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Disintegration and Reconstruction: The Absurdity of Picture Book Images, Children’ s Perspectives, and Educational Implications

  

  1. Department of Education,Changzhi University
  • Received:2024-09-25 Revised:2025-02-05 Online:2025-05-28 Published:2025-05-28

Abstract: Images are the life and subject of picture books. Absurd picture books use image design as a starting point, creatively creating styles, narrative clues, graphic and textual relationships, theme selection, and other aspects. They use unreasonable, illogical, and meaningless image elements to achieve the understanding of real logic and physical time and space. Absurd picture books not only reflect the reconstruction of the rationality of picture books, but also embody the instinctive fantasy and game spirit, which are in line with the psychological and thinking characteristics of children. They can create value beyond knowledge tr ansmission and moral education, and can achieve insight and value guidance for childhood aesthetics and children’ s culture. Based on this, combined with children’ s interests, preferences, behavioral reactions, and reading styles when reading absurd picture books, it can provide some inspiration for exploring and applying absurd elements in picture book creation and reading guidance.

Key words: Picture book Image Absurd Children’ s stance

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