The current study discusses the difficulties of interviewing young children and investigates whether illustrations – compared to verbal presentation – facilitate interviewing young children. Seventy 4-year-old children were interviewed with two of Piaget's (Piaget, 1997) moral paired stories. The stories were presented along with illustrations for the experimental group but verbally for the control group. The results showed that illustrations significantly improved the reliability of the interview by removing poor responses and facilitated intentional judgments of young children. In addition, subjects of the experimental group were more actively engaged and made significantly fewer errors. Clearly, illustrations facilitate interviewing young children by grabbing their attention and improving their active participation in the interview.
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