: a book that consists wholly or chiefly of pictures
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Examples of picture-book in a Sentence
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
Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
In Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab’s household, reading is a big deal — and now the couple has poured that passion into their first joint picture book!
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 30 Sep. 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
Her latest project was penning the personal picture book, Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
In Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab’s household, reading is a big deal — and now the couple has poured that passion into their first joint picture book!
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Picture-book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picture-book. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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