VIEWS ON THE PICTUREBOOK

The article presents selected Slovenian and foreign definitions of the picturebook, its classification and theories. It presents the literary-historical and theoretical development of the picturebook in Slovenia, drawing on foreign (M. Nikolajeva, S. Beckett, B. Ktimmerling-Meibauer) and Slovenian (M. Kobe, D. Haramija and J. Batic) scholars. We try to present the picturebook as an object of study and therefore examine the development of the integration of picturebooks into the Slovenian school system through the curriculum. Keywords: picturebook, illustrations, fairy tales, curriculum, crossover.