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Me Books is a store+reader app for digital picture-books, including faous characters like Peppa Pig and a host of Ladybird classics.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2013

Also available as a website, Magic Town is a virtual world with more than 65 picture-books to read – a mixture of previously published and new stories.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012

The sun came out again and shone instead on drifting billows of mist, like the clouds the angels sit on in the picture-books.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

Then he narrowed the cordon, making himself intimate in the house, bringing bonbons to the children, buying them toys and picture-books, taking them out to breakfast occasionally and bribing the servants by opportune gifts.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

Individual things, too, have to be more carefully distinguished, if only for the purpose of drawing the line between what is "mine" and "not mine," for example, spoons and picture-books.

From Children's Ways by Sully, James