Since the printing has been common and easily accessible, a picture book, which contains pictures and stories, has been in charge of very important role in educating an infant for developing their imagination.
Recently, the wordless picture book beco...
Since the printing has been common and easily accessible, a picture book, which contains pictures and stories, has been in charge of very important role in educating an infant for developing their imagination.
Recently, the wordless picture book becomes very popular, because it turns out to be more effective to develop infants by not providing words or stories to them. Since no story is given, infants make own stories through their imagination. It stimulates their imagination and increases their creativity.
By contrast to past picture books which pictures were only supplement to send illustrations of stories in story telling books, pictures of wordless picture books are changed to the primary method to send actual stories. So the role of pictures in the picture book is also changed compared to previous picture books.
The goal of this research is to suggest new directions to the wordless picture book. This paper will find meanings of illustrations in the wordless picture book, and analyzes the illustrations of the current picture book.
To achieve the goal, this research is based on documents for wordless picture books and relationships between the wordless picture books and infants. Also the illustrations of wordless picture books are based on current books available.
The result is that wordless picture books have huge impact on infants because they develop intelligence and characteristics by touching and watching books and get perceptions from it. It develops infants language skill as well as creativity because infants need to tell and reconstruct their own stories.
Also the research on current wordless picture books indicates that there are three categories for forms, which are descriptive forms, abstract forms, and symbolic forms, two categories for colors, which are monochromatic and multicolor, four categories for materials, which are the wet process material, the dry process material, the mixing material, computer graphics, two categories for flat composition and solid composition.
Based on analysis mentioned above, several conclusions have been made.
First, there is an illustration of unique characters and colors for infants.
Second, there is no stereo typed illustration, but there are various illustrations of proper materials, expressions, and structures depending on contents.
Third, most of picture books illustrate contents by various methods of expressions.
Fourth, the educational part of wordless picture book is that illustrators of wordless picture book show themselves as creators of stories with expanded imaginations and expressions.
In conclusion, the wordless picture book provides the creativity and also extracts various imaginations by stimulating unconsciousness of infants. These lead infants to have the power of imaginations helping to develop the world of modeling.