"You can open these books yourself and see if there's anything you like. Daddy will buy it for you." Yang Yi said with a smile. He was worried that his daughter would be bored and not know what to do at the bookstore.
Looking for books to read in the bookstore was also a great pleasure!
Xi Xi nodded in confusion. She turned her head and focused her attention on the bookshelf. The children's books seemed to attract the little girl's attention like the wonderful pictures from before.
However, Yang Yi saw Xi Xi look left and right, and finally reach for the large picture album. The little girl ignored the small and thicker children's books.
Perhaps it was because the colors of the large books were brighter, and the pictures looked richer?
He saw the little girl holding a large picture album tightly with both hands as if she was holding a bowl. The book was as big as her face. It was placed on the edge of the bookshelf, and she was a little worried that it would fall off.
At first, she was at a loss. But after glancing at the little brother beside her, the little girl flipped it open. However, she was wearing gloves, and her fingers were a little clumsy. She directly flipped to the middle of the picture album.
Yang Yi squatted down and helped Xi Xi hold the book. Then, he said in amusement, "Come, Daddy will help you take off your gloves. How can you read with gloves on?"
"But, but I'm afraid of the cold." Xi Xi stretched out her two small hands, but still said to her father worriedly.
"Don't be afraid. It's not cold here." Yang Yi took off Xi Xi's two small gloves, then held her two small hands in the palm of his hand. He blew a breath of hot air and said with a smile, "Look, it's not cold now, right?"
"Aiya!" The little girl's eyebrows immediately loosened, and she giggled.
Letting her read by herself, Yang Yi also flipped through the children's books.
However, after a while, Yang Yi also found some problems. Most of these children's books were comic books. Although there were few words and a few pictures formed a short story, its plot was not suitable for Xi Xi to read.
For example, this comic book described a school joke.
A child said to his deskmate, "Why are you eating French fries again?"
The second picture said, "What I hate the most is people who worship foreign things!"
As for the third picture, his deskmate asked him speechlessly, "You still have the nerve to tell me what's in that box on your table?" (In the manga, there was also a large box of chips on the main character's table. It was exactly the same as the box of chips on his table.)
In the end, in the fourth picture, the protagonist smiled wickedly. "Who said that? This is clearly a fried dough stick."
In the manga, when the box was opened, there were fried dough sticks stacked together like French fries.
It wasn't that it wasn't beautiful, but the problem was that Yang Yi couldn't help but chuckle. He found it very interesting.
The stories and jokes in these children's books were not only for children, but for adults as well.
Of course, Yang Yi didn't mind letting Xi Xi read this story alone. However, when he flipped through the other stories, Yang Yi saw that the author used some jokes about excrement and urine, used some topics of love between young men and women, and even used jokes like * *, lipstick, and bras.
To make a comparison, these children's books were like "Crayon Shin-chan." They were more like adult comics. Although "Crayon Shin-chan" had lost a lot of sexual content in the later stages, the content was still more adult-oriented.
So, how could this be called a children's comic? It was obviously not suitable for children like Xi Xi who had yet to start school to read it! Yang Yi didn't want Xi Xi to come into contact with these adult ways of thinking at such a young age.
What made Yang Yi feel that the problem was very serious was that this type of comic wasn't a special case. Most of the comics in the children's book section were similar to it.
Yang Yi recalled that Fu Jun had shown him a newspaper column by a director of the Guangdong Province's Writers' Association named Yu Qian. Although Fu Jun showed it to him because Yu Qian recommended his first book, "Xi Xi's Bedtime Stories," which sold out his books in Guangdong Province, Yang Yi still remembered Yu Qian's comments on children's literature in the article. She said that the children's literature in China had gone into a wrong direction. Many writers who wrote children's literature used adult thinking to conceptualize. The stories they wrote weren't suitable for children!
Yu Qian was also a mother. As a writer, she had always encouraged her children to read. However, in her eyes, only "Xi Xi's Bedtime Stories" written by Yang Yi was suitable for children to read. Not only was the story full of imagination, but it also didn't deliberately use flowery words.
Yang Yi finally understood Yu Qian's feelings when he brought Xi Xi out to buy books.
After looking around, Yang Yi only found a few children's books that were passable.
One was called "The Adventures of Little Fish." It described a small sea fish. After it was born, it began its adventure in the sea. There wasn't a particularly thrilling plot. Instead, it was a bit like a popular science book, allowing children to understand the world of the sea through beautiful illustrations.
There was also a book called "The Clown Pug." It was a bit like the story of the Ugly Duckling. The Clown Pug was despised by the other pets in the family. God knew why this family had so many pets. There was a cold cat, a fierce dog, an arrogant parrot, a naughty squirrel, a gluttonous pig, and an old lizard that could talk. However, unlike the Ugly Duckling, the Clown Pug didn't become prettier. It faced its dog life very positively and bravely faced challenges. It gained the friendship of the other pets in the family through its stories.
Wait …
There were a total of four books. These children's books were passable, and they were all large volumes with colorful illustrations. Although they were a little expensive, the little girl liked them very much when she saw them when Yang Yi gave them to Xi Xi.
However, the problem was that there were hundreds of children's books in the bookcase, and Yang Yi only found less than four books that were suitable for Xi Xi.
No, in the end, he still bought five books.
Because Xi Xi had bravely explored by herself and found the books she liked.
"I want this!" The little girl held a book the size of 20 carats and looked at her father with eyes full of hope. It was just like how she couldn't move her feet when she saw a beautiful doll and wanted her father to buy it for her.
Yang Yi took a look. This wasn't a storybook, but a popular science children's book with many cartoon illustrations that introduced the animals and plants in the forest.
"You like this?" Yang Yi asked, a little surprised.
"There are little rabbits and little mushrooms in it!" Xi Xi nodded and said seriously to her father.
It turned out that she also looked at the pictures in the book. For Xi Xi, she couldn't understand the stories described in those books. On the contrary, the more beautiful and colorful the pictures were, the more she liked them.
Of course, Yang Yi was still willing to buy popular science books for Xi Xi.
On the way home, Xi Xi was very happy. Sometimes, she would sing the children's songs that she learned in kindergarten to her father, and sometimes she would talk to him excitedly. It was as if going out to the bookstore was just like going out to buy a bunch of dolls. It was so fun!
However, Yang Yi wasn't as happy as Xi Xi. From this shopping trip, he deeply understood the seriousness of the children's book problem described by Yu Qian.
Although he didn't have the leisure to worry about the country and the people, he still had to consider what his daughter would read after reading these books.
Even if Xi Xi grew up and had other books to read, what about his and Murphy's second child in the future?
Yang Yi couldn't avoid these problems.
Of course, Yang Yi could write his own books, but how many books could he write that were suitable for children?
Yang Yi was almost drained of inspiration by Xi Xi. In his previous life, he didn't read many children's stories. Most of them were made up by him according to the settings of some fairy tales that he knew. If he continued to make up nonsense, the things that he wrote would be like those children's books, with a lot of adult thinking patterns.
What's more, there was a limit to what he could achieve with his own efforts.
What should Yang Yi do?
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