Silence Is Louder Than Words Here

With the social development and the arrival of the era of reading pictures,children’s picture books have become an integral part of elementary education as amedium. Picture books, especially those have won the international award, have avariety of writing styles, including impressionism, abstract style and surreal style, whichcan be described as sumptuous visual feast. Leaving blank which is an important formof screen becomes necessary in the creating process of the author. Blank can let theviewers imagine freely, improve their mood and enhance thie clam.First, blank in the picture book is rich in content. The importance of operatingnegative space should be fully taken into account in the design process of picture book.The author should consider to leave some blank in order to bring viewers, especially thechildren imagine to some extent. A picture book occupied by the pictures and full ofcolors may deprive children of the sensitivity of beauty.Secondly, the paper sums up the two important functions of leaving blank in thepicture book, that is explicit and implicit. The explicit effect is talked about in theaesthetic level including changing the visual effects, making the texture rich andbalancing the color of the screen. While implicit role needs a deep analysis inconjunction with the text to sum up. Either explicit or implicit, the important role ofblank are worthy to be considered for us.Thirdly, the author takes quite a lot of award-winning picture books favored bychildren for example, and analyzes in detail to explain the significance of blank in thepicture book. Leaving blank in a proper degree is undone by the adults. Blank can act asthe children’s arms to fly freely. Also it can exercise the imagination of children andchildren can also get the emotional sustenance when they appreciate the picture books.With nice look and rich content, picture book is a kind of enlightenment book forchildren and it is easy for them to understand. The simple and warm feelings it conveyswill imperceptibly bring spiritual enlightenment, literary nourishment and aestheticedification to the children. In recent years picture book has gained the popularity andwell received by the most people. Only we choose the excellent children’s picture books, can we help to promote children’s comprehensive development. In the process ofdesigning excellent picture book, proper use of blank practices, it will bring not only thebeauty of the visual effects but its far-reaching implications.