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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Rhyming Picture Books
Rhymes: They're harder than they look. Wanna know how to write them? Let today's book selection be your guide.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Rhyming Picture Books
Today we celebrate the successful rhymers! These are the books that scan beautifully and give us good reasons for loving that particular type of tricky verse.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Rhyming Picture Books
A fan of bouncy rhymes and cadences? If you know picture books then you know that rhyming can go real bad, real fast. Here are the books that did it well in 2023 then!
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Rhyming Picture Books
Today, I introduce to you the finest rhyming picture books of 2022. Each one a joy in scansion. Each one equipped to turn YOUR children into book lovers based on sheer rhyme alone. Don't believe me? Better check the books out for yourself then.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Rhyming Picture Books
A plethora of delightful rhyming tales from 2021. From trees to pets, from monkeys to the invention of the traffic light, enjoy!
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Rhyming Picture Books
If you're going to commit to rhyming then you better be pretty darn sure of your own abilities. To that end, today I celebrate those picture books that embrace their rhyme schemes to their fullest.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Rhyming Picture Books
The reason I celebrate rhyming picture books on lists like today's is that they have a tough road to hoe. Scansion alone sinks many a vessel. Today, we raise a glass to the books that pull it off and pull it off well. The few. The proud. The successfully rhymed.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Rhyming Picture Books
Oh, Dr. Seuss, what hath thou wrought? Up and coming children’s authors everywhere should be taught one very important lesson before they set fingers to keyboards: Rhyming is a privilege. Not a right. And, quite frankly, not everyone is good at it. There is no pain quite like the pain a librarian feels when they […]
31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Five – 2017 Rhyming Picture Books
This year something struck me about the rhyming picture book crop that usually eludes my notice. I think it’s easy to assume that because a book rhymes, it’s automatically funny. But some of the books on today’s list, like The Road Home or even The Pomegranate Witch, dare to be touching. This begs the question […]
31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Five – 2016 Great Rhyming Picture Books
If potential authors of picture books are given one piece of advice when they’re first starting out, it tends to be, “For the love of all that’s good and holy DO NOT let your picture books rhyme!!!” And for good reason. Few things in life are quite as painful as poorly rhymed picture books. Too […]
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