Picture BooksAndrea Pfiester

Eleanor Klement Kenya Pennington

What is a picture book?

“A picture book is a book in which the illustrations are as important as (or even more important than) the words in telling the story”

Types of Picture Books

ABC Books

Counting Books

Concept Books

Participation Books

Wordless Picture Books

Predictable Books

Beginning Reader Picture Books

Picture Storybooks

Engineered Books

Baby/Board Books

The Caldecott Medal

Named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott

Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children

Caldecott Authors and Illustrators

Brian Floca

Locomotive, written and illustrated by Brian Floca won the 2014 Medal

“The committee was impressed with Floca’s ability to creatively capture the immensity and inner workings of the early locomotive and combine it with a family’s adventurous journey west,” said Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Marion Hanes Rutsch

David WiesnerAuthor/Illustrator of many wordless picture books

Has won 3 Caldecott Medals:

Tuesday in 1992

The Three Pigs in 2002

Flotsam in 2007

Caldecott Honor Books:Free Fall

Sector 7

Mr. Wuffles!

Spends several years creating each new book

Chris Raschka

Author/Illustrator of over 50 children’s books

First book Charlie Parker Played Be Bop was published in 1992

1994 Caldecott Honor for Yo? Yes!

2006 Caldecott Medal for The Hello, Goodbye Window

Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead

Husband and Wife Author/Illustrator team

A Sick Day for Amos McGee , written by Philip and illustrated by Erin won the Caldecott award in 2010

Susan Marie Swanson

Poet and picture book author

The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes, won the Caldecott Medal in 2009

Other Notable Works:To Be Like the Sun

The First Thing My Mama Told Me

Other Notable Authors and Illustrators

“On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice

of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one

cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. That night he had a

stomach ache.” ― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry

Caterpillar

Eric CarleThe Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969

His first wholly original book was 1,2,3 to the Zoo

Art work is created in collage technique

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has won numerous awards, including an American Institute of Graphic Arts Award in 1970, the Selection du Grand Prix des Treize in France in 1972, and the Nakamori Reader's Prize in Japan in 1975

2012  School Library Journal sponsored a survey of readers which identified The Very Hungry Caterpillar as the number two children's picture book, behind only Where the Wild Things Are

“And Max the king of all wild things was lonely and wanted to

be where someone loved him best of all.” 

― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are was written in 1963

Best known for illustrating Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear

He illustrated for the first five original Little Bear books

Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri

Rubin writes and Salmieri illustrates

Secret Pizza Party was published in 2013

Publishers Weekly said “Rubin and Salmieri are two of the weirdest funniest guys working in kids’ lit today.”

Ezra Jack Keats

Author and Illustrator

Famous Works include The Snowy Day

Won the Caldecott medal in 1963, old but still a classic

Applauded for using “minority children as central characters”

The Snowy Day aided in breaking the “color barrier in mainstream children’s publishing”

Shel Silverstein

Illustrator and Poet

Famous works include The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Falling Up

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to

the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.

Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." –Shel Silverstein, Listen to the

mustn’ts

David Shannon

Illustrator and Author

Famous written works inlcude, It’s Christmas, David! and A Bad Case of The Stripes

Famous illustrated works include, The Rough-Face Girl and Encounter

Jon Klassen

Author and Illustrator

Famous works/illustrations include:

This is Not My Hat (He won a Caldecott medal for his illustrations)

I Want My Hat Back

The Dark (written by Lemony Snicket)

worked on the animation for the movie, “Kung Fu Panda”

Bob Staake

Author and Illustrator

Famous works include:

Bluebird (named one of the notable books of 2013 by the NY Times)

The First Pup (about Bo, the White House Dog)

Put together a story!

Bibliography Carle, E. (1969). The Very Hungry Caterpillar. New York: World Publishing Company.

Floca, B. (2013). Locomotive. Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books.

Juster, N. (2005). The Hello, Goodbye Window. United States: Hyperion Book CH

Klassen, J. (2012). This is Not My Hat. Somerville: Candlewick.

Muldrow, D. (2011). Where Do Giggles Come From? New York: Golden Books.

Raschka, C. (2011). A Ball for Daisy. New York: Schwartz & Wade.

Raschka, C. (1993). Yo? Yes! United States: Scholastic, Inc.

Raschka, C. (1997). Charlie Parker Played Be Bop. United States: Scholastic, Inc.

Rubin, A. (2013). Secret Pizza Party. New York: Dial.

Sendak, M. (1963). Where the Wild Things are. New York: Harper & Row.

Shannon, D. (2010). It’s Christmas, David! New York. Blue Sky Press.

Stead, P. (2010). A Sick Day for Amos McGee. United States: Roaring Brook Press.

Swanson, S. The House in the Night. (2008). United States: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Swanson, S. (2008). To Be Like the Sun. United States: Harcourt Children's Books

Swanson, S. (2002). The First Thing My Mama Told Me. United States: Harcourt Children's Books

Kennedy, E. (n.d.). Picture Book: The Definition. About.com Children's Books. Retrieved February 2, 2014, from http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/childre

Bibliography cont.

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation – Written & Illustrated by Ezra. (n.d.). The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Written Illustrated by Ezra Comments. Retrieved February 2, 2014, from http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/ezras-books-characters/written-illustrated-by-ezra/

Wiesner, D. (2006). Flotsam. United States: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Wiesner, D. (1991). Tuesday. United States: HMH Books for Young Readers

Wiesner, D. (2001). The Three Pigs. United States: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (1988). Free Fall. United States: Harper Collis Books.

Wiesner, D. (1999). Sector 7. United States: Clarion Books.

Wiesner, D. (2013). Mr. Wuffles. United States: Clarion Books.

Wise Brown, M. (1947). Goodnight Moon. United States: Harper & Brothers