31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Thirteen – 2017 Picture Books With a Message

Let’s have some fun defining our terms. What exactly do I mean when I say “books with a message”? Basically, I’m talking about books that wear their hearts on their sleeves. We all know that in their earliest form, when people were initially coming up with the idea of making literature for children, the primary purpose was to instruct the little buggers. It took a while to come up with the idea of purely amusing them. How much harder it is to balance the two. Picture books have never abandon...