" So with this picture book, I thought, "I want to write the picture book that I wish was around when I was 6.
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She put down her picture book project and started looking.
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The view always reminds me of a children's picture book.
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A satire picture book on bringing kids to an art gallery
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The world here, as in any good picture book, is wondrous.
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Like a song, a picture book is meant to be heard.
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It's a children's picture book and doesn't have very many words.
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"Lines" truly underscores Lee's mastery of the wordless picture book form.
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The poet and novelist Sherman Alexie, who is publishing his first picture book, "Thunder Boy Jr.," this month, said he wanted to write a picture book that featured a Native American protagonist — a rarity in children's literature.
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There's a mysterious, meditative picture-book quality to several of these segments.
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A little picture book called "Blue Hat, Green Hat," by Sandra Boynton.
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For some, it's pure nostalgia, like reading a beloved picture book again.
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The movie is an anthology of nightmares compressed into a picture book.
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Why is Smiley Bone the star of this first Bone picture book?
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The Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book went to "Wolf in the Snow" by Matthew Cordell, a wordless picture book about a girl and a wolf cub who both become lost in a snowstorm.
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Each shared another photo of Systrom showing Pope Francis his new picture book.
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The summary: Remember Dr. Seuss' classic picture book How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
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The picture book will also feature a cameo by another important female figure.
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The zoo is compact—lions living alongside camels, as in a picture book.
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Was it hard to make a picture book set in the Bone world?
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I will be surprised if a more exquisite picture book is published this year.
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PORT WASHINGTON "Are You My Mother?" musical based on P. D. Eastman's picture book.
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SG: They marched off because they thought it was a dumbed-down picture book.
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They refined the manuscript over the coming months and declared it a picture book.
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"Islandborn" is a picture book — Mr. Díaz's first work of fiction for young readers.
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The picture book is aimed at readers between the ages of 5 and 7.
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We stop by the Picture Book Museum before getting lunch and heading to the mall.
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Instead, I am knee-deep in picture-book green, with a bow in my hand.
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" Gillibrand recently visited Yoby's school to talk about her picture book about suffragists, "Bold & Brave.
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PORT WASHINGTON "Are You My Mother?" musical adventure based on P. D. Eastman's picture book.
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And so, six years after Sendak's death, this unusual picture book is finally being born.
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Our Back Pages This week's issue features a review of Lemony Snicket's newest picture book.
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A picture book by Pete Souza, the White House photographer, crushed the best-seller list.
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No. 1 on the list: "The Snowy Day," a picture book by Ezra Jack Keats.
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Here, it's something quite different: an oversize picture book, reminding tiny nonreaders of daily events.
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And your latest picture book, too, "Here We Are," is full of globes and maps.
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Breanna J. McDaniel hopes black girls will recognize themselves in her debut picture book Hands Up!.
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Jungho Lee's picture book is distinguished not just because of his outstanding technique, but great imagination.
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One ad put forward a Speedo-clad Bernie Sanders, lifted from a real-life picture book.
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" Among them was a picture book parents can relate to: "Go the F**k to Sleep.
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Only occasionally does a pop song seem to have been born to be a picture book.
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Oliver's picture book debut channels "Where the Wild Things Are" for the hovered-over modern child.
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Here comes a big new picture book, organized by decade and with more than 700 photographs.
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That picture book has been borrowed a whopping 485,584 times since it was published in 1962.
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But this spring brings a few standouts that young picture book listeners and readers will love.
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"Dear Yeti" is James Kwan's picture book debut, and it's full of evidence of author-illustrator talent.
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Five of the 10 books on this year's list included LGBT characters, including Jazz Jennings' picture book.
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While the prose can seem deceptively simple, a well-written picture book isn't easy to pull off.
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"John Derian Picture Book" (Artisan, $75) reproduces 290 pieces of his source material on big lush pages.
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After that, I found the old picture book adaptations of each movie and read them to her.
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Ms. Gillibrand is also writing a children's picture book, profiling 10 women suffragists, due out in November.
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Not long after, two odd visitors show up at the couple's picture-book cottage, requesting an interview.
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He'll read his new picture book at this free event, part of the Lincoln Center Kids program.
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In the picture book years, finding great stories that don't perpetuate traditional gender divides is relatively easy.
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This way a picture book, for example, isn't going against a cookbook or an adult fiction title.
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Opened the mail and thrilled to find a copy of my first picture book, Malala's Magic Pencil!
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In tandem with inanimate objects as characters, these give Haddon Hall the aura of a picture book.
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Woman in pearl earrings and a purple tracksuit: Do you have a children's picture book about the Holocaust?
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Before that moment, slavery and racism was an abstract concept from a picture book, but this felt real.
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Dewdney had recently completed work on a new picture book, "Little Excavator," scheduled for publication in June 2017.
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Knox, Indiana (CNN)Jadon McDonald studies the picture book and reads the words aloud: my, he, she, the.
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The gently moving backdrops, painted deep delft blue, looked like they had sprung from a sumptuous picture book.
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In the Dr. Seuss picture book "The Lorax," the fuzzy title character says he speaks for the trees.
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"It was right around the time I had my first book contract for a picture book," he said.
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Willems's description of earlier generations of picture-book artists as belonging to the "Mad Men" era was manifest.
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"Lovely," a debut picture book written and illustrated by Jess Hong, is a lively ode to being different.
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As with any successful picture book, the art in "Lovely" doesn't just illustrate the text, it expands it.
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With the Caldecott medalist Raschka's always enjoyable watercolor art, the puckish little poem makes an effervescent picture book.
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This graphic- novel-style picture book celebrates the communal instincts of children and the healing power of storytelling.
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Presented by Oliver, the picture book written by Jill Twist and illustrated by EG Keller was published Sunday.
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We stand far below that colossal, every-page-visible-at-once picture book known as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
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Disguised as just a cute picture book, Where's Warhol is an antidote to this kind of artspeak-y pretension.
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It's hard to conceive of a more sombre theme, so why are we leafing through a children's picture book?
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Sometimes I lay on my back while she read to me from a picture book and stroked my hair.
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Small pleasures fill the pages of Kuhlmann's picture-book-size graphic novel, starting with the hero, a charismatic mouse.
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I'd seen her speaking about illustrating a picture book at Lost in Books, a multilingual kids' bookshop in Fairfield.
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The Babadook jumps out of a picture book and torments a mother and son already reeling from a death.
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"Another Way to Climb a Tree" contains the ineffable thing that makes the picture book so special a form.
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James will author his first book, I Promise, a picture book that publishes in the U.S. on Aug. 11.
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A good picture book can capture this bumbling genius of children and animals, as these four new ones do.
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A fun picture book about manners for a rambunctious 5-year-old who was just — gasp — rude to Grandma.
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In 19943, she published "Happy Times," a slim picture book with reminiscences on the Bouvier sisters' carefree early years.
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A new picture book will depict Santa as a gay man in an interracial relationship, publisher Harper Design confirmed Tuesday.
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January 8, 2019 - Harris' memoir, "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey," and picture book, "Superheroes Are Everywhere," are published.
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Some of the characters you draw could be put into a children's picture book and not seem out of place.
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In 1989, a British illustrator and writer team published a children's picture book called We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
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That would be the fall-slated picture book edition of It Takes a Village and an as-yet untitled memoir.
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Indeed, it's a marvelously inspired choice to make a picture book out of an ancient poem by a forgotten monk.
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There is also the possibility that using lyrics as text reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how a picture book works.
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" Readers of all ages will benefit from Marcia William's beautiful and succinct picture book retelling of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey.
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Maybe Mabbitt can't draw many things, but boy, can he conceive and execute a witty, surprising, maximum fun picture book.
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Santat's picture book explores that premise in a delightful tribute to resiliency and facing fears, with a stellar surprise ending.
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Those who are fooled by the glossy presentation into thinking they're getting a picture book are in for a surprise.
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The illustrator Floyd Cooper's latest picture book is "Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History," written by Walter Dean Meyers.
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Thrilled to announce She Persisted In Sports, a picture book that celebrates inspiring women athletes who changed sports and history!
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"Skippyjon Jones" series, written and illustrated by Judy Schachner A Siamese cat takes center stage in this children's picture book.
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A huge toy duck, golden poop, and even the sun (alongside over 100 other characters) populate the picture book world.
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I have a picture book of X-rays of different household items that people have gotten stuck up their butts.
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I can't help thinking that reading a picture book like this with a child at bedtime could redeem any day.
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Scholastic came up with the idea of doing a children's picture book with the Bones, and I thought, that's perfect.
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Yes, in fact I have the second picture book in the can, I just finished it a few weeks ago.
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Two sisters named Natalia and Lauren O'Hara are the makers of "Hortense and the Shadow," a handsome debut picture book.
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As of now Salaam Reads has acquired four books, all for a 2017 release: Salam Alaikum, a picture book based on a song by the British teen pop singer Harris J; Musa, Moises, Mo and Kevin, a picture book about four kindergarten friends who learn about one another's holiday traditions; The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand by Karuna Riazi, about a 12-year-old Bangladeshi-American who sets out to save her brother from a supernatural board game; and Yo Soy Muslim, a picture book by the poet Mark Gonzales.
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As the title of this oversize picture book suggests, growing up can mean learning to accommodate and even embrace the new.
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Kwade's sculptures unite both categories into a picture book of melancholia, a pictograph spelling out our own destruction in Shakespearian detail.
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The clip shows DiMarco, 26, signing with two young kids and asking them to name the colors in a picture book.
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Just this year, Rebecca Solnit, the feminist writer who coined the term "mansplaining," published a children's picture book titled Cinderella Liberator.
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Meanwhile, the Pence family's picture book, Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President, ranked fourth on the list.
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Parents and children, especially black children, will feel empowered and inspired to make a difference after reading McDaniel's debut picture book.
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Neither the original paintings nor Bigelow's renditions of them are "crude" or like "a children's picture book," as Lane wrote dismissively.
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In her new picture book ABC Dream, artist Kim Krans puts a creative and occasionally surreal twist on learning your ABCs.
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From time to time, Brown leans on his picture-book instincts and lets the artwork land a punch line or surprise.
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Gloria seemingly extends an olive branch to her old enemy when she gives Maria a picture book to read to Pepa.
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Some of the women profiled in the picture book will include Harriet Tubman, Florence Griffith Joyner, Oprah Winfrey and Helen Keller.
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I have a new picture book coming out this year in Australia and I'm just about to start writing fiction again.
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Illustrated by Harry Bliss and Frank Young In this wordless graphic novel-style picture book, Grace's class wants a new hamster.
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An added issue for Corrigan was depicting such a wide variety of distinctive artistic styles in a single, cohesive picture book.
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Sometimes a serene and philosophical picture book is just the thing to improve a frazzled mood and set the world right.
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Now he's giving it another shot with "Wild Symphony," a children's album and picture book for 3- to 7-year-olds.
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Read: "Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party" brings unexpected toppings to this week's children's picture book best-seller list.
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"The Biggest Little Farm," in other words, is not the film equivalent of a children's picture book or a fairy tale.
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In what language is there a word that means, "a picture book that makes adults cry while children's eyes remain dry"?
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To help other parents to do same, she's releasing a picture book that she illustrated and co-wrote with climatologist Michael Mann.
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The Pakistani activist and youngest-ever Nobel laureate, now 20, is set to release her first picture book, titled Malala's Magic Pencil.
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Take a look at a few pages out of Cohen's death-filled picture book below, and read the whole thing on Imgur.
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IAN BURUMA begins his biography of his grandparents Win and Bernard with a recollection of picture-book Christmases in the English countryside.
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And so I thought that would be a cool picture book to create for kids, maybe teach them a trick or two.
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He is the author, most recently, of the picture book "What a Beautiful Morning," about a family dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Related:
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Ms. Heder, author, most recently, of the picture book "Fraidyzoo," will lead children in creating fanciful adornments from recycled Navy Yard materials.
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She was widely promoted through appearances and the release of a picture book about her and a kitten that lived with her.
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The duo collaborated on an adult picture book called "Ode to Happiness" in 2011; Grant illustrated it, and Reeves wrote its poetry.
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Her children's book, "No One Likes a Fart," was named picture book of the year at the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards.
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BEFORE SHE WAS HARRIET (Holiday House, $123; ages 212 to 219.99) is a straightforward picture-book biography of the exceptional Harriet Tubman.
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Foxes and snow are a picture-book staple, but this one is different: It's both winter-cozy and a realistic hunting story.
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Alice is now 11, and "Raise Your Hand," which came out March 19, debuts at No. 2 on the picture book list.
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Mr. Díaz started a new story from scratch, and discovered that writing a picture book wasn't much easier than writing for adults.
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There, they snuggle in a corner in the children's section and, each time, read "I Need My Monster," his favorite picture book.
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And a picture book describes what life is like for a child whose father is being held in an immigrant detention center.
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Does having had these theater versions of your work out in the world inform how you approach making a picture book now?
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But late in life he found himself rediscovered as a picture book genius, embraced by a new generation of children's books overseers.
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" My 5-year-old son put together a picture book with only two words in it, penned by his own hand: "Stop Trump.
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One hundred of her works will be sold online for 490 euros each to fund a picture book about the Vienna zoo's pandas.
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I stomp towards his room and appear menacingly in the doorway to find him lounging on a pillow looking at a picture book.
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But Sun, 26, says "Aliebn" is about 250 pages long and will be "a novel-length picture book," drawing inspiration from Shel Silverstein.
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Oliver Hartung's Iran, A Picture Book (Spector, 2016) is an oversized floppy book with matte photographs printed in a dreamy CMYK color palette.
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The story, too, is solidly built and charming, especially for a first picture book by a renowned designer and illustrator, as Deuchars is.
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Mr. Trillin decided to write a picture book a few years ago, when he found himself spontaneously composing funny rhymes for his grandson.
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Though small, Weimar, a leafy, picture-book tourist town about 50 miles southwest of Leipzig, has an outsized cultural significance in the country.
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His first picture book, "Have a Look, Says Book," was loopy with wordplay; "In Plain Sight" is something of a visual treasure hunt.
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Creating a picture book seems something like splatter art: It looks like such a natural process that everyone thinks they can do it.
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Simple, but world-shifting: Peter was black, and no black child had ever been the protagonist of a full-color American picture book.
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When I wasn't catching my breath because of the altitude, I was taking in the picture-book panoramas of Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Last year, Mr. O'Reilly published "Give Please a Chance," a children's picture book promoting good manners, with another best-selling author, James Patterson.
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"Malala's Magic Pencil," the first picture book by the young human rights activist Malala Yousafzai, brings forth the pencil as an obvious symbol.
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Imagining a world where animals sing and talk makes sense when we're looking at pictures of animals, like we're reading a picture book.
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So far, Salaam Reads has acquired four books that will come out in 2017, including "Salam Alaikum," a picture book based on a song by the British teen pop singer Harris J. Others planned for release next year are "Musa, Moises, Mo and Kevin," a picture book about four kindergarten friends who learn about one another's holiday traditions; "The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand" by Karuna Riazi, about a 12-year-old Bangladeshi-American who sets out to save her brother from a supernatural board game, and "Yo Soy Muslim," a picture book by the poet Mark Gonzales.
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" She added: "I am thrilled to be able to bring the story of the song to new generations of families with the picture book.
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Higginbotham's latest book in the series, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, is the first children's picture book to break down white supremacy.
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This occasional lack of context might be inevitable in a 4,000-word book with a breezy, whimsical tone—essentially a picture book for adults.
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Some children have never seen a picture book, so when you show them a picture of a lion it's not in their cognitive capacity.
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But this poem is a masterly picture book text: Its precisely chosen words create a world you have to listen to, to think about.
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That's the situation the mouse confronts in "The Gruffalo," the best-selling 43 picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
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The author-illustrator Peter Brown's latest picture book, "Creepy Pair of Underwear," is about overcoming fear and the little kid-to-big kid transition.
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Their book, "Stepping Stones," a dual-language picture book from Orca Book Publishers, in English and Arabic, has been a best seller in Canada.
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Many board books originate as full-sized picture books, but not every picture book has art that downsizes well into the board book format.
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The four-time MVP said his picture book was inspired by the values and initiatives of his foundation's I Promise program in Akron, Ohio.
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The creators wisely stuck with a familiar picture book aesthetic and engaging illustrations, making what could be a scary story about death downright friendly.
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"First Snow," the Korean illustrator Bomi Park's debut picture book, is an assured and enchanting fantasy that reveals fresh secrets with each page turn.
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Mr. Clements found work with a publisher of how-to books in the early 1980s and with another publisher, Picture Book Studio, soon after.
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I'm working on more music for a project called Aspen, doing fashion stuff, I would love to create a picture book like a zine.
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The picture book by Jessica Love tells the story of a young Latino boy mesmerized by the sight of three women dressed as shimmering mermaids.
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A child development expert actually gave me a great idea for the first time my husband and I traveled without Sonny: make a picture book.
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Bran Stark sat by a weirwood tree and thumbed through his mental picture book of all that ever was, and all that ever will be.
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The Snowy Day is an adaptation of the award-winning 1962 children's picture book of the same name, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
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But the more things move digital, there will always be kickback: physical record sales are increasing each year along with physical children's picture book sales.
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The Picture Book Re-Imagined is divided between Bank Street children's books, and illustrations by Pratt Institute artists, all from the 1930's to present.
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Motivated by her own love of animals and her young fans, she decided to create a picture book that featured some of their favorite animals.
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Then, in the adorable manner of both picture book animals and human toddlers, he spends the rest of the day naked from the waist down.
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Le has written a true picture book text: It leaves room for the artist to create a story, and room for the reader's imagination, too.
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Author's Note At a book signing for "Surf's Up," my newest picture book about two frogs searching for the perfect book, a librarian approached me.
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This is not your usual cat-themed picture book: Wenzel's cat "walks through the world" and is seen on each page by a different animal.
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JeJe, a little boy, does so literally in this 53-minute production, an adaptation of a picture book of the same title by Taeeun Yoo.
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A wordless picture book about seeing "The Nutcracker" is an inspired idea, and with utterly enchanting diorama art, McKay makes it feel like an event.
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Humbly, Jason Jason B. Rosenthal, who lives in Chicago, is the co-author of the forthcoming picture book "Dear Boy," written with his daughter Paris.
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McCormick ("Never Fall Down") excels at bringing thrilling nonfiction stories to young readers, and this picture book about the horse awarded two Purple Hearts enthralls.
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"A picture book is like a primer on how to be a human," said Namrata Tripathi, the editorial director of Dial Books for Young Readers.
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"The Undefeated," illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander, won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
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Traditional books are always going to have their own advantages, and once you get past the picture-book stage these digital innovations don't help much.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The reading pile in New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's office includes a children's picture book about U.S. President Donald Trump's border wall.
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Not quite three months later, the book is in its seventh week on the children's picture book best-seller list with 210,000 copies in print.
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All of these, I should add, are also fantastic to read aloud like a picture book to a child who is not reading alone yet.
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The conservative news host co-wrote the picture book with best-selling murder mystery novelist James Patterson, whose publishing company Jimmy Patterson also released the collaboration.
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Apple's latest release, "Designed by Apple in California," is an amazing picture book that chronicles the breathtaking visual story of Apple's rise to its current plateau.
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As with any good wordless picture book, "I Got It!" should provoke many discussions — not just about doubt and perseverance, but also about creative visual storytelling.
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The newest addition to Clinton's author résumé is a kids' picture book that informs readers about 12 endangered species and how they can help save them.
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Performed by Little Angel Theater, a puppetry company based in London, and intended for preschoolers, "Handa's Surprise" adapts Eileen Browne's picture book of the same title.
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Lunch was served as the Palladian villas of the Veneto rolled by, eventually replaced by the picture-book mountain villages of the Dolomites, Austria and Switzerland.
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Sotomayor is releasing two autobiographical books: one is a picture book, the other is a version of her 85033 memoir, abridged for middle school-level readers.
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In addition to the tree and ornaments, the picture book also comes with a booklet full of behind-the-scenes information from the "Harry Potter" movies.
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We've got one brilliant picture book, one new graphic novel from a best-selling author and two smart novels for middle-grade readers to highly recommend.
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In Rinchin's picture book, a little girl named Mati asks her father and grandmother for her own piece of land in the field where they work.
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A picture book about baking a birthday cake for George Washington has recently come under fire for its depiction of slaves as happy and smiling servants.
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It invites everyone to Pillowland, a magical place that some will recognize from the lilting tune (and picture book) by the children's pop star Laurie Berkner.
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But then my auntie, Tití, who was the reader in the family, gave me a picture book version of "The Arabian Nights," and I was smitten.
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Baldwin wrote the picture book in part for his nephew, Tejan Karefa-Smart, who used to beg his famous uncle to write a story about him.
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In the spring of 2019, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers will publish a picture book adaptation of the memoir, for 4- to 8-year-olds.
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Head for outer space: via Jaroslav Kalfar's debut novel, "Spaceman of Bohemia" (for adventurous adults) and Jon Agee's picture book "Life on Mars" (for adventurous kids).
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The musical is drawn from "The Sign on Rosie's Door," a picture book published in 1960, and "Nutshell Library," a 1962 collection of four related stories.
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I recently made two good discoveries: the debut novel of picture book author and illustrator Peter Brown— "The Wild Robot"— and Annie Barrows's "Ivy & Bean" series.
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"Give Please a Chance," a picture book he wrote with James Patterson, has sold 181,200 copies since it was released in November, according to NPD BookScan.
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Picture-book biographies can help, using narrative flair and information-rich illustrations to compress a life story or contextualize an important moment in a small package.
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"A Year in the Woods," a picture book illustrated by Giovanni Manna, selects excerpts from "Walden" for a condensed view of Thoreau's time in the woods.
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From these depths, de la Peña, whose picture book "Last Stop on Market Street" was awarded a Newbery Medal, indicates the path to kindness and peace.
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That makes it double as a visual meditation, a kind of eye-training exercise — how often do you pore obsessively over an illustration in a picture book?
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We showed video of the Leka to Dannett Slamka Rice, whose son Ethan authored the picture book Ethan's Story; My Life With Autism, prior to the interview.
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The justice recently released two autobiographical books: one is a picture book, the other is a version of her 2013 memoir, abridged for middle school-level readers.
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"Islandborn," which will be published simultaneously in English and Spanish by Dial Books for Young Readers, is Mr. Díaz's first picture book, with illustrations by Leo Espinosa.
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She submitted books to publishers for some years without success before her first picture book, "A House for Everyone" (1958), with illustrations by Jo Lowrey, was accepted.
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The writer and illustrator, whose tour for his most recent picture book, "Be You," was canceled, is reading aloud from his work on Facebook Live every day.
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By Elise Gravel Any child exposed to the news these days may wonder about refugees, and a picture book is a great way to learn about them.
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WELLINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The reading pile in New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's office includes a children's picture book about U.S. President Donald Trump's border wall.
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This month HarperCollins brought out "North, South, East, West," a previously unpublished picture book about a little bird who flies all over the place before coming home.
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But on a trip to a bookstore in New Jersey, where I lived at the time, not one picture book on display featured a female of color.
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In 2016, a picture book titled "A Birthday Cake for George Washington" was withdrawn from stores after critics complained that it glossed over the horrors of slavery.
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By and large, these books do not tell elaborate stories; the vast majority don't tell stories at all, at least not as a typical picture book would.
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It's a picture book filled with captivating portraits of girls who aren't afraid to look straight into the camera's lens ... because they don't fear you'll see something imperfect.
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You can't help but "awww" at the images: An adorable stuffed puppy peruses the picture book section while a much-loved, understuffed bunny hops through the chapter books.
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Now she's telling kids how to help save their own favorite animals with her new picture book, Don&apost Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe.
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Last year, Kevin Henkes's brilliant picture book "Waiting" offered a sane, comforting path — and a life lesson equally necessary for children and for their advance-planning-mad parents.
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The text had been adapted from a picture book; in its condensed form, it consisted of a single page containing two dozen short paragraphs, and just two illustrations.
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"The picture book edition will bring this inspiring message to a new generation in a format that is perfect for story time and bedtime," a news release states.
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Alongside turrets of romanesco, pale mushrooms cluster as they would in a forest, appearing to grow straight from the ice, as if in an Elsa Beskow picture book.
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This picture book is more interested in young Robinson's less-known act of resistance during his Army days than in his later, trailblazing career as a baseball player.
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Once again, this annual event's Children's Day will feature both a Picture Book Stage and a Young Readers Stage, with workshops, panels, performances, discussions, author appearances and readings.
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They prove that whether it's chasing after a riddle, stealing alphabet letters or defining an opposite, the picture book is an ideal stage for the play of words.
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The bill includes Maciek Albrecht's "Knuffle Bunny," based on Mo Willems's timeless picture book about Trixie, a little girl who leaves her favorite stuffed animal at the laundromat.
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Read: Alliterative and unexpected toppings appear in "Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party," which is fresh this week on our children's picture book best-seller list.
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Occasionally, he leafed through his books, including "Real Life Monsters: Creatures of the Rain Forest," a picture book that he'd picked up during the destruction of the Jungle.
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The winner in the picture-book category was "Bowwow Powwow: Bagosenjige-niimi'idim," written by Brenda J. Child, translated into Ojibwe by Gordon Jourdain and illustrated by Jonathan Thunder.
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I made a picture book a while ago called "Little Mouse Gets Ready," about a mouse trying to get dressed, for Françoise Mouly, the publisher of Toon Books.
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The Pura Belpre Illustrator Award went to Yuyi Morales for "Dreamers," her picture book recounting the journey she took with her young son as an immigant from Mexico.
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The family-favorite movie about a green ogre who finds love, friends, and adventure was based on a picture-book of the same name (with an exclamation point).
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Sunday Story Time With Fiona Smart (Sunday) What's intriguing about Ms. Smart's new picture book, "I Can Be a Superhero," is that its protagonist is actually an aspiring superheroine.
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On the firm's flagship route from Nuremberg to its hometown of Munich, winding between snow-capped peaks and picture-book villages in Bavaria, its bus passengers look distinctly affluent.
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With the puzzles and flash cards accompanying the picture book, children ages 1 and older can learn first words and explore animal sounds and names of the adorable illustrations.
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Haney's creation is moved to different spots around the building and the kids spot it, just like they would find the character in the well-known picture book series.
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Klassen, who speaks the language of the picture book like few other authors and illustrators these days, has created a masterpiece of honest feelings, emotional tension and poetic restraint.
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Candace Jean Andersen wanted to write a picture book about the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, so she asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for some information.
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By contrast, Syllabus was very much an educational picture book, in which you illustrated all the readings and assignments you gave out to students taking your different college courses.
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Based on Douglas Wood's best-selling picture book of the same title, the show deals with the consequences when a truth falls from the sky and breaks in two.
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The esteemed creator of "Strega Nona," who has practiced meditation for years, has made this beautifully spare picture book that teaches mindfulness to children in a non-preachy way.
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Read: Alliterative and unexpected toppings appear in "Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party," which is served fresh this week on our children's picture book best-seller list.
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Now Smith has a picture book set in the world of Bone, "Smiley's Dream Book," aimed at kids ages 2 to 6 — who may be the series' future readers.
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"The Hunky Fireman" would be a fine title for a very different kind of picture book, but his presence in this one made me wonder about the intended readership.
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At first he tried to write a picture book, but after publishers rejected it, he turned it into "Frindle" (1996), his debut novel for 8- to 20153-year-olds.
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Take a three-year-old to the zoo, and she intuitively knows that the long-necked creature nibbling leaves is the same thing as the giraffe in her picture book.
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But one of the strangest inclusions on the list is probably the 1963 children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are, written and illustrated by the beloved author Maurice Sendak.
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Pictello, a creative app created by AssistiveWare, allows users to create personal photo albums and a picture book, and each page is enhanced with audio so users can record themselves.
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Iran, A Picture Book rests on a shelf near books like Andreas Gursky's glossy Bangkok (Steidl, 2012), which features photos of the Chao Phraya River's waters that resemble abstract paintings.
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The country singer-songwriter appeared on the Rachael Ray Show Friday alongside his youngest child Indiana "Indy" Boon, 4½, to show off his new picture book, The Cow Said Neigh!
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First and foremost, it's a dazzling example of picture book illustration, with bold graphic design along with a clear sense of what children (but really anyone) will enjoy looking at.
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"The apartment was hideous, the ugliest in New York," said Mr. Stine, 73, whose recent projects include the charming picture book "Mary McScary," a collaboration with "Arthur" creator Marc Brown.
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Next on the agenda: a television show and two children's books about entrepreneurship, one of which is a picture book about a little girl who starts her own handbag line.
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As I sat down, the younger child, who was about 266 years old, was proudly reading aloud to her mother and sister — and the whole carriage — from a picture book.
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Her most recent book, "Year of the Jungle," an autobiographical picture book about a young girl whose father goes off to fight in the Vietnam War, was a dramatic departure.
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As author of the Fancy Nancy books, I've just finished what I call the "au revoir" tour — the very last tour promoting the very last picture book in the series.
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Christopher Anselmo and Jared Corak, the show's writers and composers, have adapted the script from a best-selling picture book series written by Deborah Diesen and illustrated by Dan Hanna.
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Then she saw an article about a boy in the Zaatari camp who had tamed some wild birds, and thought his story could be the basis for a picture book.
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With its refreshing ending — the girl ends up in her parents' bed, as so many children do — this one has the feel of an all-time great bedtime picture book.
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Na, best known for his 2009 picture book A Book of Sleep, uses bright colors and subtle textures to create charming illustrations that you'll want to hang on your wall.
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"Hey, Boy," a debut picture book by Benjamin Strouse and Jennifer Phelan, is the story of a young man's life and a dog that weaves in and out of it.
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Heartburn then acquires a whole new meaning in this musical revue's titular sketch, based on the picture book "Dragons Love Tacos," written by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri.
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Mischievous and fearless — heroically bratty; devilishly cute — Moonee may remind you of Eloise, who tries the patience of the grown-ups at the Plaza Hotel in that immortal picture book.
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And as with a picture book, parents should feel comfortable letting their kids watch Robot Carnival by themselves — so long as they enjoy manga and young adult fantasy novels, that is.
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The picture book, which was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign, comes with a glossary of climate change terms at the end, such as coral bleaching, ocean acidification, and ice sheet.
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In the years since, she's worked to open schools, draw attention to the global refugee crisis, fight against Donald Trump's immigration policies, write a picture book for children, and much more.
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And as Isaiah learned all about Noah and his ark, he also showed that he's pretty knowledgeable about animals as he correctly identified all of the species in the picture book.
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That's the Brooklyn Book Festival, whose Children's Day, for ages 21212 through 21769, will offer author readings, panels and performances on both a Picture Book Stage and a Young Readers Stage.
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For these cases especially, it's a thrill to come across the kind of picture book that seamlessly integrates actual worldly knowledge with the imaginative leaps and empathetic journey good fiction provides.
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There's a popular rule in picture book writing to delete all words describing anything the pictures show, but a pileup of sentences that leave so much unsaid doesn't sound like storytelling.
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TheaterWorksUSA is now bringing him, his band and his VW bus back onstage in a revival of its musical based on the "Pete the Cat" picture book series by James Dean.
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But four years later, Corsaro, who had quickly become a trusted collaborator, directed a finished "Wild Things" in England — its world now better constructed, the picture book come magically to life.
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When "Little Man, Little Man" was first published in 1976, critics didn't know what to make of an experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children's and adult literature.
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This concert brings to life a picture book by Ben Finane, illustrated by Mikela Prevost, that details the experiences of Melody, a little girl whose childhood is based on Ms. Lin's.
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In the main hall, there's a sculpture by Leo Lionni, who did not become a picture-book maker until he was fifty, after years working as the art director of Fortune .
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Read: Books by Paul McCartney, Sonia Sotomayor and Dr. Seuss (incorporating a manuscript in progress discovered by his widow) are new this week on the children's picture book best-seller list.
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The designers, all tops in their fields in other productions, might have found a less garish palette, too; "The Portuguese Kid" looks like a picture book designed for children with cataracts.
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That's the challenge confronting the little hero of this musical revival from Vital Theater Company, recommended for ages 224 through 2230 and adapted from "Flight School," a picture book by Lita Judge.
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The site was a placeholder for a children's picture book they had created three years prior with their friend Craig Zobel about its title character, a competitor in an Olympic strongman competition.
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That's the challenge confronting the little hero of this musical revival from Vital Theater Company, recommended for ages 2 through 7183 and adapted from "Flight School," a picture book by Lita Judge.
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That's the challenge confronting the little hero of this musical revival from Vital Theater Company, recommended for ages 2 through 7 and adapted from "Flight School," a picture book by Lita Judge.
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An exception was the bestselling picture book Corduroy by Don Freeman, which caught national attention at the time of its publication in 1968, because the teddy bear's friend, Lisa, is African-American.
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In her forthcoming picture book, Malala's Magic Pencil, Malala returns to her childhood to teach younger readers about the importance of hope, believing in magic, and making the world a better place.
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Performed by the Presentation House Theater Company, this adaptation of the beloved picture book by Maurice Sendak engages the audience members — the recommended ages are 21071 through 289 — in becoming Wild Things.
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Watch it hereIf your kids are too young to read "Charlotte's Web," this is a great opportunity for younger kids to connect a book to a movie with "The Gruffalo" picture book.
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The other day I got a starred review for a picture book I'd written based on my dad, and I so wanted to call him up to share that perfect, shiny fact.
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Read moreWhat it's about: HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a children's picture book about a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny.
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Ella Fitzgerald is more than a familiar name; understanding this, Helen Hancocks has called her new picture book ELLA QUEEN OF JAZZ (Frances Lincoln Children's Books/Quarto, $217.99; ages 210 to 219.99).
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Suzanne Del Rizzo's picture book "My Beautiful Birds" is based on an article she read about a Syrian boy living in Jordan in the Zaatari refugee camp who had tamed wild birds.
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And "The Undefeated," an ode to African-American accomplishments written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, won the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children. 9.
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I taught two-digit subtraction and led a picture book read-aloud with students sitting criss-crossed on the class carpet, adorned in a colorful array of jackets, hats, scarves and gloves.
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The score, by Laurent Perez del Mar, does include some wordless choral vocalizing, but the story, like the visual style, is simple and elemental, like a picture book that needs no words.
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Nyong'o has previously, and powerfully, contributed to The Times Op-Ed page, but this is her first time in the Book Review, as she makes her debut as a picture book author.
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The plot relies not on the pursuit of ideals but on a scattering of objects, so stubbornly plain that they belong in a child's picture book: a rope, a ball, a cow.
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"Dear Girl" is an epistolary picture book written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the author of many books including "Friendshape" and "Uni the Unicorn," who died last year, and her daughter, Paris Rosenthal.
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That format makes sense for Dahl's work, especially some of the shorter books — it's hard to imagine stretching the 32-page picture book that is The Enormous Crocodile into a multi-season epic.
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"The watercolor picture book aesthetic of his concept drawings is something you rarely see in video game development and makes for lovely art prints," gallery co-founder Maarten Brands says of Momose's work.
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"Now you can't start too young," said Julia Cook, the author of I'm Not Scared, I'm Prepared, a picture book for preschool and kindergarteners about how to escape a 'dangerous someone' at school.
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Scholastic, a book publisher and distributor known for specializing in children's books, is pulling a controversial picture book that paints a rosy — and historically inaccurate — picture of the lives of George Washington's slaves.
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The picture book follows the story of Maverick, a dog dumped on the side of the road and rescued by a stranger, and instills the notion of "adopt, don't shop" in young kids.
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Now, with her first picture book, she is joining a handful of well-known novelists who are aiming to reach readers so young that they probably appreciate the pictures more than the prose.
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In all three of Stålenhag's collections—one part art-book, one part picture-book—the mundanity of everyday relationships play out alongside science fiction imagery that is as beautiful as it is unsettling.
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In this picture-book village on Long Island Sound, where owners of the generously proportioned Tudors and Dutch Colonials have long been overwhelmingly Democratic, a sense of political immediacy has clearly taken hold.
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Mr. Kutscher created one picture book with Kat Menschik, a well-known illustrator, that tells the back story of one of the characters in his world without being part of the detective series.
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"This Day in June," by Gayle E. Pitman, illustrated by Kristyna Litten This picture book illustrates a Pride parade, and its inclusion of LGBTQIA+ content is the reason it was challenged or banned.
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The vibrant postures that Keats captured in his Caldecott Medal-winning picture book were inspired by a series of photographs of an expressive African-American boy that appeared in Life magazine in 1940.
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Boy made his first appearance in the author-illustrator's 903 debut picture book, "How to Catch a Star," a fablelike tale about a boy's impossible quest to pluck a star from the sky.
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On Tuesday, the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon gave PEOPLE an exclusive first look at his third picture book, This Is Baby, which will be released by Feiwel & Friends on Oct.
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She's currently a sophomore there, and taking chemistry, global history, computer science, trigonometry, European literature, and Japanese, where she's written a 12-page picture book in Japanese and is learning how to make sukiyaki.
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That may have been the only reasonable path to take for children so young, even if it makes both books resolutely one-dimensional at a time when picture-book biographies are growing in sophistication.
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But for the rabbits in the best-selling picture book "Wolfie the Bunny," it's a real concern: The foundling they've taken in is a wolf, and only Dot, the daughter, thinks it's a problem.
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Dear Girl, which has already reached #1 on the New York Times picture book bestseller list, is a heartwarming love letter written by the mother-daughter duo for the special girl in your life.
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In fact, Bechrakis Serhant was so inspired by what the couple went through that she decided to detail her difficult fertility journey and her experiences with in vitro fertilization in a children's picture book.
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Now the activist message of the Pussyhat Project and the Women's March is being memorialized for a younger generation of readers with a new picture book for kids: The Pink Hat by Andrew Joyner.
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The brochure for the Trump International Hotel and Tower was actually a glossy picture book depicting the artists' rendering of a seaside tower with astounding ocean views, magnificent amenities and the Trump name throughout.
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But children's books people are always advising grown-ups to make kids "tell the story" of a wordless picture book, since decoding visual narrative is a step in the process of learning to read.
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In his foreword, the architect Daniel Libeskind describes this imaginative picture book for adults by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell as "nostalgia, regrets or opportunities missed" — a catalog of dashed dreams and dodged nightmares.
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SMILEY'S DREAM BOOKWritten and illustrated by Jeff Smith Smith's capacious imagination takes flight, literally, in this picture book starring the happy-go-lucky, slightly dim Smiley Bone from the iconic Bone graphic novel series.
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" The picture book she made with the Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o, "Sulwe," is out this week, telling the story of a little girl who learns to love her "skin the color of midnight.
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LITTLE POEMS FOR TINY EARSPoems by Lin Oliver, illustrated by Tomie dePaolaNancy Paulsen/Penguin, $7.99 This one started out as a full-size picture book but is just as delightful as a board book.
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In her profile picture, the girl is seated at a tidy, wooden desk, a sweet smile spread across her face, her brown eyes gazing up from a picture book and straight into the camera.
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Something about the sloping lawn and the red front door, or maybe it's just the tinging of the wind chimes and the way that the midmorning light makes the house look picture-book flat.
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Unicorn Theater's "The Velveteen Rabbit," a stage adaptation of Margery Williams's beloved 1922 picture book at the New Victory Theater, pays sweet and occasionally sorrowful tribute to every plaything loved, gnawed and hugged into tatters.
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This absorbing picture book confirms the wisdom of Italo Calvino's belief in the living nature of the stories that have come down to us: "The tale is not beautiful if nothing is added to it."
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Books News Elizabeth Rusch's picture book about Mario Molina, the Mexico-born chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his work studying the destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, was a decade in the making.
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It's a sketch of a costume for the premiere of Oliver Knussen's early-1980s operatic adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are," the picture book that had made Sendak a publishing sensation two decades earlier.
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BOOK REVIEW A Children's Books essay on June 2212 about the subject of black people's hair misidentified the person who worried that the 2556 picture book "I Love My Hair!" might be perceived as stereotypical.
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Ms. Willard's 1982 picture book, "A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers," was the first volume of poetry to receive the Newbery Medal, the country's highest honor for children's writing.
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Jessica Love's Julian is a Mermaid is a picture book whose text does not convey much beyond that title; Julian, a brown-skinned boy who lives in New York City, sees himself as a mermaid.
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Her photo book The Ninth Floor, which documents a group of people struggling with addiction and living in a former millionaire's Manhattan apartment, was a finalist for the 2007 International Photography Awards for Best Picture Book.
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"Knowing that my kids will be going to school in Georgia makes the picture book that I'm doing for the 25th birthday celebration of this amazing Pre-K program so special and rewarding," Bowles tells PEOPLE.
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Settled in the 1730s, Amherst, Massachusetts offers a variety of museums for lovers of art and literature, like the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Beneski Museum of Natural History, and the Emily Dickson Museum.
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In her new picture book, She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed The World, Clinton shines a light on women who have spoken out for what's right, even when they had to fight to be heard.
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Known as Mister Iitsu's Chicken-Rib Picture Book, it may exist only in manuscript form; many scholars believe those pages make up an untitled, three-volume album owned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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Based on the picture book by Jen Wojtowicz, this new production from the company Treehouse Shakers shows how Rink blooms — in a far different way — when Angelina, a girl who is also unusual, enters his life.
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Rusch, the author of many nonfiction books for young readers, including the picture book "Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet," occasionally stretches credulity in her attempts to appear evenhanded.
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The Randolph Caldecott Medal, awarded to an illustrator for the year's most distinguished American picture book, went to Javaka Steptoe for "Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat," published by Little, Brown & Company.
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No wonder classic picture-book artists like Ezra Jack Keats ("The Snowy Day") and William Steig ("Brave Irene") found inspiration in wintry weather, as do more than a few writers and illustrators for children working today.
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"Knowing how much kids love to make and build things, we decided to write a picture book that would help inspire them to dream big and to dare to try," Drew says in a release from HarperCollins.
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The East Coast artist will hold her first solo show in New York this fall, in which she'll present a wide range of personal pencil and marker drawings contained in BAD KOREAN, a narrative-based picture book.
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Rather than offering a narrative, these images are informal drawings that depict animals, plants, and subjects related to astronomy and geography — the very same illustrations described in the 1823 advertisement for Mister Iitsu's Chicken-Rib Picture Book.
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But it was crazy how one look at the stuffed bunny and I was shot back into my own past like looking through a picture book that has been put away on the shelf for many years.
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In 2009, when she won the Carle Honors award from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts, she told an interviewer, "Let's face it, it's not a jab in the eye with a stick."
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A mouse, a fox, a lavender bunny, a swooping speckled owl: Most of the animals have eyes shaped like human ones, which make them look more sophisticated — knowing, mischievous, sometimes sad — than your average picture-book fauna.
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Mr. Rekulak has another Quirk book coming out later this year — an original picture book he wrote that is based on the sci-fi show "The X-Files," which features the agents Mulder and Scully as kids.
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This one started out as a bigger picture book, but the new board book version is a clear winner, inviting touch and placing the youngest readers right in the middle of the action, in a familiar location.
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"Knowing that my kids will be going to school in Georgia makes the picture book that I'm doing for the 25th birthday celebration of this amazing Pre-K program so special and rewarding," Bowles told PEOPLE in November.
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Tamaki has worked primarily as a cartoonist and graphic novelist — she won a Caldecott Honor for the 2014 graphic novel "This One Summer" (written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki), and "They Say Blue" is her first picture book.
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Worn-out widow Amelia struggles with her difficult young son Samuel, and the tension between them gets worse when he produces a pop-up picture book about a horrifying monster called The Babadook, and begins obsessing over it.
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The first, "Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President," is a picture book written by Mr. Pence's daughter Charlotte that focuses on the bunny's observations of the vice president, with illustrations by his wife, Karen.
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His 2016 "John Derian Picture Book," which features reproductions of many of the striking original images he has used in his work over the years, serves as a generous survey of his way of looking at the world.
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Lest we forget about grandfathers and their unearthly powers, the beloved children's author Tomie dePaola, best known for the classic witchy grandmother story "Strega Nona" (1975), has created the beautifully spare picture book QUIET (Simon & Schuster, 28 pp.
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The painting springs to life almost like a 3D picture-book: the landscape's convex curves contrast with the concave line delineating the namesake cow's arched back, creating a perception that the bovine was jumping out of the image.
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Last year, Scholastic pulled its picture book "A Birthday Cake for George Washington" from stores after criticism that it soft-pedaled slavery by leaving out the grimmer details of the life of an enslaved baker, who eventually escaped.
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For the burgeoning artists in your life, The New York Times Book Review recommends a picture book biography of the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington called "Out of this World," written by Michelle Markel and illustrated by Amanda Hall.
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Inspired by Hildegarde H. Swift and Lynd Ward's classic picture book of the same title, this musical expands the story by making the lighthouse's caretaker a World War I veteran and the Canoe a champion of women's rights.
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Match Book Dear Match Book, I have been combing through an extensive and varied picture book collection at my local library, but I have had trouble finding a certain kind of book for my 4-year-old grandson.
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This 2014 picture book about being transgender has been at the center of controversy recently with some schools coming under attack for using it in the curriculum, and others arguing that it can be helpful in teaching tolerance.
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Medina is the second Latinx writer to win the award — Matt de la Pena won in 2016 for the picture book "Last Stop on Market Street," illustrated by Christian Robinson — and the first to win for a novel.
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Former Obama health care adviser Bob Kocher has taken it upon himself to explain why, exactly, health care policy is so hard — in a riff on the classic children's picture book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
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Scholastic Publishing said on Sunday that it would halt distribution of a children's picture book about George Washington and his enslaved household cook amid an outcry over its visual depiction of the former president's slaves as happy, smiling workers.
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Authors are pushing the aesthetic boundaries of the form, with playful works like B. J. Novak's "The Book With No Pictures," a pictureless picture book that has become a runaway hit, with more than a million copies in print.
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In "Yaks Yak," Linda Sue Park, the Newbery Medal-winning author of the middle-grade novel "A Single Shard," shows her range with a picture book that — simply and smartly — pairs animal names with their lesser-known verb forms.
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So the crucial advantage of a picture book may be that a baby or a toddler or a preschooler needs an adult to make that book "work," to tell the story, produce the animal noises, make the pictures talk.
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Ms. Lightfoot spent Thursday morning visiting community groups that had agreed to watch students whose parents needed child care, including a center on the West Side where she read a picture book to a roomful of public school students.
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This Dallas Children's Theater musical, based on John Steptoe's picture book adaptation of the fable, follows the sisters, each considered eligible to marry the king, as they traverse a mystical jungle on their way to be presented to him.
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It can take the form of talking about something in the news or finding a good picture book or story, or even using a real-life situation your children are familiar with, like a playground, to discuss security concepts.
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Emma Watson and Dan Stevens star in this live-action/digital revival of the animated Disney fairy tale about Belle, an ingenious young woman from a picture-book French village who is taken captive by a prince turned monster.
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The rollout for "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey" — which is accompanied by a picture book for children — comes early in a six- to eight-week window in which many candidates are expected to unveil their 2020 campaigns.
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" — which enters the picture book list at No. 7 — is about the opposite, about exhorting kids to be heard, whether through their words or their actions: "If you see someone lonely, say something … by just being there for them.
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In 1964, she sent a letter offering condolences on the death of Peter III, the official Home Office cat in residence with the British government, and the next year authored a picture book called Etti-cat: The courtesy cat.
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Ferdinand, however, shows the studio struggling to find a way to inflate a children's picture book from 1936 to a feature-length running time and has some of the worst "wacky sidekick" characters in an animated movie in ages.
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Our old house on Van Ness Street, a picture-book redbrick colonial, is just the same as ever—except, of course, for its value, which according to Zillow, an online property database, has risen more than threefold since we left it.
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In a case of life imitating art, the actor — who plays book publisher Charles Brooks in TV Land's Younger — came out with his first book this week: a whimsical children's picture book titled If the S in Moose Comes Loose.
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As I lie under the covers flipping, through a glossy color picture book of Alaska, Jewel walks in wearing a green zipper sweatshirt and either sweat pants or cotton pants, I can't remember which, and gets under the covers with me.
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The Us star, 36, co-wrote and performs the new song, "Sulwe's Song," to accompany her new children's picture book, Sulwe, which has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for four weeks since its release on Oct. 15.
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A new prize for books that deal with disability was awarded to the Argentine artist known as Gusti for "Mallko y Papá," a picture book published by Océano Travesía of Mexico about his life with his son, who has Down syndrome.
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Rossana Zapf, a learning and curriculum support coordinator at the Miquon School in Philadelphia, read the elementary students Jazz Jennings's picture book "I am Jazz," and Michael Hall's "Red: A Crayon's Story," about a blue crayon who is mistakenly labeled red.
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In this picture book, vividly illustrated by Ekua Holmes, the authors Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth craft poems in the styles of 20 poets from around the world — Robert Frost, Terrance Hayes, Rumi and Maya Angelou among them.
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Based on a picture book by Sara O'Leary, with a scenario by Barbara Zinn Krieger, this beguiling new dance production from New York City Children's Theater shows how its titular character grants her own family an additional hour of peace.
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With its warm palette and gentle scenes of the worried child being comforted, this book could function as a sequel to Sanna's astounding debut picture book, "The Journey," which recounted a family's dangerous flight from their home in a war zone.
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Also the focus of a beloved picture book series, Pete's adventures have been adapted by Sarah Hammond and Will Aronson, who have created a high-energy 2349-minute pop musical devoted to the week that Pete spends with the Biddle family.
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But my kids — in the glassy absorption they display, and their addict's insistence on "another!" whenever the current entertainment concludes — can seem as mindlessly hooked on the narrative technology of the picture book as on the exploits of the PAW Patrol.
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GOODNIGHT, GORILLABy Peggy RathmannPutnam, $6.99 Many consider this well-loved title from the '90s a superb example of the picture book form, because on every page, you have to "read" the story through what's happening in the illustrations, not the words.
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Earth smells and the pungency of privet and balsam were still acute at this hour, unmingled; the shadows were as bold as in a child's picture book; swifts and house martins tracked across the pale sky overhead, shrilling in thrilled anticipation.
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"Beauty and the Beast" decisively removes itself from such company by insisting on the heroism and competence of its heroine, Belle, a bookish and ingenious young woman who lives with her father (Kevin Kline) in a picture-book French village.
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While "Last Stop," adapted by Cheryl L. West from Matt de la Peña's Newbery Medal-winning picture book, occasionally veers toward sanctimony, there's no arguing with the power of its score, which includes rap, R&B, gospel and Latin influences.
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Among the choices, recommended for children 4 and over, are Gene Deitch's "Changes, Changes" (1973), in which wooden dolls solve problems by rearranging wooden blocks, and "The Dot" (718), which John Lechner and Gary Goldberger adapted from Peter H. Reynolds's picture book.
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Hitting bookshops — and your local Madewell store — today, the pint-sized picture book is a collection of spirited, one-page anecdotes on a diverse set of females (think artists, activists, scientists, and entertainers) that have broken down barriers and shattered glass ceilings.
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"If you didn't like that book, try this one — some good lessons in here about working together to solve problems," Clinton tweeted, including a photo of her just-released picture book adaptation of her best-selling 143 book of the same name.
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November 8 Very loosely based on a perennially popular Dr. Seuss picture-book, the animated series "Green Eggs and Ham" features the voices of Adam Devine as the enthusiastic gourmand Sam-I-Am, and Michael Douglas as the persnickety Guy-Am-I.
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These are just a few purely hypothetical examples, but the sad truth for picture-book authors is, if we want the word people to accept us as one of their own, we eventually have to write a book that doesn't need pictures.
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The more than 40 participating writers and artists — all based in Brooklyn — will include Sharee Miller, who will read from her picture book "Princess Hair," which demonstrates that you don't need tresses like Rapunzel's (blond and flowing) to be a royal heroine.
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This lovely third picture book featuring the tiny, giant-eyed Little Owl begins in late autumn and quickly plunges into winter, when many of Little Owl's friends are unavailable thanks to hibernation or migration, and life begins to seem a little dull.
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First produced Off Off Broadway in a longer version in 2013, this adaptation of Eileen Spinelli's 2002 picture book has a script by Barbara Zinn Krieger and an upbeat pop score by Laurie Berkner, one of the biggest stars in children's music.
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Emily Carroll Hanno and Elías Ramón Sánchez-Eppler were married July 28 by Hannah Zwirner Forsythe, a friend of the couple who received permission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to officiate at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass.
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To add depth to your book discussion, your group could read "Creativity" alongside Colum McCann's novel "Let the Great World Spin" and Mordicai Gerstein's picture book "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers": two moving, beautiful texts that feature Petit and his art.
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When the Canadian children's author Margriet Ruurs came across photographs of his work on Facebook — images of desperate families walking with all their belongings on their backs — she immediately wanted to use his artwork as a foundation for a picture book about refugees.
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Climate educator Megan Herbert, who wrote a picture book in 2017 on climate change aimed at children aged five upwards, said parents and teachers should be aware of the risk of overwhelming young people but not be put off from discussing the issue.
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"The Little House," by Virginia Lee Burton; Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are"; "The Glorious Flight," by Alice and Martin Provensen; "Jumanji," by Chris Van Allsburg: Look over the list of past winners, and you'll find a motherlode of picture book excellence.
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Adapted from Raymond Briggs's classic picture book, this lyrically animated 26-minute 1982 film, nominated for an Academy Award, follows a small boy who builds a snowman that comes to life to play with him and take him on a vast journey.
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I was 11, my sister was 10, my brother 18 and out of the house, but it was 1978, and that Maurice Sendak classic was a perfectly sophisticated gift for a grown woman whose children were well past picture-book read-alouds.
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As an adult, I was most compelled by this picture book for how little narrative Jessica Love employs to convey familial acceptance, and how, through vivid illustration, she surrounds us with the tenderness and truth of a child's imagination and self-expression.
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In fact, the cardboard this thing came in has way more personality than the computer itself, thanks to its bento box-inspired package design, an included 25th anniversary picture book, and three bonus Trackpoint nubs—each ribbed with a different texture for your pleasure.
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It's part of how I fell for her: as someone who sounded like she was etched with the same landscape, someone whose "inner picture book," as she put it to me, was painted with the same landscapes, but also the same loss and loneliness.
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In 2012, while still a student in art school, she started Nimona, a goofy webcomic about medieval knights, mad science, and a hero-villain duo whose picture book rivalry was complicated by the introduction of a shape-changing teenager with a taste for havoc.
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Like the rhyming picture book, which is illustrated by Peter Emmerich, the show introduces the audience to more than an alphabet's worth of stars, from Audra McDonald to Liza Minnelli (here, "Liza with a Z"), as well as characters and members of theatrical creative teams.
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How to Babysit a Grandma, available at Amazon, $5.78How to Babysit a Grandpa, available at Amazon, $5.99This New York Times best-selling kids' picture book is written in a how-to style, with the narrator giving important tips for "babysitting" a grandpa or grandma.
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His 1898 story "Lobo: The King of Currumpaw" is the basis for a beautifully designed oversize picture book by the British artist William Grill, whose first book, "Shackleton's Journey," was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and the winner of Britain's Kate Greenaway Medal.
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I hate to put the coal-like words "vanity project" in the stocking of Mariah Carey, whose reliable holiday earworm "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has gotten the picture-book treatment, but the illustrator's name doesn't even appear on the book's cover.
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"Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut," a picture book that celebrates the experiences of African-American boys at the barbershop, which was illustrated by Gordon C. James and written by Derrick Barnes, drew citations in several categories, and received Caldecott and Newbery honors.
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We do know that the school where the defacements occurred will conduct a read-aloud of "A Picture Book of Anne Frank," and have students create stenciled murals "around positive messages about diversity and inclusiveness, including around religion," according to the city's Department of Education.
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Contemporary picture-book authors carry on the tradition started by authors of classics; they're champions of uniqueness, artfully celebrating the qualities of fictional children — and quite a few anthropomorphized animals, some crayons and even a piece of cutlery — while also tackling tricky social situations.
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At this free event, geared toward ages 4 through 8, children can celebrate the publication of "Lost in the Library: A Story of Patience & Fortitude," a new picture book in which Patience inexplicably goes missing overnight, and Fortitude must find him before the day begins.
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The orphan at large in the world is a fixture of folklore and literature as well as social-service case files, and Mr. Barras's film, with its bigheaded, asymmetrical modeling-clay figures and off-kilter picture-book backdrops, explores a harsh situation with gentle whimsy.
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Written in the voice of a mother talking to her son, the story details their lives as new immigrants in the United States and how they found comfort in an unfamiliar land when they discovered the picture book section of their local public library.
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The classic picture book "The Story of Ferdinand," written by Munro Leaf and illustrated in inky black-and-white by Robert Lawson, tells the tale of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight, even when he finds himself in the ring in Madrid.
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Based on a popular picture book, the basic idea could hardly be more universal: life is going along just swimmingly for 7 ½-year-old Tim (voiced by Miles Bakshi), until his parents (Lisa Kudrow, Jimmy Kimmel) inform him that he's about to have a baby brother.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the tradition of Lives of the Saints and, even more pointedly, Laura (Riding) Jackson's Lives of Wives, visual artist Susan Bee and book artist Johanna Drucker have created a wonderful new "picture" book, Fabulas Feminae or fables of women.
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Sadeghi's collaboration with Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults through the 1970s resulted in the production of various animations and books for which he later won numerous awards: including the grand prize of the Noma Concours for Children's Picture Book Illustrations, in 1978.
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The first title to publish in the series will be Elbow Grease, a picture book that follows the titular monster truck, who is smaller than his four brothers but on a mission to prove that he has the guts, grit, and gumption to do big things.
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Fortunately, for anybody struggling with feeling alone, acclaimed author and newly appointed National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jacqueline Woodson is back with The Day You Begin, a new picture book, illustrated by Rafael López, to remind you to stay confident, even when you feel misunderstood.
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Matt de la Peña's illustrated children's book, "Last Stop on Market Street," about a boy's reflections during a bus ride to a soup kitchen with his grandmother, won the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature, a rare honor for a picture book.
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That leaves as the book's core the frame by frame tracing of Maier's movements through life, which, given the lack of biographical heft, should have been the text for a picture book — something that the uncertain copyright status of Maier's work has presumably made impossible for now.
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Under the indirect influence, and then the firsthand mentoring, of the master John James Audubon himself—they met on one of Audubon's fund-raising trips to Britain—the adolescent Lear had the brilliant idea of publishing a picture book about parrots, just parrots, and nothing but.
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I mean, my favorite story of the history of National Geographic is that when the first images were put into the magazine, there were a couple of board members that actually resigned in protest that this science magazine was turning into a quote-unquote picture book.
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"Apparently no industry is exempt from the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and misogyny," said Yolanda Scott, the associate publisher and editorial director of Charlesbridge, which destroyed finished copies of the picture book "Mario and the Hole in the Sky" after harassment allegations against its illustrator surfaced.
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This is Jessica Love's debut picture book, and every choice she makes — the spare text, a color palette both muted and lively, full-bleed pages that make even subway cars and apartment rooms feel as expansive as the ocean — imbues the story with charm, tenderness and humor.
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To lift Abuela's spirits, Niña's solution is to cut the old bills into pieces for elaborate papel picado banners and use them to decorate the drab apartment, allowing Ruiz to create an art-project-within-a-picture-book story that had my own 43-year-old transfixed.
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De la Peña, whose works include the young-adult novel "Mexican WhiteBoy" and the Newbery Medal-winning picture book "Last Stop on Market Street," will talk about his heritage and writing, while Cruz will relate her experiences under the Obama administration's policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
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At Clarion, which was later acquired by what is now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mr. Giblin's stable included the noted children's writers Eileen Christelow, the author and illustrator of the "Five Little Monkeys" picture-book series; and Mary Downing Hahn, the author of ghost stories for middle graders.
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I admired her determination, and her rhymes were better than most and didn't try to mimic the most famous picture book poet of the time, but while I'm sure I said yes to a lot worse, I think I knew she had something better in her.
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You cringe at the beep of the shed's door code being punched in, the signal that Ma's captor is about to enter, and you cringe, too, if more gently, when Jack demands that she read him the charmless picture book "Dylan the Digger" for the umpteenth time.
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Each gallery in the show is like a page in a picture book — a fully realized piece of fantasy, from a kerosene-scented beach hut to a snow-banked Nordic forest — and visitors to the exhibition move from room to room through hidden doors and secret entrances.
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Sophie Blackall won the Randolph Caldecott Medal, which is awarded to an illustrator for the year's most distinguished American picture book, for "Hello, Lighthouse," a chronicle of working and living in a remote lighthouse that pays tribute to the difficult job lighthouse keepers performed for centuries.
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This year, I've been helping to organize a queer story time for children in Brooklyn, and no matter how well-intended a picture book or its authors may be, if it doesn't work, the audience will find something else to entertain themselves very quickly and without apology.
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The $10 picture book features 12 illustrations from artist Andrew Rae that recreate iconic moments from the history of art, including Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel, Jean-Michel Basquait tagging subway trains and buildings in New York, and even Andy partying at Studio 54 amongst other 1970s celebrities.
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Instagram almost seems specially engineered to be the modern human's most perfect time-waster — it is, in essence, an endlessly-scrolling picture book for grown-ups, social media-savvy teenagers, and all of our incompetent parents who can't figure out how to stop double-tapping every single photo.
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They're scheduled to celebrate the beginning of Children's Book Week (May 2 through 8) at Jefferson Market Library, where the fun will include crafts, book signings, literary trivia games, yoga and a picture book "story ball," in which children will work with the visiting artists to create original tales.
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It might seem a natural partnership, the pop song and the picture book: A typical pop song's lyrics are roughly the same length as a picture book's text, repetition is frequently a feature of both, and it's easy to include a score or even a CD with a book.
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A poem in "Brown Girl Dreaming" about her great-grandfather William Woodson, the only black child at his white school, also inspired her to write a picture book, "The Day You Begin," published last year, which shows young children navigating spaces where nobody else looks quite like them.
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Read an excerpt below: However one stands, or kneels, theologically, it's not difficult to agree that Christmas is one of the great human fictions — in that all of us who celebrate it know exactly what role we've been assigned in this year's picture-book enactment of the holiday.
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My book, "The Secret Project," which was published to glowing early reviews, is a 32-page, 600-word picture book; the critics were upset that on one of those pages I referred to a Hopi katsina doll carver rather than someone from a pueblo geographically closer to Los Alamos.
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