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       This website is dedicated to bringing you the resources to learn about picture books, and the industry behind them, from children's book stores in your area to publishers, to information on some of the best picture books.

       Picture Books are one of the most difficult forms of literary narrative to get right, because they are a narrative form which relies on illustrations as will as text to tell a story.
        In quality picture books the illustrations not only expand upon the text but come in many ways to dominate them as the primary narrative of the story.
        The visual narrative has a language all its own, one which the viewers of come to learn at an early age, paving the way for an understanding of many of the visual arts and designs that have become so important within our society.              

 Recommended Picture Books

Margert and H. A. Ray's Picture books are very well known for a good reason the Curious George series is one of the best sets of picture books for children. Many of those who study child psychology have pointed out that in many ways George is like children, he is full of life and energy as will as good intensions. However he always seems to get into trouble anyways. The Man in the Yellow Hat for his part is the best possible father figure, always understanding and loving. By having a monkey in this situation the Rey's have allowed the figure to take on a special interest for children, and to get into forms of mischief they wish they could.


For a small child few picture books are more fun then Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, at least if the children are allowed to help read it. Though for an adult the book might seem overly simple and seemingly dull its repedative and exuberant writing make this alphebet book both charming and encredably useful for its primary purpose, to teach the alphebet to small children.

Fancy Nancy is one of the most fun and whimsical 
picture books in a long long time, the story of a little girl who wants every thing to be fancy and who tries to be extreamly fancy her self the illustrations carry this book. For in here attempts to be fancy we can see the childishness and humor of her thinking. The dynamic illustrations within this picture book make it a treat to read. Funny and witty the illustrations while pull you into the world of Nancy and her loving parents who allow her to express herself, often times with them.


The Harold and the Purple Crayon series is fun and imaginative. Crockett Johnson has created a wonderful group of picture books, about a child
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which creates huge imaginary worlds and adventures with is crayon. He meets lions, gets fruit, joins a circus and more all through his drawings.

Llaura Numeroff's picture book creations are fun becuase of their outragiousness, for they involve a long chain of events that grow stranger and stranger, all from a simple act.
Fun for both children and parents Mo Willems art style is one which children immediatly connect with, and his illustrations and situations are ones which parents will find amusing as well. In the Knuffle Bunny Too Mo Willems creates the story of a girls first rivel who then becomes her first best friend as she discovers someone else has the exact same special stuffed animal she does.


No listing of picture books is complete without one by Rober McCloskey. Make Way for Ducklings is a picture book about some ducks that settle down in a park in Boston. So good it even has its own statue in a Boston park.
You will love the dynamic style of McCloskey's art, in this one of the best picture books of all time.

Almost everyone knows Sendak's Picture book, it is perhaps the most poupular of all time. The story of a yong boy who travels off and comes to  be the king of the wild things, only to discover that he misses his home.
"Where the Wild Things Are" is a story that has long connected to both parents and children, through its brillient use of visual and textual narratives.