Abstract:

The foundations of personal, psychological, and physical development are laid in preschool education. Just like in physical respects, the child is a being that develops in personal and psychological respects. Children start communicating with books when they are only eleven months old, and it is like an amusing toy for them. It should not be forgotten hat children learn through play. The first acquaintance of the child with a book is through pictures. After the preschool period, picture books enter the universe of meaning of children and become the simplest visual stimulus in establishing communication with the book. Picture books provide the opportunity to develop the verbal expression skills of children through visual perception, and they also activate the affective perception of children. Picture books are visual stimulus and by means of picture books, children are able to effectively use all their senses and perceive all that is intended to be explained. When this is taken into consideration, children’s picture books are considered to be one of the most important steps of education. The subject to be discussed under the scope of the study in line with this shall be on the use of pictures as a stimulus in preschool children’s books. For this purpose, pictures and picture books used in the preschool period shall be briefly discussed first of all. Within the scope of this study, preschool picture books shall be collected under two titles. The first one of these is didactic picture books, and the second one is literary picture story books. First of all, didactic picture books shall be discussed. Subsequently, picture story books shall be discussed. At this point, quality book examples contributing to the cognitive and affective process covering the sensitivity training of the child shall also be discussed.

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