Abstract

ZIMMERMANN, Anelise  and  FREITAS, Neli Klix. The picture book and the imagination: writer, illustrator and reader in an interactive connection. Perspectiva [online]. 2018, vol.36, n.1, pp.137-150. ISSN 2175-795X.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2018v36nlp137.

The objective of this article aims is to establish some relationships between children's picturebooks and the exercise of imagination from the experiences of writers, illustrators, and readers. These relationships are established based on Vygotsky's perspective on imagination, considering its essential role in mediating the world and humans in a complex interaction. According to Vygotsky the human's experiences and emotions are the raw material for the imagination just as the practice of imagining enlarges the human's interactions with the world. Based on that, the children's picturebooks can be considered an element of mediation in this process. This study analyses interviews with writers, illustrators, and readers in which they talk about their relations with the book, their creative route, and their process of imagination. Finally, this study corroborates the relevance of picturebooks not only in childhood but in the life course of readers who use their experiences to interact with others, form and transform the world.

Keywords : Children’s Picturebook; Imagination; Interaction.

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