Picturebooks: Nonverbal And Language Can Focus On Emotions

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Picturebooks A picture book is a type of book format that contains text and images and the story is built based on the interactions between the text and images (Sipe, 1998). Picturebooks that focus on emotions provide emotionally charged images that are complemented by verbal statements. Emotions are nonverbal and language cannot explain emotions effectively. As a result, picturebooks provide unique opportunities for children to learn about emotions by having the images and the text (Nikolajeva, 2013). In addition, picturebooks as well as other books can provide rhyme and repetition in the stories to help increase children’s learning (Wanerman, 2010). Nikolajeva (2013) stated that children’s literature is the most important tool to support …show more content…

Wanerman (2010) reported that young children have limited understanding of language and they need other forms of support to understand the language. Moreover, children learn better from information that are presented in more than one way. Therefore, picturebooks provide text and pictures together to help children understand the story better. Children can respond to images that show emotions because they have stored memories of similar feelings. When people look at the images, they look for recognizable external factors that show emotions. The eyes and the mouth are the most universal features in showing human emotions. The shape of the mouth can show the emotions very well. For example, an upturned mouth can show happiness, while the downturned mouth can show sadness. Moreover, the other body movements and position can show the emotions too. In addition, colors can connect with certain emotions. For example, red shows aggression, brown shows disgust, yellow and green show joy, and gray and black show distress (Nikolajeva, 2013). As a result, the bibliotherapy project provided a picturebook with a story that educated children about emotions. The picturebook also included illustrations that showed different emotions to support children’s understanding of the

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