Text Analysis of Picture Books of Sex Education for Children and Educational Suggestions for Creation：Coding Analysis Based on NVivo11.0

Sex education plays an important role in increasing children's sex knowledge and preventing sexual assault. Picture books on the theme of early childhood sex education provide rich and important resources for the development of early childhood sex education. This study used qualitative analysis software NVivo11.0 to conduct coding analysis on 50 publicly published picture books on the theme of early childhood sex education in China. It found two core nodes of content theme and narrative type, and further proposed three suggestions on the creation of picture books of early childhood sex education cater to the needs of independent reading of children. The suggestions include:grounded in the social and cultural background, in line with the needs of local sex education; based on the premise of scientific rigor, integrating the goals of early childhood sex education; and taking the principle of vividness and interest as the premise. The eventual aim is to lay a foundation for guiding parents and teachers in early childhood sex education.