The picture book is a powerful, flexible art form whose audience — children — are keen and sensitive observers, new to our world and alert to its beauty and strangeness. These are ideal ...

BBC Culture polled 177 books experts from 56 countries in order to find the greatest children's books ever ... turn our attention to another art form so deeply embedded in all our lives ...

BARNETT: The picture book is my favorite art form. I started out - I was a camp counselor in college, and reading picture books out loud to kids - that is what made me want to start writing books ...