The purpose of this paper was to consider the growth of a child through a picture book from the standpoint of educational anthropology as well as construct a human formation theory. Most of the previous studies have applied a picture book to the existing discipline. However, in this paper, we explained the power of human formation in a picture book without emphasizing on preschool education. We therefore examined a picture book using human formation theory in light of educational anthropology. Our goal was not to evaluate a picture book from an education standpoint but to construct a human formation theory from a picture book perspective. From this standpoint, we dealt with mimesis and shopping with the keywords “the encounter with others and return”. Our findings revealed that “the encounter with others and return” occurred occasionally, and the children received a new world. This supports what has been said about “the encounter with others and return” having possibility on the grounds of impossibility.