Favorite Children's Picture Books

I'm talking about typical picture books for young children, Do any of you mature tropers enjoy books that are for young children but you'll still look at anyway because of pure nostalgia or you like the sweet gentle stories and nice illustrations?

For me...I love anything Beatrix Potter, I admire the woman herself Mrs. Potter was a genius for her time I refuse to see anything bad about her stories.

For more modern children's books I like books by Keiko Kasza my favorite of her books is The Mightiest where a Lion, Bear and Elephant fight for a crown labeled for the Mightiest. I also like the books written by Bill Peet who was a former animator for Disney my favorites from him are The Gnats of Knotty Pine, Cowardly Clyde, and Encore For Eleanor.

And for the one book series I can never resist is the Serendipity series (I'm amazed the Anime inspired them has its own trope page but not the original books themselves) Yes the both the illustrations and the text can be overly flowery to the point of being sappy, but when it comes to Aesops at least these books have GOOD Aesops

Bill Peet and Dr. Seuss

You have great taste

My childhood favourites were Hairy Maclairy, Slinky Malinky, and the others by Lynley Dodd. We loved those books so much, and Dodd has such a nice sing-song style.

I have a bunch of favorites, but my favorites would have to be The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, The Cat in the Hat, the Knuffle Bunny series by Mo Williems, and Pat the Beastie.

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I'll give a Shout-Out to the great Dr Seuss, the patron saint of surrealism in kids' literature.

These days I find myself enjoying some of his more satirical books. "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew," "The Sneetches," "The Butter Battle Book," the Horton books... All great, in my mind.

And you can't beat The Grinch, The Cat In The Hat and Green Eggs And Ham. All great. And the De Patie-Freleng specials are equally as great.

The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base is just beautiful. I had that book when I was about 8, and even though I couldn't wrap my head around any of the riddles, it was fun to just look at.

Fritz and the Beautiful Horses by Jan Brett is a favorite. i also love The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (I forget who wrote that) and Princess Hyacinth.

Jan Brett also did very well on "The Mitten" IMO.

Jan Brett in general is fantastic.

I love reading Jan Brett's books with my favorites being "The Mitten" and "The Gingerbread Baby."

Yeah...My favorite Jan Brett book is The Wild Christmas Reindeer

Checking out Ellowen's profile...Seems we have a lot of similar experiences

It's not per se a picture book, as it's about 200 pages and more than 2/3 of the pages have text on them, but I really enjoy the illustrations in The Wainscott Weasel too.

In that vein, I love M. M. Kaye's Ordinary Princess. if you haven't read it, it's worth the read. or let Mark read it to you. He did a series of youtube videos reading it, and yes, he shows the pictures.

I really need to read the Wild Christmas Reindeer!

Everything by Robert Munsch, but especially Love You Forever. The book still makes me cry.

I also loved Robert Munsch's works! I loved Stephanie's Ponytail the best!

Oh my God, don't bring that book up around me… Tear Jerker to the extreme.

@Sisi Yes totally though I didn't like the book as a kid since I disliked sad books, it was my eldest brother's favourite though.

I wonder why nobody's mentioned Maurice Sendak yet... Well, now I have. The man's stuff is pretty enjoyable.

(I actually want to find his final interview. Especially since he comes off, in the parts I've read, as a cranky, profane old man. He opens by saying he named his dog after Hermann Goering - and he's Jewish - and later talks about how he wanted to blow up George W. Bush in a suicide bombing.)

I just never came across any Sendak as a kid, somehow. Most of my early childhood books were Berenstain Bears, Clifford, and Little Critter.

Or road atlases. I've joked that my favorite author as a child was Rand McNally.

Mercer Mayer and Stan and Jan Berenstain ought to have been mentioned here, too.

Some of Mayer's other work looks really nice; I only know the Little Critter books (and maybe the Little Monster books).

And the Berenstains... well, I'll say their Beginner Books stuff was probably the best.

Oh...Speaking of Mercer Mayer...Anyone read 'What do you do with a Kangaroo?' That was one of my fondest childhood memories just reading it brings me back

Oh yeah! I loved Mercer Mayer's books, especially his Little Critter series! Have you read the Little Critter books where he's a teenager and he solves crimes?

Wow, I thought I was the only one who knew about those. "LC and the Critter Kids".