My favorite picture books

I’ve encountered a lot of board books and picture books in my nearly six years of parenting. Many of them are bad, with either poor writing or an off-putting illustration style or both. But several of them hit that sweet spot of beautiful design and quality storytelling. Here are some of those:

  • Counting with Barefoot Critters by Teagan White
  • Jazz for Lunch by Jarrett Dapier
  • How Beautiful by Antonella Capetti
  • The trilogy of Creepy Carrots, Creepy Pair of Underwear, and Creepy Crayon by Aaron Reynolds
  • Up the Mountain Path by Marianne Dubuc
  • The Book with No Pictures by BJ Novak
  • The Rock From The Sky by Jon Klassen
  • This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
  • Spider in the Well by Jess Hannigan

One response to “My favorite picture books”

  1. I like this list! I would add the Grumpy Monkey series to your list. They are probably my favorite kids books

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