| Advances in technology, especially the emergence of multimedia and the Internet has changed the way people receive information. In the image-based and booming "visual culture" era, has become a popular visual literacy necessary for basic literacy, and develop children’s visual literacy has become an important issue in today’s education. Simply read the visual information is visual literacy, thinking visual information and visual information creation capacity. However, visual literacy and adult children can not be generalized visual literacy, visual literacy for children through child must aesthetics, child psychology, children’s cognitive science, interdisciplinary studies, in order to meet the development of the visual characteristics of children. The author of 12 children of different ages under the age of physical and mental development features, aspects, logical thinking development of visual literacy of children and adults made a distinction between the concept of visual literacy and visual literacy of children classified for a detailed description of the elements, roughly divided into three a level stage of visual perception (0-3 years old), visual comprehension (3 years old to 8 years old), the ability to use visual (8 years old to 12 years old).Illustrated is recognized as the best children’s books in the West prevailed a century, both the author, publication or distribution has a very professional and mature system, and China’s picture book has just started, it is still in the exploratory stage, with the West picture books there is a big gap. Author of children’s visual literacy, from the perspective of visual perception, visual comprehension, and the ability to use three visual aspects, will be different in the West outstanding original picture book made a detailed comparison, which compare the Western picture books for children at a children’s stage the specific differences.The current lack of Chinese original picture books are mainly four points:the creation of a broad enough theme, heavy forms of expression, light and original graphic core relationship is not complete. Study the fundamental reason for the lack of children’s visual literacy is not enough understanding, coupled with the creators themselves conservative and other reasons, on the above, the author gives three possible scenarios:first to give the time of creation, understanding of picture books " graphic "relationship, what is true" picture books "; Second, and most important, certainly from the perspective of the creation of a Child’, children understand the meaning of visual literacy; the last is to give vibrant playful, open-minded young picture book creator more opportunities to provide more fresh blood picture book creation. |
