Abstract: The Reduction a form of artistic abstraction by expressing something in symbols that imply the content of the idea or reducing the essence with simplifying and shortening the details, This is done by reducing the content of visual and expressive information, as reductionist thought has the ability to flexibility, develop and grow in the plastic arts across ancient human civilizations and in modern and contemporary ages, with the ability of reductionism to facilitate the delivery of information and ideas. reduction in children's book illustrations is a method in which more than one formal formula for the elements is extracted to facilitate the child's assimilation to receive them, and there are proportions and levels of shorthand in the illustrations for children's books.
Keywords: (Reduction - Illustrations for children's books - Reduction levels).
Title: Shorthand Philosophy in Children's Book Illustrations
Author: Prof. Dr. Hanaa Hassan Amer, Dalia Saeed Abd-El-Hamid Mohany
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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