Anthony Browne 그림책의 환상성에 대한 유아의 반응 = Young Children`s Response to Fantasy World of Anthony Browne`s picture books

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to find out how young children respond to fantasy of Anthony Browne`s picture books. Subjects were 45 five years old attending to 2 kindergartens located in Seoul Korea. Each child was read to two picture books written and illustrated by Anthony Browne, 「Gorilla」 and 「Tunnel」, and then interviewed by a researcher. Each child`s response was recorded and transcribed to be classified. The frequency and percentage of their response were counted by Excel program. The results were as following First, most of children understood and remembered the stories of the two books. Second, children were mostly interested in fantasy world. Third, children accepted circumstances main characters cope with as fantastic situations, Forth, children were likely to confuse real and fantasy background of the books. But they were apt to understand that both of ``dream`` of 「Gorilla」 and ``tunnel`` of 「Tunnel」 were passages to enter into the fantasy world. Fifth, children were likely to recognize that fantastic events occurring in 「Gorilla」could not be real, and think that supernatural solutions were caused by real world situations. On the other hand, regarding to「Tunnel」, they were likely to respond detective and imaginative to surreal events and understand those surreal events can`t become real and responded supernatural solutions possible due to its fantastic world. Finally, regarding the endpaper from 「Tunnel」, more than half of children were not able to figure out the meaning of book and ball which signifies reconciliation of the two main characters.