The word picture book is taken from Chinese "ぇほん", which is called picture book in Japanese. As the name implies, it is "painting a book", which refers to a book mainly based on painting with a small amount of words. Picture books can not only tell stories and learn knowledge, but also help children build spiritual world and cultivate multiple intelligences. Picture books are the first choice for children's books in developed countries, and it is internationally recognized that "picture books are the most suitable books for children to read".
Different from ordinary books, pictures in picture books are more important than words, so when reading picture books, we mainly look at pictures. Through the content of the picture, we can read key information and even some hidden ideas of the author. Therefore, when reading picture books, our attention is basically on the pictures, which is a normal phenomenon.
The role of children's picture books
According to the research of children's psychology, children's ability to recognize graphics has been developed since childhood. At that time, although children could not read, they already had the ability to read pictures. If parents can consciously read picture books with their children at this time, create a warm environment and read words to their children, then children will be exposed to high-level pictures and texts from the beginning. They will taste the art of painting in listening to stories and understand words and literature in appreciating pictures.
There is a tacit understanding between the images and words in the picture book, which not only allows children to read easily and happily, but also allows them to read the picture book with adults, not only to listen to one other's story, but to integrate with the characters in the story and experience the story by themselves. Some picture books and text parts are more poetic. Reading poetic and imaginative language to your baby often can help your baby learn his mother tongue.