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Picture Books

Picture Books feature large, beautiful images – most often illustrations but sometimes photos – with smaller amounts of texts. These books are the heart of the home library for your growing reader. The hardback versions are often expensive, but most of these books are available in more affordable paperback editions. Picture Books are best for kids starting at age 4 or 5, all the way to 104. For infants and toddlers look for a board book format of the book.

Life written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Brendan Wetzel

Life – A Book To Touch the Soul

Category: Book Recommendations, Emerging Readers, Little Ones, Picture Books, PreschoolersTag: Beach Lane Books, Brendan Wenzel, Cynthia Rylant
Beavers by Gail Gibbons

Beavers by Gail Gibbons

Category: Book Recommendations, Emerging Readers, Little Ones, Picture Books, PreschoolersTag: Gail Gibbons, Holiday House, Mammals
The Name Jar

The Name Jar

Category: Book Recommendations, Emerging Readers, Independent Readers, Picture BooksTag: AAPI Month, Asian American Pacific Islander Month, Dragonfly Books, Immigration Stories, Yangsook Choi
A Real Food Alphabet

A Real Food Alphabet

Category: Book Recommendations, Emerging Readers, Picture Books, PreschoolersTag: Alphabet Books, Sandrine Perez
BIGGER! BIGGER! by Leslie Patricelli

Bigger! Bigger!

Category: Babies and Toddlers, Board Books, Book Recommendations, Little Ones, Picture Books, PreschoolersTag: Candlewick Press, Leslie Patricelli
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Category: Book Recommendations, Emerging Readers, Picture Books, PoetryTag: Alex Scheffler, Cats, Expansion Circles, Faber and Faber, Musicals, T.S. Eliot
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins

Category: Book Recommendations, Emerging Readers, Picture BooksTag: Caldecott Honor Book, Classics, Eric Kimmel, Hanukkah, Trina Schart Hyman
Lightship

Lightship

Category: Book Recommendations, Picture BooksTag: Atheneum, Books About the Ocean, Brian Floca, Caldecott Honor Book, Picture Books, Simon & Schuster Children's
Owl Babies

Owl Babies

Category: Babies and Toddlers, Board Books, Book Recommendations, Picture BooksTag: Candlewick Press, Martin Waddell, Owls, Patrick Benson, Siblings
The Fox and the Falling Leaves 3

The Fox and the Falling Leaves

Category: Book Recommendations, Emerging Readers, Picture Books, PreschoolersTag: Foxes, Greenwillow Books, Julia Rawlinson, Seasons, Tiphanie Beeke
Katje the Windmill Cat

Katje the Windmill Cat

Category: Book Recommendations, Picture BooksTag: Candlewick Press, Cats, Gretchen Woelfle, Nicola Bayley, True Stories
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

Madeline

Category: Book Recommendations, Picture BooksTag: Caldecott Honor Book, Classic Stories, Ludwig Bemelmans
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