PERANCANGAN BUKU ILUSTRASI CERITA RAKYAT “MURTADO MACAN KEMAYORAN” UNTUK ANAK USIA 7-12 TAHUN

Indonesia is divided into many regions and each region has its own folklore. The Folklore has become one of the cultures of these areas, even more of them have not accepted by the community because it’s considered less attractive in this modern era, so this culture is endangered due to lack of awareness to preserve it. Even though, folklore is the nation's cultural roots which means these stories contain noble values for social life, for entertaining or educational. In this thesis, the method used by the author is the method of creation. This creation thesis is a work of creating a folklore illustration book entitled Designing a Betawi Folklore Illustration Book "Murtado Macan Kemayoran" for Children Age 7-12. Murtado Macan Kemayoran folklore isn’t widely known by children so it’s unfortunate if the children don’t know this folklore that’s in their place of residence. The purpose of creating this work is to preserve and introduce children with visualization so the children are more interested. This book also aims to foster children's interest in reading and be a means of education for children so they aren’t imitate the things that are not good and imitate the good things from the story so that they have the character as expected by their parents.