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Using picture books in the classroom

Picture books provide teachers and students with every kind of genre and opportunities to teach about a wide variety of topics, from dramatic irony to science.

Persistence

Surprisingly, DiCamillo credits for success not to talent, but to persistence.

Hopes and dreams

Marcus believes that every generation makes books that contain the hopes and dreams it wants to pass onto the next generation.

A bumpy start

Laurie Halse Anderson struggled with learning to read.

A first autobiography

The Innkeeper’s Apprentice (1979), Allen Say’s first and only long-form book, tells his own life story and inspired his picture book autobiography, Drawing from Memory (2011).

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