The other day I came across this wee gem of a list, a top 100 picture books list compiled in August 2000.by Joan Gibbons, then the Deputy Librarian, Education Library at University of Waikato.
Top 100 picture books August 2000
It’s now eight years on, and some of these books will be out of print so what better opportunity than to create a similar listing today with more up-to-date titles, but not forgetting those picture book classics as well! Here’s how.
Leave a comment giving us your choice picture books of all time - old, new, tried and true, NZ and elsewhere. Your list can be up to ten books with one book per author. Then at the end of this month we’ll collate and make available a list of the top choices.
And just to make it interesting - everyone who posts a comment will go into to the draw to win one of three Babette Cole books graciously signed by Babette herself! Just remember - you are welcome to submit multiple lists but they won’t equate to multiple entries for the completion.
Post your picks by the end of August to be in to win.
Happy list making.
39 comments:
This has required some difficult decision-making but here is my list:
Peepo! - Janet & Allan Ahlberg
Who Sank the Boat - Pamela Allen
Possum Magic - Mem Fox
Waterhole - Graeme Base
Fantastic Daisy Artichoke - Quentin Blake
Fox - Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks
How to live forever - Colin Thompson
Hairy Maclary - Lynley Dodd
Zoo - Anthony Browne
Cats in Krasinski Square - Karen Hesse & Wendy Watson
anything by PD Eastman. Such as Go Dog Go, and Sam and the Firefly!
of course where the wild things are, and most of graeme bases stuff but especially animalia!
great work with the blog, lets hope it catches on.
Gavin.
I heartily agree, it's VERY hard to choose only ten books!
Hairy Maclary - Lynley Dodd
Dreadful David - Sally Farrell Odgers
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Oliver in the Garden - Margaret Beames
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes - Eve Sutton
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
The Cheese Trap - Joy Cowley
The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch - David & Ronda Armitage
The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson
Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! - Kyle Mewburn
Our top picture books are
Where the Wild Things Are
The Hungry Catapiller
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Are you my mother?
Hairy Maclairy from Donaldson's Dairy
I decided to limit my list to the top 5 we have bought for our library since the original list was made!
1. The short and incredibly happy life of Riley - Colin Thompson and Amy Lissiat (2005)
2. The mystery of Eilean Mor - Gary Crew and Johnathan Geddes (2005)
3. Belonging - Jeannie Baker (2004)
4. The three questions - Jon J Muth (2002)
5. The arrival - Shaun Tan (2006)
I could've added more to the list but I had to stop somewhere!
1.Story About Ping - Marjorie Flack
2.Rats - Gavin Bishop
3.Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
4.Hairy Maclary - Lynley Dodd
5.Little Yellow Digger - Betty & Alan Gilderdale
6.Cat in the Hat - Dr Seuss
and many more
Impossible to pick only 10 so I've gone for the ones kids love.
The Jolly Postman - Alan & Janet Ahlberg
Demon Teddy - Nicholas Allan
Pants - Giles Andreae
The Great Big Block of Chocolate - Janet Slater Bottin
I am not sleepy and I will not go to be - Lauren Child
Mechanical Harry - Bob Kerr
The Tiger Who Came to Tea - Judith Kerr
Down the Back of the Chair - Margaret Mahy
Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! - Kyle Mewburn
A Kiwi Jingle Bells - Yvonne Morrison
Yes Linda a difficult decision!
Personally I like these ones:
The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
Zoo - Anthony Browne - any of his books - I love his pictures!
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch - David & Ronda Armitage
Animalia - Graeme Base
Hairy Maclary rocks!!!
Hairy Maclary - Lynley Dodd
The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson
All Anthony Browne books
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
too many to think about!
It has hard to make the choice but I would have to say that my favourites are:
Rose Blanche
Where the Wild Things Are
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Weslandia
Anything by Anthony Browne
Fix-It Duck
Hairy Maclary - Lynley Dodd,
Where the wild things are -
Graeme Base -
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes - Eve Sutton
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson
Greedy Cat
Based on some of the most well read in our library at Menzies College (y7-13) in no particular order, new and older.
- Fred The (Quite) Brave Mouse by Murray Ball
- Ug Boy Genius of the Stone Age by Raymond Briggs
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan
- The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley by Colin Thompson & Amy Lissart
- Living with a Black Dog (NF graphic book about depression) by Matthew and Ainsley Johnstone
- Bone by Jeff Smith
- Alex Rider series
- The Watertower by Gary Crew
- To Dance by Siena Siegel
- A Present from the Past by Jennifer Beck and Lindy Fisher
This is great and I hope a lot more do this because it gives us all ideas for new buying. :)
Best eveaa!!!!
Where the wild things are
Ossisaurus
Duck in the truck
Who flung Dung
By Dino is on yummies
The Screaming Mean Machine by Joy Cowley
This book is an alltime fav of mine and I have read it aloud to 5 and 6 year olds at least 4 times a year for 23 years!The use of adjectives and the clever build up of anticipation and excitement is axhilerating to read as well as to listen to!Drama buffs take note.....this is your chance to go overboard!
maz @ Porirua School
My favs are:
My cat likes to hide in boxes - Sutton
Kiss, kiss, yuck, yuck - Mewburn
The pain and the great one - Blume
Hairy Maclary - Dodd
Down the back of the chair - Mahy
I will not ever eat a tomato - Child
I am so strong - Ramos
Jillian Jiggs to the rescue - Gilman
Wombat divine - Fox
Olivia - Falconer
Hiya - just discovered your great site -
1.Absolutely anything by Shaun Tan !
2. The Nickle Nackle Tree - Lynley Dodd
3. Where the Wild things are - Maurice Sendak
4 When the wind blows - Raymond Briggs
5 Any Manga Shakespeare
6 Clubs - Kate de Goldi
7 The Other Ark - Lynley Dodd
8 Any Dr Seuss..
Pre 2000
Way home (Libby Hathorn/ Gregory Rogers)
My cat likes to hide in boxes (Eve Sutton/Lynley Dodd)
The man whose mother was a pirate (Margaret Mahy/ Margaret Chamberlain)
I’ll take you to Mrs Cole (Nigel Gray/Michael Foreman)
Let the celebrations begin (Mem Fox/Julie Vivas)
2000--
The red tree (Shaun Tan)
Dear Greenpeace (Simon James—I know this is cheating because the book first came out in 1991, but I am referring to the 2005 edition with the detachable letters!)
The big little book of happy sadness (Colin Thompson)
Snip Snap (Mara Bergman) (great readaloud)
Duck, death and the tulip (Wolf Erlbruch)
And pretty well anything by Gary Crew, Anthony Browne, Ruth Brown, Emily Gravett, Julia Donaldson, and a whole lot of people whose names escape me at the moment! This list is very far short of comprehensive…
When I was 7 years old I used to read all the Pukunui readers by James Waerea, where Pukunui would collect pipis, or dive and swim in the moana, or kick around with his mate Moata the moa. (David Kukutai Jones).
I've decided to go for my favourites to read aloud to our primary school:
Bumblebee Pie (Jon Gadsby)
Don't be so nosy, Posy! (Nicola Grant)
Duck on a bike (David Shannon)(Top 3)
Billy's bucket (Kes Gray)(Top 3)
Really, really (Kes Gray)
Harry the dirty dog (Gene Zion)
Grandad Pot (Siobhan Dodds)
Oh hogwash, Sweet Pea (Ngareta Gabel)
One dark night (Lisa Wheeler)
and the ultimate reference interview for librarians:
But excuse me, that is my book! (Lauren Child)(Top 3)
Now I am off to have another look at The Screaming Mean Machine...
Golly this is hard! Some of these are more secondary level than primary.
-The Arrival by Shaun Tan
-The Day I swopped my Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKann
-How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson
-Fungus the Bogeyman
-Ug Boy Genius of the Stone Age by Raymond Briggs
-Animalia by Graeme Base
-Kiss Kiss Yuck Yuck by Kyle Mewburn
-Winnie the Witch and anything illustrated by Korky Paul
-Everything Babette Cole has ever done
-Everything Alison Lester has ever done (totally beloved by my kids)
Bridget
Thanks for the reminder Beth!
In no particular order (but I do own them all)
The lion in the meadow - Margaret Mahy & Jenny Williams
The bunyip of Berkeley's Creek - Jenny Wagner & Ron Brooks
Possum magic - Mem Fox & Julie Vivas
The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
Where the wild things are - Maurice Sendak
But excuse me that is my book - Lauren Child
Mummy laid an egg - Babette Cole
Nativity - illus Julie Vivas
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Patridge - Mem Fox & Julie Vivas
Always and forever - Alan Durant & Debi Gliori
My sneaky #11 is:
My cat likes to hide in boxes - Eve Sutton & Lynley Dodd. I don't own it, but love reading it for storytime.
How sad to leave so many books off the list!
The violin man by C. Thompson
Rose Blanche by R. Innocenti
Photographs in the mud D. Wolfer
Beware of the storybook wolves by L. Child
The arrival by S. Tan
Erika's story by R Vander Zee
Little mouse's big book of fears by E. Gravett
Michaels Rosen's sad book by M. Rosen
Voices in the park by A. Browne
Kiwi Moon by G. Bishop
So many wonderful books to choose from.
My top reads a the moment are the stories my nearly two year old grandson demands to have read to him over and over and over...
so here are his favourites:
Brown bear, brown bear what do you see - Bill Martin
Each peach pear plum -the Ahlbergs
Night, night, baby - Kate Merritt
Mrs Wishy-washy - Joy Cowley
were early favourites - and show all the hallmarks of being much loved (chewed corners, bits missing, etc),
Duck's key- where can it be - Jez Alborough
Down the back of the chair - Margaret Mahy
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack - Lynley Dodd
Green eggs and ham-Dr Seuss also make the list
The current fascination with trains is being fed by And the train goes... Wllliam Bee
Some of the favourites here that I can't see listed are:
Tough Boris
Any of the Buzz and Poppy books - these are our top issuers
The Lorax
I will not ever never eat a tomato
Don't put your finger in the jelly, Nelly
Mog's Christmas
Alaister Grahams Full Moon Soup
Hurrah for Ethelyn
Grandma McGarvey
The puppet box
The Zoo - Anthony Brown
Hairy McClairy - Lynnley Dodd
Where the Wild Things Are - Marice Sendak
The Cat in the hat - Dr Seuss
The Very Hungry Caterpillar- Eric Carle
The Gruffalo - Judy Donaldson
Mr Gumpy's Outing - John Burningham
Where the wild things are.
The little yellow digger
I will never ever eat a tomato
Cars and Boats and Trains (Scarry)
Hairy McClary from Donaldson's Dairy
The Lorax
The Zoo by Anthony BRowne
Bears in the night
Brown Bear what do you see
Grandma Mc Garvey
Hairy MacLary from Donaldsons Dairy
Mr Gumpys Outing
My Cat likes to hide in boxes
Taniwha
The little yellow digger
The tale of Peter Rabbit
Where the wild things are
Trevor Agnew says an all-time favourite picture book has to be Kiwi Moon by Gavin Bishop (Random House).
Shut the Gate by Elizabeth Pulford, ill by Jenny Cooper (Scholastic)is a great cumulative tale.
Echo and Hush by V. M. Jones, ill by Scott Tulloch (HarperCollins)has nicely matched text and pictures.
Davy's Ducks by Dorothy Butler, ill by Lyn Kriegler (Reed)
Tulevai and the Sea by Joy Cowley, ill by Manu Smith. [A classic reissued, so it qualifies.]
The Rainmakers, by Ben Brown, ill by Helen Taylor (Reed) for the fun and the colours.
Mr Muggs the Library Cat by Dave Gunson (Scholastic) because every library should have one.
Thomas and grandfather at the Beach, by Pamela Allen
1: The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
2: The Nickle Nackle Tree -Lynley Dodd
3: Mrs Wishy Washy - Joy Cowley
4: Mr Fox - Gavin Bishop
5: The lighthouse keepers lunch - David Armitage
6: The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
7: What colour are your knickers? - Sam Lloyd
8: The Guffalo - Julia Donaldson
9: The witch and the cherry tree - Margaret Mahy
10: Goodnight moon -Clement Hurd
My oldest favourite is Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are
More recently
The Whales' Song - Dyan Sheldon & Gary Blythe
The Watertower - Gary Crew & Steven Woolman
Dairy of a Wombat - Jackie French & Bruce Whatley
Voices in the Park - and everything by Anthony Browne
The Arrival - Shaun Tan
1: The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
2: Mrs Wishy-Washy - Joy Cowley
3: The Nickle Nackle Tree - Lynley Dodd
4: Goodnight moon - Margaret Wise Brown
5: The lighthouses keepers lunch - David Armitage
6: The Guffalo - Judy Donaldson
7: The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
8: What colour are your knickers? - Sam Lloyd
9:The witch and the cherry tree - Margaret Mahy
10:Mr Fox - Gavin Bishop
I forgot to leave which school library I am in on the comment. It is Central School New Plymouth. Also these books were some of our highest issuing ones, not necessarily our best one.
Thought this would be really easy, but it's not proved to be! Here goes:
Each Peach Pear Plum - Allan and Janet Ahlberg
Bearobics - Vic Parker
Delilah Darling in the Library - Jeanne Willis
The gruffalo Julia Donaldson
Edwina the Emu - Sheena Knowles
Hairy Maclary - Lynley Dodd
Willie the Wimp - Anthony Browne
Lighthouse Keepers Lunch - Armitage
Mr McGee and the Biting Flea - Pamela Allen
Winnie the Witch - Valerie Thomas
Room8 at the Terrace School have compiled a list of their favorite books.
1) The Owl and the Pussycat
2) Old Pig
3) The Arrival
4) Where the Wild Things are
5)The Very Hungry Caterpillar
6)Kiss, Kiss, Yuck, Yuck
7)Waterhole
8)Down the Back of the Chair
9)Clubs
10)Storybook Wolves
This is hard... but here is my list in no particular order
Grandpa and Thomas- Pamela Allan
Belonging - Jeannie Baker
The Tiny Seed- Eric Carle
Each Peach Pear Plum- Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Where the Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak
Edward the Emu - Sheena Knowles
The Tree - Bob Darroch
Memorial- Shaun Tan
Two Monsters- David McKee
Slinky Malinki -Lynley Dodd
What a great idea! Here's my selection.
Who Sank the Boat - Pamela Alen
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little toes - Mem Fox
The Shape Game - Anthony Browne
Little Beauty - Anthony Browne
Roadworks - Sally Sutton
Slinky Malinki - Lynley Dodd
Down the Back of the Chair - Margaret Mahy
Oliver Goes Exploring - Margaret Beames
Room on The Broom - Julia Donaldson
When Henry Caught Imaginitis - Nick Bland
Tadpole's Promise by Jeanne Willis
Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems
The Smartest Giant by Julia Donaldson
Sam and the Firefly by P D Eastman
Wolf by Becky Bloom
Snail's Legs by Damien Harvey
The Time it Took Tom by Nick Sharratt
Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman
Winnie the Witch by Valerie Thomas
The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness by Colin Thompson
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