Too many pictures in books hinder kid’s word learning

London: Having more than one illustration per page in children's books hinders vocabulary learning among toddlers, a study has found. While publishers look to produce ever more colourful and exciting texts to entice buyers, University of Sussex in UK have shown that too many illustrations on a page results in poorer word learning among pre-schoolers.

The findings present a simple solution to parents and nursery teachers for some of the challenges of pre-school education and could help in the development of learning materials for young children. "Luckily, children like hearing stories, and adults like reading them to children.

But children who are too young to read themselves don't know where to look because they are not following the text. This has a dramatic impact on how well they learn new words from stories," said Zoe Flack, doctoral researcher at University of Sussex.