And the book kind of merges those historic photos with your original artwork. As you move through the pages, you're learning little details about the house and, as you say, seeing furniture and ...

And I kind of struggle to know ... DETROW: That's Omar Abed and Hatem Aly, the author and illustrator of a new picture book, "The Book That Almost Rhymed." Thank you so much to both of you.

A picture book should feel organic ... I can’t think of any other kind of writing that’s created specifically to be spoken by people who aren’t necessarily in the habit of reading aloud.

TOKYO -- If you were raising children overseas, what kind of picture books would you want for them? Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit group that promotes activities to give picture ...

Picture Books and Graphic Novels Baby Ballers ... How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Be Kind? by Jane Yolen, illus. by Mark Teague (Scholastic Press, Jan. 3 $18.99; ISBN 978-1-338-82720-0).

When I was little, my mother often read picture books to me. She told me an interesting ... reading has nurtured my inner strengths of being kind, responsible and always courageous in dealing ...