Best Picture Books
The best children's picture books.
Caldecott Contenders aka Mock Caldecotts by year:
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Picture Books by Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s and before
See also
Best Picture Books
Best Popular Picture Books on Goodreads
Charlotte Zolotow Award Winners and Honors
Children's Picture Books With Beautiful illustrations
Caldecott Medal Winners
Caldecott Honor Books
Wordless Picture Books
Caldecott Contenders aka Mock Caldecotts by year:
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Picture Books by Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s and before
See also
Best Picture Books
Best Popular Picture Books on Goodreads
Charlotte Zolotow Award Winners and Honors
Children's Picture Books With Beautiful illustrations
Caldecott Medal Winners
Caldecott Honor Books
Wordless Picture Books
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baby-book, baby-books, best, board-book, board-books, children, childrens, picture-book, picture-books, toddler
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GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOKS AWARDS 2010
- YOU ARE THE WINNER IN CANADA - FRENCH
WITH: Mandarine et Kiwi
La Surprise du Marché
In the category: Best Cookbook Illustrations
No one draws and watercolors like Beatrix Potter! I think she is the best. Also, have you seen the movie about her life? Miss Potter? (very good)
I vote for Mikolay and Julia in the Attic by Magda M. Olchawska.
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Thank you
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Thank you
Murielle Cyr (author)
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You can look through the list to see what's already on there, and you can add any you feel belong but aren't yet listed. :D
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Authors spamming Listopias has been a very real problem. Please feel encouraged to report it to GR anytime you believe that's going on.
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So if the list creator changed the list to say that there needed to be a minimum of 500 ratings to be on this list, I would be happy to go and delete the 10 books from the first page and the 8 books from the second page and so forth.
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African Safari with Ted and Raymond - 64 ratings with 24 votes.
The Tiny Caterpillar and the Great Big Tree - 23 ratings with 26 votes
My Sister Is My Best Friend: A Trilingual Story - 22 ratings with 18 votes
My Brother Is My Best Friend: Trilingual- Spanish, French and English - 44 ratings with 17 votes
Sure I could report them as listopia spam but generally I'd expect nothing to happen. I could remove them as a librarian, as can any librarian. But without clear guidance by the "list owner" preferably in this list description - such as a minimum number of ratings - like say 500 - I won't delete them.
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I don't see the list creator speaking up. But an alternative to use in other lists is that if the book is older than goodreads - say 2000 or earlier then there is no minimum rating requirement - or the minimum is a lot smaller, say 50 ratings.
For my needs I recently created - Best Popular Picture Books on Goodreads with pretty limited criteria - that is 5000 ratings and shelved at least 500 times as "picture book". Sure it won't be as long as this list - and if people ever start voting on it, I'll probably end up doing a lot of deletion. But it will always be a good starting place for picture books.
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I think most of the "classics" people learned about in their childhood are by white or white European authors. The market is saturated with books by white people.
Nowadays we see a lot more books in this genre by black or poc authors which is awesome. Hopefully in the future people will think of and vote for more non-white authors. <3
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That's just not how goodreads lists work. But you might find the shelving page interesting, since it is ordered. Check out https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
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