“Picturebook” is a book which is used a setof pictures to express a story or a storylike topic.

        It will be more obvious if we see in English.  Picture Book means a book with pictures and that’s a picturebook.  If there are pictures in the book, but those pictures have no connection with one another.  That is a Illustrated Book and that’s an “Illustrated Book.”  Take “Pinocchio” for example, it is a very thick book with 20 pictures.  It is not a picturebook but an illustrated book.

       After we have a broad definition, the first concept of the picturebook will come out like the iceberg.  That’s the “flow of pictures.”  Because the picturebook is telling the story with a set of pictures, it depends on the continous rhythem of the pictures deciding the success or failure of the picturebook.  If the picture has no connection, there is no story at all.