Picture Books - includes Fairy and Folk tales

From The Magic of Books

The Magic of Books is a site for books and resources on Children's Literature. These are the archives for Picture Books reviewed or discussed at The Magic of Books. Click on your book of choice to read more.

• Amy, Ben, and Catalpa the Cat: A Fanciful Story of This and That by Alma S. Coon Illustrations by Gail Owens 1990

• Babar's Mystery written by Laurent De Brunhoff

• The Bones of Fred McFee by Eve Bunting

• Books about Baseball for kids from 1 to 10 by various authors

• Brother Juniper by Diane Gibfried

• Bumpety Bump! by Pat Hutchins

• Clever Katya as retold by Mary Hoffman

• Corn Silk and Black Braids by Vincent L. Johnson, M.D. and Illustrated by Linda Crockett

• Dear Bunny: A Bunny Love Story by Michaela Morgan and illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church 2006

• Fire! Fire! Said Mrs. McGuire by Bill Martin, Jr.

• Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri

• Fox Makes Friends written by Adam Relf

• Fun Books about Libraries This is a short list of a number of picture books with libraries as the setting. Click on the link to see the list.

• The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires

• Happy New Year Everywhere by Arlene Erlbach 2001

• Hugville written by Court Crandall

• Hunter & Stripe and the Soccer Showdown written by Laura Malone Elliott

• I Knew You Could written by Craig Dorfman

• I Love You Because You're You written by Lisa Baker

• Kenya’s Word by Linda Trice

• Kiss Good Night written by Amy Hest

• Kiss the Cow written by Phyllis Root

• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

• Last Day Blues by Julie Danneberg

• Little Donkey and the Babysitter by Rindert Kromhout

• My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza 2003

• Picture Books authored by Laura Numeroff

• Nutmeg and Barley: A Budding Friendship written by Janie Bynum

• Pablo the Artist by Satoshi Kitamura

• On the Way to Kindergarten by Virginia Kroll

• One Green Apple written by Eve Bunting

• The Princess and the Pizza written by Mary Jane Auch

• Queen of Easter written by Mary Engelbreit

• Rufus at Work by Tory and Norman Taber

• Santa’s Book of Names by David McPhail’s 1997

• The Secret Keeper by Kate Coombs and illustrated by Heather M. Solomon 2005

• Sector 7 written by David Wiesner

• Sleep Tight, Little Bear written by Martin Waddell

• The Tale of Tricky Fox as retold by Jim Aylesworth

• Thanks to the Animals by Allen Sockabasin

• Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland and illustrated by Sonja Lamut 2000

• Three Hungry Pigs and the Wolf Who Came to Dinner written by Charles Santore

• Who Wants A Dragon? by James Mayhew and illustrated by Lindsey Gardiner 2004