Pictures Speak Louder Than Words

Abstract

Amidst perplexing hodgepodge of children's literature books that gives parents headache in choosing just right ones that can bring them closer to their children, picture books arrive as helping hand by providing children with not only a visual experience but also glue to parent-child relationship for an enjoyable, quality reading time together. A good picture book is said to have potential to carry their readers to perceive the more and invisible ideas and concepts. Intrigued by statement that picture books can louder than words, writer was interested to further investigate how two picture books -Cooper Bear at Fair and The Little Mermaid - do this, each in its own unique ways. Out of many intangible and invisible ideas and presented by pictures in both books, writer found three as bases of her comparative analysis of these two picture books. It was concluded that both books have successfully use relevant, powerful pictures each in its unique way to promote positive values of parent-child relationship, present different concepts of love, and help children to deal with their fears. These were how these two books proved that not only actions, but pictures could also speak louder than words.