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ARTS: Artuklu sanat ve beşeri bilimler dergisi (Online), no.13, pp.80-105, 2025 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Picture books reinforce the guiding role of books by facilitating readers to establish connections between their own lives and narratives through visual literacy. The general belief that these books were only for children throughout the history of picture books has gradually disappeared with the development of crossover picture books and picture books for adults. To understand the nature of picture books for adults, five picture books determined by the purposeful sampling method were analyzed descriptively. In addition, bibliotherapy practices, workshops, and projects carried out with picture books were examined to reveal the contributions of picture narratives to increasing emotional well-being. Picture books help improve emotional well-being by triggering imagination through images and guiding readers to make sense of their lives through the possibilities of metaphorical narration.