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Illustrating Children's Picture Books * Class 1 Books

Book References


20th-century children's book treasury: celebrated picture books and stories to read aloud, The
Schulman, Janet, ed.
New York: Knopf, 1998

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Apartment book, The
Platt, Richard. Hartas, Leo, ill.
New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1995

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Big meeting
Woodtor, Dee Parmer. Johnson, Dolores, ill.
New York: Atheneum, 1996

Available from Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Book that Jack wrote, The
Scieszka, Jon. Adel, Daniel, ill.
Viking, 1994

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Boy, a Dog and a Frog, A
Mayer, Mercer.
New York: Dial Books, 1967

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Martin, Bill Jr. and John Archambault. Ehlert, Lois, ill.
Simon & Schuster, 1989

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Coming of the surfman, The
Collington, Peter.
New York: Knopf, 1993

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | library binding |


Curious sofa: a pornographic work by Ogdred Weary, The
Gorey, Edward.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1961

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D'Nealian handwriting ABC book
Thurber, Donald Neal. Barbee, Patricia, ill.
Glenview: Good Year Books, 1992

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Drop dead
Cole, Babette.
New York: Knopf, 1996

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Dumb bunnies' Easter, The
Denim, Sue. Pilkey, Dav, ill.
Blue Sky Press, 1995

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Eating the alphabet: fruits and vegetables from A to Z
Ehlert, Lois.
Harcourt, 1989

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Elephant and the bad baby, The
Vipont, Elfrida. Briggs, Raymond, ill.
Hamish Hamilton, 1969

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Elephant buttons
Ueno, Noriko.
New York: Harper and Row, 1973

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover | | library binding |


Fred
Simmonds, Posy.
Knopf, 1987

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover | | library binding |


Free fall
Wiesner, David.
William Morrow, 1988

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Freight Train
Crews, Donald.
William Morrow, 1978

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Full Moon Soup: Or the Fall of the Hotel Splendide
Graham, Alastair.
New York: Dial Books, 1991

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Gashlycrumb tinies: or, after the outing, The
Gorey, Edward.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company

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Goodnight moon
Wise Brown, Margaret. Hurd, Clement, ill.
New York: Harper and Row, 1947

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Grandfather's journey
Say, Allen.
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993

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Half-as-big and the tiger
Frankel, Bernice. Weisgard, Leonard, ill.
Franklin Watts, 1961

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Have you ever seen a chick hatch?
Roche, Hannah. Pratt, Pierre, ill.
New York: Zero To Ten, 1998

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High rise glorious skittle skat roarious sky pie angel food cake, The
Willard, Nancy. Watson, Richard Jesse, ill.
New York: Harcourt, 1990

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Hornets' nest
Scarborough, Kate. Camm, Martin, ill.
Time-Life Books, 1997

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I Hear, I See, I Touch
Oxenbury, Helen.
Candlewick Press, 1985

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I was a sixth grade alien
Coville, Bruce. Sansevero, Tony, ill.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999

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In the night kitchen
Sendak, Maurice.
New York: Harper and Row, 1970

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It's a spoon, not a shovel
Buehner, Caralyn. Buehner, Mark, ill.
Dial Books, 1995

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It's Halloween
Prelutsky, Jack. Hafner, Marylin, ill.
New York: Greenwillow Books, 1977

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Jambo means hello: Swahili alphabet book
Feelings, Muriel. Feelings, Tom, ill.
Dial Books, 1974

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Julius, the Baby of the World
Henkes, Kevin.
New York: William Morrow, 1990

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Make way for ducklings
McCloskey, Robert.
Puffin Books, 1941

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Matthew's dream
Lionni, Leo.
Knopf, 1991

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McBroom's ghost
Fleischman, Sid. Frankenberg, Robert, ill.
Grosset and Dunlap, 1971

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Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel
Burton, Virginia Lee (Virginia Lee Demetrios).
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939

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Moe Q. McGlutch, he smoked too much
Raskin, Ellen.
New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1973

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Once upon a time
French, Vivian. Prater, John, ill.
London: Walker Books, 1993

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One hole in the road
Nikola-Lisa, W. Yaccarino, Dan, ill.
Henry Holt and Company, 1996

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Paper bag princess, The
Munsch, Robert N. Martchenko, Michael, ill.
Toronto: Annick Press, 1980

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Pat the beastie
Drescher, Henrik. Meyer, Dennis K., ill.
Hyperion, 1993

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Pigs in hiding
Dubanevich, Arlene.
New York: Four Winds Press, 1983

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Ring, The
Maizlish, Lisa.
New York: Greenwillow Books, 1996

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Selections from 'A child's garden of verses'
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Tiffany, Virginia, ill.
Racine, WI: Western Publishing Co. Inc., 1969

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Shortcut
Macaulay, David.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995

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Shota and the star quilt
Bateson-Hill, Margaret. Fowler, Christine, ill.
New York: Zero To Ten, 1998

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Snapshots from the wedding
Soto, Gary. Garcia, Stephanie, ill.
New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1997

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Story book prince, The
Oppenheim, Joanne. Litzinger, Rosanne, ill.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1987

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | hardcover |


Ten, Nine, Eight
Bang, Molly.
Greenwillow Books, 1983

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There's an awful lot of weirdos in our neighborhood, and other wickedly funny verse
McNaughton, Colin.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1987

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This is the bear and the bad little girl
Hayes, Sarah. Craig, Helen, ill.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1995

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Titch
Hutchins, Patricia.
1971

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Trashy town
Zimmerman, Andrea Griffing and David Clemesha. Yaccarino, Dan, ill.
HarperCollins Publishers, 1999

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Upside-downers: more pictures to stretch the imagination
Anno, Mitsumasa.
New York: Weatherhill, 1971

Out of print. Search for a used copy through Amazon.com: | library binding |


Velveteen rabbit or how toys become real, The
Williams Bianco, Margery. Nicholson, William, ill.
Heinemann, 1922

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Wake up house!: rooms full of poems
Lillegard, Dee. Carter, Don, ill.
New York: Knopf, 2000

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What goes around comes around
McGuire, Richard.
Viking, 1995

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Where the Wild Things Are
Sendak, Maurice.
1963

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Whose mouse are you?
Kraus, Robert. Aruego, Jose, ill.
Simon & Schuster, 1970

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Why are you calling me a barbarian?
Petrèn, Birgitta and Elisabetta Putini. Artone, Lara and Monica Barsotti, ill.
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999

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Why leopard has spots: Dan stories from Liberia
Paye, Won-Ldy and Margaret H. Lippert. Bryan, Ashley, ill.
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1998

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Will I have a friend?
Cohen, Miriam. Hoban, Lillian, ill.
Macmillan, 1967

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William's Doll
Zolotow, Charlotte. Pene Du Bois, William, ill.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1972

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Witches four
Brown, Marc.
New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1980

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Writing with pictures: how to write and illustrate children's books
Shulevitz, Uri.
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997

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Z Was Zapped : A Play in Twenty-Six Acts, The
Van Allsburg, Chris.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987

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Zoom city
Hurd, Thacher.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998

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