Moderegger:Das textfreie Bilderbuch als

The book "Moderegger: The Text-Free Picture Book as an Object of Literary-Aesthetic Learning Processes" offers a comprehensive examination of the potential of text-free picture books in elementary education. It highlights the long tradition of storytelling through images and questions the common practice of limiting this form of narration to the preschool level. Through empirical sub-studies, it demonstrates how text-free picture books, often regarded as easily understandable, actually possess complex literary-aesthetic structures that can stimulate profound reception processes. The book analyzes the narrative structures of these picture books and investigates the verbal expressions of elementary school children to understand how they construct meaning from the images. These insights are not only significant for literature education but also enhance the engagement with visual signs in an increasingly image-oriented society.