A children’s picture book in the perspective of a modern parent

Abstract

The features and characteristics of picture books are dealt with in numerous professional and scientific papers. For the most part, they are addressed to the pedagogical professionals who, in institutional context, guided by the standards of encouraging reading and quality picture books, convey to children the book intended for them. However, like numerous attitudes, the children reading habits are dominantly formed into his family’s home. For this reason, research insight into parental assessment of the importance of a child ‘s first book is considered important. Therefore, the paper presents the results of a survey that determines the parental evaluation of the importance of picture books. Initially, it is assumed that age and level of education are related to parental approach to the book. It is predicted that those with higher level of education and an older age perceive picture book more positively. Through the conducted research these assumptions were rejected.