مقایسه ی افسانه های ایرانی ، کتاب های داستانی- تصویری ایرانی و کتاب های داستانی- تصویری خارجی بر مبنای مؤلفه های تفکر فلسفی

the main goal of this research was a comparison between iranian folktales, iranian picture-story books and english picture-story books based on philosophical thinking components. the stories in this study consist of 10 iranian folktales, 10 iranian picture-story books and 10 english picture-story books that were picked by chance and using the method of deductive content analysis were investigated according to the philip cam’s philosophical thinking components. the findings showed that, there is no remarkable difference between iranian picture-story books and iranian folktales, but there are some variations between iranian and english stories. iranian picture-story books and iranian folktales contain more philosophical thinking components than english stories; therefore the former stories are richer in content than the latter ones.  also, the component of exploring skills is more in iranian stories than english stories. key words: philosophical thinking components, iranian folktales, iranian picture-story books, english picture-story books.