The main reasons are, first, that our lives are inherently colorful, and second, that the reform and opening up makes us integrate with the world, broad our horizon, and makes children’s litera- ture writers experience more.
In fact, fantasy and reality have always represented the two wings of literature, and, in combination, they produce the most important means of expression within children’s literature across the world.
There are great differences between adult and children picture books. The truth is that these two kinds require entirely different creative mentalities.
n my opinion, to check whether a writer is smart, he has to show what he regards as the source of writing. For a Chinese writer, the socalled source of writing is exactly the land, upon which his two feet stand, a land where he is born and brought up.
The fact that these two books rank the top gives us a direction that the development of publishing original children’s books of China in this country must be deeply rooted in our own civilization and cultural genes.
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