Librarians, faced with the dizzying profusion of children's picture books, may count on Patricia Cianciolo's Picture Books for Children for its ardent and insightful recommendations. The first edition appeared 23 years ago. Today Cianciolo observes The recently published picture books have become more conceptual, more methodological, and certainly more self-assured and sophisticated.

A guide to books that inform young readers. The author has selected over 200 books whose text and illustrations are skillfully combined to create literary works of art. The selected works are arganized into categories such as the natural world, and numbers and arithmetic.