review
The book Op judo, written by Marian van Gog, is about all kinds of things that have to do with the martial arts judo. The booklet belongs to the De Kijkdoos series, informative booklets from De Ruiter ?? s documentation center, for children from group 1 to group 4. The booklet is very suitable as a basis for a presentation.
Content article
- About the author, Marian van Gog
- About the illustrators: Ivan and Ilia
- Details of the book
- The contents of the book On judo
- The text and the illustrations / photos
- A fragment
About the author, Marian van Gog
Marian van Gog was born in 1951 in Huizen, North Holland, her father had a bookbinding shop. Marian loved walking through all those books and loved to read. At school she wrote stories, but she prefers to make poems. In high school, she entered a radio play competition and won first prize. After high school she went to HTS and studied chemical engineering. She loved writing reports. Marian had children, when they went to school she had plenty of time to write. She wrote articles for a local newspaper on everyday topics, but she also wrote cabaret texts and founded a cabaret group. She sent a number of texts to the VARA and now she has been contributing to the songs of Children for Children for many years. Marian was offered a job as a house writer with a publisher for children’s songs and musicals and since then she has written several hundred children’s songs and more than twenty musicals. She also contributes to various teaching methods and writes teaching packages for Unicef and teaching magazines for Veilig Verkeer Nederland. Marina has also written toddler books.
About the illustrators: Ivan and Ilia
Ivan and Ilia are an illustrator duo, colleagues, but also friend and friend. Ivan Lodde was born in 1968 in Maastricht, Ilia Frins in 1971 in Heerlen, I read on the duo’s website. They know each other from school, both took the free course Illustrative design. After the training, Ilia still drew manually, Ivan preferred to draw digitally. In 1996 Ilia was persuaded to do the same and from that time on they have been working together, nowadays even on the same drawings. In addition to illustrations for reading books, they also draw for birth announcements, greeting cards, school books, magazines and toys.
Details of the book
- Title: On judo
- Text: Marina Gog
- Editors: Margret Gosens
- Illustrations: Ivan and Ilia
- Photos: Frank Broekhuizen, Diego Azubel
- Design and image acquisition: Astrid van der Neut
- He also contributed to the book: Niels Huneker, Van Doorn gym (Tiel)
- Publisher: Noordhoff Uitgevers
- Published: 2009
- Genre: picture book
- Number of pages: 24
- ISBN: 978 90 01 77343 4
- Suitable for: reading to children from the age of four, self-reading from the age of seven
The contents of the book On judo
Parts to be discussed:
- Look (viewing plate)
- On judo: in judo you play with each other, you learn how to attack, but also how to stop an attack from another. In judo you are not allowed to hurt each other. Anyone who practices judo is called a judoka, judoka is a Japanese word, judo comes from Japan.
- Roll and fall: you learn how to roll, not over your head but over your shoulder. Rolling helps you fall without hurting. Winning is fun, but losing isn’t a bad thing.
- Two by two: judo is good for your body, it makes your muscles strong. You learn how to stay firm, how to keep your balance, you learn to fall without it hurting. You also learn to work well together, you do judo together with another child.
- In the dojo: you learn judo in the dojo. Dojo is a Japanese word for practice hall. There is a tatami in the dojo, this is a soft mat. A practice mat is gray, a competition mat is yellow and has a blue border. Sometimes there is no mat but a judo floor.
- regards: Greetings are given at the beginning of the lesson and at the end of the lesson. The master and the children then make a Japanese bow. With the bow at the beginning of the lesson, the teacher promises that he will give a nice lesson, the children promise that they will listen carefully and obey the rules.
- Fall and rise: if you fall you hit the ground with your arm, you call that turning. With turning you break your fall. During a lesson you also learn throws and grips. You hold someone down with a grip. You hold the other until he taps (a tap on the mat, or on the back or arm of the other). If someone taps you must let go of each other immediately.
- The suit: the judogi is white and is called judogi, the pants are called zubon, the jacket is called kimono. With a band you keep the kimono closed. Girls wear a white shirt under the kimono.
- Strap and slip: if you start with judo you get a white belt. After a while you can take the exam, if you have passed the exam, you can sew a yellow strip on the belt. This strip is called a slip. There are many more color bands (white-yellow-orange-green-blue-brown-black).
- The match: if you have been taking lessons for a while and you are very good at judo, you might be allowed to participate in a competition. You then judge with someone who is about the same age and weight as you. There are rules to which you must adhere to the competition.
- Important words (roll, hall, mat, salute, pack, throw, tie, win)
The text and the illustrations / photos
On the front you see two children who practice judo. The title also clearly states what the book is about. In the table of contents you will find the topics from the book, each topic has a small picture. The book starts with a viewing picture, you see a dojo with many children who are playing judo, the masters and teacher give directions. There are drawings and photos for each topic / chapter. On each left page is a colored block containing the title of the chapter and a few lines of text in story form, in this text you will not find any capital letters. On the right page belonging to the left page there is more information about the subject (informative piece), capital letters are used here. The author uses short sentences, difficult words are explained immediately and important words are repeated at the back of the book.
A fragment
In the chapter On judo:
on judo
jeng is on judo.
he looks at the master.
which shows how to do it.
Judo is a sport.
In judo you play with each other.
You learn how to attack.
And also how you attack another
can stop.
That’s called: defending.
In judo you are not allowed to hurt each other.
Anyone who practices judo is called a judoka.
Judoka is a Japanese word,
Because judo comes from Japan.
In Japan, children sometimes learn judo at school.