| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 92 === Different readers response on illustrations
on Lin Ming-Tzu’s picture books
The study aims at understanding multiple reactions of different readers on Lin’s picture books to provide scholars, picture book writers, publishers, and related staff of kinder gardens and picture book publishing enterprises with informative materials for reference.
Qualitative research is adopted as its research method, carried out by interviewing teachers, parents, and students of a private kinder garden in Tai-Chung, scholars of a institute of technology in Tai-Chung county, and students of a university in Chia-yi county.
The themes of the research are three of Lin Ming-tzu’s works: First Time to Go Shopping, What Day is Today, and Ken & Chiu. The followings are research and analysis:
Part One: About the writer
1. The main character in Lin’s picture books are “female” and the figures are presented in “circle/round shape.” Generally, her style is cute and fuzzy.
2. Lin usually uses warm colors, like red, green, and yellow, as his/her customary colors.
3. Lin’s picture books mainly describe the “family story” in which the figures, background, and details show “Japanese culture and custom.”
4. “Realism and delicacy” are presented on Lin’s main characters and their background. The minor characters, like animals and puppets, are the metaphor of the emotion of the main characters.
5. Lin’s pictures focus on expressing the feelings of “happiness” to readers and which is usually presented by a happy ending in her story.
Part Two: About the readers
1. For adults readers and experts
a. In experts’ viewpoints, they think Lin has “multiple ideas” in creativity and his meaning is conveyed “delicately.”
b. In terms of “drawing skills”, experts emphasize “space arrangement”, “margin design”, and “layout of pictures and words.”
c. For teacher readers who make judgment by their “teaching experience”, they view Lin’s works “extensive” in themes of stories and they focus on linking “teaching” to “children’s understanding of drawings.”
d. In terms of “children’s reading comprehension”, teacher readers interpret “the interaction between pictures and words” and “book cover and back cover.”
e. For adult readers, they have more reaction on the link between “the self” and “the family life” when it comes to “space arrangement and the situation.”
f. To all adult readers, including scholars, teachers, students, and parents, “the logic of authentic life” in picture book is the key to shaping the “main characters” and simulating “puppet figures.”
2. For young children readers
a. When reading, young children readers notice figures’ “body characters” and “emotion”, the bodily peculiarity in particular.
b. In terms of their “authentic drawing experience”, the young have more reflection on the drawing skills.
c. Compared to adult readers, young children are more sensitive to “the background of the picture”, and that shows they notice “partial delicacy.”
d. Young children more easily self-imagine the behavior and motion of simulating “puppet figures” in the picture books when reading.
e. The young have more responses and interpretation to the “repeated body motions” of the “main characters”, “simulating puppets ” and “animals”, such as running and jumping.
3. For all readers
a. Experts, teachers, parents, and young children are all impressed by the “shaping and characters’ of figures and their “gesture and body language”.
Part Three: About the individual picture books
1. First Time to Go Shopping
a. The “proportion” in illustration is to emphasize the “body of the figure” and the “shape of the staff”.
b. In terms of “the space arrangement of streets”, “angle of elevation”, “angle of depression”, and the “connection of angles” are presented three-dimensionally.
c. As for the “color contribution”, this picture book applies large “contrast between red and green.”
2. What Day is Today
a. To present the “illustration” and “letter paper pictures”, Lin applies “margin design” on layout of the picture book.
b. As for the space arrangement, Lin applies “scenography” on presenting “the scene of every floors”, as well as “pictures with margins to non-margins” on presenting indoor to outdoor space.
d. In terms of “color distribution”, the picture book is mainly colored with “yellow and brown.”
3. Ken & Chiu.
a. On butterfly page, the main character chiu shows all kinds of “bodily actions.”
b. The background of the pictures is mainly “scenes on journey” and “scenes in the train.” It is “simple and true.”
c. Lin illustrates through “applying far and near shots” to create different spacial scenes on journey for main characters.
According to the result, I hope the study will provide multiple views and advice for illustrators book writers teacher-training institutes, kinder gardens, publishers, parents and children, and future researchers.
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