Vol. 18 No. 4 (71) (2023): Iconotexts in the Face of Contemporary Social Crises

The concept of crisis means a difficult, often prolonged, difficult, dramatic situation, which brings with it the feeling of escalating anxiety that transforms into fear, danger. Maintained mainly in the media space, the appearance of the deadly consequences of war crises, environmental crises in various places of the world further and closer is a daily reality for modern children. We would most willingly protect them from any emerging evil in alternative fiction, hide, wait. However, this is not possible if we want to take children seriously. In the sphere of contemporary culture for children since the 1970s there have been picture books and other iconotexts, which are an extremely idiosyncratic genre of art that aims to sensitize the very youngest audiences to the issues of broader contemporary crises and new challenges facing our world. Their boon allows them to understand the world around them, to be immersed in it, and sometimes to be involved in possibly changing its conditions.