Hi Suzanne, Many of the classics have been illustrated. Bruce Coville retells some of Shakespeare including Hamlet and Romeo and Juliette illustrations are soft with a lot of earth tones. There is also a beautifully illustrated version of Silent Night with the pictures of Thomas Kinkaide. There is also a series called Visions in Poetry that is illustrated. The series included The Raven by Poe and the Lady of Shalott by Tennyson with lots of black and white illustrations.

Sally Shabouk ...@yahoo.com">sshaboukgrlib@yahoo.com 1/27/2010 5:43 PM >>> Almost any Nikki Grimes book would have something that would work. Uri Shulevitz How I learned geography; Many books without words Flotsom or simple folk or fairytales.

Good luck with the program! Sally Shabouk Youth Services Librarian Glen Ridge Public Library (973) 748-5482 x 347 ssha...@yahoo.com

From: Suzanne Klein ...@EBPL.org">SKlein@EBPL.org To: njy...@njstatelib.org Sent: Wed, January 27, 2010 1:05:36 PM Subject: [njyac] Picturebooks for adult day care

Hi, everyone --

We have a regular customer who volunteers to read aloud at an adult day care center. Many of the people she works with have conditions that have affected their ability to pay attention for a long period of time or fully understand what she's reading. She reads a lot of simple poetry to them and has even had some success with children's magazines, but picture books are the hardest category to find something that works.

If you've helped someone in a similar situation or can think of a title that's simple, not too wordy, but would not be condescending or unsophisticated for an adult audience, please send me your ideas!

Thanks, Suzanne

Suzanne M. Klein Youth Services Librarian East Brunswick Public Library 2 Jean Walling Civic Center E. Brunswick, NJ 08816 (732) 390-6789 skl...@ebpl.org...@ebpl.org">sklein@ebpl.org

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