Literatura integrada: valores y funciones de las relaciones adulto-niño en algunos álbumes ilustrado

Resumen

From an early stage, children try to understand the world where they live, they see how things stand outthrough a variety of experiences, exploring and researching in their eagerness to learn. At about the threeyears of age they start to feel interested in the pictures of the children books, later they will read andunderstand more complex facts. In this sense, the picture books become a mediator between children andreality.The picture book is built through the dialogue among the text, the reader and the illustrations. Along with theaesthetic dimension, there is a social awareness that brings about the development of a criticalconsciousness and increases the recipient’s education, offering different proposals and referents whichappeal to the reader’s ability to judge and discern.In this article, through a selection of picture books, we will analyse the psychological relationships betweenthe adult-character and the child-character and how the infant readers produce the meaning of themessages. We will prove how these picture books help the recipient to assess feelings and vital conflicts andlet them build up their educational values, sometimes as complex as family relationships.