Picture book thread (rolling)

[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

[the_ravens]

Ah there you go https://twitter.com/CLBaldacchino/status/666043997199159296

[SplendidMcAwesome]

These are marvellous, thank you. I hadn’t heard of her before but have just spent a happy few minutes on this website:

Virginia Frances Sterrett Art: The Complete Illustrations

[the_ravens]

oh yeah, this one is lovely too https://nobrow.net/shop/nightlights/

[hankscorpio]

Just ordered a copy of that, looks lovely!

[SenorDingDong]

I’m at my mam’s, so here’s a few photos. First up, as mentioned upthread, the Jolly Postman. My mam always wrote our names and the date on the inside cover, so this was given to my older brother at Christmas 1989.

He delivers mail to various fairytale characters, e.g.:

And inside that envelope is:

[Gorkys_Forever]

Good find pal.
Yeah found that out the other day about KN too