: a book that consists wholly or chiefly of pictures
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Adjective
the players gave a picture-book performance that will go down in the annals of football as one of the all-time great games
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Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
Cereza and the Lost Demon is easy to fall in love with as a magical picture-book that deviates into the macabre side of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
—Joshua Khan, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
Jon Klassen, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Alongside co-director Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy brings his best-selling picture book to the screen.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
The spread of literacy, newfangled methods of production and an almost mystical efflorescence of creativity combined to produce superb and lasting works of picture-book art.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
Cereza and the Lost Demon is easy to fall in love with as a magical picture-book that deviates into the macabre side of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
—Joshua Khan, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
Noun
These original board books are often even shorter than picture books, and smaller in dimension, too.
—Jon Klassen, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
All the New 2024 Christmas Movies Coming to Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, Great American Family and More
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Alongside co-director Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy brings his best-selling picture book to the screen.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Picture-book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picture-book. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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