Lumina’s Shyness is a collaborative project to create an interactive colour picture book that shares reading and supports story structure learning with emotion badges.

Presenting a story about how a shy girl opens her heart to make friends and find her passion. 

The book aims to help children become familiar with reading early in childhood and significantly advance their reading and numeracy skills.

Picture books can help children develop reading comprehension, social skills, imagination, creativity and emotional management. I have written the story with experience and created illustrations with an overseas illustrator.

Bring the interactive elements into the set of colouring picture books. Support children in building a foundation of learning in a secure environment, reducing barriers to school attendance, and enabling them to acquire basic knowledge by sharing reading with parents.

The picture book is divided into two parts: the first is in grayscale, and the second is in colour when the character opens herself to communicate with others.

When using colours, I will use colours with lower saturation pastel colours to avoid the background with too bright colours from excessively distracting the children’s visual effects when drawing on the paintable picture book.

The role of the badge is to use different facial expressions to help children learn emotions and use the badges with them to learn the story structure with a physical storyline. 

The different badges represent the emotions of the characters in the story. By distinguishing the expressions, children can learn how the storyline develops by clipping the badges on the ribbon. 

The badge is deliberately designed not to include emotional words. It hopes that children can use facial expressions to distinguish different emotions and learn to distinguish other faces. The back of the badge will use wooden clothespins, which are less powerful and safer than traditional badges and convenient for children to clip on the ribbon.

 Interactive questions for parents to share reading. Parents can ask children questions during reading to help children in families who read with their parents. Children familiar with the task early are significantly ahead in reading and numeracy skills. They also perform better in vocabulary, vocabulary volume, and language expression.

There are also Crafting pages that can help children cultivate creativity. This activity also supports children of different ages in learning diverse skills, growing emotional vocabulary, practising the action of holding pens to train motor skills, and discussing questions with adults to promote thinking.

Drawing materials (crayons and watercolour pencils)

emotional badges (fastened with a clothing pin at the back)

A ribbon representing the storyline

A bag that can collect all the items

The Bag will Contain all side products and picture books so that children can take their books, coloured pens and badges outside; besides reading at home with parents, they can also share it with friends.