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