picture books

Definition of picture booksnext
plural of picture book
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Noun
  • Her solo albums have consistently gone into the top 10 on the pop charts and her tours are worldwide events.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2026
  • The band recorded three more full-length albums, along with a litany of singles and EPs, and graduated from basements to traditional venues not just in Chicago, but all over the world.
    Blair R. Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, and elsewhere.
    Irene Zabytko May 7, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • His first collection, Death of a Naturalist, was published by Faber and Faber in 1966 and was followed by eleven other volumes of poetry, as well as collections of literary criticism, anthologies, translations, and verse plays.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • District residents have been blanketed with anti-Bores mailers and texts.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Cut down on fielding pesky calls and texts by exploring options to block them.
    Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Heather Rose is the Australian author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love published this month by Algonquin.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair.
    Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Participating inmates recorded everything from bestsellers to textbooks to children's books for blind people across the United States, per a 1987 article published in the Los Angeles Times.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • For decades, medical textbooks and lectures have presented the vitamin K injection as an example of a public health policy success.
    Duaa Eldeib, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
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“Picture books.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picture%20books. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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