| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 94 === The purpose of this study was based on children’s emotional problems caused by parents’ over coaching or ignoring. Fourteen picture books were selected to be discussed. Based on children’s psychologic perspective, the study analyzed the emotional response of the characters of the picture books for helping children abreact their emotion.
According to the analysis of association between picture books and children psychology, picture books are necessary for children to enrich their imagination. Moreover, the picture books demonstrate numerous oral and rhyming literacy in text and the concerned of subject for children in context. Therefore, the characters in the picture books help children with the characteristic of identification, replacement and imitation. To sum up, picture books could be the consoling books for the children’s metamood.
The conflicts between children and adults are often due to the teacher who is self-righteous, the mother who opposes them in doing anything and the father who is too busy to talk to them. Because of these problems, it causes the children to constrain their feelings and also deprives their human rights. Therefore, the children lose their rights from their parents and the educational system. Their emotional problems also produce some conversion of emotions and mental behaviors. The irony of picture books, points out the self-contradiction between the adults and the children, it also expresses the offensiveness and judgment in the picture books.
The results of the research shows us picture books could be the solution to children’s emotions. It not only inspires their mind but also comforts their heart. Because of the consideration of perceptual and rational knowledge, picture books have become powerful literature in children’s world.
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