Telling Stories Through Pictures: A Reading of Some Select Indian Children's Narratives

The demand and choices of children’s texts have increased rapidly in a few years. Likewise, parents also divert the mind of their children’s with cartoon magazines and comics which keep children entertained and happy. Children books typically contain articles, pictures, and letters which help children to grab things easily. Children always learn things rapidly at an earlier age when learn through images, pictures, graphics or animated form. There are many ways to communicate a story, one can tell it, sing it, act it, write it, film it and can draw it. Each form of storytelling has its unique characteristics that separate it from the other forms. However, there has been a form of storytelling that uses words and pictures. It is through the picture book art-form that child reader continues to develop assumptions about the world and its people along with an understanding of different cultures. The present paper attempts to highlight how through pictures the child readers can make connections to themselves, their lives and experiences. The paper will also highlight how through picture books children can impact on building their vocabulary, strengthen visual thinking skills, create connections and introduce them to read and encourage conversations. It will also thus encompass the role of children books and how they transfer information from pictures to real world contexts.