ABSTRACT Anthropomorphic animal characters have a symbolic role in stories, toys, and in children’s literature. These non-human animals may serve as a symbolic role model for a child. When books confront issues that are relevant to a child’s life situation and may be worthy of discussion between a child and an adult, the concept of bibliotherapy deserves consideration. Bibliotherapy is defined as the healing potential of stories. An animal character in a story may serve as a “silent fellow traveler” for a child who is dealing with an urgent developmental or disturbing task. This study considers a theory of bibliotherapy as an approach for studying a picture book. An analysis method was created to study the content and animal characters. The method and theory are based on bibliotherapy and its benefits as a tool for evaluating the possibilities of picture books.

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将动物特征作为人类表征的研究：动物性/书目疗法测试

摘要 拟人化的动物角色在故事、玩具和儿童文学中具有象征作用。这些非人类动物可以作为儿童的象征性榜样。当书籍面临与儿童生活状况相关的问题并且可能值得儿童和成人讨论时，书目疗法的概念值得考虑。书目疗法被定义为故事的治愈潜力。故事中的动物角色可以作为正在处理紧急发展或令人不安的任务的孩子的“沉默的旅伴”。本研究将书目疗法理论视为研究图画书的一种方法。创建了一种分析方法来研究内容和动物特征。