Picture Books

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor and pencil. Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now were Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter from 1845 and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902. Some of the best-known picture books are Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat, and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. The Caldecott Medal (established 1 ...more

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The Future Book
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The Humble Pie (The Food Group, #8)
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The Octopus
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The Rock from the Sky
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Bartleby
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Wordless Picture Books
426 books — 389 voters

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458 books — 215 voters
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Cinderella Stories
143 books — 162 voters

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Indie children's ebooks
319 books — 375 voters
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Favorite Funny Story Time Picture Books
337 books — 291 voters

Where the Wild Things Are
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The Giving Tree
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
I Want My Hat Back
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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