Picture Books

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor and pencil. Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now were Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter from 1845 and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902. Some of the best-known picture books are Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat, and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. The Caldecott Medal (established 1 ...more

Better Pets
Construction Crews Build Big! (Breezy Valley at Work)
The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
I Built a Rocket Ship
Searching for Wocks
No Brain the Same: Neurodivergent Young Activists Shaping Our Future
The World's Game
Looking at the Sky: How Dr. Janusz Korczak Fought for Children's Rights
That's What Heroes Do
The Outermost Mouse
The Dino Door
If You Went to the Bottom of the Ocean
Princess Pete
Poppy's Question
The Perfect Match
Don't Lose Mr. Cuddles: Life Lessons from Chip the Dog
Gigantic
Sing the 50 United States!
It's My Bird-Day! (Pigeon, #13)
The Way to a Beautiful World
The Skeleton and the Cat
The Humble Pie (The Food Group, #8)
The Outermost Mouse
Better Pets
The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - The Animated Story
The Journey (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #2)
How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh
The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink
Cat's New Book
The Arrival by Shaun TanFlotsam by David WiesnerTuesday by David WiesnerThe Snowman by Raymond BriggsGood Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Wordless Picture Books
425 books — 388 voters
Zibs for Sale by Lois WickstromEdith and Little Bear Lend a Hand by Dare WrightThe Doll and the Kitten by Dare WrightThe Little Family by Lois LenskiWhen the Wind Blew by Margaret Wise Brown
Really Underrated Children's Books
958 books — 212 voters

The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe MartinMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John SteptoeCinder Edna by Ellen JacksonYeh-Shen by Ai-Ling LouieAdelita by Tomie dePaola
Cinderella Stories
143 books — 162 voters
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda    WilliamsRoom on the Broom by Julia DonaldsonThe Hallo-Wiener by Dav PilkeyScary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzThe Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan Berenstain
Best Halloween Picture Books
762 books — 601 voters

Where the Wild Things Are
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Giving Tree
Green Eggs and Ham
Goodnight Moon
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
The Day the Crayons Quit
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
I Want My Hat Back
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Corduroy
This Is Not My Hat

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