A strand of research on use of multicultural picturebook for young children was to examine the effect
of the multicultural picturebook in changing children\'s attitude toward heterogeneous races and cultural
features. Although researchers adopted and demonstrated an explicit standard in collecting suitable
picturebooks for multicultural education for young children, those quality factors that compose suitable
multicultural picturebook embedded in each picturebook were not identified Regarding the enduring
criticism toward tourist approach, it is important that what quality factors could make the picturebook
as being most suitable for implementing higher level of multicultural educational practice with
transformational approach. For the analysis, 28 picturebook were collected based upon those lists of
professional associations of child literature and the recommendations of early childhood professionals.
The criteria used for analysis was drawn from James Banks\' theory of multicultural education. In
findings, those picturebooks categorized as being suitable for contribution and additive approach
contained insider perspective that mainly reflects the governing perspective of dominant race or cultural
group. On the contrary, those picturebooks categorized as being suitable for transformational approach
and beyond contained outsider perspective that attempts to demonstrate vividly about tension and conflict
observed between people having different cultural background in real life situation. With providing
historical contexts, those picturebooks open up the conversation with critical thinking in terms of what
cause inappropriate attitude and uncomfortable emotion toward different cultural entity. In discussion,
traditional criteria for \'good picturebook\' was challenged, and it was suggested that the discourse of
the traditional criteria need to be converted for making a room for children\'s problem-posing and critical
thinking about inequality and discrimination.