Recommended Books
Twelve of Our Favorite Picture Books

Suggestions for Sharing Picture Books with Young Children
Suggestions for Sharing Picture Books with Young Children (PDF)

Picture Books of Distinction Series
An Adventure Begins: Picture Books of Distinction in 2006

Transformations in Style and Content: Picture Books of Distinction in 2005

Lost and Found: Picture Books of Distinction in 2004

In the Beginning…Was the Picture: Picture Books of Distinction in 2003

Varieties of Gazelle: Marvelous Picturebooks of 2002

This Land is Your Land: Selected Best Children's Picture Books for 2001

BERL Book Review
Barbara Elleman Research Library
Barbara Elleman is the creator and former editor-in-chief of the American Library Association’s Book List Magazine, has been a friend of the Museum since before its opening in 2002, and has served as a Trustee since 2004. Together with her husband, Don, Barbara has donated to the Museum a 700-volume treasure trove of books on children’s literature, The Barbara Elleman Research Library (BERL), which was amassed over the course of Barbara’s thirty year association with the field. The collection includes subjects ranging from the history of children's books (Jane Bingham's Fifteen Centuries of Children's Literature), to explorations of the art of the picture book (Perry Nodelman's Words about Pictures and Henry Pitz's Illustrating Children's Books), and biographies on A.A. Milne, Laurent deBrunhoff, William Steig, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Ezra Jack Keats, Wanda Gág, Leonard Everett Fisher, and Virginia Lee Burton. The non-circulating research library has been cataloged and is available by appointment to scholars visiting the Museum.
For further information or to make an appointment please contact Megan at (413) 658-1123 or at meganl@picturebookart.org.

For a taste of what the collection offers, we’ve asked Barbara to provide us with highlights.
Click here for Book Reviews of our BERL Collection.