Best illustrated books all over the world
What Do You Say, Dear? is a delightfully humorous picture book that teaches children manners in a playful and imaginative way. Through a series of whimsical scenarios—ranging from fancy tea parties to encounters with wild animals—the book asks, “What do you say, dear?” at just the right moments. Maurice Sendak’s […]
Can’t Sleep, written by Chris Raschka, is a quiet story about a little bear who just can’t fall asleep. His friend, an older bear, stays with him — talking softly, offering comfort, and reminding him that it’s okay to rest when he’s ready. The book is very gentle, almost like […]
This wordless picture book by Dutch artist Friso Henstra is about a pair of mice determined to build a cute little house out of a red cabbage. After much effort, the house is finally ready — but unexpectedly it attracts someone else and suddenly becomes the dinner of a cunning […]
Original title: Чудесница
Little Tree brings together the quiet poem of E. E. Cummings and Chris Raschka’s unusual pictures. The words move slowly, almost like a soft chant, following a small evergreen from the forest into a family’s home. Raschka paints with sharp shapes — triangles, squares, shifting patches of color. The tree, […]
Charlie and Charlotte and the Golden Canary, published in 1967 by Oxford University Press, is a modern fairy tale about two friends who grew up together on the same street and are suddenly separated when Charlotte’s family moves into a new block of flats. A sad Charlie buys himself a […]
Matthew Cordell’s picture book “Wolf in the Snow” was published in 2017. The story tells of a girl and a wolf cub lost in a snowstorm. The girl helps the wolf cub return to her parents, who in turn bring help to the girl herself. A comparison of Cordell’s fairy […]
The Big Green Book tells the story of a boy who finds a strange book in his uncle’s library. It turns out to be full of magic, letting him play tricks and even outsmart the adults around him. Maurice Sendak’s drawings make the story feel even more playful. They are […]
Once upon a time, there was a special place in Baghdad: the House of Wisdom, or Bayt al-Hikmah, where scholars, translators, and thinkers gathered together during the Islamic Golden Age. They studied medicine, alchemy, physics, mathematics, and more. Ideas traveled across languages and cultures, bringing new knowledge and discoveries to […]
Original title: Чудесная жемчужина Collection of Vietnamese fairy tales
An Edward Lear Alphabet is Vladimir Radunsky’s take on the classic nonsense verse of Edward Lear. In this book Radunsky pairs Lear’s playful, often absurd rhymes with his own bold, witty illustrations. Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by a short Lear poem, full of odd characters, strange animals, […]
