时间：2022-10-10 03:19:06
Abstract: The education for children has always attracted extensive attention of the whole society. The design for children's books which closely relate to the education for children has also been attached great importance by parents and teachers. Nowadays children's books mostly aim at little children, even before children learn to read, many parents buy lots of books for children. The kind of great ambitions for their child is rooted in parents' heart. So The design for children's books should adapt to the trend of development absolutely, which makes children's book play the role of children's enlightenment
Keywords: children's books; innovating design; children
一、The current situation of the design for children's books
Nowadays the number of children's books is constantly increasing on the market. Styles are varied and designs always bring forth the new through the old. On the whole, Chinese market for children's book has been a thriving scene, but there is still a long way to go and there are still many problems of inheriting and improving to research further.
Concerning the present situation of children's books design, we can start from several key aspects of children's book cover, materials and binding, etc. First, as for the cover, the cover design of modern children's books has been away from the previous low saturation color design. Now children's books can be described "colorful", and the picture of cover is richer than before. In order to attract more children consumers, designers design a lot of cute cartoon characters and odd pictures on the covers. Children are easily attracted by the gorgeous colors, their interest in reading can be waked up by rich pictures, and even when selecting children's book many parents will first consider whether the style of the cover is suitable for their children or not. Second, there are some drawbacks on the use of material on children's books. The material application of children's books on Chinese market is still very single, mainly coated paper or cardboard, which is very hard and difficult to tear up. But when they read the books many children's hands are easy to be scratched, so some books of very good quality are not suitable for children to read alone, to some extent, which hinders the initiative of reading. Third, mention of binding design, Chinese book binding is not too many changes basically, mainly glue binding, ring binding and butterfly-like binding, etc. which are often seen on the market, lack of innovating.
Aiming at the present situation of children's books, we should know two problems :first, what advantages of Chinese children's books design we need to inherit and develop; second, how we should improve the shortcomings of children's books design. Children's entertainment life is varied in modern society, so children's books design need to reform to adapt to today's educational environment which children face .
二、Re-innovation of the design for children's books
For children reading can not be replaced by other kind of education. How to make children's books functioning fully and make books, parents and children interact better? It requires designers to explore and re-innovate in order to adapt to children's psychological characteristics and children's life background.
（一）Materials Innovation
Book paper can affect the appearance of the book's cover. Now high-gloss paper is used in many books. High-light film can make the color of the book more bright and can glow bright, so that younger children are more easily attracted by the books. This kind of material has its own advantages: low cost, convenient to look at, easy to mark, etc. But for young children, these commonly used materials show their defects. They are easily torn and hard paper will easily cut through the skin of children. To solve these problems, we need to come up with some solutions. Maybe some concrete things in the life are more suitable to replace the paper material of children's books. Here we give an example - "cloth book." Cloth book has become a new term. The kind of books made of cotton cloth can avoid all of problems as mentioning, and it is more interesting. Although the cost of the cloth book is higher than the ordinary book , with a small scale of production, the innovative material for children's books will be a new direction of development.
（二）Appearance Innovation
The child is innocent. They are more likely attracted by some novelties, and will approach and explore them actively. We can take advantage of children's feature to produce innovation for appearance of children's books, thereby we can improve children's reading interest and the quality of education.
There is no difference between ordinary children's books and common books. It is necessary for children to read books flipping by hand. There are also some books having three-dimensional form or appearance , which show a simple three-dimensional model after they are opened. Designers often take advantage of this way to promote children to flip books actively so as to increase reading interest. On the basis of this, the design for children's books can make use of the "concept" to do some strange-shape books as toys in the eyes of children. Children learn knowledge under the guide of parents and read books in the game. If we design a book for age of 2-3 years, we can construct it by means of toy book, because children in this stage have no concept for words, lack of interest in ordinary books. We can design books into a certain kind of toy, such as cars, dolls, and books can be attached to cards or small building blocks. By playing games between parents or teachers and children, children can tell stories by watching pictures, or they are taught to identify shape, color, concrete things etc., and children accept gradually from the concept of the "toys" to the concept of "book" in the way. Nowadays on the market there are a large number of toy books developing intellect for little child. These toy books are more interesting, but lack of the flavor of traditional books, which are toys forever in the eyes of children and will not let children engender the concept "studying".
（三 ）Educational Model Re-innovation for Children's Books
The children read books to accept education, which has become a common mode of thinking. The modern sense "reading a book" should be changed. When accepting education, children not only should learn to read books, reading, but also should develop the sense of touch, the sense of smell, hearing and sight etc. accordingly. So I think a new generation of children's books should meet children's needs of sensory healthy developing.
Educators Montessori said that " Sense can develop a higher level of intelligence, and come into being a more accurate concept. " Children's books can teach children how to identify colors, figures and finally know words and count. When children know a new object through books, their curiosity must be a further understanding of it. At this time we can let children contact with the new object through other senses. If we tell children the animal called "penguin" on the picture, we can attach another kind of artificial material close to penguins' skin to the "penguin" on the picture when designing, so children can touch this to feel what the penguin fur is like. Educational model re-innovation for children's books can form the kind of sensory educational media, under the guide of parents or teachers to cultivate children a better understanding of the world.
三、Conclusion
Children are a special groups of readers, and they need special attention and care from designers. We should place great importance on every aspect of children's reading and design innovation for children's books. Here it's only a simple introduction. Regardless of the innovative research for which part of children's books, it's indispensable for us to explore children's inner. Letting children read books is not the ultimate goal. Broadening their horizons and having experience by "book" as the media are the ultimate goal when we research innovation for children's books.