The Art of the Book Title: Picture Book Edition

When you think of the truly great picture books of all time, you realize pretty quickly that like all things famous, in order to achieve greatness the right parts had to be the right place at the right time. You have to have great art, marvelous writing (if, indeed, you have any writing at all), memorable characters, the works. One element of the book that may have been entirely out of the creators’ control, however, is the book’s title. Though many writers have kept the original titles they...