A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.
They liked to run races for cheese.
Mice were lots of fun to play with.
Jill said, "Take Poopsie, the male one, please!

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.