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
“We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too!” — Tamar Bobokhidze Copy Share Image
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“It was all I could think about. Even as I slept, I dreamt of creating beautiful things.” — Kobi Yamada Copy Share Image
“She would even ride a scooter. and toot its horn. Everyone knew when Liberty was on the stage.” — Desiree Milonas-King 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
“Teach a child a useful skill. Build confidence and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime.” — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
“I'm just surprised you can understand it. Is it the picture book edition?” — Jus Accardo 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
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 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
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in… — Chris Van Allsburg 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
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
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
Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular… — Mordicai Gerstein 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
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
“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a… — Hermann Hesse 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
The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one… — Sarah Weeks 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
“As he lifted the leather-bound cover, the musty smell of paper rose up. He turned the first mottled leaf and looked down… — Lawrence Norfolk 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
“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
“Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a… — Martha Parravano 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
“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
“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
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
