the healing picture book: an aesthetic of sorrow.

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      The article discusses the role of picture books in helping children with emotional distress. The notion of the picture book as potential agent of emotional healing is grounded in an understanding of emotionally painful experiences as characteristically similar to aesthetic experiences. Images with narratives become tools of imaginative thinking in guiding young readers through and out of sorrow.