Picture Books, Imagination and Play: Pathways to Positive Reading Identities for Young Children

Picture books are part of many young children’s lives, whether at home or in early childhood school settings. Their unique creative combinations words and visual images can engage attention, stimulate their imagination, support development as meaning-makers. Nurturing a love children foster the not only literacy skills, but also positive reading identities. Early educators therefore have key roles to play selectors, analysts mediators picture books. This article aims build educators’ awareness these through analytical discussion small group selected for focus on imaginative worlds. Children need see themselves books, given that imagination central ways being learning, about engaged be important resources nurturing fostering identities children. pedagogical position paper explores sample such discusses value curriculum.