| Abstract |
| Fairy tale book is one of the important motives for growing young children to gain the knowledge of the world based on its inherent intimacy and it leads them to be grown up emotionally. High-quality illustrations, especially, that appears in fairy tale books could make young children to understand the structure, form and color of the objects and in the world which are never touched and faced by them so that it not only makes them interesting but give to them inspire the imagination. For that reason, the importance of high-quality illustrations has been increasingly emphasized in terms it helps the children to have the abilities to create. In such a context, an empirical study concerned about expression types of illustration matched on young children`s preferences has been performed. With emphasis on “the brother and sister character” and “the tiger” that appear in the fairy tale book named “the sun and the moon,” the 5-7 year children`s preferences about the cognitive attributes in Gestalt of illustrations have been found out. Major findings can be summarized into 5 in the following. Firstly, the young children prefer the human characters which expressed the facial expression vividly. Secondly, they like better medium outlines for the outlines of characters around a thickness of 1mm than too thick or nonexistent. Thirdly, relating with color, the monochromatic primary colors are preferred. Fourthly, the difference between the boys` preference and the girls` are found. In detail, the boys prefer the characters which are strong with the color and the expression but the girls the soft. Lastly, all of the children prefer the characters in soft curved lines and vivid facial expression for the icon of goodness, “the brother and the sister” but for the tiger character, “the icon of evilness,” they prefer rectilinear expression and strong color contrast. The result of this study is meaningful as the guidelines for developing high-quality illustration in the future. |
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| Key Words |
| 일러스트레이션, 캐릭터, 동화책, 유아 선호도, Illustration, Character, Fairy tale book, Young children`s preference |
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