Picture book thread (rolling)

[anon89873996]

Love Klassen

Like how he can go playfully dark or absurd.

[imipolex]

Love Jon Klassen, got a bunch of his prints up in our house. Really love this one:

[hankscorpio]

Love that! Where’s it from?

[hankscorpio]

The Wolf, The Duck and the Mouse is great. Really appealed to my sense of humor.

[he_2]

Was a big fan of Oliver Jeffers’ books when reading to my two.

Lost & Found was a big favourite.

[anon89873996]

I was really pleasantly surprised how receptive R has been to the Shaun Tan books I have considering they aren’t ostensibly toddler stories. It is realy cool that he loves The Red Tree because it is good to understand negative feelings in a way most books only skirt over and miss the important bits, and with The Arrival him pointing out things was a great starting point to teach him about migration.

[anon89873996]

I think my favourite Jeffers is This Moose Belongs to Me because the scenery in the background is brilliant and the story still makes me laugh.

I like how there are lots of little cross references between his books too.

[anon89873996]

Yes! That is my favourite, straight into the belly! That is one of his ones with Mac Barnett, I think?

[imipolex]

I’m not sure which of his books it’s from tbh. Ordered it from this gallery:

https://www.gallerynucleus.com/artist/jon_klassen

[BargainMax]

[the_ravens]

Toucan Can is really good

[hip_young_gunslinger]

A friend from the states bought us this which is really nice, Julian is a Mermaid:

EDIT: Upsets the gammons too, which is always good, spoilered for transphobia:

[badcustard]

Was trying to find this before Christmas, had no luck, it’s good then?

[badcustard]

I have a two year-old daughter so picture books are p much my entire life. Spent the last two years buying her all my old favourites, The Tiger Who Came To Tea is a stone cold classic, you can read a lot into that book if you’re that way inclined.

Favourite one is I Am A Bunny. I love lots of Richard Scarry’s stuff like What Do People Do All Day, but I Am A Bunny is just lovely, every page is perfect

[the_ravens]

In a similar vein this is good too

[anon89873996]

No reason not to introduce anything at a young age, and tbh with LGBT+ stuff the earlier the better so it isn’t seen as an other, but just part of life.

[he_2]

Couldn’t agree more.

[hip_young_gunslinger]

Yeah it’s nice, lovely illustrations and a nice little story.

[hip_young_gunslinger]

Isn’t Morris (or Maurice) Micklewhite Michael Caine’s real name?

[the_ravens]

ha! yes it is isn’t it. wonder why that was done, assume it was deliberate