Soft books, also aimed at very young children, are made of cloth or soft plastic.The pages are specially folded and bound together. Paperboard is used for both the cover and the interior pages.

Board books are picture books printed on sturdy cardboard - called paperboard - for young children who tend to be less careful with books.The majority of picture books are constructed in the same way as books for older children and adults, but there are a number of special types. For this reason, picture books tend to have two functions in the lives of children: they are first read to young children by adults, and then children read them themselves once they begin learning to read. Many are written with vocabulary a child can understand but not necessarily read. Picture books are aimed at young children. Since the mid-1960s, several children's literature awards have included a category for picture books. The Caldecott Medal (established 1938) is awarded annually for the best American picture book. Seuss's The Cat In The Hat, and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. Some of the best-known picture books are Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings, Dr. Three of the earliest works in the format of modern picture books are Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter from 1845, Benjamin Rabier's Tintin-Lutin from 1898 and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902. Picture books often serve as pedagogical resources, aiding with children's language development or understanding of the world. The images in picture books can be produced in a range of media, such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. Peter Rabbit with his family, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902Ī picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.

The picture book with no pictures