picture book
Also known as children's picture book
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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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.