With the development of the mobile Internet, the interactive multimedia of children's picture books have become an inevitable trend. In the interactive multimedia picture book, the short animation video is the core form of its presentation, playing a vital role and directly determining the success or failure of the picture book. Multimedia picture books rely on creative creation, big data, Internet technology, and micro-video platform, and the development of the situation is very good. The innovative excavation of content information, the integration and development of media forms, and the pro-people characteristics of morphology and language make the role of short videos in the growing life of young people also cannot be ignored, and its ideological and political educational function role is also developing while facing many problems and limitations. In this paper, we explore the characteristics and creative ideas of animated short videos in interactive multimedia picture books, sort out some commonalities and laws of interactive multimedia picture book creation, and promote their healthy development.