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

Rebecca
Gruffalo Granny
Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains with a Boy
I Am Not Grumpy! (Critter Complaints)
Small Pets
Mouse Goes to the Mountains
The Weather Keeper
Tiny T. Rex and the Littlest Star: A Tiny T. Rex Christmas Book
The Ribbon
Our Favorite Day of the Week
Phantom of the Opera Little Golden Book
Candy Queen (Cranky Chicken #5)
The Cookie at the End of this Book (Sesame Street) (Big Golden Book)
Carrie the Tree Fairy: A Fall Fairy Tale
The Miracle Menorah of Mariupol
Gruffalo Granny
Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains with a Boy
Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween
The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky
You're My Little Baby Boo
The Bakery Dragon and the Giant Cookie
Millie Fleur's Worst Day Ever
Rebecca
Who Knows the Way to Mr. Grimly's Classroom?
Yarn Is Everything! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
The Underwearwolf
Story Rug
The Bats on the Bus
This Book Is Seriously Silly! (Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book #2)
L'Étoile de Mo
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Cinderella Stories
144 books — 167 voters
A Story of Fire by Alice G GosfieldWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric CarleGreen Eggs and Ham by Dr. SeussThe Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Best Childhood Picture Books
915 books — 700 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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