Ideas for picture books are ephemeral in nature. Sometimes, they come to me in droves, but at other times, I can’t think of any ideas for my writing.
Today, I’m starting a registry of picture book ideas.
- I’m starting by cataloging the picture books in my own library
- This is a work in progress. It may take months for me to finish this effort
- I have discovered that I cannot re-read my picture books often enough.
- In one day of working on this list, I came up with 3 new ideas for picture books I’d like to write.
Books about Older People, Grandparents, and Elderly Eccentrics
Here Comes Grandma
The Hula-Hoopin Queen
Leave Me Alone
Old Henry
The Old Woman Who Names Things
Strega Nona
Books about Parents
A Chair for My Mother
Are You My Mother
My Dad
Runaway Bunny
Stellaluna
Books about Families
Ira Sleeps Over
The Relatives Came
Town Is By the Sea
Books about Pets
The Last Puppy
Books about Children with Social Issues or Who Feel That They Don’t Fit In
A Bad Case of Stripes
After the Fall
The Book of Mistakes
Chrysanthemum
I Talk Like A River
Julian Is A Mermaid
Small in the City
Stellaluna
Where the Wild Things Are
Books about Farms
Click, Clack Moo
Retellings of Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales
Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
Hansel and Gretel
Little Red Cap
Little Red Riding Hood
The Owl and the Pussycat
Books about Major Literary Themes – Darkness versus Light
Darkness Slipped In
Books that Reinforce Science Studies
Books about Gardening
Books about Seasons and Weather
Snow by Uri Shlevitz
Multicultural Books -Africa and Black History
Duke Ellington
The Hula-Hoopin Queen
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
Rent Party Jazz
Trombone Shorty
We All Went On Safari
Working Cotton