picture books

plural of picture book

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picture books
Noun
  • Lana Del Rey appears to have not one, but two new albums on the way.
    Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 16 July 2026
  • She’s opened for both Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift, and released two full-length albums with her third LP Daughter From Hell out this Friday.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.
    Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
  • Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • In addition to hieroglyph texts, the interior walls feature murals depicting portraits of seated and kneeling figures, and archaeological evidence of papermaking tools.
    Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
  • Olive answers many of the 55-year-old’s texts and emails, books him spontaneous travel (three trips to London so far this year), buys him groceries, and places meetings on his calendar—often without ever consulting him.
    Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 14 July 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
  • To have a class project become a national program that is helping individuals with Down syndrome build real independence is the kind of real-world impact that goes beyond textbooks.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
  • In the afternoon, students will partake in book clubs that read novels — a dying art in traditional public schools, driven in part by the increasing popularity of literacy curriculum programs that favor textbooks with short reading passages over whole books.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
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“Picture books.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picture%20books. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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