Beautiful Children's Books

[IamBear]

What are your suggestions? Can be illustrations, or story lines, or messages.

Current favourite is Maybe by Kobi Yamada. Read here:

Pandora by Victoria Turnbull.
The illustrations are beautiful as is the message.

This is a lovely story but it's also printed nicely too.



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2258971.NoMatterr_What

@TartanPyjamas Watership Down is one of my favourite books! I might have to get that. Dd has already read it though and thought it was just ‘ok’. . I also bought her a beautiful Folio Society edition of Anne of Green Gables and she couldn’t finish it because she hated it - she found Anne really irritating! I was heartbroken!

I know this thread is from November but I thought I'd ask for some more ideas. Ds seems to like Beatrix Potter a lot. I would suggest Brambly Hedge.

Blue kangaroo. I think I still know it by heart abs my girls are teens. Also love peepo, I had it as a child and loved reading it to my two.

Old Bear by Jane Hissey.

That book and her other books are lovely stories that she has beautifully illustrated.

The Lion and the mouse ( Aesop fable) by Jerry Pinkney.

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr

There's a Sea in My Bedroom by Margaret Wild, illustrates by Jane Tanner.

Nobody Owns the Sky - tells the true story of Bessie Colman (although it makes me cry - be aware it includes her death, though not in detail).

The Wreck of the Zephyr - lovely pictures and a wonderful fantasy storyline.

Handa's Surprise - gorgeous pictures and a gently humorous story.

For beautiful non-fiction books look up Magic Cat Publishing. I can particularly recommend ‘Slow Down’, but all their other books look wonderful too.

The Lost Words. Exquisite

Thank you

Agree with Blue Kangaroo books 😍😍
I also love Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox, and perhaps more quirky than beautiful, Lauren Child's version of Goldilocks

Venus, DH bought me that edition of The Secret Garden for Christmas a few years ago. Inga Moore has also illustrated a beautiful version of The Wind in the Willows which DH also bought me. Lucky me.

May Gibbs, Gumnut Babies are beautiful almost botanical illustrations, and of course the inestimable Beatrix Potter.

I remember books illustrated by Edward Ardizzone very fondly - Joan Aiken especially. I remember wanting to be Dido Twite.

there's a gorgeous book called slow down which looks carefully at different aspects of nature. I always buy it as a gift. beautiful.

For younger children, Nick Butterworth's Percy and the Park Keeper books are popular in my house. I love that they usually have a maze or a search and find element to them as well. Lots to look at, wonderful illustrations.

Second hand; Hilda Boswell's Treasury of Children's Stories

I bawled my eyes out at Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, when I was pregnant.

Each peach pear plum was my favourite as a child and was my DC favourite and I give it as part of a present for new babies and anyone I’ve given it too loves it also

For me “the building boy” illustrated by David litchfield - the story makes me well up as well

Lots of favourites already mentioned. I'll add Peepo, The Good Brown Earth and One True Bear (get the tissues out!)

Anything illustrated by Alison Jay but particularly’I Took The Moon For A Walk’

Also ‘Can You See A Little Bear’. James Mayhew and Jackie Morris. The illustrations in this blow my mind, I have spent many hours pondering the world they represent and if I could write fantasy fiction I would write a novel about this world.