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A Great Year for Picture Books!

12/15/2015

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By Carrie Charley Brown

Okay, okay... I know I said that the blog was taking a break until January, but I just had to share a few more great picture books with you. I'm sure you've heard lots of people say, "This was a great year for picture books!" And if you haven't, I'm here to say, "This was a great year for picture books!"

With SO MANY great books, it made my job as a Round 1 CYBILS Fiction Picture Book Panelist that much harder. Below are a few books that I deem to be fabulous mentor texts. My opinion is solely my own, and does not reflect our collective panel. One of my recommendations is not a CYBILS nominee at all. See? I told you this was a great year for picture books!

Click on the book cover to read the review!

Which 2015 picture books were helpful mentor texts for you this year?
12 Comments
Kirsti Call
12/15/2015 02:27:53 pm

I really love the ones that you've chosen here...I also love Monster Needs Your Vote...

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Carrie Charley Brown
1/1/2016 01:32:51 pm

I have so so many I could list! (Time forced me to choose only a few this year.) I also loved Monster Needs Your Vote!

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Juliana Lee link
12/15/2015 03:04:50 pm

It certainly was a great year for picture books! More surprisingly to me was that there were THREE Yeti books! (Maybe more, but I read and recorded three on my blog.)

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Carrie Charley Brown
1/1/2016 01:41:35 pm

There were so many Yeti books this year! No Yeti Yet, Dear Yeti, Are We There, Yeti? are three I know of off the top of my head. And maybe you could even group Bigfoot into this category? Then Elwood Bigfoot might make it into this group, too? :)

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Myrna Foster link
12/15/2015 04:47:11 pm

WOLFIE THE BUNNY, CHLOE AND THE LION, I DON'T WANT TO BE A FROG, NO, NO, KITTEN! and so many more--it was a great year for picture books!

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Carrie Charley Brown
1/1/2016 01:42:52 pm

Oooo, I have loved Chloe and the Lion for several years, too! A great year of research!

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Charlotte Dixon link
12/15/2015 05:17:08 pm

Yes! A great year for picture books. Thank you, Carrie, for sharing these fab choices :)

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Carrie Charley Brown
1/1/2016 01:43:23 pm

You are welcome, Charlotte! Happy to research with you!

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Katey Howes link
12/15/2015 05:51:59 pm

You have some great ones here, Carrie! I studied Stick & Stone by Beth Ferry to really understand telling a deeply layered story in minimal words.

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Carrie Charley Brown
1/1/2016 01:43:57 pm

Yes! Super sparse and every word counts!

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Lori Degman link
1/1/2016 12:28:24 pm

IT'S ONLY STANLEY, for it's seamless blending of text and illustrations!

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Carrie Charley Brown
1/1/2016 01:44:12 pm

And humor! :)

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