Abstract:

Picture books are an important tool for teaching young children new words and concepts as well as providing them with education. Numerous studies have investigated the effects that reading aloud together has on the relationships that develop between parents and children. A brand-new line of research has recently been initiated to investigate the qualities of children's picture books that encourage learning and the application of that education in the wider world. Children's symbolic development, analogical reasoning, and thinking that is rooted in fantasy may impede their ability to retrieve information from picture books, according to the findings of the research presented here. After that, we take a look at the developing corpus of research on the effect of picture book characteristics on children's learning and transfer of scientific concepts, problem-solving skills, morals, and words and letters from picture books. In each area of learning, we investigate how the development of children might interact with the qualities of books in order to influence their acquisition of knowledge. We come to the conclusion that the ability of children to learn and transfer knowledge from picture books can be hampered by certain book qualities, and that future research should examine the interplay between the developing capacities of children and the characteristics of books and how they affect their learning.

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