A Digital Shelf for Children's Books that I Come Across

A project started during the Covid Lockdown in an effort to find simple joys in art and storytelling that often gets overlooked. This is an archive of all sorts of kidlit illustrations, and hopefully it makes you as happy as it makes me

[picturebookshelf]

The Orphan Boy (1990)

Story: Tololwa M Mollel – Art: Paul Morin Canadian

[picturebookshelf]

Caillou Rides on a Plane (2001)

Adapted by: Roger Harvey -- Art: Frances Morgan Canadian

[newberyreviewers]

The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh. Illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. 1955 Newbery Honor winner. Illustration of Sarah cooking for her father in the wilderness.  

[picturebookshelf]

What’s a Pair? What’s a Dozen? (2000)

Story and Art: Stephen R Swinburne

[nattousan]

i'm in agony, SOMEbody please help me remember what the childhood book series was that centered around critters that looked like this:

IM IN HELL WHAT WAS IT

[hrrkikshoard]

Little Critter?

[nattousan]

THATS THE BITCH

[nattousan]

alright smart-aleks, what about THIS one huh?? the dude had a really cool shading technique where he just swirled (colored pencil?) around??

[cosmignon]

Parts :)

[nattousan]

YOU GUYS ARE TOO GOOD AT THIS WHAT THE HELL

[nattousan]

ok my partner wanted in on this, I have no idea what this is

[thecrabscycle]

I GOT YOU

[nattousan]

i'm never leaving this fucking site i stg i love you all.

OK

final one

for all the marbles,

this one doesn't have an illustration bc i think it was just a kids novel but i haven't been able to find ANYTHING about it on my occasional internet queries:

kids is staying with his (grandmother?) in the woods and she warns him not to look a fox in the eyes bc they're tricksy and will swap places with you. obviously that's the first thing the little boy does and gets body snatched by a fox who uhhhh proceeds to pig out with his new little boy human hands and the boy has to trick the fox into looking him in the eyes again to switch back...

thats all i got, it's an older book i wanna say from the 60's?? 70's?? kinda the same jist of "Little Rascal"

[dyketennant]

perhaps this?

[nattousan]

A DECADE OF SEARCHING THANK YOU @dyketennant IM ORDERING THIS IMMEDIATELY

[nattousan]

ok i lied i'm back bc this is fun and i get to share some of my most deeply cherished childhood books with you all

i cannot express how much these are from memory, that's how internalized these artists and writers have become, they're a part of me now

[cryptid-of-ohio]

The first one looks like The Spider and the Fly, though the poses are a bit different.

The second one is likely Stellaluna.

I’m not sure about the third one, I will keep searching.

[cryptid-of-ohio]

I think I found the third one, though I’m the least confident about this one. Is it Creature Tech?

Unfortunately it doesn’t have a praying mantis on the cover :(

[nattousan]

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban (1970)?

yes

no

I've never heard of it

Remaining time: 4 days 9 hours

[picturebookshelf]

The Questioneers: Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote (2020)

Story: Andrea Beaty -- Art: David Roberts

[grickle14]

TODAY! My latest graphic novel for early readers is out in the world! "My Imaginary Duck" is available in all your favorite places to purchase books! Is Mavis's duck REAL? Or imagined? Find out what happens in this quirky little adventure!

My Imaginary Duck

My Imaginary Duck is the newest offering from I Can Read Comics, an early reader line that familiarizes children with the world of graphic n

[saltwaterandstars]

JOMP BPC - 23rd January - Open Books

I think if you're going to take pictures of an open book, it might as well be one that has lovely illustrations!

[picturebookshelf]

Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners (2007)

Story and Art: Laurie Keller

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (orig. Die unendliche Geschichte, 1979)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Remaining time: 3 days 7 hours

[picturebookshelf]

An Illustrated History of Urban Legends (2024)

Text and Art: Adam Allsuch Boardman

[oracle-fae-deactivated20260720]

beautiful book covers

[picturebookshelf]

Hide and Seek with Big Bird (1991)

Story: Unknown -- Art: Tom Cooke

[cover-art-showdown]

Round One, Match 780

Which cover do you prefer?

Wildwood

Station Eleven

Remaining time: 1 day 15 hours

Wildwood (Colin Meloy), Balzer + Bray 2011. Cover by Carson Ellis.

Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel), Subterranean Press 2017. Cover by Vincent Chong.

[picturebookshelf]

Deux amis poissons

Story: Gina Shaw -- Translator: Josée Leduc -- Art: Mike Wesley

[lychens]

pov you're in middleschool in 2012 and you ask to borrow a book from the weird kid next to you that only draws wolves. these are your options.