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A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. While some may have very basic language especially designed to help children develop their reading skills, most are written with vocabulary a child can understand but not necessarily read. For this reason, picture books tend to have two functions in the lives of children: they are first read to young children by adults, and then children read them themselves once they begin to learn to read.

Some picture books are also written with older children or even adults in mind.The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor and pencil. From the mid-1960s several children's literature awards include a category for picture books.

Board books are picture books published on a hard cardboard. Board books are often intended for small children to use and play with. Cardboard is used for the cover as well as the pages, and is intended to be more durable. Pop-up books employ paper engineering to make parts of the page pop up or stand up when pages are opened. More broadly books using similar techniques are known as movable books.

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