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

My Kentucky Moonlight School
This Book Is Seriously Silly! (Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book #2)
I Wish That You Knew (A Bereavement Picture Book for Kids)
A Place to Dance: How Richard Lamberty Brought Change to the Ballroom
Who Knows the Way to Mr. Grimly's Classroom?: (A Spooky School Picture Book for Kids Ages 4-8)
Fall: A Seasons Story
Curious Mind and Dancing Feet: A book about ADHD (Disability Books for Kids)
Three Little Witches and the Spooky Old House
Finding My Spark
Diving Deep on Rosh Hashanah: Reverse Tashlich for a Better World
The Skeleton and the Cat
Trick or Treat on Scary Street
Story Rug
I Want Everything! (The Everything Books)
School for Woodland Creatures (Our Friend Hedgehog)
Story Rug
This Book Is Seriously Silly! (Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book #2)
The Sweater: A Story of Community
Pocket Potters: Harry Potter: Little Guides to the Harry Potter Stories
Gigantic
The Journey (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #2)
I Am Not Grumpy! (Critter Complaints)
I Want Everything! (The Everything Books)
The Underwearwolf
The Crayons Go Back to School (The Crayons Celebrate)
Fall: A Seasons Story
Toad on the Go (Towed by Toad)
Stubby: A Silly and Informational Picture Book about How a Pencil Is Made, for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Sing the 50 United States!
The Secret Ingredient (Pringle & Finn, #2)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakLove You Forever by Robert MunschGoodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Best Books for a New Child's Library
452 books — 310 voters
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda    WilliamsRoom on the Broom by Julia DonaldsonThe Hallo-Wiener by Dav PilkeyScary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzThe Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan Berenstain
Best Halloween Picture Books
763 books — 605 voters

The Funny Adventures of Little Nani by Cinta García de la RosaTurtle Wish by Murielle CyrCulloo by Murielle CyrBallet Boy by Anfaney GladwinBoring Bob by Anfaney Gladwin
Indie children's ebooks
318 books — 379 voters
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Snowy Day by Ezra Jack KeatsMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyThe Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgThe Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Caldecott Medal Winners
93 books — 462 voters

Where the Wild Things Are
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Giving Tree
Green Eggs and Ham
Goodnight Moon
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
The Day the Crayons Quit
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!
Corduroy
This Is Not My Hat

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