| Picture books are widely recognized internationally as books suitable for children’s early reading.They have an important impact on children’s learning and life.Using children’s picture books to carry out aesthetic education for preschool children can convey aesthetic concepts to children with vivid and interesting stories,help children understand the aesthetic culture of their ethnic group,improve their perception attitude towards the surrounding environment and works of art,help children shape a complete personality and establish a good aesthetic consciousness.In recent years,with the rise of domestic picture book market and educators’ attention to children’s aesthetic education,preschool children’s picture books from the perspective of aesthetic education have become an important field worthy of research.Based on the research of children’s cognitive psychology and aesthetic psychology,combined with the purpose and mode of aesthetic education,this paper studies the design of picture books for preschool children.Firstly,it analyzes and summarizes the cognitive development,aesthetic development and aesthetic education of preschool children with the method of literature analysis,and obtains the characteristics and aesthetic needs of preschool children from the theory.In terms of children’s cognitive development,we combine Piaget’s genetic epistemology and Vygotsky’s social cognitive development theory to explore the important nodes and ways affecting children’s development.In terms of children’s aesthetic development,combine Gardner and Woolf’s aesthetic development stage theory to grasp the degree of preschool children’s aesthetic development.In terms of aesthetic education,taking Schiller’s aesthetic education theory as the ultimate goal,combined with Wang Guowei and Cai Yuanpei’s educational thought of Sinicizing aesthetic education,this paper explores the most suitable aesthetic education mode for Chinese children from Kong Qiying’s children’s aesthetic behavior mode.Integrate and analyze the theory,get the physiological and psychological development characteristics of preschool children and the implementation guidance scheme of aesthetic education,build the aesthetic framework of preschool children’s picture books through the analysis results,and preliminarily obtain the design framework of school-age children’s picture books from the perspective of aesthetic education.Secondly,it uses case analysis and survey analysis to analyze the aesthetic cognitive needs of preschool children,the educational role and artistic symbols of preschool children’s picture books on aesthetic education.Through the analysis of preschool children’s aesthetic needs,this paper carries out corresponding research on children’s picture books,combined with the cases of excellent children’s picture books,analyzes and investigates the reading relationship with preschool children from the perspective of educational role,artistic expression and visual symbol information,and explains the creative direction of preschool children’s picture books under aesthetic education.Finally,by combining the characteristics of preschool children with the key points of aesthetic education design of children’s picture books,this paper puts forward the design method of giving full play to the function of aesthetic education and conveying aesthetic ideas in the design practice of preschool children’s picture books.In the design practice of this paper,on the basis of continuing the aesthetic function of children’s picture books,further clarify the theme of aesthetic education,combine aesthetics from form and concept,and integrate the concept of establishing aesthetic consciousness into the creative design of picture books.Through reading interaction,make the audience children establish aesthetic consciousness and cultivate aesthetic initiative. |