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Picture book

Index Picture book

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. [1]

191 relations: A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, Academy Awards, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alphabet book, American Library Association, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Animals of the Bible, Animation, Annette Tison, Are You My Mother?, Arthur Rackham, Babar the Elephant, Barbapapa, Barbara Cooney, Beatrix Potter, Beginner Books, Berta and Elmer Hader, Best Word Book Ever, Board book, Book, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Charles Robinson (illustrator), Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Children's literature, Cicely Mary Barker, Clement Hurd, Corinne Malvern, Cosmopolitan (magazine), Curious George, Danny and the Dinosaur, David McKee, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Dick and Jane, Dick Bruna, Dorothy P. Lathrop, Dr. Seuss, Dumpy books, Edmund Dulac, Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Eloise (books), Eloise Wilkin, Elsa Beskow, Else Holmelund Minarik, Encyclopedia, Everyone Poops, Fairy tale, Fedor Flinzer, Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, ..., Fox in Socks, Garth Williams, Geisel Award, George and Doris Hauman, George Cruikshank, Go, Dog. Go!, Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Award, Good Housekeeping, Goodnight Moon, Green Eggs and Ham, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Gustave Doré, Gyo Fujikawa, Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Harper (publisher), Heinrich Hoffmann (author), Helen Bannerman, Helen Palmer (author), Henry Justice Ford, Hop on Pop, Horton Hatches the Egg, Howard Pyle, Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ivan Bilibin, Japan, Jean de Brunhoff, John Amos Comenius, John Bauer (illustrator), John Hersey, John Newbery, John Tenniel, Johnny Gruelle, Kate Greenaway, Kate Greenaway Medal, Kewpie, Kurt Wiese, L. Frank Baum, Ladies' Home Journal, Lancelot Speed, Learning to read, Leo Politi, Leonard Weisgard, Lewis Carroll, Life (magazine), Little Bear (book), Little Golden Books, Lois Lenski, Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline, Make Way for Ducklings, Marcia Brown, Margaret Wild, Margaret Wise Brown, Marjorie Flack, Martin Handford, Maurice Sendak, Max and Moritz, Mei Li, Miami University, Miffy, Millions of Cats, Mitsumasa Anno, Moomins, Mother Goose, Mr. Men, Munro Leaf, Newbery Medal, Nursery rhyme, Orbis Pictus, P. D. Eastman, Paperboard, Paul O. Zelinsky, Peter Sís, Pop-up book, Popular culture, Publishers Weekly, Raggedy Ann, Randolph Caldecott, Random House, Raymond Briggs, Richard Scarry, Robert Lawson (author), Robert McCloskey, Roger Duvoisin, Roger Hargreaves, Rose O'Neill, Roy McKie, Sam and the Firefly, Scuffy the Tugboat, Simon & Schuster, Spike Jonze, Stan and Jan Berenstain, Struwwelpeter, Syd Hoff, Talus Taylor, Tarō Gomi, Tasha Tudor, Television in the United Kingdom, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The Dangerous Journey, The King's Stilts, The Little Engine That Could, The Little House, The Little Red Hen, The Poky Little Puppy, The Snowman, The Story about Ping, The Story of Ferdinand, The Story of Little Black Sambo, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Wheels on the Bus, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Thomas Handforth, Tibor Gergely, Tootle, Tove Jansson, Toy book, United Kingdom, Vilhelm Pedersen, W. Heath Robinson, Walt Disney, Walter Crane, Wanda Gág, Where the Wild Things Are, Where the Wild Things Are (film), Where the Wild Things Are (opera), Where's Wally?, Where's Wally?: The Animated Series, Who Will Comfort Toffle?, Wilhelm Busch, Willy Pogany, Woman's Home Companion, Woodcut. Expand index (141 more) »

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer is the title of a 1744 children's book by British publisher John Newbery.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

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Alphabet book

An alphabet book is a book primarily designed for young children.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Theodor Seuss Geisel's first children's book.

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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913.

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Animals of the Bible

Animals of the Bible is a book illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop with text compiled by Helen Dean Fish.

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Animation

Animation is a dynamic medium in which images or objects are manipulated to appear as moving images.

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Annette Tison

Annette Tison, (born in 1942 in Hossegor, France) is a French architect and writer, mainly known for being co-creator of the Barbapapa series with her American husband Talus Taylor.

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Are You My Mother?

Are You My Mother? is a children's book by P. D. Eastman published by Random House Books for Young Readers on June 12, 1960 as part of its Beginner Books series.

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Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.

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Babar the Elephant

Babar the Elephant is a fictional character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff.

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Barbapapa

Barbapapa is a 1970 children's picture book by the French-American couple Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who lived in Paris, France.

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Barbara Cooney

Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years.

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Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter (British English, North American English also, 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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Beginner Books

Beginner Books is the Random House imprint for young children ages 3–9, co-founded by Phyllis Cerf with Ted Geisel, more often known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel.

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Berta and Elmer Hader

Berta Hoerner Hader (August 1, 1890 – February 6, 1976) and Elmer Stanley Hader (September 7, 1889 – September 7, 1973) were an American couple who jointly illustrated more than 70 children's books, about half of which they also wrote.

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Best Word Book Ever

Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry was published in 1963 and became a best-selling children's book.

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Board book

A board book is a type of book printed on thick paperboard.

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Book

A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition contained in it.

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Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are a set of American literary awards conferred by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine annually from 1967.

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Caldecott Medal

The Randolph Caldecott Medal annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children", beginning with 1937 publications.

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Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Charles Robinson (1870–1937) was a prolific British book illustrator.

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Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the United Kingdom.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Cicely Mary Barker

Cicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers.

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Clement Hurd

Clement G. Hurd (January 12, 1908 – February 5, 1988) was an American artist.

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Corinne Malvern

Corinne Malvern (December 13, 1901 – November 9, 1956) was an American commercial artist, active as a fashion advertising artist and illustrator of children's books between the early 1930s and her death in 1956.

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Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women, which was formerly titled The Cosmopolitan. The magazine was first published and distributed in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine (since 1965).

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Curious George

Curious George is the protagonist of a series of popular children's books by the same name, written by H. A. Rey and Margret Rey.

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Danny and the Dinosaur

Danny and the Dinosaur is a popular children's book by Syd Hoff, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1958.

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David McKee

David John McKee (born 2 January 1935) is a British writer and illustrator, chiefly of children's books and animations.

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Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

The (German Children´s Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's literature.

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Dick and Jane

Dick and Jane are the main characters in popular basal readers written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp and published by Scott Foresman, that were used to teach children to read from the 1930s through to the 1990s in the United States.

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Dick Bruna

Dick Bruna (23 August 1927 – 16 February 2017) was a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer.

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Dorothy P. Lathrop

Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891 – December 30, 1980) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring more than 60 children's books under the pen name Doctor Seuss (abbreviated Dr. Seuss).

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Dumpy books

The Dumpy Books for Children were a series of small-format books selected by E. V. Lucas and published by British publisher Grant Richards between 1897 and 1904.

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Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 – 25 May 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer.

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Elmer the Patchwork Elephant

Elmer the Patchwork Elephant is a children's picture book series by the British author David McKee.

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Eloise (books)

Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson (1909–1998) and illustrated by Hilary Knight (b. 1926).

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Eloise Wilkin

Eloise Margaret Wilkin, born Eloise Margaret Burns (March 30, 1904 – October 4, 1987), was an American illustrator.

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Elsa Beskow

Elsa Beskow (née Maartman) (11February 187430June 1953) was a Swedish author and illustrator of children's books.

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Else Holmelund Minarik

Else Holmelund Minarik (September 13, 1920 – July 12, 2012) was an American author of more than 40 children's books.

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Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of information from either all branches of knowledge or from a particular field or discipline.

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Everyone Poops

Everyone Poops is the title of US editions of the English translation (by Amanda Mayer Stinchecum) of, a Japanese children's book written and illustrated by the prolific children's author Tarō Gomi and first published in Japan by Fukuinkan Shoten in 1977 within the series.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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Fedor Flinzer

Fedor Alexis Flinzer (4 April 1832 in Reichenbach im Vogtland – 14 June 1911 in Leipzig) was an author, educator and one of the greatest German illustrators of the Gründerzeit, who was called Raphael of Cats.

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Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky

Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский) (December 24, 1891 – October 12, 1970), also known as Rojan, was a Russian émigré illustrator.

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Fox in Socks

Fox in Socks is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1965.

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Garth Williams

Garth Montgomery Williams (April 16, 1912 – May 8, 1996) was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children's books.

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Geisel Award

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is a literary award by the American Library Association (ALA) that annually recognizes the "author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year." The winner(s) receive a bronze medal at the ALA Annual Conference, presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) division of ALA.

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George and Doris Hauman

George Hauman (died 1961) and Doris Holt Hauman (August 29, 1898 – 1978) were American illustrators of children's books.

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George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.

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Go, Dog. Go!

Go, Dog.

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Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Award

The Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition (童书展和金风车国际青年插画大赛) was held for the first time at the China Children's Book Fair (CCBF), in Shanghai, in 2015, and, like the CCBF, is set to become an annual event, the aim being to identify talented young illustrators from around the world.

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Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, and health, as well as literary articles.

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Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon is an American children's novel written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd.

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Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960.

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (lead), is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.

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Gustaf Tenggren

Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 – April 9, 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator.

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Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving.

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Gyo Fujikawa

Gyo Fujikawa (November 3, 1908 – November 26, 1998) was an American illustrator and children's book author.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.

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Hans Christian Andersen Award

The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two literary awards by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), recognising one living author and one living illustrator for their "lasting contribution to children's literature".

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.

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Heinrich Hoffmann (author)

Heinrich Hoffmann (June 13, 1809 – September 20, 1894) was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter, an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving.

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Helen Bannerman

Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman (née Watson; 25 February 1862 in Edinburgh – 13 October 1946 in Edinburgh), was a Scottish author of children's books.

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Helen Palmer (author)

Helen Marion Palmer Geisel (September 23, 1898 – October 23, 1967), known professionally as Helen Palmer, was an American children's author, editor, and philanthropist.

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Henry Justice Ford

Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s.

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Hop on Pop

Hop on Pop is a 1963 children's picture book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel).

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Horton Hatches the Egg

Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House.

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Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.

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Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Ingri d'Aulaire (December 27, 1904 – October 24, 1980) and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (September 30, 1898 – May 1, 1986) were U.S. immigrant writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team.

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Ivan Bilibin

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (p; – 7 February 1942) was a 20th-century illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Painters (Сою́з ру́сских худо́жников) and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jean de Brunhoff

Jean de Brunhoff (9 December 1899 – 16 October 1937) was a French writer and illustrator remembered for creating the Babar books, the first of which appeared in 1931.

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John Amos Comenius

John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský; Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian from the Margraviate of Moravia"Clamores Eliae" he dedicated "To my lovely mother, Moravia, one of her faithful son...". Clamores Eliae, p.69, Kastellaun/Hunsrück: A. Henn, 1977.

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John Bauer (illustrator)

John Albert Bauer (4 June 1882 – 20 November 1918) was a Swedish painter and illustrator.

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John Hersey

John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist.

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John Newbery

John Newbery (9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767), called "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market.

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John Tenniel

Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914)Johnson, Lewis (2003).

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Johnny Gruelle

Johnny Gruelle (December 24, 1880 – January 9, 1938) was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book author, comics authors, and illustrator, and songwriter.

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Kate Greenaway

Catherine Greenaway (17 March 18466 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

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Kate Greenaway Medal

The Kate Greenaway Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children".

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Kewpie

Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were conceived as comic strip characters by cartoonist Rose O'Neill.

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Kurt Wiese

Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 – May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator.

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L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels.

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Ladies' Home Journal

Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine published by the Meredith Corporation.

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Lancelot Speed

Lancelot Speed (13 June 1860 – 31 December 1931) was a Victorian illustrator of books, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature.

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Learning to read

Learning to read is the acquisition and practice of the skills necessary to understand the meaning behind printed words.

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Leo Politi

Leo Politi (1908–1996) was an Italian-American artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books, as well as Bunker Hill, Los Angeles (1964), intended for adults.

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Leonard Weisgard

Leonard Joseph Weisgard (December 13, 1916 – January 14, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 200 children's books.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Little Bear (book)

Little Bear is a series of children's books, primarily involving the interaction of Little Bear (a small cub) and Mother Bear (his mother), and the yearning he has for his father who is a ship's captain and absent for long periods.

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Little Golden Books

Little Golden Books is a popular series of children's books.

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Lois Lenski

Lois Lenski Covey (October 14, 1893 – September 11, 1974) was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature.

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Ludwig Bemelmans

Ludwig Bemelmans (born April 27, 1898 – October 1, 1962) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Madeline

Madeline is a media franchise that originated as a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, an Austrian-American author.

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Make Way for Ducklings

Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey.

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Marcia Brown

Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books.

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Margaret Wild

Margaret Wild (born 1948) is an Australian children's writer.

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Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 – November 13, 1952) was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd.

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Marjorie Flack

Marjorie Flack (22 October 1897 - August 29, 1958) was an American artist and writer of children's picture books. Flack was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York in 1897.

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Martin Handford

Martin Handford (born 27 September 1956), Scholastic Book Club.

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Max and Moritz

Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks) (original: Max und Moritz – Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen) is a German language illustrated story in verse.

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Mei Li

Mei Li is a book by Thomas Handforth.

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Miami University

Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.

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Miffy

Miffy (Nijntje, pronounced) is a small female rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna.

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Millions of Cats

Millions of Cats is a picture book written and illustrated by Wanda Gág in 1928.

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Mitsumasa Anno

is a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words.

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Moomins

The Moomins (Mumin) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland.

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Mother Goose

The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes often published as Old Mother Goose's Rhymes, as illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1913.

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Mr. Men

Mr.

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Munro Leaf

Wilbur Monroe Leaf (Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American author of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career.

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Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Orbis Pictus

Orbis Pictus, or Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Visible World in Pictures) is a textbook for children written by Czech educator John Amos Comenius and published in 1658.

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P. D. Eastman

Philip Dey "Phil" Eastman (November 25, 1909January 7, 1986) was an American screenwriter, children's author, and illustrator.

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Paperboard

Paperboard is a thick paper-based material.

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Paul O. Zelinsky

Paul O. Zelinsky (born 1953) is an American illustrator and writer best known for illustrating children's picture books.

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Peter Sís

Peter Sís (born Petr Sís; May 11, 1949) is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Pop-up book

The term pop-up book is often applied to any three-dimensional or movable book, although properly the umbrella term movable book covers pop-ups, transformations, tunnel books, volvelles, flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, pull-downs, and more, each of which performs in a different manner.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Raggedy Ann

Raggedy Ann is a character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) that appeared in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children.

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Randolph Caldecott

Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was an English artist and illustrator, born in Chester.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Raymond Briggs

Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE (born 18 January 1934) is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children.

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Richard Scarry

Richard McClure Scarry (June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994) was an American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide.

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Robert Lawson (author)

Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Robert McCloskey

John Robert McCloskey (September 14, 1914 – June 30, 2003) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Roger Duvoisin

Roger Antoine Duvoisin (August 28, 1900 – June 1980) was a Swiss-born American writer and illustrator, best known for children's picture books.

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Roger Hargreaves

Charles Roger Hargreaves (9 May 1935 – 11 September 1988) publishing as Roger Hargreaves, was an English author and illustrator of children's books, best remembered for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers.

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Rose O'Neill

Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer.

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Roy McKie

Roy McKie (usually spelled "McKié"; October 8, 1921 – January 8, 2015) was an American illustrator of children's books, most notably under the Beginner Books imprint.

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Sam and the Firefly

Sam and the Firefly is a children's book by P. D. Eastman.

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Scuffy the Tugboat

Scuffy the Tugboat is a children's book written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Spike Jonze

Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze (pronounced "Jones"), is an American filmmaker, photographer, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.

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Stan and Jan Berenstain

Stan and Jan Berenstain were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series The Berenstain Bears.

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Struwwelpeter

Der Struwwelpeter ("shock-headed Peter") is an 1845 German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann.

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Syd Hoff

Syd Hoff (September 4, 1912 – May 12, 2004) was a Jewish-American cartoonist and children's book author, best known for his classic early reader Danny and the Dinosaur.

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Talus Taylor

Talus Taylor (1933 - 19 February 2015) was a writer of children's literature, best known for being the co-creator with his wife Annette Tison of the Barbapapa series.

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Tarō Gomi

is a Japanese children's book writer who is currently one of Japan's most prolific children's book illustrators and authors.

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Tasha Tudor

Tasha Tudor (August 28, 1915 – June 18, 2008) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Television in the United Kingdom

Television in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising.

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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard Press in 1938.

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The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published in 1957.

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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is a children's book written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1958.

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The Dangerous Journey

The Dangerous Journey (Orig. Swedish Den farliga resan) is a children's picture book in the Moomin series by Tove Jansson.

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The King's Stilts

The King's Stilts is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss, and published in 1939 by Random House.

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The Little Engine That Could

The Little Engine That Could is an American fairytale (existing in the form of several illustrated children's book and movies)that became widely known in the United States after publication in 1930 by Platt & Munk.

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The Little House

The Little House is a 1942 book written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton.

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The Little Red Hen

The Little Red Hen is an old folk tale of the fable type, most likely of Russian origin.

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The Poky Little Puppy

The Poky Little Puppy is a children's book written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren.

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The Snowman

The Snowman is a children's picture book without words by English author Raymond Briggs, first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom, and published by Random House in the United States in November of the same year.

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The Story about Ping

The Story About Ping is a popular children's book written by Marjorie Flack and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

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The Story of Ferdinand

The Story of Ferdinand (1936) is the best known work written by American author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson.

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The Story of Little Black Sambo

The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman, and published by Grant Richards in October 1899 as one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children.

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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co.

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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor.

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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co.

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The Tale of Tom Kitten

The Tale of Tom Kitten is a children's book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.

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The Wheels on the Bus

"The Wheels on the Bus" is an American folk song dating no later than 1939 written by Verna Hills.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900.

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Thomas Handforth

Thomas Scofield Handforth (September 16, 1897 – October 19, 1948) was an American artist and etcher.

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Tibor Gergely

Tibor Gergely (August 3, 1900 – January 13, 1978) was a Hungarian American artist best known for his illustration of popular children's picture books.

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Tootle

Tootle is a children's book written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely in 1945.

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Tove Jansson

Tove Marika Jansson (Finland; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.

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Toy book

Toy books were illustrated children's books that became popular in England's Victorian era.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vilhelm Pedersen

Thomas Vilhelm Pedersen (28 January 1820 – 13 March 1859) was a Danish painter and illustrator who is above all remembered for his illustrations for fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

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W. Heath Robinson

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walter Crane

Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator.

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Wanda Gág

Wanda Hazel Gág (1893–1946) was an American artist, author, translator, and illustrator.

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Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row.

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Where the Wild Things Are (film)

Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze.

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Where the Wild Things Are (opera)

Where the Wild Things Are, Op. 20, is a 'fantasy' opera in one act by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own children's book of the same title.

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Where's Wally?

Where's Wally?, published in the US and Canada as Where's Waldo?, is a British series of children's puzzle books created by English illustrator Martin Handford.

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Where's Wally?: The Animated Series

Where's Wally?: The Animated Series (called Where's Waldo? in North America) is a joint venture between American/Canadian/British animated television series production, animated by DIC Entertainment and The Waldo Film Company.

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Who Will Comfort Toffle?

Who Will Comfort Toffle? is the second picture book in the Moomin series by Tove Jansson.

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Wilhelm Busch

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter.

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Willy Pogany

William Andrew ("Willy") Pogany (born Vilmos András Pogány) (August 24, 1882 – July 30, 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books.

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Woman's Home Companion

Woman's Home Companion was an American monthly magazine, published from 1873 to 1957.

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Woodcut

Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_book

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