The role of picture books in facilitating moral education in chinese kindergartens: a literature review

(1) Background: To explore the roles of picture books in Chinese kindergartens' moral education and teachers' implementation challenges, noting Chinese picture books' cultural specificity themed on traditional festivals, history, patriotism and familial bonds, and that teachers select picture books by cultural connotations, educational orientations, children's age and moral goals and adopt methods like questioning and role-playing; (2) Methods: literature review; (3) Results: picture books serve as vital moral education carriers, helping children grasp abstract moral concepts, stimulating empathy and promoting moral cognition-to-behaviour transformation; teachers face challenges including random book selection, insufficient moral connotation interpretation ability and neglected picture book-based moral education due to parental academic focus; (4) Conclusions: this research underscores picture books' values in kindergarten moral education and discusses strategies to address teachers' implementation dilemmas.