Hi everyone have you ever had a personalized books, telling a story with you as main character, I have always wish to have one.
Last year I made one for my little cousin it was handmade, I think it was a very good present for him because he could always read his story and he will enjoy it because I make it using different textures and now that he is a little bit older he can touch it and see it as many times he want. In my opinion this kind of books are a very good resource because the child feel involve in the story and he pays more attention to it because he is the one who is living the adventures or that he is involved in the weft we could let him some blank pages to continue it by himself and make their imagination and creativity work.
In relation to this types of books other kind are the ones with pops ups like this one:
They were fantastic because as the same time that you were reading you could see what was happening in a 3D dimension and there were other books in which there were secrets and you have to find them and you could play with the pop ups it was so funny.
There are plenty of books of this kind but the best ones are the ones we made telling our own stories I tend to think that because you can invent your own story including your own drawings and that gives the book a lot of personality. There isn´t a perfect formula to write a book we just have to let our imagination fly, start writing words and scrawls to make the first ideas come out and then put them into an order then things everything will fall into its place.
Personally, I feel strongly that we should encourage our students to write books, poems and little stories to make their imagination blow, and be more creative besides there are going to became richer, because they will learn more vocabulary and they will express themselves better.
Finally I would like to talk about interactive books, this type of books are popular know because it’s been more common to have tablets and electronic devices at home for the use of the smallest of the house and are a very good resource to read them stories but we have to read stories as well to variety of books that children read.
I will like to know your opinion about this, and if you have ever had the chance to have a personalized book. Thanks for ridding and I hope you like it.
Hello Paula!
I love your post!
In my opinion, all of these kinds of books are a very good resource for our futures students. Children feel involve in the story and pays more attention to them. I always wanted to have one of this personalized books, my cousin had one of this and I was on it but I was not the main character (and I was a bit jealousy); one of my favorites of this 3D was about a princess and some of the figures that’s up were a beautiful purple castle.
Finally I give you my opinion about interactive books, this type of books are popular know because having tablets and electronic devices at home is more common, it is true that they are easy to hand and very good resource to read stories and have some games to interact with that could be related with the story on it, but for me is more a resource for adults reader, I mean, children need to touch and follow the lines with the finger, and that will be more easy with paper books. Also if you are working on textures is easier if you can touch it (in paper books you can find this) that imaging the feeling (until know there is not any tablet that could transfer this feeling to you).
Hello Paula! Nice post! I have to say that I love reading tales and book with pictures every time I can although I’m an adult. I’ve never had the chance to have a personalized book but I love the idea and I will put into practice when I will be a teacher. In my opinion, children have to read and to write and this is a good way to make them into it. They can be everything they imagine with all possible endings and type of characters; they are the main character and the writers with absolutely freedom to create their book.
I also like 3D and pops ups books because I think they can be a good tool to work with children and to make them learn using games, clues and hidden information. But what personally I don’t like is eBooks. I like to feel the paper, the smell of each book and to turn the pages and I think we have to transmit this to the pupils because nowadays they are surrounded by technologies and some “old things” don’t hurt anybody.
But in any case we have to show children that there is an entire world of books and that it’s not only the picture book or the endless book with tiny letter.