Why Picture Books Are Important by Michelle Knudsen

November 23, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important I often see young children at book festivals, too young to read for themselves but irresistibly drawn to the books all the same. I watch them flip through the pages and tell themselves a story to go with the pictures. Maybe it’s a different story than the one the author [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by David Ezra Stein

November 22, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important When I was two or three years old, I’d grab any adult who came to my house by the hand. “Wanna come to my room?” I’d ask. “Read books?” I knew that the sincere urgency of my request (and my extreme cuteness) would more often than not be met with [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Charles Ghigna

November 21, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important Picture books help children celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous picture books tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. The greatest reward for each of us who write and illustrate picture books is in knowing that our creative efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Mr. Schu

November 20, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important Greetings! Welcome to my home. Do you have time for a tour? Excellent! Let’s start in the garage. Take a peek inside my car. It resembles a small bookmobile, right? Look through those blue library bags crammed full of new picture books. (Isn’t the scent of a new book intoxicating?) [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Laura Backes

November 19, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important In our house, picture books – with their vivid, concise text and new illustrations waiting around each page-turn – offered my son an opportunity to become the characters in the story. He’d roll his eyes, gnash his teeth and leap about the room with Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Yuyi Morales

November 18, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important I saw picture books for the first time when I arrived to the USA in 1994 as a new mother. Never before I had seen such works of art. The books were thick, the paper was shiny, the illustrations magnificent — like they could come from a museum or a [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Jarrett Krosoczka

November 17, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important After reading to my daughter at night, she selects a few picture books to have with her in bed, a tradition we started when it was safe to have objects in the crib. She joyfully turns the pages at the end and start of every day. One evening, as I [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Denise Fleming

November 16, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important Books were a big part of my childhood. I credit Feodor Rojankovsy’s illustrations in a childhood book, The Giant Golden Book of Cats Stories, for influencing my style. I loved the art in that book. I would study the pictures and run my hands over the pictures, sure I could [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Erica Perl

November 15, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important When I pick up a perfect picture book, I always think of Reese’s peanut butter cups: “two great tastes that taste great together.” (Can you tell I’m hoarding the leftover Halloween goodies? It’s true, but still, go with it.) You’ve got the words, concise, yet so potent they practically don’t [...]

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Margaret Read MacDonald

November 14, 2011

Why Picture Books Are Important The picture book brings joy to the child in two ways. First there are the board books. The child gets to hold them in his or her own hands. This is a book which BELONGS to the child. Later they can handle picture books in the same way, turning the [...]

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