LITR 394: Special Topics in Literature: Children's Literature (CRN 874)
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Picture Book Suggestion for Essay Option A:
Alix Berenzy (A Frog Prince, Sammy: The Classroom Guinea Pig)
Jan Brett (The Mitten, The Hat)
Anthony Browne (Into the Forest, Zoo)
Janell Cannon (Stellaluna, Verdi)
Lauren Child (Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?, Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent)
Babette Cole (Princess Smartypants, Prince Cinders)
Doreen Cronin (Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Diary of a Fly)
Jude Daly (Fair, Brown & Trembling, To Everything There Is a Season)
Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland (King & King)
Lisa Campbell Ernst (Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale; Goldilocks Returns)
Paul Fleischman (Shadow Play, The Animal Hedge)
Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers (How Are You Peeling?, Fast Food)
Marie-Louise Gay (Stella: Queen of the Snow, Yuck, A Love Story (illus.))
Paul Goble (The Death of the Iron Horse, The Girl Who Loved Horses)
Donald Hall (Ox-Cart Man, When Willard Met Babe Ruth)
Trina Schart Hyman (Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty)
Arthur A. Levine (The Boy Who Drew Cats, Pearl Moscowitz's Last Stand)
Susan Lowell (Little Red Cowboy Hat, The Three Little Javelinas)
Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal)
Robert Munsch (The Paper Bag Princess, Aaron’s Hair)
Margie Palatini (Bad Boys, Piggie Pie!)
Patricia Polacco (Pink and Say, Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair)
Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny)
Robert D. San Souci (The Talking Eggs, Cendrillon)
Jon Scieszka (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs)
Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, Outside Over There)
Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle)
William Steig (Shrek, Dr. De Soto)
Chris Van Allsburg (Jumanji, Polar Express, Zathura)
Bruce Whatley (Wait! No Paint!, Clinton Gregory’s Secret)
David Wiesner (Tuesday, The Three Pigs)
There are many great picture books to choose from. A great resource for ones with excellent artwork is the Caldecott Medal (the US annual award for picture books). There are many other picture book awards for different types of picture books, and you can generally find them listed online. My research links page will have some of those sites.