Picture Books

[eflo]

We have a book at my work called The Red Book by Barbara Lehman. It's made up entirely of pictures, but the message is basically about getting lost in a book. I picked it up at work a few weeks ago and was amazed at the story it was able to tell in pictures (and eloquently, at that!).

So...I thought it might be a good idea to open a thread on picture books...which is your favourite, which was your favourite when you were younger...which have you most recently glanced at...etc?

[oceanflower]

Must the book be entirely of pictures, are may we include the complete genre of picture books?

[Star_Anise]

Must the book be entirely of pictures, are may we include the complete genre of picture books?

Good question, as we already have a thread about picture books (created by me, so I'd know) : http://www.literatureforums.net/vb3/showthread.php?t=3204

[skye]

I can't think of a book with pictures only.

[eflo]

Good question, as we already have a thread about picture books (created by me, so I'd know) : http://www.literatureforums.net/vb3/showthread.php?t=3204
Hmm...how did I miss that thread? :embarrass Sorry, Star. Should I delete this thread...or should I just merge the two?


Must the book be entirely of pictures, are may we include the complete genre of picture books?
Yeah, I was thinking of a book made up entirely of pictures. A book that tells a story with only the pictures. I was actually just looking at the thread Star created...and a lot of the books mentioned there (Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are are a few that I remember)...yes, they are picture books, but they aren't what I'm thinking about.

I'll post a picture of a Calvin & Hobbes comi strip I have that is a good example of what I'm talking about:

http://www.pixfolder.com/images/102.jpg

(Hosted on incka's PixFolder site. :D).

Notice there are no words, but the story the comic strip is trying to tell is fairly straightforward.

[eflo]

Sorry for the large picture. I tried to resize it, but I guess it's still rather large...

[oceanflower]

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson;

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

[Star_Anise]

Hmm...how did I miss that thread? Sorry, Star. Should I delete this thread...or should I just merge the two?

I think it can stand on its own, but I think the titles should be different, so we can tell them apart.

Interesting to know how many wordless picture books involve a "writer"...

[skye]

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

Me and a friend of mine are great fans of this cartoon, but I didn't know there was a picture book as well.

[angelhair]

An Odd Alphabet by Dandi Plamer is a wonderful book. Each page has a letter encased within a brightly coloured page that are so easy to make a whole story from! Great for slightly older children and for stimulating the immagination in *elderly* children :D

[follow_me_around]

Seeing the example above, I have this picture book, but I guess it's not for children. It is called "revolution" by Jiddhu Khrisnamurti, and it's a spiritual book. Yes, sometimes pictures speak louder than words..

Cheers

[Winifred]

Harry and the Singing Fish by Peter Lubach, still available at alibris (http://www.alibris.com) is a favorite at our house. A man who rows out of his village's earshot to practice his bagpipes at sea discovers a singing fish. Charming sketches of village life, friendship overcoming stagefright, subsequent journey to stardom, all without a word.

[kid at heart]

Some of my favorite picture books as a kid were The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright, Buzz, Buzz, Buzz by Byron Barton, and Old Hat, New Hat by Stan and Jan Berenstein. I also loved all the Frog and Toad books. I don't remember the author of those books.

[Winifred]

Zoom by Istran Banyai. Starts with a closeup, zooms out page by page, really neat for any age.

Here is the "look inside" by Amazon, but it doesn't give much of the imaginative flavor of the book. Also, I picked up a copy for $1.00 on a sale table at Books a Million this past week:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670858048/ref=sib_rdr_dp/002-1238121-3693669?%5Fencoding=UTF8&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&no=283155&st=books&n=283155

[The Careful Collector]

I just bought a picture book called An Egg Is Quiet. Before that I bought a book while I was in Brussels before Christmas. Cyrano illustrated by Rebecca Dautremer. You can't get it in America, but here a link to it on Amazon France.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/2013911289.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2013911289/qid=1147807972/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl74/171-6565792-4818603)
The illustrations are just beautiful. Oh, and I got Histoire de Barbar, Le Petit Elephant.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/2211063276.08.MZZZZZZZ.jpg (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2211063276/qid=1147873846/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/171-6565792-4818603)

[Rachel]

I absolutely adored Puss n Boots. In kindergarten the teacher had erected a thick cardboard silhouette of him in flaming colors and I was so enchanted I could not even speak. I can still close my eyes and see him larger than life. Fabulous.