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These are a few beautiful, heartwarming or just funny illustrated books that our family gathered during the years. They are not as famous as they deserve. I (we) love them because the stories are quirky and surprising and can be at times very deep; they are great for "aloud-reading", making funny voices, adding emphasis where it is needed, letting your child to learn & shout punchlines at the right moment; illustrations are stunningly beautiful and have the rare quality of being "fun-to-look-at" repetition, repetition, repetition that young children love they bring back memories (ok, this applies only to my family, but I promise it will work for you as well, only the memories will be different I guess) The Troll by Julia Donaldson and David Roberts . A troll impatiently waiting under a bridge, a crew of lousy pirates and a surprise finale. A surreal story by the uber-famous author of the Gruffalo, we even turned it into a play for our