中国图画书发展的外来影响——源自域外的艺术滋养

在20世纪的不同时期，英国、美国、日本、前苏联及东欧各国均曾经对中国图画书的发展产生过不同的影响。我国的儿童读物插画家、出版业者、儿童文学与外国文学研究者基于各自的专业背景，通过不同方式接受了源自域外的图画书艺术的滋养，为国内现代图画书观念的普及、原创图画书创作以及图画书的理论建设发挥了各自作用，共同催生了新世纪中国图画书的初步繁荣。

Foreign Influence on Chinese Picture Books--Artistic Inspiration from Abroad

During the last century, the development of Chinese picture books derived from various foreign cultural and art trend, espe-cially from the UK, the USA, Japan, Russia and several eastern European countries. The art of foreign picture books has influenced many illustrators of Children＇s books, publishers and researchers of Children＇s literature and foreign literature in China through different ways, and these people have made their contribution to promoting the concept of modern picture books, to creating original works and to developing the theories in this period. All of these factors devote to the preliminary flourish of Chinese picture books in 21^th century.