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The Relationship Between Image and Text in Contemporary Children's Poetry Books

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the connection between text and illustration in contemporary children’s poetry books. In most cases, illustrations employ some form of visual enhancement or stylization. Even when they faithfully follow the themes of the texts, they establish their own visual language. Stylization thus emerges as a crucial creative element, uniquely belonging to the medium of the image. Stylization reveals that image and text can never fully coincide, even if the image depicts the same subject matter as the text. The question then becomes to what extent the illustrations align with the spirit of the text or diverge from it. To what extent do they consider the reader as a co-creator, and how much do they engage with the possibility of symbolic decoding? Children’s poetry books, compared to prose, offer greater freedom, symbolism, rely on the sensuality of sound, and enable broader, more metaphorical connections with images. A separate area of examination is the realm of children’s drawings and adult illustrations imitating children’s drawings, encompassing aspects such as the technique, color palette, and typographical solutions employed in the images.

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