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Author: LordGro

Jun 16th 2012 at 3:26:50 PM

I consciously made the definition somewhat wider than the strict meaning of "picture book". I would, in fact, count ''TheLittlePrince'': It came out originally with illustrations, the illustrations are the author's own, and the book is always printed with these very same illustrations (neither without illustrations, nor with alternative illustrations). It's not a picture book with pervasive illustrations, like in "picture book for children", but it's ... something for which I wanted to create an index and which I, for lack of a better word, have called Picture Book.

If we make this index for picture books in the narrow sense (= with pervasive illustrations), we again have a bunch of books like ''TheLittlePrince'' (I think the various WalterMoers books are in the same class) for which we must either invent another index, or have no specific index at all. -- I suggested "Illustrated Books" above, but that's too vague (any book can be illustrated). "Author-Illustrated Book" isn't quite it either, as, for example, ''Discworld/TheLastHero'' is not author-illustrated and, it seems, at about the same level of text-picture-relationship as ''TheLittlePrince''.

Btw, I wouldn't list a book on this index only because it has diagrams; the images should make up a substantial part of the book.