“It was all I could think about. Even as I slept, I dreamt of creating beautiful things.” — Kobi Yamada Copy Share Image
From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“I'm just surprised you can understand it. Is it the picture book edition?” — Jus Accardo Copy Share Image
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“If I could tell you about Red I would sing to you of fire Sweet like cherries Burning like cinnamon Smelling like… — Dixie Dawn Miller Goode Copy Share Image
“Liberty was the only small cat in the circus. Walking across the stage on her hind legs, ears back, head held high;… — Desiree Milonas-King Copy Share Image
A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“With the rumble of the waterfall in the distance, I slipped into sleep and dreamed of a red-haired girl holding a posy… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination. As today the sky 70 degrees above zero with lines falling The way September… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Heaven is boring. Didn't you see, in that picture book back when we used to go to school? It's just plain and… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“The unique pairing of verbal and visual language in the form of picture books has fascinated me forever. Having now written my… — Caroline Magerl Copy Share Image
“He lived on the streets with bums, tramps, and winos for several weeks. Vegas would not be the end of the story,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Fuchsia took three paces forward in the first of the attics and then paused a moment to re-tie a string above her… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“This week we'll be learning about key elements of high quality picture books. Using the award winner lists in our course materials,… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood” — Yvonne Blackwood Copy Share Image
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
