Milky Way Picture Books

The King and Nothing, oversized, illustrated magic for the forever bookshelf

I’m a middle-aged dude, and The King and Nothing feels like a great illustrated book that I had forgotten about. It’s that book you used to spend hours looking at the pictures, unconsciously learning the sight words and getting lost in a book in a beanbag chair. You were five-to-seven years old and learning to love to read, but you probably weren’t calling it that then. Sometimes books like this come across our desk. In a very polite, unassuming manner, they speak to us as if they’re a character from Wallace and Gromit and ask us to read it.

The King and Nothing is the best kind of illustrated book for young audiences. It’s simple with illustrations that take advantage of its big canvas, yet gives kids the opportunity to think beyond its pages.

This book will age very well

Quiet!, a quirky, old soul, illustrated tale with deft art

I read Quiet! to a second-grade classroom the other week. It was storytime, but one reason for reading Quiet! to them was that I just simply wanted that. One of the great ironies about teaching elementary school children is that in order to have peace and sanity is that you are the one who has to speak, even it’s at a quiet, yet energetic volume as you read to them. Quiet! is the sort of illustrated book that bathes in allegory and has pictures to help younger readers infer what’s happening. It’s also gorgeously illustrated with visions of a city that feels Parisian but has an anywhere appeal that’ll make young readers’ thoughts go wherever.

Quiet! is an illustrated book that doubles down on the allegory in words and art, paying off in a story that kids will understand and enjoy.

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