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picture book
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book with images at least as important as words, commonly directed at young children and featuring a story
Research
1,276 papers- Shared Picture Book Reading Interventions for Child Language Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Child development · 2020
- Picture book reading improves children's learning understanding.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025
- The Role of Book Features in Young Children's Transfer of Information from Picture Books to Real-World Contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2018
- The effect of picture book reading on young children's use of an emotion regulation strategy.PloS one · 2023
- Narrative Potential of Picture-Book Apps: A Media- and Interaction-Oriented Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Rabbit with his family, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “picture book” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.