JPH06104146B2 - Picture book toys - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a picture book toy mainly composed of a picture book, and in particular, for expanding a play mode by combining the picture book with some play tool. Related to the improvement of.

[Prior Art] Picture books are an excellent reading material for young children who are not yet able to understand or are interested in characters. For such a picture book, various ideas have been conventionally made from the viewpoint of early childhood education.

For example, a person, animal, vehicle, etc. drawn in a picture book can be put in and taken out (for example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 58-22197), or holes are formed in all the paper sheets constituting the picture book, and On the front and back pages, there is a picture in which holes are drawn so that the story proceeds continuously around such holes (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 57-142600).

These conventional picture books have been devised so as to attract more interest to ordinary picture books.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the conventional picture books described above are required to be further devised in order to maintain interest.

For example, in the former conventional example, the person, animal, vehicle, etc. drawn in the picture book can only be put in and taken out, and such person, etc. is the entity that directs the play in a consistent story. Lack of potential qualifications. That is, such a person or the like is merely taken out from one specific picture, and it is not considered at all to bring such a person or the like into another scene.
Therefore, according to this conventional technique, it is possible to enjoy a specific combination of an individual picture and a person or the like taken out from the picture, but it is common to each picture depicted in the whole picture book.
It is not possible to play with a combination of people etc. taken out from one picture.

Also, in the latter conventional example, a hole is used as a means for exerting the consistency of the story, but such a hole is fixed to the picture book, and it is spread and changed out of the picture book. It cannot be a means to develop play.

Therefore, the present invention is intended to provide a picture book toy whose main constituent element is a picture book, which is devised so as to improve the sustainability of interest.

[Means for Solving Problems] The present invention is a picture book toy including a picture book in which the same characters appear in a plurality of spreads, and the above-mentioned technical problem is solved as follows.

That is, the characters on each spread are made to have substantially the same size, and a cutout doll, which is flat and has a contour substantially following the contour of such a character, and is separate from the picture book is combined.

The cutout doll has a front view on one side and a rear view on the other side, and its hand is rotatable. The picture book also includes leaves having slits for inserting cutout dolls.

[Advantageous Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, first, the same character appears in a plurality of spreads, and the sizes of such characters are almost the same on each spread. In addition, a plane cutout doll having a contour substantially following the contour of such a character is separately prepared. Therefore, the infant himself or, for example, with his mother can play the cutout doll over the characters on each spread. It should be noted here that a common clipping doll can be incorporated with the characters that appear each time the page is turned. That is, it is important that the same cutout is used in the following cases as well, which makes it easy to understand that the story developed in the picture book is consistent. Therefore, the toddler is interested in the consistent story itself developed in the picture book, and the infant replaces the characters in the picture book with himself or a person near him,
I will develop various fantasies in my own mind.

Also, by displaying the front view on one side of the cutout doll and the rear view on the other side, and making the hand of the cutout doll rotatable, it is possible to make the expression of one cutout doll diverse. it can. This makes it easy to develop the various fantasies described above, and also allows a common cutout doll to be easily adapted to different scenes. Further, since the picture book has a leaf in which a slit for inserting the cutout doll is formed, it is possible to express a scene in which a specific portion of the cutout doll is hidden by using this slit. For example, it is possible to represent a scene in which a character given by a cutout doll shows his face through a window, or a scene sitting by a table.

In order to educate young children, for example, it is important for the mother, who is the closest person to play with them, to play together and to keep the infant in contact with new things. by this,
It is believed that it promotes the development of inquiry and this leads to continued interest and, as a result, contributes to the education of young children. This is the established theory of those involved in early childhood education. According to the present invention, the cutout doll combined with the picture book can also be played in combination with another toy. That is, the picture book and the toy, which are conventionally separate, can be linked together through the cutout doll.
In other words, the cutout doll can be the main body that directs some kind of play between the picture book and the toy. Therefore, through the cutout doll as the main body, for example, the mother and the child can play in different ways, and this also always encourages a new quest.

Looking back, the so-called high-growth period was also an era in which substances could be given to children and anything could be given to them.
Parents were offended by giving things to the child, and the child was happy to be given again. However, this, on the other hand, promotes the tendency to simply give children play equipment and the like, and, for example, reduces the machines that mother and child interact and play with each other, which became the root of current social distortion. There is also reflection that it may be. The picture book toy of this invention is not just a toy for children,
As described above, for example, it is suitable for mothers and children to play while melting, so that it is possible to build a common world for mothers and children, which is preferable from the viewpoint of early childhood education.

In the preferred embodiment, the picture book features boys and girls as characters and describes their daily lives.
By choosing such a subject, the infant can easily assimilate with any of the characters,
As a subject that directs your own life, you will be able to play in combination with other toys according to the development of the story depicted in the picture book.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figures 1 to 9 show picture books 20 included in picture book toys.
Each of the spreads that are sequentially developed after the front cover 21 of FIG. This picture book 20 has a front cover 21 and a back cover.
There are 16 pages except for 22, and the numbers showing the number of these pages are shown in brackets [] above each page.

This picture book 20 depicts a day when they play in the park, with boys and girls as the main characters. Less than,
The pages will be described in order in relation to each spread that is developed by sequentially turning the pages.

FIG. 1 shows a spread (hereinafter referred to as “spread 21a-1”) formed by the back surface 21a of the front cover 21 and the first page. Front side 21a of front cover 21
2 are provided with, for example, two pockets 23 and 24 arranged one above the other. In these pockets 23 and 24, cut-out dolls 25 and 26 of boys and girls, who are the main characters of the picture book 20, are stored. Details of the male cutout 25 are shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, and details of the female cutout 26 are shown in FIGS. 12 and 13.

These cutout dolls are shown in Figures 10 to 13.
25 and 26 are made of, for example, cardboard, a plate of a resin molded product, or a material formed by sandwiching a material having an appropriate cushioning property with two soft resin sheets. The cutout dolls 25 and 26 have their hands commonly rotatable by a ring-shaped metal fitting 27 or the like. Therefore, these cutout dolls 25 and 26 can be changed in the form of raising or lowering their hands. Each leg of the cutout dolls 25, 26 may also be rotatable. Also, FIGS. 10 and 12 show one surface of each cutout doll 25, 26, and FIGS. 11 and 13 show the other surface of each cutout doll 25, 26, which can be seen from these drawings. like,
Each of the cutout dolls 25 and 26 has a front view on one side and a rear view on the other side.

Referring again to FIG. 1, the title "Two people go to the park" is displayed on the almost left half of the spread 21a-1, and the house where the characters live is drawn in the distance.

FIG. 2 shows a spread 2-3. here,
The morning view of the yard of a house where boys and girls live is shown. A window 28 is drawn at approximately the center of the third page, and a slit 29 is formed along the lower side of the window 28.
The slit 29 is formed by cutting through the leaves that form the third page and the fourth page that appears next. Therefore, a large gap is not created. Characters 30a and 31a of boys and girls are drawn so that their faces can be seen through the window 28. In this embodiment, these characters 30a and 31a are simply represented by outlines. “30” and “31” included in the reference symbols “30a” and “31a” used to represent these characters are
It will be used also in the later spreads, and the numbers “a to g” will be added to distinguish between the spreads. Also, in the upper left of the second page, as schematically shown, the explanatory note 32a is described. Such explanations are also attached in the following spreads, and in the following spreads, reference numerals 32b to 32h are used respectively.

FIG. 3 shows a spread 4-5, in which
A picture of breakfast in the house is drawn. On page 4, a mother with hot milk is drawn, and on page 5, a table is drawn. 2 on the side of this table
Two chairs are drawn. A slit 33 is formed at the edge of the table on the side where the chair is located. This slit 33
Are formed in the same manner as the slit 29 described above. A chair character 30b is shown sitting in one of the chairs, and only the upper half of the body is represented by the outline. In the other chair, a girl character 31b
The outline of the state of standing upright is shown. This spread 4-5 tells the mother that the boy and girl are going to the park.

In FIG. 4, double-page spread 6-7 is shown. This double-page spread 6-7 is shown only by the outlines of the two characters 30c and 31c who are departed by the mother and depart for the park.

FIG. 5 shows the double-page spread 8-9, and shows the state in front of the gate of the park which is the destination. Again, the characters
30d and 31d are drawn in outline only, but each is shown in the rear view and is set to walk along the road leading to the park gate.

FIG. 6 shows a spread 10-11. Again, the characters 30e and 31e are drawn in their rear view with only outlines. This two-page spread 10-11 depicts the characters 30e and 31e after they entered the park. There are slides, swings, and small trains, and many children are playing there.

In FIG. 7, spreads 12-13 are shown. The zoo at the back of the park is depicted here. Character 30f
And 31f are drawn with outlines only, with their rear view, looking at the animals from outside the fence.

FIG. 8 shows the spreads 14-15. A flower bed by the side of a large tree is shown, and the characters 30g and 31g are
The outline only shows how many petals falling on the side of the flower bed are picked up by spreading a handkerchief.

FIG. 9 shows a state in which the 16th item and the back surface 22a of the back cover 22 are opened. Near the right half of this spread 16-22a is the evening, and in front of the park gate after everyone's return is drawn in the distance. Here, the characters so far 30a-3
Boys and girls, represented as 0g and 31a-31g, are depicted by shadows 34. That is, the boy and girl are out of the park and on their way home.

In this way, the story of the picture book 20 is constructed, and with the picture book 20, it is possible to play as follows.

First, the cutout puppets 25 and 26 are taken out from the pockets 23 and 24 shown in FIG. 1, respectively, and these are placed in conformity with the outlines of the characters 30a to 30g and 31a to 31g drawn in each spread and played. be able to. To make this possible, the characters 30a-30g and 31a-31g depicted in the picture book 20 are approximately the same size, respectively, and the cutout dolls 25 and 26 are the characters 30a-30g and
The contour is almost along the contours of 31a to 31g.

As mentioned above, the cutout dolls 25 and 26 are characters 30a to 30g,
Some examples of how to play on top of 31a-31g are shown in FIGS. 14-16.

FIG. 14 shows a part of the spread 2-3 shown in FIG. The cutout dolls 25, 26 are inserted into the slits 29, placed so as to match the contours of the characters 30a, 31a (FIG. 2), and the positions of their respective hands are moved so as to match these contours. In this way, the picture of the spread 2-3 is completed.

Since the slits as described above are also formed in the spread 4-5 (Fig. 3), the cutout dolls 25 and 26 are
It is arranged so as to be inserted into the slit 33.

FIG. 15 shows a part of the spread 6-7 shown in FIG. Here, the same clipping dolls 25 and 26 are the characters
When placed according to the contours of 30c and 31c (Fig. 4),
A situation in which a boy and a girl are walking hand in hand appears as shown in FIG.

FIG. 16 shows a part of the spread 8-9 shown in FIG. Here, the cutout dolls 25 and 26 are characters 30d and 31d.
It is arranged according to the contour of FIG. At this time, since the characters 30d and 31d are drawn in the rear view, the cutout dolls 25 and 26 are placed with their faces representing the rear view facing upward.

Although not shown below, the character 30e depicted in the spreads 10-11, 12-13, 14-15 shown in FIGS. 6 to 8 respectively.
The same cutout doll 2 for each contour of ~ 30g, 31e ~ 30g
5,26 are placed and a consistent story is developed. When the cutout dolls 25, 26 are placed in this manner, one of the faces is directed upward depending on each scene, and the hand is moved so as to match the contour of the character.

Such a way of playing is, for example, when a mother cuts out a doll 25,2.
You can hold the 6 and listen to the explanatory text to the infant while aligning with the outline of the character in order from the first spread, and the infant himself will place the cutout dolls 25, 26 so that they match the outline of the character. Good.

In addition to the above play method, using cutout dolls 25 and 26,
You can also play as follows.

That is, according to the progress of the story of the picture book 20, the scene developed by each spread is reproduced by a three-dimensional toy such as a block toy, and the cutout dolls 25 and 26 are made to appear there. For example, the spread 12-13 shown in FIG. 7 is
Although it represents a zoo, this situation can be reproduced by using block toys, for example, as shown in FIG. 17, and cutout dolls 25 and 26 can be made to appear here for play. Figure 17 shows an elephant 35 and shelves assembled with block toys.
36 are shown. Other animals and equipment may also be assembled with block toys.

Since the cutout dolls 25 and 26 have no means of self-supporting themselves, blocks 37 and 38 may be used to allow them to be placed on a suitable horizontal surface. Block 37,38
Are provided with slits 39 and 40 for receiving the lower end portions of the cutout dolls 25 and 26, respectively. Therefore, by inserting the lower end portions of the cutout dolls 25, 26 into the slits 39, 40, respectively, the cutout dolls 25, 26 can be set upright. In addition, preferably, the side surfaces of the blocks 37 and 38 are provided with displays 41 and 42 corresponding to the lower end portions of the cutout dolls 25 and 26 to be inserted. Instead of such displays 41, 42, the blocks 37, 38 may be made of a transparent material.

Playing in combination with such a three-dimensional toy is a story, for example, in the case of the spread 2-3, the house is assembled in blocks, and in the case of the spread 4-5, a table is placed in the house. As you progress, you can assemble a structure suitable for it and play with the cutout dolls 25, 26 from the picture book 20 appearing there, but prepare a structure suitable for each spread in advance. However, depending on the progress of the story of the picture book 20, you may make it play with the cutout dolls 25 and 26 while using any one of the structures.

FIG. 18 shows, for example, the rear view of the cutout doll 25, and there is shown another example of the configuration for allowing such cutout doll 25 to be placed on a horizontal plane. There is. That is, the support piece 43 is attached to the rear surface of the cutout doll 25 at the upper end thereof. The support piece 43 can be bent along a folding line 44, whereby the support piece 43 extends from the cutout doll 25 in an inverted V shape. By the action of the support piece 43, the cutout doll 25 can be made independent.

Although not particularly shown, the same configuration can be applied to the other cutout doll 26.

Although the present invention has been described above with reference to the illustrated embodiment, the embodiment can be variously modified within the scope of the present invention.

For example, in the picture book 20, the characters 30a to 30g and
31a-31g were drawn only with the outline. In the illustrated embodiment, a broken line is used as a display mode of the contour, but a solid line may be drawn. In addition, for example, in the case of a picture book displayed in color, the characters may be distinguished from other areas by making only that special color or black and white. Also, the picture book may be completed as a picture book by completely drawing not only the outline but also the characters without distinction from other areas.

In addition, of course, the story depicted in the picture book is not limited to the illustrated embodiment. Therefore, naturally,
The characters are also changed variously, and the number of characters to be the cutout doll may be, for example, one, or three or more.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 to FIG. 9 sequentially show spreads that are developed after the front cover 21 of the picture book 20 is opened. 10 and 11 are a front view and a back view of a cutout doll 25 representing a boy as a character. 12th
FIG. 13 and FIG. 13 are a front view and a back view of a cutout doll 26 representing a girl as a character. 14 to 16 show cutout dolls 25 and 26 with double-page spreads 2-
It shows a state of being placed on 3,6-7,8-9. Figure 17 shows a block toy and a cutout doll 2 as three-dimensional toys.
It is a perspective view showing an example of how to play in combination with 5,26. FIG. 18 shows an example of a structure for making the cutout doll 25 independent. In the figure, 1 to 16 are the number of pages, 20 is a picture book, 21 is a front cover, 22
Is a back cover, 23 and 24 are pockets, 25 and 26 are cutout dolls, 27 is a ring-shaped metal fitting, 29 and 33 are slits, 30a to 30g, 31a to 31g
Is a character, 37, 38 is a block, 39, 40 is a slit, 41, 4
2 is a display and 43 is a support piece.

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A picture book toy comprising a picture book in which the same character appears in a plurality of spreads, wherein the characters on each of the spreads have substantially the same size, and a plane having a contour substantially along the contour of the character. A cutout doll that is separate from the picture book is combined, and the cutout doll has a front view on one side and a rear view on the other side, and its hand is rotatable, A picture book toy, characterized in that it comprises a leaf having a slit formed therein for inserting the cutout doll. 2. The picture book toy according to claim 1, wherein the picture book is formed with a pocket for accommodating the cutout doll. 3. The picture book toy according to claim 1 or 2, wherein only the outlines of the characters are displayed in the picture book. 4. The picture book toy according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the cutout doll has a structure for allowing the cutout doll to be placed on a horizontal surface. 5. A support piece, which is placed on one of the surfaces of the cutout doll and extends in an inverted V-shape from the cutout doll, is arranged to be placed on the horizontal plane. The picture book toy described in item 4. 6. The picture book toy according to claim 4, wherein the structure for mounting on the horizontal plane is a block having a slit for receiving a lower end portion of the cutout doll. 7. The picture book toy according to claim 6, wherein a display corresponding to a lower end portion of the cutout doll is provided on a side surface of the block.