观察、研究、整合与提升——维吉利亚·李·伯顿童书创作的启示

Observation, Research, Integration and Sublimation——Virginia Lee Burdon Teaching Us How to Create Children's Books

维吉尼亚·李·伯顿是20世纪美国最具代表性的图画书作家之一,她既写作又画插图,独立创作的图画书《小房子》获得了1943年的美国凯迪克奖金奖。伯顿创作的故事欢快而深刻,插图充满活力,文字凝练明确,对空间、字体和设计元素的运用也是别具一格。在童书创作中,她启发我们敏锐地观察生活,坚持不懈地做调查研究,纵观全局高度整合且对每个细节一丝不苟,优雅地凝练文字并升华意蕴。

Virginia Lee Burdon is best remembered as a talented author and illustrator of children＇s books in America in the 20 th century. She was the winner of the 1943 Caldecott Medal for The Little House. Burton＇s books include happy endings and profound meaning, lively illustrations, and clear words. Her use of space, typeface and design were original. In the creation of picture books, she inspired us to make keen observations of life, to make unremitting efforts to do research, to design after an overall view of all the words and pictures, to pay attention to detail, to condense the story into short sentences and to turn the ordinary into the sublime.