/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14378841]

No other pieces of children's literature can come close to this.

[Anonymous No.14378857]

>>14378841
Eric Carle is a trash picture book writer and artist. The fact he made millions from this filth always make my blood boil. I can recommend better picture books writers and artists.

[Anonymous No.14378864]

>>14378857
>I can recommend better picture books writers and artists
Ok so do so

[Anonymous No.14378893]

>>14378864
Here are my top 50. Note, the German book

[Anonymous No.14378903]

>>14378893
going to edit this to make some stuff more legible. will delete and repost in a second

[Anonymous No.14378907]

the rarest pepe of all

[Anonymous No.14378922]

>>14378864
My top 50 picture books.

[Anonymous No.14378934]

>>14378841
*blocks your path*

[Anonymous No.14378938]

For me? It's Abel's Island.

[Anonymous No.14378940]

>>14378907
I never found Arnold Lobel's illustrations appealing. I can recommend better works involving frogs or toads.

[Anonymous No.14378943]

>>14378922
Thanks. But why the german book

[Anonymous No.14378955]

>>14378934
Not impressive. Poorly illustrated and overly unmemorable text. Trash.

[Anonymous No.14378960]

>>14378943
>But why the german book
And what's wrong with there being a German book there?

[Anonymous No.14378968]

>>14378955
>overly
remove this adverb

[Anonymous No.14378969]

>>14378960
Well it's fine but I assume many can't read german

[Anonymous No.14378971]

>>14378841
*blocks you're path*

[Anonymous No.14378994]

>>14378969
His impressive illustrations enough merit him the award of being in the top 50.
I'm not sure if the four English translations of his works are even faithful to the source material. The translations just seem made up. I do own some of his real books in German and plan to learn the language soon.

[Anonymous No.14378996]

a challenger appears

[Anonymous No.14379004]

>>14378996
This is crappy and pathetic art. The art itself is a like meme for an increasingly ADHD generation.

[Anonymous No.14379014]

>he doesn't read his children wondrous tales of interracial cuckoldry

[Anonymous No.14379030]

>>14379014
The Arabian Nights is trash. The reality is that Bedouins and Gulf Arabs never had a real culture. They were always West African tier, hence why they have significant nigger admixture. The original 1001 Nights was about China.

[Anonymous No.14379047]

>>14379030
Those aren't even Arab stories. 90% of them take place in Iranian lands, and are probably of Iranian origin.

[Anonymous No.14379054]

>BTFOs the entire thread

[Anonymous No.14379083]

>>14379054
My favorite one was Moominland Midwinter because of its contemplative and solitary feel.
>>14379047
Most Iranian myths don't even take place in the desert. They take place in mountainous areas of North Iran and Central Asia, some of which are very green. Nothing about 1001 Nights is Iranic in origin whatsoever. Read the Shahnameh if you want to understand what Iranic culture, before Islam, was like.

[Laura Numeroff No.14379100]

>>14378841
Eat a dick faggot

[Anonymous No.14379356]

>>14378971
This book was wild as a kid. There was another book I read at around the same time with a similar feel, and I hate that I can't remember it.

[Anonymous No.14379535]

>>14378922
based picture book enthusiast

[Anonymous No.14380023]

>>14378940
People who don't line Frog and Toad belong in work camps.

[Anonymous No.14380172]

>>14378841
>tfw this was my favorite book until middle school

[Anonymous No.14380462]

Where The Wild Things Are

[Anonymous No.14380480]

>>14380462
Maurice Sendak is probably a pedo. Read In the Night Kitchen again. It's like a fever dream of a fat Jewish pedophile.

[Anonymous No.14380485]

>>14378841
ha ha, how many /lit/ humor threads do we need, bro? ha ha

[Anonymous No.14380594]

That's where your wrong kiddo. Check these out:
1. The monster without a name
2. The God of peace
3. The man with big eyes and the man with a big mouth

Author is Franz Bonaparte

[Anonymous No.14380631]

>>14378922
boomer shit, *yawn*

[Anonymous No.14380640]

Gorilla dick daddy's hungry for some pussy :3

[Anonymous No.14380657]

>>14380631
How is that "boomer shit", brainlet?

[Anonymous No.14380666]

>>14380640
Do not taint this thread with your filth, nigger demon!

[Anonymous No.14380673]

>>14378922
>the mousehole cat
This list is certified patrician

[Anonymous No.14380686]

>>14380657
They all look like those old and faded picture books that sold for 25 cents at goodwill because no one wanted to buy them

[Anonymous No.14380712]

>>14380686
Some of the artists were popular during Golden Age of Illustrations. Maxfield Parrish, Kay Nielsen, Alfred Bestall, Fritz Baumgarten, and many others to name a few.
Many of them won the Caldecott Award, which include Kitten's First Full Moon, Flotsam, The Little Island, and much more. Other ones have famous or best-selling artists like Sven Nordqvist Pettson and Findus series, which sold over six million worldwide.
You're a dumb faggot who can't be assed to even look at the logic behind the list.

[Anonymous No.14380736]

>>14380686

1. Some of the artists were popular during Golden Age of Illustrations. Maxfield Parrish, Kay Nielsen, Alfred Bestall, Fritz Baumgarten, Beatrix Potter, Louis Wain, and many others to name a few.

2. Many of them won the Caldecott Award, which include Henke's Kitten's First Full Moon, Cordell's Wolf in the Snow, Santat's Beekle, Weisner's Flotsam, Weisgard's The Little Island, and much more.

3. Other ones have famous or best-selling artists like Sven Nordqvist Pettson and Findus series, which sold over six million worldwide. There are also relatively popular European artists like Inga Moore, Jill Berklem, Elsa Beskow, and Margaret Tarrant.

You're a dumb faggot who can't be assed to even look at the logic behind the list.

[Anonymous No.14380746]

>>14380673
Yeah, it was one of my favorites. Nicola Bayley has other good works like The Patchwork Cat and Katje: The Windmill Cat.

[Anonymous No.14380769]

>>14380736
All I'm getting from this is that they're just "children's" books for adult critics - no actual child would get any enjoyment out of such bland and matured (see, boomer) art.

[Anonymous No.14380793]

>>14380769
>All I'm getting from this is that they're just "children's" books for adult critics
It's more that the adult critics evaluated they were very good.
>no actual child would get any enjoyment out of such bland and matured (see, boomer) art.
The art is not bland. Many children love this art piece, for example.
Go back to watching trash like Pewdiepie, zoomer ADHD faggot.

[Anonymous No.14380811]

>>14380769
Not him but I had a number of them as a child and still remember them fondly

[Anonymous No.14380855]

>>14380793
Don't be so disingenuous and pretend like every single 5 year old on the planet wouldn't rather consume pic related than watch Beauty and the Beast or read whatever boomer children's books. If an actual panel of children were critiquing and giving out awards to the best children's books and media based on how much they enjoyed it over how much their parents and other adults enjoyed it, the results would be very much shifted towards more easily consumable shit.
>Zoomer ADHD faggot
We're literally talking about children

[Anonymous No.14380884]

>>14378922

if you like picture books so much, help me out. I have been trying to find a series of picture books for a while. I believe the main character is an anthropomorphic pig, and in one of the stories he gets a fruitcake

[Anonymous No.14380914]

>>14380884
Are you talking about Mercy Watson?
>>14380855
As I've told you, they are still selling well. Consider how recent Pettson and Findus is, yet it made Sven Nordqvist a considerable sum, even landing some movie adaptations.
Moreover, the recent Caldecott winners Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell and The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat sold pretty well, so it shows the market for picture books is still going strong. Also, the Facebook page "The Golden Age of Illustrations" has over 100k followers and shares many of the illustrators I referred to (e.g., Fritz Baumgarten, Beatrix Potter, and more).
Also, Beatrix Potter's works are always selling in large numbers, it goes through waves based on recent adaptations or advertisements. The new movie adaptation of Peter Rabbit was trash, but it probably did lead to more sales of her works.
The stuff about "consumable shit" is just a trend of the talentless but also being largely pushed by Jews for social engineering purposes.

[Anonymous No.14381014]

>>14380884
It's either Toot and Puddle or Mercy Watson.
After thinking more, I believe it is Toot and Puddle. Was there a parrot in it too?

[Anonymous No.14381021]

>>14380884
>>14380914
I did some more reflection, and I think it's Toot & Puddle! My bad. I wasn't thinking straight at first. Holly Hobbie's Toot & Puddle is very good and another best seller. It is soulful. It is true to the spirit of Beatrix Potter and many other Anglo picture books.

[Anonymous No.14381047]

The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_at_the_End_of_This_Book:_Starring_Lovable,_Furry_Old_Grover
Also there was a children's book where you got to pick between a sad ending and a happy ending. It was to promote an environmentalist message.

[Anonymous No.14381154]

>>14381047
I never really sensed an inkling of a soul in Sesame Street, Bernstein Bears, Arthur, Barnie, or Teletubbies. It is the opposite of soul, something like a negative space. Of course, there are many soulful works like Tasha Tudor, Toot & Puddle, early Pixar, Maxfield Parrish, or whatever.

In the modern era, there is such thoroughness when it comes to horror literature, yet "children's" literature is relegated as being of lesser importance or merit. The fact is, this is not a matter of "children's" literature. It is a matter of literature of light. The way these genres are framed is of immense importance and does psychically impact how one interprets his or her lived experience. If a children's or picture book cannot tap or point to the the inner divine light of beings or simple joyful events, then it has not succeeded in its objective.

In this sense, literature of light is diametrically opposed to the horror or 'dark' novel. Something like Maldoror is placed to the opposite direction of Beatrix Potter, and this leads to the most important metaphysical question of life: "Are the light and dark two sides of the same coin OR in conflict as two?"

In my view, they are in tension/conflict rather than in a complementary existence, and during Sassanian times, every person who denied this was outright executed. Dualism was considered absolute.

[Anonymous No.14381163]

>>14378841
A challenger has appeared

[Anonymous No.14381225]

>>14380855
Yes and we now know how poorly informative "enjoys" is. The child must be formed. Tomatoes may well loathe trellising but it's better for them.

[Anonymous No.14381258]

>>14378841
>the poem written by the same author as Julie of The Wolves and My Side of The Mountain
God Jane Yolen is so fucking based

[Anonymous No.14381316]

>>14381258
I also liked Jane Yolen's Owl Moon and The Day Tiger Rose says Goodbye. Jim LaMarche's illustrations for the latter are very good.

[Anonymous No.14381332]

[Anonymous No.14381850]

>>14379054
I've never seen a single non-austistic Moomin fan. Makes sense that it's only really popular in the two most autistic nations on Earth.

[Anonymous No.14381875]

>>14381332
Dicks out

[Anonymous No.14381900]

>>14378969
>I assume many can't read german
Shall we just all reduce ourselves to the lowest common denominator for you?

[Anonymous No.14381971]

Graeme Base aka Graeme Based will always be the GOAT children's book writer-illustrator.

[Anonymous No.14382033]

>>14381971
Oh fuck I forgot about this guy. Imaginative illustrations, and he’s not afraid to actually challenge kids with difficult words and complex puzzles like a lot of authors are. I used to look at his drawings for hours trying to find all the hidden things.

He’s incredible.

[Anonymous No.14382045]

>>14378922
>dont recognize any of these
that must be why i turned out like this

[Anonymous No.14382048]

perfect for the burgeoning schizophrenic

[Anonymous No.14382050]

>>14381971
Graeme Base is very good.

[Anonymous No.14382054]

big dick child lit coming through

[Anonymous No.14382056]

>>14382048
Pure trash.

[Anonymous No.14382057]

>>14381225
Anon, I've met a lot more well-formed consumers than I have well-formed readers. The landscape is changing, which is tragic.

[Anonymous No.14382340]

>>14378841

[Anonymous No.14382545]

>>14379054
I remember that!

[Anonymous No.14382773]

Sorry if I ended the thread too early, I couldnt wait any longer

[Anonymous No.14382815]

>>14382773
I just don't like this kind of style. It's all wacky with no soul or substance.

[Anonymous No.14382853]

This book made me who I am today

[Anonymous No.14382882]

>>14382815
Try reading it again maybe, more closely this time

[Anonymous No.14382920]

>>14382882
To be more precise, it's not that bad, but I've seen better. It has too much of a cheap Saturday morning cartoon feel rather than a high-quality picture book.

[Anonymous No.14383369]

>>14378841
This book complimenys Anti-Oedipus pretty well, desu.

[Anonymous No.14384029]

>>14382853
t.Rash

[Anonymous No.14385252]

Fantastic Mister Fox by Roald Dahl

[Anonymous No.14386390]

>>14382048
Body without parts explained to kids

[Anonymous No.14386418]

>>14378841
Mostly sentiment I guess but I appreciated it.