Marc Tyler Nobleman is the author of more than seventy books for kids, including the picture book
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
, illustrated by Ross MacDonald. He is also a cartoonist, even though he admits he doesn't know how to draw Sponge Bob. He has a
blog where he writes the stories behind the stories he writes.
Here's Marc's entry:
I love lists and I love picture books (natch) but I know I'm leaving out many favorites with this list, plus ask me again next week and it may be different:
(in no order)
- WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak
- THE CAT IN THE HAT by Dr. Seuss
- THE STORY OF FERDINAND by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson
- THE MILKMAN by Carol Foskett Cordsen and Douglas B. Jones
- THREE LITTLE GHOSTIES by Pippa Googhart and Anna Laura Cantone
- THE DAY-GLO BROTHERS by Chris Barton and Tony Persiani
- THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS by Mordicai Gernstein
- MADELINE by Ludwig Bemelmans
- ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz
- MOOSE by Michael Foreman