Princeton University
Cotsen Children's Library: Water Babies: Swimming in Picture Books
Learn about children's book illustration of swimming scenes in this on-line exhibit of relevant images from popular children's stories.
Princeton University
Cotsen Children's Library: Creepy Crawlies: Insects in Picture Books
Learn about how insects are used in children's books in this image gallery with descriptions of multiple examples from popular children's literature.
Other
The Big Picture Book of Viruses
This site has a catalog of all known viruses, including a picture of each, structure, family, hosts, and more.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Activities: Dinosaur Picture Book
Learn who Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was, and how his art contributed to our understanding of dinosaurs.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your students chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Teaching Art With Picture Books
Lesson where students learn about Eric Carle, create an online Project Poster about him, and create a collage using his style of illustrations. Students will discuss their art in small groups using vocabulary learned during the lesson.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Barbara Cooney
This site contains a biography of Barbara Cooney, and a summary of each of her picture books. Pictures of each of her books are provided.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Phonological Awareness/beginning Sounds
During this lesson students will develop phonological awareness through activities that focus on beginning sounds. Students will go on a scavenger hunt, make a picture book, and play games on the Internet in order to help them learn to...
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The Virtual Vine: The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn
Using the book, "The Kissing Hand", teachers are given a variety of cross-curricular ideas to implement this story into the classroom.
EL Education
El Education: Creature of the Tides
This picture book was created by a high school junior from the Kanu o ka 'Aina New Public Charter School on The Big Island of Hawaii, a K - 12 Hawaiian-Immersion school. It was created for younger, elementary-aged students, as part of an...
EL Education
El Education: First Come the Eggs
First Come the Eggs, a picture book for young readers, was created by 3rd grade students in Rochester, New York. This is a biography of Seth Green, the father of fish hatcheries in America. The research included the study of the life...
EL Education
El Education: If You Take a Dog to the Beach
Kindergarten students created this children's picture book. If You Take a Dog to the Beach was based on the commercial book series that includes If You Give a Moose a Muffin in which a sequence of events is kicked off by an initial...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Lily's Day: A Series of Designs by Frolich and God Papa
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Lily's Day: A Series of Designs by Frolich and God-Papa (1864), a picture book story.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The House that Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott (1890), a picture book of the nursery rhyme.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Clifford: Read and Write: A Fish With a Wish
This is a picture book story about a fish and a lobster who both wish they had a friend.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Supercow Colouring and Drawing Edition [Pdf]
Supercow is a picture book for young children. It offers a page for children's drawings and coloring on every other page.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: My Precious Baby Dear by Andrea Elder [Pdf]
Read this picture book to see all the things Precious Baby Dear will do and learn.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: That Worked [Pdf]
A picture book where children learn to work out thier differences.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Fun Early Readers Collection [Pdf]
A collection of four picture books by Danielle Bruckert: Gecko on the Wall. Bugs by Number, Writing on the Wall, and The Adventures of Supercow (Vol. 1).
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Bugs by Numbers by Danielle Bruckert [Pdf]
This rhyming picture book has children counting creatures using numbers 1 to 5.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Woman and Child Looking at a Picture Book
An image of "Woman and Child looking at a Picture Book", created by Jacob De Ii Gheyn, c. 1600 (Pen and wash on paper).
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Start With What Isn't There
In this lesson plan, learners will describe a setting, attempting to set a mood for their readers in two paragraphs. Borrowing a technique from Stephen Kramer's two-page introduction to Caves, they will begin with a paragraph that...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Three Meal Weather
Inspired by Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi & Ron Barrett, young scholars will brainstorm adjectives that center around food that might fall from the sky. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner foods will be brainstormed. They will...
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