By the numbers: a quantitative content analysis of children's picturebooks

[摘要] Children's picturebooks are a distinctive art form and draw on a variety of story-telling and pictorial traditions; they are vibrant, everyday elements in the lives of many children. The dominant approach for researching picturebook content—stemming largely from the traditions in education and literary studies that have been most concerned with it—has been a qualitative one that focuses on detailed explorations of targeted books and a small number of children. This qualitative work has yielded (and continues to find) important insights. The current work, however, adopts a different approach and aims to a provide quantitative analysis of picturebooks.

[学科分类] 心理学（综合）

[关键词] picturebooks;story grammar;literacy;narrative;childrens books