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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/us/08picture.htmlPicture Books No Longer a Staple for Children
By
JULIE BOSMANPublished: October 7, 2010
Picture books are so unpopular these days at the
Children’s Book Shop in Brookline, Mass., that employees there are used to placing new copies on the shelves, watching them languish and then
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I was a very early reader, and catapulting into chapter books at a young age certainly helped make me a stronger reader-but it's all on Robert Munsch for making me a writer.
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Also - Kit Williams' Masquerade must have been such an exciting book when it first came out :D
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my favorites: harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs by ian whybrow, the true story of the three little pigs by john scieszka (or any of the trucktown books), lost and found by oliver jeffers, falling angels by colin thompson, and 365 penguins by jean-luc fromental.
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I also loved Richard Scarry books. Especially the "Best Word Book Ever."
I work in a library, so I see kids books all the time. I love everything Mo Willems does. I'm also a fan of the "biddle books" by David Kirk. (And, kids still check out lots of picture books here!)
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