Big Boat

Original Title
大船

Text by
HUANG Xiaoheng

Illustrations by
GUI Tuzi

Pages
48

Age
3+

Published
Citic
September 2019

Once the fishing village’s pride, the big boat is now silently docked at the port, watching the alternation of the four seasons and the changes of the times. In the story, the big boat is cleverly designed as a participant and a witness of the small fishing village. It witnesses the small fishing village become a big city and people’s lives get better and better.
Through the eyes of the big boat, children see a colorful city. The stories that the big boat has experienced are like the lighthouses in a long river that help the children understand the abstract concept of time and how the change of time influences things. They unravel the secrets of time for the children.

Awards

• 2019 BIBF Ananas International Illustration Award · Gold Award
• 2019 CCBF Golden Pinwheel International Illustration Award · Gold Award

About the author
Huang Xiaoheng is a writer of children’s literature and picture books, a national registered psychological counselor, and a promotor of reading picture books. Some of her works have been adapted into cartoons. She has won several Hsin yi Picture Book Awards.

About the illustrator
Gui Tuzi is an illustrator and a picture book painter. He has published a parent-child picture book named Maodou is Really Funny, which was listed among the Popular Good Books of October in 2014. He has also cooperated with other famous writers on picture books, some of which have won the 2014 Laurate Children’s Book, the 2015 Most Beautiful Picture Book and the 2018 Bing Xin Award. His illustrations have been selected by the China Artists Association for China First Illustration Art Exhibition and China Second Illustration Art Exhibition. The book also won the Golden Ananas Awards on 2019 Beijing International Book Fair. 2019 CCBF Golden Windmill Illustration Award for domestic illustrations.

曾经是渔村骄傲的大船，现在默默地停靠在港口，看着四季的交替和时代的变迁。故事巧妙地把大船设计成小渔村的参与者、见证者，见证着小渔村变成大城市，人们生活变得越来越美好。孩子通过大船的眼，看到了色彩斑斓的城市，大船经历的一个个故事，就像长河中的一座座灯塔，帮助孩子理解抽象的时间，以及时间的变化给事物带来的影响，为孩子解开时间的秘密。

获得奖项
2019 BIBF菠萝圈儿国际插画奖 · 金奖
2019 CCBF金风车国际插画奖 · 金奖

作者简介
黄小衡，幼儿文学作者、绘本作者，国家注册心理谘询师，绘本阅读推广人。部分作品已被改编成动画片，是多届信谊奖获得者。

贵图子，插画师、绘本画家。曾出版亲子绘本《毛豆，真逗》，入选2014年十月大众好书榜上榜好书；与其它知名作家合作的图书分别荣获过2014年度桂冠童书、2015年度最美绘本以及2018年冰心奖；插画作品先后入选中国美术家协会“中国首届插画艺术展”与“中国第二届插图艺术展”等，该书还荣获2019年BIBF凤梨圈插画奖金凤梨奖和2019年上海国际童书展金风车插画国内金奖。