What is a picture book? Picture books are not illustrated books written for children in the general sense. Picture book is the art of telling a story with pictures and words, expressing a specific emotion and theme, and telling the story through the interaction between pictures and words. In picture books, pictures are no longer embellishments, but the lifeblood of books. Even some picture books have no words, only pictures are telling stories. Picture books attach great importance to the continuity of emotion and theme, and form a continuous visual image in just a few dozen pages. The author and painter of picture books are equivalent to film directors. He must tell the story beautifully and clearly in a limited space. An excellent picture book can make children who can't read "read" the meaning. The picture books here are so beautiful and unique in layout that they are filled with the front cover, the title page, the bottom cover and the back cover, forming an almost perfect whole. Picture books were born in Europe in the17th century. In 1930s, the mainstream of picture books spread to America, and picture books ushered in a golden age. In 1950s and 1960s, South Korea and Japan began to develop picture books, and in 1970s, they also began to read picture books, which subsequently triggered a picture book reading craze. Picture books can not only tell stories and learn knowledge, but also help children build up their spirit and cultivate multiple intelligences. In the 2 1 century, picture book reading has become a fashion for children all over the world. Charm of picture book reading: (1) Picture books conform to children's thinking characteristics and can stimulate children's reading interest. Parents usually think that reading can make children know more words, increase more knowledge, make children better adapt to text reading and get good grades in school. This idea is understandable, but in the lower grades of primary school, as teachers and parents, the first thing to consider is how to attract children's attention to reading, how to cultivate children's interest and habits in reading, and how to make children love reading and read happily. Traditional dogmatic text reading rigidifies teaching methods and widens the distance between books and children. But picture books make children feel the fun of reading. In the history of human development, picture language is even earlier than written language, more intuitive than written language, and the expression system is more in line with the characteristics of children's imaginative thinking. Because in the lower stage of primary school, children's thinking is a vivid and figurative thinking, while picture books are mainly painting, with few words but rich pictures. Painting conveys stories, which can stimulate children's interest more than ordinary pure words, and is more in line with the characteristics and habits of children's early reading. In picture books, children's literature writers skillfully cover the theme by using words that children can interpret and familiar sentence structures, and gather into stories with complete structure and rich content. With the help of rich pictures, children feel easier when reading words. Children absorb, stir and transform various viewpoints through intuitive picture book content, thus invisibly cultivating superb Chinese reading ability and prompting them to actively transition to pure text reading. (2) Picture books are exquisite and rich in connotation, which can cultivate children's beauty. At present, most of the pictures in picture books are the works of world-renowned illustrators. They use a variety of techniques, or watercolor, or cut and paste, to create a story, so that children can enjoy literature in reading and infect aesthetics. A good picture book not only draws beautifully, but also makes readers visually happy with its composition and color. Moreover, each picture has rich connotations, and the pictures can present a unique narrative relationship. In the process of bringing children into beautiful stories, children's emotions are cultivated, and their artistic aesthetic ability is constantly developing, and the improvement of this ability can never be replaced by reading words alone. (3) Picture books can activate children's imagination, which is conducive to the cultivation of children's creativity. No one is born with a rich imagination. Imagination is acquired through direct and indirect experience. The more experience, the richer imagination, and picture books provide children with opportunities for rich experience. Picture book stories cross national boundaries and various cultural backgrounds. Through words and pictures, children can enter different worlds and expand their creativity infinitely. The picture book will also reserve a lot of imagination space for children, so that children can develop rich associations with stories and design the language and actions of the characters in the book according to the overall artistic conception of the picture book. Some details in the picture will also make children have rich associations and expand and extend the story. A short and pithy picture book is like a wonderful unit drama. Any teacher who likes to get along with children and is willing to get along with them attentively can make use of the advantages of picture books, so that children can integrate into the story situation of picture books with curiosity and excitement under zero pressure, and cultivate their logical thinking, predictive reasoning ability and language ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing through meaningful questioning and guidance.