I love board books and picture books! Good ones are really, really great. (Bad ones are terrible, but hopefully this blog will help you avoid spending money on those. And libraries go a long way with that, too.) I’ve grouped them together because many are sold in both formats, so it didn’t make sense to separate them. They are listed below first by author, then by title. The family that reads together definitely needs a lot of these—kid lit at its best!
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Board Books and Picture Books, Alphabetically by Author
- Linas Alsenas, The Princess of 8th Street
- Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, The Very Fairy Princess
- Jose Argueta, Arroz con Leche
- Chris Barton and Tom Lichtenheld: Shark Versus Train
- Marion Dane Bauer: The Longest Night
- Stan and Jan Berenstain: The Berenstain Bears In the Dark
- Sandra Boynton: Fifteen Animals
- M. Christina Butler: The Dark, Dark Night
- Eric Carle (illus): Animals, Animals
- Eric Carle: Mister Sea Horse
- Paul Carrick: Watch Out For Wolfgang
- Kate Coombs: Water Sings Blue
- Doreen Cronin: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
- Margaret Cuyler: Skeleton Hiccups
- David Diehl: Home Run!
- Olivier Dunrea: Gossie and Gertie
- Mary Engelbreit: Fairy Tales
- Jeff Foxwothy: Dirt On My Shirt
- Anna Grossnickle Hines: I am a backhoe
- Michael Hall: Perfect Square
- Philip Haussler: Following Featherbottom
- Fran Hodgkins: Who’s Been Here? A Tale in Tracks
- Hazel Hutchins: A Second is a Hiccup
- Pat Hutchins: Good-Night Owl!
- Kathy Jakobsen: My New York
- Barbara M. Joose: Mama do you love me?
- Nina Laden: When Pigasso Met Mootisse
- Diane Wright Landolf: What a good big brother!
- Brian Lies: Bats at the Library
- Darrin Lunde: After The Kill
- Jerilyn Marler: Lily Hates Goodbyes
- Peter McCarty: Jeremy Draws A Monster
- Laura McGee Kvasnosky: Really Truly Bingo
- Ken Mochizuki: Baseball Saved Us
- Leslie Patricelli: The Birthday Box
- Leslie Patricelli: Quiet LOUD
- Patricia Polacco: The Trees of the Dancing Goats
- Lizzy Rockwell: Hello Baby!
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Wumbers
- J.H. Shapiro: Magic Trash
- Amy E. Sklansky: Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans
- Robert D. San Souci: Cinderella Skeleton
- Lane Smith: It’s a Book
- Philip C. Stead: A Sick Day for Amos McGee
- Jill Thomlinson: The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark
- Hervé Tullet: Press Here
- Cathering Urdahl: Polka-dot Fixes Kindergarten
- Samatha Vamos: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred
- Martin Waddel: Can’t You Sleep Little Bear?
- Mo Willems: Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
- Mo Willems: We Are In A Book!
- Dan Yaccarino: Good Night, Mr. Night
- Paul O. Zelinsky: The Wheels on the Bus
Board Books and Picture Books, Alphabetically by TITLE
- After the Kill, by Darrin Lunde
- Animals, Animals, illus. by Eric Carle
- Arroz con leche, by Jose Argueta
- Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki
- Bats at the Library, by Brian Lies
- The Berenstain Bears in the Dark, by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- The Birthday Box, by Leslie Patricelli
- Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? by Martin Waddel
- The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred, by Samantha Vamos
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type, by Doreen Cronin
- Cinderella Skeleton, by Robert D. San Souci
- The Dark, Dark Night, by M. Christina Butler
- Dirt On My Shirt, by Jeff Foxworthy
- Fairy Tales, by Mary Engelbreit
- Fifteen Animals, by Sandra Boynton
- Following Featherbottom, by Philip Haussler
- Good Night, Mr. Night, by Dan Yaccarino
- Good-Night Owl!, by Pat Hutchins
- Gossie and Gertie, by Olivier Dunrea
- Hello Baby!, by Lizzy Rockwell
- Home Run! by David Diehl
- I am a backhoe, by Anna Grossnickle Hines
- It’s a Book, by Lane Smith
- Jeremy Draws A Monster, by Peter McCarty
- LaRue Across America, by Mark Teague
- Lily Hates Goodbyes, by Jerilyn Marler
- The Longest Night, by Marion Dane Bauer
- Magic Trash, by J.H. Shapiro
- Mama do you love me?, by Barbara M. Joose
- Mister Sea Horse, by Eric Carle
- My New York, by Kathy Jakobsen
- Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, by Mo Willems
- The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, by Jill Thomlinson
- Perfect Square, by Michael Hall
- Polka-dot Fixes Kindergarten, by Catherine Urdahl
- Press Here, by Hervé Tullet
- The Princess of 8th Street, by Linas Alsenas
- Quiet LOUD, by Leslie Patricelli
- Really Truly Bingo, by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
- A Second is a Hiccup, by Hazel Hutchins
- A Sick Day for Amos McGee, by Philip C. Stead
- Shark Versus Train, by Chris Barton and Tom Lichtenheld
- Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans, by Amy E. Sklansky
- Skeleton Hiccups, by Margaret Cuyler
- The Trees of the Dancing Goats, by Patricia Polacco
- The Very Fairy Princess, by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
- Watch Out For Wolfgang, by Paul Carrick
- Water Sings Blue, by Kate Coombs
- We Are In A Book! by Mo Willems
- What a good big brother! by Diane Wright Landolf
- The Wheels on the Bus, by Paul O. Zelinsky
- When Pigasso met Mootisse, by Nina Laden
- Who’s Been Here? A Tale in Tracks, by Fran Hodgkins
- Wumbers, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
