시 그림책의 미적 가치와 특성 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze and reveal the characteristics and value of the texts that are referred to as the poetry picture book where children’s poems and pictures are presented simultaneously. Since letters and pictures go side by side, it is considered that the readers who read the ‘poetry picture book’ can have new and creative experiences when reviewing the methods of obtaining the aesthetic value. To achieve this, the analysis was conducted on the correlations between the two media,language and picture. The results of the analysis showed that most of the poetry picture books represented diverse forms of pictures in accordance with the contents of children’s poems (songs) and supplemented and expanded the contents to convey the themes interestingly. They also expanded the themes of poems and deepened the themes into a new dimension. Particularly, in the case of children’s poems and children’s songs with rich story-telling nature, the pictures were composed like a movie so that the readers may be absorbed in the text. For example, the artistic value is conveyed in different points of time in the form of diverse composition by conveying the contents of poems in three dimensions. It is considered that the poetry picture books’ own characteristics would not be possible without the writers’ ability to have an insight into the poems sufficiently and reinterpret them creatively. This study is considered to be useful in that it strengthened the basics of the poetry picture books and presented their future direction. Particularly, further studies on this area are expected to be made in that the poetry picture books provide integrated experiences of poetry reading and writing, and painting for children who are their target audience.