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Douglas Sannachan

He played a pantomime dame in the Simply Red video for the track Jericho from the album Picture Book.


Adrienne Kennaway

Those two 38-page picture books were written by William Lewis Radford and published by East Africa Publishing House of Nairobi in the East African Readers Library series; the Library of Congress Subject Heading is "English language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—African".

Barbara Leonie Picard

Alan Marks, a picture book edition of one story from Selected Fairy Tales ‡

How Many Blue Birds Flew Away

How Many Blue Birds Flew Away is a 2005 children's picture book written by Paul Giganti, Jr. and illustrated by Donald Crews.

Jennifer Donnelly

Her first book was published by Atheneum in 2002: Humble Pie, a picture book with the veteran illustrator Stephen Gammell.

Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion

Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion is a children's picture book by author and illustrator Mo Willems.

Mordicai Gerstein

Gerstein won the 2004 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Roaring Brook Press, 2003), which he also wrote.

Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?

Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle.

Stephen Gammell

His first picture book was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1973: A Nutty Business by Ida Chittum, featuring a "war" between squirrels and a farmer.

The Danish Poet

The Danish Poet also won Best Animated Short at the 27th Genie Awards in 2007, and a Norwegian-language picture book adaptation was nominated for the 2007 Brage Prize.

The Deep: Here Be Dragons

The all-ages graphic novel won the Aurealis Award, Australia's premier speculative fiction literary award, for Best illustrated book/graphic novel in 2012 and was also nominated for Best children’s illustrated work/picture book.

The Three Jovial Huntsmen

The Three Jovial Huntsmen (1880) was a popular British picture book illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons in London.

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig is a children's picture book written by Eugene Trivizas (Evgenios Trivizas), illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, and first published by Heinemann in 1993.


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Arnold Lobel

Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing Fables as the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book.

Bali Rai

2012 saw the release of Rai's first ever picture book,The Guru & the King (A & C Black), as well as Demon Hunter, part of the Heroes series published by Pearson.

Bats at the Beach

Bats at the Beach is a picture book by Brian Lies.

Bob Klose

In 2006, Klose wrote an accompanying essay for a picture book of previously unpublished Rowland Hilder's watercolor paintings, entitled "Rowland Hilder's British Isles".

Boys of Steel

It's the first picture book biography of Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and is the first ever stand-alone biography of the pair.

Carole Boston Weatherford

In 1995, Lee & Low Books published her first picture book, Juneteenth Jamboree, about a summer celebration in memory of the Texas Emancipation.

Dead Children Playing

Dead Children Playing (first edition titled 'Dead Children Playing: A Picture Book') is a picture book by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke (under the alias of "Dr. Tchock") featuring artwork that has been used on English alternative rock band Radiohead's albums between 1996 and 2003, and on Thom Yorke's album The Eraser.

Frederic G. Melcher

Named for British illustrator Randolph Caldecott, the medal is presented annually for the "most distinguished picture book for children".

Gregory S. Prince, Jr.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a center for international picture book art, drew 90,000 visitors to the Hampshire campus and Amherst during its first year.

Hazel Edwards

Literary output based on her experience includes Antarctica's Frozen Chosen (a young adult eco-thriller), Antarctic Writer on Ice (her expedition diary), Antarctic Dad (a picture book), Right or Wrong (a play co-written with fellow author Goldie Alexander), Grandma Leaps the Antarctic (an Auslan-signed DVD) and Antarctic Closeup, a National Museum initiative.

Jazzy in the Jungle

Jazzy in the Jungle is a children's picture book by Lucy Cousins, published in 2002.

Kadono

Eiko Kadono, author of a picture book which later became the anime known as Kiki's Delivery Service

Les Bravades

In the 1990s, Rebecca Welles auctioned off the book, and the buyer had the full manuscript published as a picture book in November 1996 by Workman Publishing, with an afterword by Welles biographer Simon Callow.

Lianhuanhua

Lianhuanhua (Chinese: 连环画 (Simplified) 連環畫 (Traditional); Pinyin: Liánhuánhuà or 連環圖) is a palm-size picture book of sequential drawings found in China in the early 20th century, and they were once used as political/propaganda tool for the Communist Party of China.

Little Fur Family

Little Fur Family is a 1946 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Garth Williams.

Mal Peet

-->Cloud Tea Monkeys (1999), a children's picture book written by Peet and his wife, illustrated by Alan Marks, is set in the Himalayas and based on a Chinese folktale.

May Massee

More than twenty were runner-up for the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians, which recognizes the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".

Nicholas Mordvinoff

Nicholas Mordvinoff (September 27, 1911-1973) was a Russian-born American artist who won the 1952 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Finders Keepers, by William Lipkind.

Ozaki Kihachi

Ozaki also published Yama no Ehon (“Mountain Picture Book”) a collection of miscellaneous thoughts, and many translations of Romain Rolland, Herman Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Maeterlinck and Georges Duhamel.

Randolph Caldecott

For Maurice Sendak "Caldecott's work heralds the beginning of the modern picture book. He devised an ingenious juxtaposition of picture and word, a counterpoint that never happened before. Words are left out—but the picture says it. Pictures are left out—but the word says it."

Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors

Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors is a children's picture book written by American children's author Joyce Sidman ,illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, and published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.

Richard Brinsley Peake

Peake wrote the accompanying text for the picture-book French Characteristic Costumes (1816); a comedic book of Cockney sports entitled Snobson's 'Seasons (1838); Cartouche, the Celebrated French Robber (1844) in three-volumes; and a two-volume biography of a theatrical family, Memoirs of the Colman Family (1841).

Roy Best

That same year, he was commissioned by the Whitman Publishing Company to illustrate The Peter Pan Picture Book, based on J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; an illustration from this project was the basis for the Peter Pan Bus Lines logo.

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon (also known by the shorter title of Sir Nobonk and the... Dragon) is a 1982 comedy novel written by Spike Milligan, and the fourth picture book by Milligan after The Bald Twit Lion, Badjelly the Witch and Dip the Puppy.

Snegurochka

Ruth Sanderson retold the story in the picture book The Snow Princess, in which falling in love does not immediately kill the princess, but turns her into a mortal human, who will die.

Tadpole's Promise

Tadpole's Promise is a children's picture book written by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Tony Ross, published in 2003.

That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown

That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown is a children's picture book written by Cressida Cowell and illustrated by Neal Layton, published in 2006.

The Enormous Crocodile

It is in the style of a picture book in contrast to Dahl's other books, illustrated by Quentin Blake.

The Saga of Baby Divine

The Saga of Baby Divine is a children's picture book written by Bette Midler and illustrated by Todd Schorr.

The Snail and the Whale

It has won several awards, including 2004 Early Years award for the best pre-school book, the 2005 Blue Peter award for Best Book to Read Aloud, and the 2007 Giverny award for Best Science Picture Book.

The Three Pigs

The flying fish picture is a parody of Wiesner's first Caldecott Medal-winning picture book Tuesday.

Two Frogs

Two Frogs is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Chris Wormell, published in 2003.

Ulrich Karger

Beside other several languages is his picture book for children Geisterstunde im Kindergarten being published in English as The Scary Sleepover.

W. D. Valgardson

Thor children's picture book, illustrated by Ange Zhang - Groundwood, 1994

Wally Squad

The name is a reference to the "Where's Wally" series, the British edition of "Where's Waldo", a children's picture book in which the object is to find Wally and his friends among crowds of similarly dressed people.

Walt Disney Treasures: Wave Four

Pluto's Picture Book: This is the second half of the Disneyland episode, A Story of Dogs, which was aired as part of a promotion for Lady and the Tramp (the making of which the first half of this episode covers).

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1996) is a children's science fiction picture book written by Marilyn Sadler and illustrated by Roger Bollen.