About Us

BookstackGirlPeek
Picturing Books has been online since 1999.

Information found on this site came from many sources, including publisher, author, and illustrator websites. The principle print sources used include:

  • American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within (Macmillan, 1976) by Barbara Bader
  • From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books (HarperCollins, 2010) by Kathleen T. Horning
  • How Picturebooks Work (Garland, 2000) by Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott
  • Illustrating Children's Books (Barron's, 2004) by Martin Salisbury
  • Illustrating Children's Books: History, Technique, Production (Watson-Guptill, 1963, 1977) by Henry Clarence Pitz
  • Picture This: How Pictures Work (SeaStar, 2000) by Molly Bang
  • Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books (Watson-Guptill, 1997) by Uri Shulevitz