How did "Adventure Tigers" become your childhood memory?
Making children fall in love with reading today may be much more difficult than before. There are so many temptations for mobile phones and tablets, games and cartoons.
In contrast, once underage people sometimes can spend a long time before bed with a few books.
This book can be "100,000 Whys" and "XX Encyclopedia" with rising postures, or jump-type comics that make people feel excited and peek in the quilt.
But most books are at the level of "reading". Can books still be "played"?
No one thought of it at that time.
In order to attract children, many children's books have now added interactive elements such as painting and origami to become game books.
They have an old senior who has caused phenomenal influence in the past decade, especially for many domestic readers, which is an indelible part of childhood memories.
This is "Adventure Tigers".
01 Daily life of "Little Tigers"
The impact of "Adventure Tigers" penetrates into the daily life we live in.
Just like the cards in the past, they could be circulated in the class and become "hard currency", proving that this thing is trendy enough, and those who collect it are qualified to become the most beautiful boy in the class.
The same is true for "Adventure Tigers". Because a series is divided into many books, basically no one can win them all, and circulating them with each other becomes the most cost-effective way.
Of course, there are many people who go to Xinhua Bookstore or library. They take advantage of it for an afternoon until they are driven away by the administrator at the close.
Whether you are using bookstores, libraries, or students, we will conduct quality assessments on this book Xiaohu Team.
If there is no decryption card, it is called normal, and if there is a decryption card, it can be called excellent.
The Little Tigers without a decryption card are like Coke without ice, instant noodles without seasonings, and have lost their soul.
Unless a new book, this scene would be a surprise
It is precisely because of the number of circulating and lending that the decrypted cards disappeared one after another.
Maybe it was dropped, or it might be that the reader who did not have a decryption card was passed by.
How many nights should we do our homework, we are willing to hand over the time to the Little Tigers, but our immersion is shattered by the disappearing decryption card.
The experienced "old guns" will not worry. They bring their own decryption cards, and this confidence comes from their experience.
Just buy one, take all the books
It doesn’t matter if the decryption card is lost, we still have a treasure chest. The treasure chest of Luke in the book always takes out the right props at the right time to help the team get out of danger.
Because I long for this kind of plot, I heard that many friends will bring their own boxes and stuff them with props such as magnifying glasses, pens and paper, and whistles, thinking about which day it will come in handy and enjoy the pleasure of saving the situation.
No relevant picture was found, please take the box of the four-wheel drive car and give it a meaning
The more the settings in the Little Tigers make readers obsessed with them, the more impressive the results reflected in sales, the more they sell, the more popular they sell. So far, the total sales of the series have exceeded 40 million, which is a legend in the field of books.
You may not have really owned a book, but you have read it or heard about it.
02 The Young Man's Reasoning Reading
In fact, one sentence can summarize the stories in all the books in the "Adventure Tigers" series to this day.
"Because of their love of adventure, three brave teenagers formed the Little Tigers. They went deep into various areas to reveal the truth behind the strange events."
Since it is a children's detective reading, the story framework of "Adventure Tigers" will naturally not be very complicated. In the volume of each single-line book, only one event is discussed, one page is about 300 words, and the maximum number of pages is only 200.
After all, the Chinese language test essay only took four or five hundred words.
As the plot progressed, "Adventure Tigers" used a lot of straightforward narratives and dialogues, which made the threshold for understanding very low and it was very easy to read.
The images of several protagonists in the work are extremely distinct. If three people were to form a team of young detectives with both civil and military skills, this would probably be like this:
The brave and brave sporty boy—Patrick.
Smart intelligent player-Luke.
The lively girl who is as firm as a tiger——Biji.
The three young men perform their own duties and cooperate with each other to show their skills in the incident.
The benefits of team combat not only have additional dramatic conflicts, but also see more things from the three-person perspective than the single-person perspective, which can lead to the story more conveniently.
The theme of detective novels has always been welcomed by many people, with the plot ups and downs and the ending is unexpected.
But detective novels are also difficult because the truth is hidden in the entire plot line and need to evolve reasoning in the mind.
How to keep children reading is a problem. The approach of "Adventure Tigers" is exquisite.
First, according to the book, the reader is set as the fourth member of the "Little Tigers", and has a unique sense of substitution of "playing house".
Secondly, the book disassembles the general doubts in the plot line and divides them into small questions at the end of each chapter in the book.
This question will guide you back to the previous story to find clues, thereby resolving the doubts at this stage. Then go to the next chapter so that the development of the story will become clear.
However, we were still young at that time, so it was not uncommon for us to get stuck in the question.
At this time, you can't just use your brain, you still have to do it.
03 Books that can be played
The reading experience of "Adventure Tigers" is like playing a game, It is precisely because of some interactive elements.
This makes "Adventure Tigers" significantly competitive compared to popular series such as "Goosebumps", "Harry Potter", and "Naked Boss Ma Xiaotiao" at that time.
Among the three of the Little Tigers, the smart Luke dreams of becoming an inventor. He usually likes to tinker with some gadgets. He upgraded his handheld computer to a very powerful prop that can be used to analyze puzzles.
But the answer to the puzzle in the computer cannot be seen just by wanting it. In reality, we must use the "decryption card" to obtain these encrypted information.
Posting the decryption card on the handheld computer interface at the end of the chapter, then rotating and moving. When the angle is correct, we can get hidden answers.
To be honest, I have never learned optical knowledge, and I feel this thing is new until now. The principle is somewhat similar to the 3D glasses we wear when watching movies, both of which are superimposed on the picture and viewing tools.
Of course you can continue reading without using the decryption card. The difficulty of the problems in the book is usually increasing. The questions in the first few chapters are relatively simple. Sometimes you can get the answer after reading the text, but more often, the illustrations in the book are the key to solving puzzles.
Cigarette butts fell on the ground, so it can be judged that someone has just arrived here
This design idea is exactly the same as that of common puzzle games: the painter will draw clues in a corner of these scenes, and we will be done with "what is wrong".
After the strangeness in the illustration is discovered by readers, it can often become the key to solving the puzzle at the end of the chapter. This interactive element was also promoted in the later new series of Little Tigers books.
As the evolution of decryption card shapes, puzzle types are also upgrading:
Illustrators with higher information density should be used for decryption cards, and encrypted letters should be used for secret letter interpreters; at the end of the book, some interesting toys will be included according to the story, so that readers can themselvesGet hands on the adventure.
This has made the readability and playability of the "Adventure Tigers" series visible to the naked eye, making the book look good and fun, and it is difficult for readers not to like it.
04Back to reality
Thomas Brzezina, the author of the "Adventure Tigers" series, explained his original intention of creating Tigers in an interview with Amazon:
"I heard from the children that some books have too boring beginnings, and games and movies are much more interesting than books"
"So, I created "Adventure Tigers""
After having experience in fairy tale writing and program hosting, he knows that many children have a kind of resistance to books. How to make the book more interesting? He chose to take a different approach based on the story that is interesting enough and add the interactiveness of the game.
Facts have also proved that this change has made the book successful.
But this is the book after all, and these changes are the icing on the cake.
Returning to the story itself, the adventures of the Little Tigers' teenagers are always full of mystery, and the title is also an eye-catching task.
For example, in the old version of the series "The Legend of the Horse Farm", various supernatural phenomena appeared in the horse farm, such as flower pots that fell for no reason and strange silent calls.
Flying dragons appear out of thin air with the volcano erupting in the new version of "Fire Dragon"; the invisible thief in "Catching the invisible thief".
These rather supernatural events have greatly aroused people's curiosity.
And as the story progresses, the author will dissect these unusual phenomena one by one. In the end, the truth was revealed to everyone, and people suddenly realized it.
In essence, they are still reality, but because of accidental or intentional influence, these strange appearances have been produced.
In addition to telling stories, the author will also teach readers some detective tips, such as how to clear traces, how to read Morse codes, and how to install eavesdroppers.
We may never encounter a scenario where we use this knowledge, but this trick is very helpful in improving the sense of substitution and satisfaction.
These contrasts confirm that the spiritual core of the Adventure Tigers is an exploration of unknown reality.
While suitable for minors, adults can also get some fun from it.
In general, the Little Tigers are a very outstanding series. They have attracted a lot of attention on the outside, and their core is positive. They are separated from exaggeration and fantasy. It is no coincidence that they become the love of readers.
And the author Thomas' love for Chinese culture can be regarded as a small incentive for domestic popularity.
He himself loves Chinese rice and sets the secret base of the Little Tigers in the book underground in a Chinese restaurant. These elements give domestic readers some sense of intimacy, and also make domestic publishers more confident when discussing cooperation.
But later, because of the adaptation of new books and live-action movies, the censorship issues were touched upon, which restricted the further development of "Adventure Tigers".
The Adventure Tigers is no longer as popular as before, and with the more diversified entertainment methods, people are paying less and less attention to Tigers.
It was not until last year that I heard that an animation company was preparing to adapt "Adventure Tigers" into a new cartoon that this IP re-entered the public's vision.
According to official news, the cartoon may be about to start airing early next year.
However, referring to the experience of "The New Adventures of Jackie Chan" written by BB Ji, this new Tigers animation with similar experiences is also very likely to become a thundering work.
How is the book?
The current "Adventure Tigers" has become "The Tiger Detective Team", and the new generation of teenagers will still beg their parents to buy it.
When the family's financial conditions are better, in order to let their children read books, parents can directly move back a whole set, which is really sour and deformed.
Two days ago, I went to visit the Little Tigers' post bar. Many post bars are already in a state of decline, and there are still people who flock to this post bar to seek resources. I think they should be adults.
In a post, I downloaded a PDF file containing several past series of books. I only remembered when I looked at the familiar stories and puzzles.
If our childhood memory is this book, there must be a decryption card.