What are cartoons?

Cartoons are fun pictures that tell stories, just like when you draw a funny scene in your notebook and show it to your friend.

Imagine you have a pencil and paper. You draw a little man with big eyes, then you draw him jumping over a hill, and finally you draw him laughing because he fell into a puddle. That’s a cartoon! It’s like a short movie, but instead of watching it on the TV, you read it in a book or see it on a screen.

Cartoons use simple shapes to show movement and action. Think about how you move your arms when you play tag, that's kind of what cartoons do, but with pictures. Each picture is like one snap of the game, and when they go one after another, it looks like the characters are moving!

Sometimes, there’s color, sometimes not, it all depends on what makes the story more fun to watch.

Cartoons help you imagine things that aren’t real. You can see a cat talking or a superhero flying. It's just like when your friend pretends to be a robot, you both use your imagination, and that’s what makes cartoons so much fun!