Abstract:

Nowadays， the original Chinese picture books begin to“ go global”.The history of Chinese picture
books may be even longer than that of the western ones. Actually， picture books are kinds of publishing forms， which
are different between China and the West due to their different cultural backgrounds. The similarity is that Chinese
and western picture books are both based on illustrations of different children’s books. With the advancement
of publishing science and technology， and the coming of the picture-reading era，“publishing heat”(the
popularity of publishing picture books) contributes to“ literature heat”(children’s love for literature)， and
there is also a shift from“ the characters-centered children’s books” to“ the pictures-centered children’s
literature”. Thanks to the exchange and integration of ideas in the new century， it has developed into a typical
publishing form of children’s literature——modern picture books. The revival of original Chinese picture books
has its profound historical and cultural background and national literary tradition. How to develop an evaluation
criterion and theoretical system of picture books with Chinese characteristics should be put on the agenda.