31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Rhyming Picture Books

Oh, Dr. Seuss, what hath thou wrought? Up and coming children’s authors everywhere should be taught one very important lesson before they set fingers to keyboards: Rhyming is a privilege. Not a right. And, quite frankly, not everyone is good at it. There is no pain quite like the pain a librarian feels when they must stumble through a book’s ill-begotten rhyme schemes and clunky scansion (Clunky Scansion is going to be the name of my next cat, by the way).

When done well, however, such a book...