity, not only for children, but also for us, adults.

In this regard, we advise you to be very careful and selective in organizing and selecting books at home. Adults should remember that a book attracts a small child primarily because of its design. Its appearance should be attractive: different forms of covers, beautiful, bright illustrations. A modern poet said well that this is a priority for a child:

We read books together, both bison and boa constrictors,
With dad every weekend. And dad has no one!
I have two hundred pictures, I have them in the wild desert,
And dad has none. A lion's footprint is drawn.
I have elephants, giraffes - I feel sorry for Dad. Well what a book
Animals, every single one, - If there are no pictures in it!

Your home library should have different types of books.

First type - toy book, picture book, which is given to a child from a very early age (up to one year). This is not literature yet. Here the visual image prevails over the verbal, drawings are of primary importance. K.I. Chukovsky noted that this period is important in mastering speech, and a book that provides rich visual impressions will be a good assistant in this matter. K.D. Ushinsky wrote: “Children’s nature clearly requires clarity. Teach a child some five words unknown to him, and he will agonize over them for a long time and in vain, but associate twenty such words with pictures - and the child will learn them all on the fly...” In addition, there is hope that the child at an early age , who took the book in his hands and received pleasure from communicating with it, will continue to reach for the book in the future and become a passionate reader.

The second type is a die-cut book. Its cover is cut out along the contour of the subject discussed in the text, and its playful external design also helps to attract the child to become familiar with the content.

The third type is a panorama book. It is not only brightly illustrated, but also equipped with moving figures. With the help of these figures, the action seems to come to life in it. By manipulating them, the child not only joins the rhythm of the text, but also lives what is happening along with the characters.

We also need to remember that the child’s library should contain books of different types that reflect reality: not only fairy tales, but also realistic literature, not only prose, but also poetry.
Until 3–4 years of age, children should be surrounded by picture books type of folding beds and toy books with a predominance of illustrations and short text: “Ryaba Hen >>”, “Magpie-Crow”, etc. After 3 years, it is important to adhere to one of the basic rules - in the child’s field of view there should be from 3 to 5 books with bright illustrations and accessible plot for this age. These are, of course, “Toys” by A. Barto, “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats”, “Kolobok”, “Teremok”, “Three Bears”, etc.

It would be good to update the book repertoire after 2-3 weeks, introducing one new book at a time, with a surprise or encouragement, for example:
- Today your cat brought you a very interesting book."Cat house".
- Grandma and I decided to give you a new fairy tale - after all, you really love and cherish books.
At 4 years of age and older, it is very important to tell your child that there is a children's library at home. And together with the child it is necessary to organize it correctly, i.e. systematize by adult type: fairy tales, books by the same author; according to the seasons; stories about animals, books by foreign authors, riddles, poems, encyclopedias, etc. It is important to separate each division with a cardboard partition with a symbol design indicating a particular section. It's a good idea to give your library a name (eg"Book House" ) and gradually accumulate it.
We should not forget that books require our care from time to time. Therefore, not far from the library you can place a corner,"Knizhkina Hospital", where materials and tools for book repair will be stored. We recommend doing this work together with children. This will help foster a caring attitude and love for books.
We also advise you to purchase, or better yet, make games together with your children based on the plots of literary works that will help maintaininterest in the book:

different types of theaters (tabletop, “mitten”, spoon theater, shadow);
games-traveling through fairy tales with chips and dice;
lotto or dominoes "Heroes of Favorite Fairy Tales";
puzzles or cut-out pictures based on the plots of your favorite works;
guess the riddle - find the answer;
CDs with audio recordings of various children's works;
a chest with “magic” objects: a ball, a magic wand;
creative materials: paints, markers, paper, plasticine, glue;
a wonderful bag with small animal toys for writing your own stories, etc.

Let us note that every child has a book that is his favorite, and therefore he asks to re-read it many times. Don't worry - this is a natural and positive process. Satisfy his desires: a preschool child gets along with the heroes of fairy tales or stories, all of them are his close friends and advisers. But constantly try to expand the field of his book vision, orienting the baby to everything useful, artistic and morally valuable. Pay attention to the printing, design of illustrations and, of course, the content.

Consultation for parents: The role of books in the life of a preschooler.

A preschooler is a listener or reader.

“Mom, please read…” Should you fulfill the baby’s request or insist on independent reading? Experts say: teaching a child to read early is a very risky experiment.

Also L.S. Vygotsky noted that a preschooler learns according to an adult’s program to the extent that he accepts it, to the extent that it becomes his own learning program. When learning to read early, a child, as a rule, does not understand why he needs it. He has no motivation yet, no need for independent reading. He often asks adults to read to him - and not only to find out what the book is about, but to talk to the adult, including about what he read. Reading together gives a child an impetus to intellectual development - develops speech, thinking, horizons, creates interest in books, and introduces moral values. This is a feature of preschool age - the process of cognition, as a rule, occurs indirectly, through an adult.

Having learned reading techniques too early, the baby can get used to mechanical reading. The meaning of what is read eludes the child for several reasons: insufficient speech development and therefore ignorance of the meaning of words; still weak intellectual development and, as a consequence, inability to generalize, lack of understanding of cause-and-effect relationships. Not all children ask adults what an unclear word means. Therefore, I recommend that parents, without waiting for the child’s question, explain to him new incomprehensible words and speech patterns. Only then will the books read develop the child’s speech and replenish his vocabulary. As the texts read gradually become more complex (from simple short fairy tales to stories and novellas), the child begins to more closely follow the adventures of book characters. Now, if he doesn’t understand something in the text, he begins to take the initiative and ask himself, otherwise the outline of events is destroyed for him.

When should reading techniques be taught? Only when the child already has a good command of spoken language and is fluent in listening to the text of children's books appropriate for his age. And, preferably, when a preschool child shows a need to read books. This need awakens gradually; it is cultivated by reading together with an adult. The baby receives double pleasure: from communicating with an adult during their joint reading activity and from the plot of a literary work. Thus, the book begins to be associated not only with a source of new information, but also with positive emotions. A persistent negative attitude towards reading and books in general can arise when a child is taught to read, but almost no books are read to him. And this, unfortunately, is the current situation.

So, in preschool childhood, it is important not to teach children reading techniques, but to develop their need to read books. Then, at primary school age, the child will quite easily and quickly master the ability to read.

Ten “why” children need to read books.

Reading develops speech the child and his vocabulary increases, the book teaches the little person to express his thoughts and understand what other people say.
Reading develops thinking. From books, a child learns abstract concepts and expands the horizons of his world. The book explains life to him and helps him see the connection between one phenomenon and another.
Working with a book is stimulating creative imagination, allows imagination to work and teaches children to think in images.
Reading develops cognitive interests and expands horizon. From books and periodicals, a child learns about other countries and a different way of life, about nature, technology, history and everything that interests him.
Books help a child know yourself. It is very important for self-esteem to know that other people think, feel and react the same way as he does.
Books help children understand others. By reading books written by writers from other cultures and eras, and seeing that their thoughts and feelings are similar to ours, children understand them better and get rid of prejudices.
A good children's book can be read aloud to a child. The process of shared reading promotes spiritual communication parents and children, establishing mutual understanding, intimacy, trust. The book unites generations.
Books - parent assistants in solving educational problems. They teach children ethics, force them to think about good and evil, develop the ability to empathize, and help them learn to empathize with other people.
Books give strength and inspiration. They captivate and entertain. They make children and adults laugh and cry. They bring comfort and indicate a way out of a difficult situation.
Reading is the most accessible and useful activity for the intellectual and emotional development of the child.

PARENTS REMEMBER:

THE FUTURE READER NEEDS TO BE EDUCATED WHEN HE IS STILL A LISTENER.

Teacher of the ORN group from 5 to 7 years old at the Raduga school:

Azarskova Irina Aleksandrovna

With. Algasovo

year 2014.

All parents buy books for their children from time to time. But when choosing them in a modern bookstore, it’s not surprising to get lost among the variety of children’s publications. Some parents prefer to buy fashionable new items, others are cautious, choosing for their children the classics that they themselves were raised on. And there is a category of parents who don’t think about it at all and buy whatever they have to or don’t buy it at all.

Let's take a closer look at the good old books. Why are they still in demand and loved even by modern children?

Of course, Soviet books were written by talented writers and poets who respected and loved the little reader and nurtured his personality. The language of these books is understandable to every child. They awaken kindness in children's hearts, deeply and for a long time sink into the minds and souls of children. Unobtrusively and with interest, they teach to resist stupidity, greed, evil and calculation. I want to imitate the heroes of these works.

And the illustrations! Do you remember those good drawings, black and white and color, that you could look at many times and find something new every time. We all know such wonderful artists - illustrators as V. Lebedev, Yu. Vasnetsov, E. Charushin, E. Rachev, A. Savchenko, V. Suteev, etc. They are very different, and each of them has a special creative approach, but their drawings not only fully reveal the content of the book, they are very beautiful, understandable and attractive to any reader.

Soviet books were published for a long time and carefully in huge editions by modern standards, they were inexpensive, and still there were not enough of them for everyone. And now circulations have decreased along with the quality of book preparation, but the range and number of publishing organizations have increased significantly. Unfortunately, current publishers rely not on quality, but on quantity, so despite the bright variety of children's books, parents have to be on their guard. After all, among all this abundance of books, it is quite difficult to choose a truly good book.

The most acute problem of modern children's literature is the fact that in books now you can hardly find talented poets who respect their readers. How would you like this poem (we won’t name its author):

On the porch the goose boasted:

I'm not afraid of anyone.

If only I want:

I'll trample the turkey.

And the goat, ha-ha-ha,

I'll break off the horns.

I'll drown a pig in a trough -

You're not joking with me.

What can this poem teach a young child? And how many more awkward, cruel and incomprehensible poems for children are being produced! If publishers continue to print everything indiscriminately, sooner or later real poetry will simply disappear and remain on the table.

Now almost anyone can write and publish something. Therefore, often “writers” become people who are far from children and their interests. Once, in a thin book for kids by a modern author (again, we won’t mention his last name), among several stories about how a child should behave in a problematic situation, I came across one called “Who Does What?” Here is a short excerpt: “Mitya and his favorite bunny are sitting on the floor, holding bags on their knees. Mitya has already untied his bag. What's in it, do you think? Mom is sitting in a large soft chair and talking on the phone. Anya interferes with her mother. She shouts: “Give me the phone, give me!” Screaming loudly! The bear hid behind a chair. He doesn’t like it when Anya screams and is capricious.” Agree, a very unsightly family. Firstly, everyone is busy with their own business. Why not consider a situation where mom and children make something together? Secondly, it turns out to be a strange mother: it’s not clear how long she’s already talked on the phone and how much longer she’s going to talk? Thirdly, poor Anya - she’s probably been screaming and crying for an hour now, but her mother is not paying attention to her, and besides, Anya is also disturbing her mother! Is it possible to talk about child psychology and pedagogy here?

Let us dwell on one more problem of modern books. It is now common practice to print texts for children in abbreviated form. On the one hand, this is correct - after all, it is still difficult for a child to follow the course of a long narrative. But on the other hand, adaptation is not a mindless shredding of the text. And when “unnecessary little things” are removed from stories and fairy tales and replaced with tasteless and “simplified” illustrations, the end result is some scraps of plot, sometimes distorted beyond recognition. For example, one publishing house decided that in order to get acquainted with the famous fairy tale by G.Kh. For Andersen, the following text is enough: “In a small pond near the poultry yard there lived a little Duckling. He was unhappy because he was ugly. The inhabitants of the poultry yard laughed at him and called him “The Ugly Duckling.” One day the duckling could not stand it and walked away wherever he looked. He wandered onto a farm where he was allowed to live in an old barrel. So the winter passed. Spring has come, and the Duckling wanted to swim in his native pond. He is back. And no one recognized the “Ugly Duckling” in the beautiful swan. One fine day he met a flock of swans and flew with them to distant lands.” We think that comments are unnecessary.

Today there are a lot of really good, colorfully and well-illustrated books, and the capabilities of modern printing houses make it possible to produce books at the highest artistic and printing level. But still, there are some comments about illustrations in children's books. I wish the crocodile looked like a crocodile and was green instead of orange. Sometimes artists draw very dryly, schematically and monotonously, but sometimes it’s the other way around - too bright, cloying and intrusive, while illustrations in a children’s book help to accumulate knowledge about the world around us, stimulate the development of interest and imagination, and awaken the child’s creative abilities, give food for thought.

Therefore, dear parents and teachers, let us carefully choose literature for our children, scrupulously studying the content and evaluating the design, in order to prevent children from encountering second-rate books. After all, what kind of person a child will become depends largely on what kind of books a child reads. It has already been said that it is now quite difficult to find books by new talented authors, but, unfortunately, a similar situation arises with illustrators. I would really like the illustrations to reflect the plot of the work, and not be the artist’s independent fantasy.

After all, an illustrated book is actually a window into the world for a child; it gives an idea of the world around him, awakens the child’s imagination and creativity, and provides food for thought.

Consultation on the topic:

"Books in our house"

Book is an integral part of raising a child. With its help, he will be able to find answers to questions that interest him, explore the world and himself, experience the stories of the characters, and fantasize about the development of further events in a particular work.

A book is an educator of human souls.The baby is growing, which means that every day more and more new impressions await him, he is actively exploring the world and making many discoveries. He receives more and more diverse information necessary for further proper physical, mental and mental development. Children receive new knowledge from the people around them, primarily from their parents, and also from books.
It is no secret that modern children read little, preferring books to watching television programs, videos, and computer films. This sad reality should make us parents think and try to somehow correct the situation.
From a very young age, children need to read as many books as possible. It is very important that he loves this activity. The book may be of interest to both boys and girls, the main thing is to find an option that the child will like.
Scientists have found that a child who is systematically read to accumulates a rich vocabulary.
By reading with his mother, the child actively develops imagination and memory.
It is reading that performs not only a cognitive, aesthetic, but also an educational function. Therefore, parents need to read books to their children from early childhood.

The variety of children's books is surprising, but not always pleasing. It is important to remember that in any book, including children's, the most important thing is the content.

Recommendations for purchasing literature:
1. Children 2-3 years old love books with large pictures, love them
consider. Here Russian folk tales come to the rescue: “Turnip”, “Kolobok”, “Ryaba Hen”, “Teremok”.
It is always easier for a small child to perceive a story than reading. Therefore, tell him fairy tales in your own words and at the same time look at the pictures in the book.
In the third year of life, the vocabulary increases rapidly, and the child can already read poems. Introduce the works of A. Barto, Z. Alexandrova.

2. In children aged 4-5 years, vocabulary is activated,
development of coherent speech. When reading literary works to a child, you need to pay attention to individual words and expressions. You can teach retelling short texts of Russian folk tales. Slowly start memorizing poems.
At this age, you can introduce your child to fairy tales by foreign authors, heroic folk tales, stories about nature and animals, and the works of K. Chukovsky.

3. For children 6-7 years old, fairy tales are still in first place among all genres of fiction, only fairy tales are added to folk ones. Therefore, they can be introduced to the works of Eduard Uspensky and the funny stories of N. Nosov.
Children 6-7 years old should buy bright books with large print and lots of beautiful pictures; the plot of the book should be interesting so that the child wants to read to the end. A book at this age should be enjoyable. When choosing a book, pay attention to the number of dialogues in the works, because you will be able to read by role.

In order for a child to love a book, parents need to work hard.
Tips for parents.
Talk more often about the value of the book;
Foster a caring attitude towards books by displaying your family's book heirlooms;
You are the main example for your child, and if you want your child to read, then you should also spend some time with a book;
Visit the library and bookstores together;
Buy books that are bright in design and interesting in content;
Rejoice at your child’s successes, and don’t focus on mistakes;
Discuss the book you read among family members;
Tell your child about the author of the book you read;
Have family readings more often.

By reading together, you open up an interesting and colorful literary world for your child. And remember, in this simple way you give your child a huge amount of happiness and love.

Let's take a closer look at the good old books. Why are they still in demand and loved even by modern children?

The most acute problem of modern children's literature is the fact that in books now you can hardly find talented poets who respect their readers.

Now almost anyone can write and publish something. Therefore, often “writers” become people who are far from children and their interests.

Let us dwell on one more problem of modern books. It is now common practice to print texts for children in abbreviated form. On the one hand, this is correct - after all, it is still difficult for a child to follow the course of a long narrative. But on the other hand, adaptation is not a mindless shredding of the text. And when “unnecessary little things” are removed from stories and fairy tales and replaced with tasteless and “simplified” illustrations, the end result is some scraps of plot, sometimes distorted beyond recognition. Today there are a lot of really good, colorfully and well-illustrated books, and the capabilities of modern printing houses make it possible to produce books at the highest artistic and printing level. But still, there are some comments about illustrations in children's books. I wish the crocodile looked like a crocodile and was green instead of orange. Therefore, dear parents and teachers, let us carefully choose literature for our children, scrupulously studying the content and evaluating the design, in order to prevent children from encountering second-rate books. After all, what kind of person a child will become depends largely on what kind of books a child reads. It has already been said that it is now quite difficult to find books by new talented authors, but, unfortunately, a similar situation arises with illustrators. I would really like the illustrations to reflect the plot of the work, and not be the artist’s independent fantasy.