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I'm looking for input about truly excellent illustrated books.

When you tell me about your five favorite illustrated books (more than five is also OK), please also tell me why you like them / what's outstanding about them.

Thanks very much.

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Welcome to the site Dan, as this seems an awful lot like what will become a long list of answers based only on opinion, it is likely to be closed as a "shopping question." I'd recommend you spend some time at the library and experiment with what looks great AND interests your child. Then, go buy the favorites you check out over and over again. – balanced mama Dec 12 '12 at 23:15
In fact I'm looking for opinions, so I don't see what's the problem with it if it's helping a parent. After all, all kinds of questions on this site are asking for subjective opinions: how to discipline a child, how to get a child into the bathtub, how to get a child to eat spinach, etc. It's not a shopping question. It's a question about what books are good. I wouldn't think the site would want to close parents off to useful input from other parents. – Dan Dec 12 '12 at 23:34
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@Dan We do allow "subjective" questions, but we also have specific rules for what is or is not on topic. "Anything that might help a parent" is way too broad according to our current rules. However, our current rules can change if the community decides on our Parenting Meta site that they need to. I invite you to ask some other questions, post a few answers, and participate. We don't want to close off parents to useful input, but we also need to keep the site focused on content that is a good fit for the format. Questions that ask for a list of suggestions historically are not a good fit. – Beofett♦ Dec 13 '12 at 0:16
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Cont.- Fore more information about why product recommendations aren't a good fit, you may want to read this entry by one of our founders. I am going to have to close this, as it clearly out of the scope of our current rules. Please take a moment to go over our faq. Once you get a little bit of reputation (by getting votes on questions or answers), you are welcome to join us in our Parenting Chat system, which is a much better format for asking for discussions/recommendations like this. – Beofett♦ Dec 13 '12 at 0:18
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@Dan No website is going to be great for everything. The right tools for the right tasks and all. If you want answers to specific questions, you'll find that the Stack Exchange platform works very well. If you want an open-ended discussion, such as "what is your favorite x", then you'll get better results in a chat room or a forum. You shouldn't fault us for knowing what kinds of functions we don't fulfill well, and avoiding them in favor of those we excel at. – Beofett♦ Dec 13 '12 at 2:17
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I like the books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler a lot. The Gruffalo is one of their well-known books. Kids really like the story.

From my point of view every book is worth buying. They usually have a nice story and good rhymes. Kids could easily understand the story and feel sympathy with the 'heros'.

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Thanks! I like the Gruffalo. What do you think are her best books? I see she has written many. – Dan Dec 13 '12 at 0:02
Welcome to the site qbi! – balanced mama Dec 13 '12 at 5:12

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