picture book

See also: picturebook

English

Alternative forms

• picturebook

Noun

picture book (plural picture books)

1. A book for young children in which the narrative is accompanied by illustrations.
   • 2025 October 15, Stephen Roberts, “Top 10: Railway retreats: Brockford Sidings, Suffolk”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 58:

     The picture-book village of Debenham is four miles away.

Translations

a book for young children with illustrations

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繪本 / 绘本 (huìběn), 連環畫 / 连环画 (zh) (liánhuánhuà) (Chinese picture storybook), 圖畫書 / 图画书 (túhuàshū), 小兒書 / 小儿书 (xiǎo'érshū)

• Danish: billedbog (da) c
• Dutch: prentenboek (nl) n
• Faroese: myndabók f
• Finnish: kuvakirja (fi)
• French: livre d'image m
• German: Bilderbuch (de) n
• Hungarian: képeskönyv (hu)
• Indonesian: buku bergambar
• Italian: libro illustrato m
• Japanese: 絵本 (ja) (えほん, ehon)
• Korean: 그림책 (ko) (geurimchaek)
• Norwegian: billedbok c or f
• Polish: książka obrazkowa f
• Portuguese: livro ilustrado m, livro de figuras m
• Russian: кни́жка с карти́нками f (knížka s kartínkami)
• Serbo-Croatian: сликовница f (slikovnica)
• Spanish: libro ilustrado m
• Swedish: bilderbok (sv) c