Yes, honorary, if they're cartoony enough in visual style and/or literary content.

>>152678488
>>152678616
Rule of thumb is/should be "Take away the illustrations but keep the text, how much does the book change?"
Comics are self-explanatory
Picture books (and diary graphic novels) change drastically while illustrated prose novellas are still perfectly readable anf comprehendable from beginning to end without their illustrations
That's the key difference

>>152678719
Ah, okay.

>>152678488
Hehe monkeys

>>152678488
Lovin the colour palette here

>>152679452
they cute

My 4yo loved this book for a time. You can tell when they do if they want to "play" out the story later, especially if it's not immediately after reading it.

Me? I would put Animalia by Graeme Base right up there, beautiful book.

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>>152678488
There's a lot of overlap between Cartoonists and children's book Illustrators.
Ted Geisel and the Berenstains both started out in cartoons.

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This was bedtime story kino.
Also apparently there was an animated thing.

>>152678488
>>152678616
No. Not /co/.

>>152680816
Cry about it.

>>152678488
Maybe you can help me out. There was an art book I remember as a kid that had large splash pages of ridiculous scenes with lots of detail.
Like a where's Waldo but no specific people to find.
I remember one of the pages being like a factory but a tea party, with lots of teapots pouring from great heights..

>>152681358
I feel like the colors were all watercolor as well? God it's been driving me nuts trying to figure it out

>>152680816
Considering how many are the basis for or based on /co/ media, they are at least strongly /co/-related.
I'm also inclined to think there's a lot of /co/ that would utterly fail >>152678719 's criteria and some picture books that would pass it with very little to distinguish them from similar works.

>>152681731
>I'm also inclined to think there's a lot of /co/ that would utterly fail
Like?
Pictures in picture books are literally at bare minimum half of the content if not slightly more or less

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This was my favorite as a kid. Each spread was just so ridiculous with creative encounters for the protagonist. Each encounter is about a number, increasing per encounter, so starting at 1 and then 2 and so on. Pic related is 4 and has this crazy creature called "Fyrbäbblan" which is just some freak that's 4 entities at once but I remember thinking it was the funniest shit as a kid.

I FUCKING LOVE CAPS FOR SALE!!!!! I WANT TO BE A MUSTACHED PEDDLER WHO CARRIES HIS WARES ON HIS HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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>>152681762
Just so. In some of the best picture books, the illustrations mirror the narrative so you can follow along if you're just learning to read. A good example is my favorite children's book The Wump World. The texts and images parallel enough that you could get the gist of the entire story without the text, sans detail, while the text loses nothing without the images, and I wouldn't exactly label it an illustrated story.

Conversely, you've got a lot of strips and wordier comics where you get the "garfield without garfield" effect. The context is in the commentary.

>>152680816
Pedant.

what is a picture book if not a comic book one panel at a time?

>>152682180
In that case, I think the criteria should be
>How much of the book is illustrated?
>Does the text lose anything if the pictures are omitted and if not so, can the illustrations alone carry the story without the text?

>>152681980
>I FUCKING LOVE CAPS
I can tell.

>>152678488
You already did.

>>152681980
>>152683499
>CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
>EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER

>>152678488
My grandpa read this to me....;(

>>152683499
lol oh youuu

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>>152678488
I really liked this kids house as a kid, also the art style and setting of a pulpy space station house is awesome.