This study explores the use of picture books to teach prospective teachers the necessary classroom management skills. In Taiwan’s National Changhua University of Education, 90 students who were enrolled in a classroom management course participated in this qualitative action research. The data collected include students’ portfolios, self-evaluations, final examinations and questionnaires. The researcher has found that: (1) education students like to read picture books and feel they can gain greater spiritual maturity from them; (2) students believe that picture books may help them to better understand adolescents’ perspectives and feelings; (3) teaching with picture books is very effective as a form of “teaching without preaching,” so that students accept what they read from the bottom of their heart; (4) students affirm the educational value of pictures; (5) this teaching strategy guides students to be more open in their thinking and questioning, to construct multiple perspectives in a free and democratic climate, to gain pleasure as well as educational value from reading picture books; (6) practical learning is more effective than theoretical explanation.