Overwhelming presence of nature in the most imaginative fiction books for children raises this issue
How can the salient presence of the nature help to expression of story, in most illustration works in children`s books? Among the elements of nature, plants have the most ability to express emotions and concepts in the atmosphere of picture. The present descriptive research used an analytical method. The main purpose is to show the expressive features of nature which illustrators utilized to achieve the desired atmosphere.
The obtained result shows the nature in special illustrations of the children story books has a main role in expressing of story concepts as well as in showing place and time situations.
It is necessary to say that happiness, pleasure, sorrow, sadness, fear, worry and spiritual are the current concepts in the Iranian children`s story books which all find natural forms using visual elements.