Adjective
the players gave a picture-book performance that will go down in the annals of football as one of the all-time great games
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Adjective
The spread of literacy, newfangled methods of production and an almost mystical efflorescence of creativity combined to produce superb and lasting works of picture-book art.—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023 Cereza and the Lost Demon is easy to fall in love with as a magical picture-book that deviates into the macabre side of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.—Joshua Khan, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
Noun
The search began with a picture book—On the Trail of the Golden Owl—by author Régis Hauser and artist Michel Becker.—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024 According to court filings, the class listened to the educational trans picture books When Aiden Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Introducing Teddy by Jessica Walton — both of which have been targets of anti-LGBTQ+ book bans for years.—Samantha Riedel, Them, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for picture-book
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