It is a great place to see good art. Anno's Magical ABC is a good example of an alphabet book. Counting Books Counting books are help children learn to how to count usually using a story to help present the numbers. Some just use pictures to show the numbers like Mitsumasa Anno's Anno's Counting Book . Picture Story Books Picture story books tell stories about family life, school, friends, and animals Munro Leaf's The Story of Ferdinand is about a little bull who doesn't like to fight.
Friends is about the ups and downs of relationships.
Tomie de Paola 's Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs is about a child's love for his great grandmother and how he deals with her death. Some story books are taken from folktales that teach the morals of the culture. Verna Aadema's Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears is from a West African folktale about why things are the way they are. Tomie dePaola's Strega Nona is from an Italian folktale about greed. Jon Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales take folk tales and give them a funny modern twist.