Dayton Metro Library
Reprinted with permission from Melissa Sokol.
After you look through the art of one of the picture books, rate it on a scale of 1–10 for how much you enjoyed the art and jot down any notes or thoughts you had about the artwork.
Things to consider:
- Can the pictures tell a story on their own without the text?
- Is the artwork unique? Something you have never seen before?
- Noisy Night by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Brian Briggs
- Grand Canyon by Jason Chin
- Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper
- Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
- Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
- The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Adam Rex
- This House, Once by Deborah Freedman
- Lucía the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza, illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez
- Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari, illustrated by Patrice Barton
- Little Fox in the Forest by Stephanie Graegin
- Egg by Kevin Henkes
- Be Quiet by Ryan T. Higgins
- All Ears, All Eyes by Richard Jackson, illustrated by Katherine Tillotson
- A Greyhound, A Groundhog by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Chris Applehans
- The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
- Mama Lion Wins the Race by Jon J. Muth
- Blue Sky White Stars by Sarvinder Naberhaus, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Jerry Pinkney
- Niko Draws a Feeling by Bob Raczka, illustrated by Simone Shin
- Round by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Taeeum Yoo
References
Books
- Barnett, Mac. Noisy Night. Illustrated by Brian Biggs. New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press, 2017. unpaged. $23.99. 9781596439672.
- Chin, Jason. Grand Canyon. New York, NY: A Neal Porter Book, 2017. unpaged. $19.99. 9781596439504.
- Cooper, Elisha. Big Cat, Little Cat. New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press, 2017. unpaged. $16.99. 9781626723719.
- Cordell, Matthew. Wolf in the Snow. New York, NY: Feiwel and Friends, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9781250076366.
- Cornwall, Gaia. Jabari Jumps. New York, NY: 2017. unpaged. $15.99. 978076 3678388.
- Daywalt, Drew. The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors. Illustrated by Adam Rex. New York, NY: Balzer + Bray, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780062438898.
- Freedman, Deborah. This House, Once. New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9781481442848.
- Garza, Cynthia Leonor. Lucía the Luchadora. Illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez. Brooklyn, NY: Pow!, 2017. unpaged. $16.99. 9781576878279.
- Gianferrari, Maria. Hello Goodbye Dog. Illustrated by Patrice Barton. New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press, 2017. unpaged. $16.99. 9781626721777.
- Graegin, Stephanie. Little Fox in the Forest. New York, NY: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780553537895.
- Henkes, Kevin. Egg. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780062408723.
- Higgins, Ryan T. Be Quiet. New York, NY: Disney Hyperion, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9781484731628.
- Jackson, Richard. All Ears, All Eyes. Illustrated by Katherine Tillotson. New York, NY: A Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9781481415712.
- Jenkins, Emily. A Greyhound A Groundhog. Illustrated by Chris Applehans. New York, NY: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780553498059.
- Luyken, Corinna. The Book of Mistakes. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2017. unpaged. $18.99. 9780735227927.
- Muth, Jon J. Mama Lion Wins the Race. New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780545852821.
- Naberhaus, Sarvinder. Blue Sky White Stars. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780 803737006.
- Pinkney, Jerry. The Three Billy Goats Gruff. New York, NY: Little Brown and Company, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780316341578.
- Raczka, Bob. Niko Draws a Feeling. Illustrated by Simone Shin. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9781467798433.
- Sidman, Joyce. Round. Illustrated by Taeeum Yoo. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. unpaged. $17.99. 9780544387614.