Sophisticated picture books for 5-6yo?
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Anonymous
| I love picture books but a lot of them are too babyish. Any more sophisticated ones for a 5-6yo? TIA |
Anonymous
| The National Geographic kids encyclopedias are terrific. |
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So many. And there are tons of lists online and from children's librarians. Some picture books are sophisticated enough for student all through elementary school
Some younger and fun ones: Ordinary People Change the World series The Day the Crayons Quit Last Stop on Market Street Rosie Revere Engineer and others in that series We Don't Eat Our Classmates The Bad Seed and The Good Egg |
Anonymous
| ABC’s of Art and 123 of Art are great. |
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We’ve started getting them from the library because I am not a good judge of what picture books my 6 yo will be interested in. She recently picked out one about Ann Lowe, who made Jackie Kennedys wedding dress and we’ve read it a bunch. I would not have picked it in a million years and the ones I’ve picked go unread.
Have you started on chapter books yet? The magic treehouse series is fun. City Green by DyAnn DiSalvo-Ryan is still a favorite. |
Anonymous
| Rosie Revere Engineer, et al series (The Questioneers) has beautiful illustrations and in particular the newest one (Aaron Slater Illustrator) is decently abstract/sophisticated especially for kindergarten age. Then they also have chapter books to correlate with the picture book series for the next step "up." |
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| Up north at the cabin |
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Quiltmaker books by Jeff Brumbeau
Magic School Bus picture books Seymour Sleuth books by Doug Cushman LaRue Books by Mark Teague Just-So Stories (very dense but beautiful prose, get an illustrated version) |
Anonymous
| St George and the Dragon, by Margaret Hodges illus Tricia Hyman. This is straight from an episode of Spencer's "The Faerie Queene", and is very faithful to the poem. Hodges & Hyman did a couple other, similar adaptations, both independently and working together. All are pretty good, but this one is the best. |
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Take a trip together to Barnes & Noble. There are literally hundreds of picture books there and many of them are very beautiful and sophisticated. There’s nothing like going to the bookstore and picking one out 
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