On Image Narration Features and Artistry of Wordless Picture Books—A Case Study of Arrival

摘要

Wordless picture book is a literary genre which narrates and expresses ideas of stories by completely relying on visual images, and thus plays an important role in children's education at primary stage. With an important time-based feature, image narration of wordless picture books applies montage technique, opens a space in time, connects a large amount of frozen single picture fragments into a continuous narration integrity, promotes the process of narration through corresponding plot design and displacement of time and space, and delays readers' reading time with picture and detail skills, so that wordless picture books have stories full of tension and unique artistic charm. This paper discusses about image narration features and artistry of wordless picture books with the example of Arrival. From the perspective of preschool education, image narrative language of wordless picture books can help children improve their aesthetics, language skills, thinking ability and comprehensive ability etc substantially, and good wordless picture books can play an important supporting role in children's growth in terms of ideology and culture and lay a solid foundation for their future development. From the perspective of art, compared with other children's literature forms, wordless picture books have huge advantages in terms of children's education, and have unique literary value and artistic connotation by integrating knowledge and stories perfectly with painting art in image narration. This paper analyzes the classic wordless picture book Arrival, and elaborates image narration features and artistry of wordless picture books in detail, with the hope of promoting the popularization progress of wordless picture books in Chinese children's education circle and facilitating better development of children's education.