Big Books


This is a list of Big Books as of September 2017.

A dark, dark tale : story and pictures / story and pictures by Ruth Brown
A fishy color story / Joanne & David Wylie
A whisper is quiet / by Carolyn Lunn ; illustrations by Clovis Martin ; prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich
All about me [big book] written and illustrated by Christine Corona
American folk tradition : Big book magazine
Arnold plays baseball / written by Pat Whitehead ; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Baby bear, baby bear, what do you see? / by Bill Martin Jr. ; pictures by Eric Carle
Barnyard banter / Denise Fleming
Best Halloween book / written by Pat Whitehead ; illustrated by Stephanie Britt
Big red barn / Margaret Wise Brown ; pictures by Felicia Bond
Bobby’s zoo / by Carolyn Lunn ; illustrations by Tom Dunnington ; prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich
Bread and jam for Frances / by Russell Hoban ; pictures by Lillian Hoban
Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? / by Bill Martin, Jr. ; pictures by Eric Carle
Bugs [big book] written and illustrated by Christine Corona
Caps for sale : a tale of a peddler, some monkeys and their monkey business ; / story and pictures by Esphyr Slobodkina
Caps for sale : a tale of a peddler, some monkeys, and their monkey business / told and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina
Chicken soup with rice : a book of months / Maurice Sendak
Circles [big book] / written and illustrated by Jeremy Lee
City green / DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Coco can’t wait! : a story about a girl and her grandmother / by Taro Gomi
Corduroy / story and pictures by Don Freeman
Count-a-saurus / by Nancy Blumenthal ; illustrated by Robert Jay Kaufman
Diamonds [big book] / written and illustrated by Jeremy Lee
Dinosaurs, dinosaurs / by Byron Barton
Don’t forget the bacon! / Pat Hutchins
Eating the alphabet : fruits and vegetables from A to Z / by Lois Ehlert
Farmer duck / by Martin Waddell ; illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Fast draw Freddie / by Bobbie Hamsa ; illustrations by Stephen Hayes ; prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich
Feathers for lunch / Lois Ehlert
Flower garden / written by Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt
Freight train / Donald Crews
Froggy gets dressed / by Jonathan London ; illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz
From head to toe / Eric Carle
Good morning, chick / by Mirra Ginsburg, adapted from a story by Korney Chukovsky ; pictures by Byron Barton
Goodnight moon / by Margaret Wise Brown ; pictures by Clement Hurd
Good-night, Owl! / Pat Hutchins
Growing things [big book] written and illustrated by Christine Corona
Growing vegetable soup / written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert
Hattie and the fox / by Mem Fox ; illustrated by Patricia Mullins
Hazel’s amazing mother / Rosemary Wells
Henny Penny / illustrated by Carol Byer
Henny Penny / illustrated by H. Werner Zimmerman
Here are my hands / Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault ; illustrated by Ted Rand
Here comes the cat! = Sëiìuda idet kot! / Frank Asch, Vladimir Vagin
Hot Rod Harry / by Catherine Petrie ; illustrations by Paul Sharp
How night came to be : a story from Brazil / retold by Janet Palazzo-Craig ; illustrated by Felipe Davalos
I can draw it myself, by me, myself, with a little help from my friend, Dr. Seuss
I had a hippopotamus / Hector Viveros Lee
I like me! / Nancy Carlson
I love animals / Flora McDonnell
I need a lunch box / by Jeannette Caines ; pictures by Pat Cummings
If you give a mouse a cookie / Laura Joffe Numeroff ; illustrated by Felicia Bond
If you give a pig a pancake / by Laura Numeroff ; illustrated by Felicia Bond
I’ll catch the moon / by Nina Crews
In the chicken coop / story by Miriam Frost ; illustrations by Kristine Bollinger
In the Forest / written by Melissa Schiller ; Illustrated by Margaret Kasahara
In the small, small pond / Denise Fleming
In the tall, tall grass / Denise Fleming
Is your mama a llama? / written by Deborah Guarino ; illustrated by Steven Kellogg
It looked like spilt milk / by Charles G. Shaw
Johnny Appleseed goes a’planting / by Patsy Jensen ; illustrated by Pat Hoggan
Joshua James likes trucks / by Catherine Petrie ; illustrations by Jerry Warshaw
Jump, frog, jump! / by Robert Kalan ; pictures by Byron Barton
King Bidgood’s in the bathtub / written by Audrey Wood ; illustrated by Don Wood
Little Blue Ben / Phoebe Gilman
Little Blue Truck / Alice Schertle ; illustrated by Jill McElmurry
Little Nino’s Pizzeria / Karen Barbour
Long gone : Big book magazine
Look! / written by Cindy Chapman ; illustrated by Esther Szegedy
Make way for ducklings / by Robert McCloskey
Mama zooms / written and illustrated by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
Mary had a little lamb / written by Sarah Joseph Hale ; photo-illustrated and afterword by Bruce McMillan
Moja means one; Swahili counting book, by Muriel Feelings ; pictures by Tom Feelings
More spaghetti, I say! / Rita Golden Gelman ; pictures by Jack Kent
Mouse shapes / Ellen Stoll Walsh
My friend Rabbit / Eric Rohmann
Native Americans : Big book magazine
Nine ducks nine / Sarah Hayes
Noah’s very big boat / written by Susan Isbell ; illustrated by Robert S. Jones
Noisy Nora / story and pictures by Rosemary Wells
Old Macdonald had a farm / illustrated by Pam Adams
On the farm [big book] written and illustrated by Christine Corona
One Duck Stuck / Phyllis Root; illustrated by Jane Chapman
Oscar asked, “Why?” / by Jay Hulbert and Sid Kantor ; illustrated by Pat Hoggan
Our tree house / story by Rebel Williams ; illustrations by Dennis Hockerman
Ovals [big book] / written and illustrated by Jeremy Lee
Over in the meadow / John Langstaff ; with pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Over the river and through the wood / Lydia Maria Child ; illustrated by Iris Van Rynbach
Owen / Kevin Henkes
Paul Bunyan and his blue ox / by Patsy Jensen ; illustrated by Jean Pidgeon
Peter’s chair / Ezra Jack Keats
Piggies / written by Don and Audrey Wood ; illustrated by Don Wood
Planting a rainbow / written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert
Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear? / by Bill Martin, Jr. ; pictures by Eric Carle
Raven brings the light : an Inuit folktale / retold by Margery Bernstein ; illustrated by Kim Howard
Rectangles [big book] / written and illustrated by Jeremy Lee
Red leaf, yellow leaf / Lois Ehlert
Rosie’s walk / Pat Hutchins
Rub-a-dub-dub : what’s in the tub? / by Mary Blocksma; illustrated by Sandra Cox Kalthoff; developed by the Hampton-Brown Company, Inc
School / written by Gay Su Pinnell ; illustrated by Peggy Tagel
Seasons & weather [big book] written and illustrated by Christine Corona
Shoes / by Elizabeth Winthrop ; illustrated by William Joyce
Sounds of the farm / by Kari Jenson Gold
Squares [big book] / written and illustrated by Jeremy Lee
Stellaluna / Janell Cannon
Tacky the penguin / Helen Lester ; illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
Ten little mice / written by Joyce Dunbar ; illustrated by Maria Majewska
Ten, nine, eight / Molly Bang
The carrot seed / by Ruth Krauss ; pictures by Crockett Johnson
The circus ship / by Chris Van Dusen, author & illustrator
The colors of us / Karen Katz
The cow that went oink / by Bernard Most
The day Jimmy’s boa ate the wash / by Trinka Hakes Noble ; pictures by Steven Kellogg
The empty pot / Demi
The gingerbread boy / [illustrated by] Paul Galdone
The great trash bash / Loreen Leedy
The hare and the tortoise / by Aesop ; illustrated by Arthur Friedman
The lion and the mouse / illustrated by Tarlton, John
The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear / by Don and Audrey Wood ; illustrated by Don Wood
The little red hen / Byron Barton
The monster under my bed / written by Suzanne Gruber ; illustrated by Stephanie Britt
The napping house / Audrey Wood ; illustrated by Don Wood
The pig in the pond / Martin Waddell ; illustrated by Jill Barton
The rainbow fish / Marcus Pfister ; translated by J. Alison James
The Sandwich that Max made / written by Marcia Vaughan ; illustrated by Ellen Giggenbach
The seals on the bus / by Lenny Hort ; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
The snowy day / Ezra Jack Keats
The three billy goats Gruff / Paul Galdone
The Three sillies / illustrated by Arthur Friedman
The wheels on the bus go round and round / illustrated by Annie Kubler
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly / illustrated by Pam Adams
This is the bear / by Sarah Hayes ; illustrated by Helen Craig
Triangles [big book] / written and illustrated by Jeremy Lee
Truck / Donald Crews
Un dâia de nieve / Ezra Jack Keats
Under the big top / story by Rebel Williams ; illustrations by George Ford
Under the sea [big book] written and illustrated by Christine Corona
We keep a store / by Anne Shelby ; paintings by John Ward
What I like about me! : a book celebrating differences / written by Allia Zobel-Nolan ; illustrated by Mike Sakamoto
Who hops? / Katie Davis
Windy day / written by Janet Craig ; illustrated by Julie Durrell
You’ll soon grow into them, Titch / Pat Hutchins
Zomo the Rabbit : a trickster tale from West Africa / told and illustrated by Gerald McDermott