그림책에 나타난 독서 행위와 그 의미 -인물 분석을 중심으로-

Abstract

People read books to get knowledge or to have indirect experiences. But, first of all, people love to read books for pleasure. However, according to former studies, Korean elementary school students and young children (3-5 years old) are likely to respond that they read books to acquire some information and knowledge not for pleasure. This paper tries to analyze how represented reading behavior and meaning in the picture-books focused on the characters. For this research, we collected the picture-books that were published during 2000-2008 in Koreaandselected39picture-booksthatmainthemeisaboutbooksandreadingbooks. The results of the analyzing are as follow: First, various characters include anthropomorphic animals participating in the reading behavior in the picture-books. Especially, teachers and parents are represented as storytellers to the children audiences, and siblings also act the role of a storyteller for their early siblings. Second, characters are changing more and growing up through reading a book. Reading a book means some play and pleasure to people. Also, books help people make new relationships with others or recover their broken relationships. Third, characters in the book or author of the book help a protagonist have difficulties with reading the book in the picture-books by calling him or showing themselves to the protagonist.