Children's Book Adaptations Of Classic Novels

In recent years, the phenomenon of adaptation of the classic literature and film adaptation based on the classic literature has lead to focus of literary theory, film and television arts, and social of public opinion. Adaptation of the classic theory of background, the value, means of communication become hot topics. At the same time, as a unique form of adaptation, the adaptation of classic literature of children's version of the book does not seem to attract many people's attention. The adaptation falls into an embarrassment:It adapted from the classic, but the adaptation process is very simple, which just makes adaptation to be the deletion of paragraphs and the compression of words.It adapted for the children, but it's very different from children's literature.The current embarrassment and revealed problems of the adaptation shows the shortage of our study. So it is extremely inevitable to build the theory system and find the right theoretical basis. This paper attempts to make the theory of children's literature as a guide, to explore methods and strategies of adaptation. The paper is divided into the following sections:Introduction: It mainly describes the record of achievement data of the adaptation. Starting from the modern time, there has been a theory oriented that regard adaption as a test of new varieties of children's literature. This paper select some appropriate paper adaptation of classic novel genre as a case to expand the theory.classic novels has the advantage in the adaptation in the genre and language style.Part I: The history and current status of the adaptation of classic novel of children's version. Children reading classic literature evolved from the traditional children's self-selection into the conscious adaptation of the children. It really started from "May Fourth" period when the adults really aware adaptation of classic novel for children. At present, the adaptation of classic novel of the children version has made some achievements, but the reconfiguration is not satisfactory just like there are many problems in the process of adaptation, for example, repeated publish, a single topic; adaptation model monotonous, lack of innovation; ignorance of the details catching, lack of pleasure, away from the children's language requirements ,and so on.Part II: The necessity and possibility of the adaptation of classic novel of children's version. We shoud based on necessity and possibility of the adaptation of classic novel of children's version. From the point of view of inheriting the fine literary tradition and cultural tradition, reading the classic is conducive to the construction of the national psychology of children. From the point of view of beneficial to children's reading, the meaning of the adaptation of classic novel of children's version is that we need appropriate adaptation on the basis of maintaining the overall style of the original because the original can not meet the children's reading psychological mechanism. From the point of the view of the publish of children's book, adaptation of the original will help to stimulate the formation of character. From the point of view of the classical mode of transmission, adaptation provides a whole new, unique perspective for the dissemination of literary classics. The favorable factors of the adaptation of classic novel include that the content should contain children's literature elements; the genre and the form should be suitable for adaptation; the mixed language style is beneficial to adaptation; Finally, we should own a previous instance of adaptation of reference and inspiration.Part III: Discuss adaptation strategies through the example of the "Journey to the West". This section mainly focuses on the problem of the process of editing and publishing. For the monotonous of adapted model, lack of innovation, requires the use of deletion of compression, increase the expansion of writing style, genre transformation through the story germinal-style, modern adaptation of mode conversion-type and other combination; for ignoring the details of capture, lack of pleasure, the editors need to find and catch the childish details on the childish perspective; for the language away from the children's demands.we should focus on different aspects respectively for learning spoken and written in a learning phase two different stages of children using 6 years old as the stage standard.Conclusion: Sum up the values of reading literary classics for the children, culture of the nation's outstanding children's love of literature and fine culture, inherited the fine tradition of this nation, building national common psychological structure, the formation of the national sense of common values. Read through the classic, it seems like a good coincide that the emphasis on quality education of students with good character and good Personality is similar with the self-improvement through reading classic.