From Reading Anno Mitsumasa’s Picture Books to Reconsider Picture Book Reading

• Main Authors: Yu-Chia-Hui, 游嘉惠
• Other Authors: Yu-Pei-Yun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98564909935992372791

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 94 === The picture book has developed for many years in Taiwan. How should the reader to choose from so many picture books? How does the reader find out the subtle part of the picture books? Moreover, how does the reader nourish from reading the picture books? These questions enable the researcher to know more and decide to do a further study. The picture book which seems to be short, simple, light, actually is a performance by the illustrator, the writer, and the reader. The writer and the illustrator build a world with pictures and text, and the reader is invited to create a “reading” feast. Through reading Anno Mitsumasa’s picture books, the researcher hopes to understand who Anno Mitsumasa is, how he creates picture books, and what his picture books present. Furthermore, confronted with the predicaments and the confusions from the process of reading picture books, the researcher attempts to reconsider the real features of the picture books. There are five chapters in this thesis. Chapter one is the introduction. Chapter two focuses on knowing Anno Mitsumasa and his style and viewpoints of the picture books. Chapter Three is to do a further analysis on Anno Mitsumasa’s picture books. On one hand, through the process from generally reading to attentively reading, the researcher carries on the reading analysis of each page and tries to understand the subtle parts and the connections between the pictures and the text. On the other hand, recording the questions resulting from the reading process, the researcher experiences the distance between the text and the reader. In Chapter four, the researcher probes into the real features of the picture books from the process of receiving the picture books. Chapter five is the conclusion. The researcher resets the reader as the major subject while reading the picture books and sums up the elements of a successful “picture- book reading” to provide a good starting point of reconsidering “picture- book reading” for future creators, workers, readers and researchers.