Some people think that picture books are a kind of visual art, which plays an irreplaceable role in improving children's aesthetic ability and developing aesthetic feeling. How to explore the value of picture book reading from the perspective of education, especially children's psychological development, is an important issue worthy of attention in the practice of early reading education.
Picture book is a special reading text, which is a book form with pictures as the main part, words as the auxiliary part or no words at all. Picture book is the most suitable book for children to read, because its special expression adapts to children's psychological characteristics.
0-6-year-old children's thinking is mainly concrete, and their ability to perceive, remember and understand colors and images, especially their ability to pay attention to details of pictures, far exceeds that of adults. Picture book is a kind of book that tells stories with pictures.
Reading picture books requires the participation of many psychological factors such as emotion, observation, imagination and thinking. Therefore, the reading process of picture books is also a process of developing children's psychological ability.
However, in the early reading practice, the above-mentioned educational function of picture book reading was far from being concerned. Many parents and teachers just use picture books as texts to tell their children an interesting story. Often a picture book with rich connotations ends reading in only ten minutes or even a few minutes. In this way, the educational value contained in the picture book itself has been greatly weakened.