picture book

book with images at least as important as words, commonly directed at young children and featuring a story
Thing literary_form Q254554
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picture book

Summary

picture book is a literary form[1]. It draws 173 Wikipedia views per month (literary_form category, ranking #16 of 42).[2]

Key Facts

  • picture book's instance of is recorded as literary form[3].
  • picture book's instance of is recorded as literature term[4].
  • picture book's instance of is recorded as type of book[5].
  • picture book's GND ID is recorded as 4006604-6[6].
  • picture book's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85101984[7].
  • picture book's subclass of is recorded as book[8].
  • picture book's subclass of is recorded as children's and young adult literature[9].
  • picture book's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00561769[10].
  • picture book's Commons category is recorded as Picture books[11].
  • picture book's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D001878[12].
  • picture book's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 301[13].
  • picture book's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/016475[14].
  • picture book's MeSH tree code is recorded as J01.897.280.500.117[15].
  • picture book's MeSH tree code is recorded as L01.462.500.682.192.289[16].
  • picture book's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph782755[17].
  • picture book's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Picture books[18].
  • picture book's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300026446[19].
  • picture book's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300311820[20].
  • picture book's Iconclass notation is recorded as 49M321[21].
  • picture book's described by source is recorded as Metzler Literatur Lexikon (2 ed.)[22].
  • picture book's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000268121[23].
  • picture book's has characteristic is recorded as picture book award[24].
  • picture book's BBC Things ID is recorded as 793202ef-62ba-4a61-8ee5-287a11b1cc7b[25].
  • picture book's different from is recorded as coffee table book[26].
  • picture book's different from is recorded as Illustrated Book[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for picture book include Bilderbuch[28], a musical group[29].

Why It Matters

picture book draws 173 Wikipedia views per month (literary_form category, ranking #16 of 42).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include Bilderbuch[28], a musical group[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Metzler Literatur Lexikon (2 ed.). wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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