Mar24

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march is national reading month in the United States

people of all ages are encouraged to celebrate

by daily reading or listening to books

as a way to strengthen knowledge, imagination, and empathy,

and to foster a lifelong love of reading and literature.

 

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‘all really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times.’

-rosemary wells

 

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i have always loved picture books and still collect them.

do you have a favorite?

 

 

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art credit: Grégoire Mabire, watercolor ink illustration

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  3. I agree that every month is reading month.
    Though have released some books back into the wild to be bought by others. But just couldn’t let go of “King of The Copper Mountain.” I read it as a teen then read it to my children. Just felt like it needed another read before being released into the wild again.

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  6. When many of my friends were having children, I gave them my favorites: Horton Hears a Who, A Fish Out of Water, Go Dog Go, Sam & the Firefly,10 Apples Up on Top and so on. And now that I’m a grandmother, I get to do it all over again. Yes! I loved these childhood books. ❤️

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  9. One of the few I can remember from my son’s childhood is the Berenstein Bears. Intricately detailed pictures. Found something new almost every time we opened the books. From my own childhood I only remember “The Poky Little Puppy,” one of the Golden Books.

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  12. I got back into picture books once our first grandson was old enough to be read to. ‘The Gruffalo’ became a firm favourite early on, closely followed by ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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  13. Such a neat illustration! Leaves you begging to read what happened!!!
    I used to illustrate Children’s Storybooks and a treat it was! To read the story and then draw what your mind saw – such fun – what a way to make a living!!!

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  14. When my kids were little, I liked the Katy Morag books about life on a Scottish island. And also the Alfie and Annie Rose books.
    Faves from my childhood, would be a pop up book I had of Sleeping Beauty. And all the other fairytale books. Long passed on to others. X

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  15. I still have most of the hundreds of picture books we accumulated when my kids were growing up. I read many of them to my grandson when he was little, and felt almost unbearably sad when he outgrew them. I’m keeping them in case there are more grandchildren yet to come…

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  21. Many people assume that writing a picture book is easy because there are so few pages (often 16 or 32 pages, depending on whether the words are on each page or every other page). The trick is to make every word and picture count while incorporating an interesting story with a valuable lesson. I read far more MG books than picture books, but now that our grandson is almost two, I’m more on the lookout.

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    • I’m sure you will be – yes, I see them as like writing a poem, or a haiku. you have to be very succinct and tell the story in just a limited number of words, which is not an easy task.

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  22. I love picture books! I forced myself to only hold onto a few favorites for if I ever have littles visit my house; the rest I passed along to a teacher friend to help support classroom libraries.

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  26. As a kid, I read picture comics wnich were published every week. The was the Beano, the Dandy and the Topper. Regular stories, Coronel Blink, the Short-Sighted Gink, The Bash Street Kids,etc. Every Chistmas they would publish a big special hard covered book. Still got some of them on my bookshelf today.

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