We will see some recommendations of children's books that I have prepared for the occasion. But first, if you'll allow me, let's talk frankly about what reading means for our little ones.
La children's literature It is essential for the awakening of the imagination, that human power increasingly replaced or fed artificially by all kinds of screens and interfaces in which everything is done beforehand.
Multimedia devours white on black (which can "only" offer images that complement the image), the digital universe of entertainment becomes a precooked one for the minds of our little ones, loaded with, as I say, artificial ingredients that numb the rich and prodigious gray matter, leaving it dry and difficult to malle in the future.
If we were completely aware of what it means to cultivate our children at those ages in which a good brain can still be formed (it is assumed that until adolescence we do not have everything in order up there), we would not sell their free time to the easy temptation of the digital.
Books are wealth, imagination, empathy, language, understanding, abstraction, intellectual development, reasoning, language, communication. It is about supporting the growth of the personality, matching your way of seeing the world with the firmer foundations and with the most important tools for the mature human.
It is only a matter of betting on a fuller development, in putting everything on our part to launch our children into the world with guarantees of essential success, that which invites them to decide how to write their destiny.
The truth is that I am more of the classic children's literature, the one that, thanks to many universal writers from whom I am going to select some essential ones, describes three phases. These are my recommended children's books:
Initial children's literature
When children already begin to defend themselves in the interpretation of what is written, reading without syllabification and understanding each word as a concept, we can launch them at Andersen , Perrault or with the Brothers Grimm (In which we can find that final moral note with clear teachings on basic moral foundations)
Secondary children's literature
It is easy to see when children look for that plus, the moment when they need that jump to new adventures on which their powerful imagination can compose wonderful scenarios.
It is time to enjoy the reading exercise of Alicia de Lewis Carroll; from the jungle book of a Kipling with a Nobel Prize included and yet fascinating in its childish aspect; or the infallible Little Prince of a Saint Exupery that was covered in glory with this narrative made epic of all childhood. Writers like these, with their fables and allegories, are capable of inserting themselves into an imaginary in need of more complex references disguised as fantasy.
Children's and youth literature
Having been that human apprentice who moves towards adolescence or is installed in it, (accompanying that complex transition from child to adult), and not having read to mark twain, Gaarder o Michael Ende it is an offense to one's own childhood and a lack of the first magnitude.
the adventures of tom sawyer Mark Twain They confront the little ones with a highly intense action about good and evil.
El mundo de SofÃa is a necessary book for the development of the thinking of an already mature kid.
For its part, Ende's Neverending Story is like a beautiful link to the first ages of reading. Later, new books will arrive that little by little will approach more complex topics, but, as Ende's great book says, "that is another story and must be told another time."
Current children's literature
After my daring selection for each age group (an indefinite group in which each tutor should attend according to needs), I can only comment on the current state of children's literature.
And yes, I have my reservations. Of course you can find a lot of variety and great authors accompanied by great illustrators. But with two young children and harassed by recommended titles, covers of millions of colors and ingenious adaptations to the stagehand turned into a book, I have to say that I always choose those copies that have a little more chicha.
Taking a look at what the book tells us without falling into the easy temptation of packaging marketing will prevent us from making an empty investment in a copy of bland storytelling that has no effect on the dwarfs.
As a parent, I find it paradoxical when I share a story with one of my children (even those included in school), and the next moment the little ones turn to something else like someone reading the shampoo label. Not a question, not a doubt. The illustrations are good, but if they are not accompanied by a good text you can start inventing something with more foundation as you go...
So, among so much offer, let's be selective. You just have to put yourself in the shoes of the children and see if the book in question invites us to a reflection (understand childish way, of course), or a shower of questions with which to enjoy in that magical parent-child interaction.
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