The Comparative Study of Arabic and Persian Picture Books Based on Decentralization Methods

One of the mechanisms which help children’s literature to build a creative relationship is decentralization. The purpose of this article is to study fictional picture books in Arabic and Persian، based on decentralized techniques. To achieve this purpose، 13 picture books are selected from each language. Using the method of inductive content analysis and based on decentralization and how to use these techniques the stories were investigated and analyzed. The study found that the Persian and Arabic authors in using decentralized techniques pay more attention to mental and visual properties rather than linguistic and literary properties. Nevertheless، they have some effort in utilizing literary capacities in promoting decentralization ability. Introducing these efforts in this study strengthening decentralized features and increasing authors attention to utilizing them. Some of these literary decentralization tips are; monolog، rime and pun، emphasis، rhythm، repetition، metaphor function and parable. Persian books had more litrary decentralization tips than Arabic ones.