This project analyses the topic of making a picture book with preschool children, as well as the theory of picture books and the significance they hold for children. The project is divided into four sections.
The first section presents the general features of the picture book and consists of four subparagraphs. Here we find out what kind of a book a picture book is, what a picture book model looks like, what its functions are and what the role of the storyteller is.
The second section consists of three subparagraphs and talks about the impact that picture books have on a child. The first subparagraph gives us insight into the significance of illustrations in picture books and children's books, the second part demonstrates the connection between the image and the text and the difference between a picture book and a written book.
The third subparagraph describes the picture book as a form of communication between the educator and the children.The third section comprises two subparagraphs and reveals the importance of visual arts education in growing up. The first part talks about the characteristics and important features of visual expression in children, while the second part stresses the benefit of visual arts education and describes its functions in the education of children.
The fourth and final section demonstrates how I made a picture book together with preschool children and it consists of three subparagraphs. The first subparagraph talks about the birth of the idea for the picture book and its journey all the way to the start of its materialisation. The second part demonstrates and explains how the children made the elements for the picture book. And at the end there is the final version of the picture book.
Key words: picture book, preschool children, illustration, visual arts education, educator
