CONTRIBUIÇÕES PARA A FORMAÇÃO DO LEITOR LITERÁRIO POR MEIO DO LIVRO DE IMAGEM

This article is an excerpt from a Master's degree research, whose main objective was to understand the contribution of picture books to the formation of young readers of Children's Literature. Thus, its content contains some lines from one of the Dialogical Meetings held between the researcher and an illustrator about the gestation process of one of her works – Max Emiliano – with the intention of reading the illustrations towards a more in-depth understanding of the narrative present in the image book. To achieve this purpose, the methodology used was the analysis of a work based on dialogue with the illustrator and comparison with the theoretical framework of the philosophy of language with the thoughts of some researchers of Literature and illustrated books. As a result, teaching how to read images/illustrations at school, through Children's Literature books, contributes to the formation of readers from a young age, as it sensitively and aesthetically broadens their perspective. This process of attributing meanings to the image tends to expand throughout life as a result of each person's reading and imagery experiences and favors a more complete formation and development of the literary reader's understanding.