Pictures Books for Everyone!: A book with pictures

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Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
my favorite thing is monsters by emil ferris book cover
cook korean: a comic book with recipes by robin ha
making our way home the great migration and the black american dream by blair imani
the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: the illustrated edition by douglas adams, illustrated by chris riddell
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
sweet tooth compendium by jeff lemire
frank herbert's dune: the graphic novel adapted by brian herbert and kevin j anderson, illustrated by Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín
Blankets: A Graphic Novel by Craig Thompson
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Daddies and Uncles and More, Oh My by Kashama Leo-Henry
goldfish and chrysanthemums by andrea chang, illustrated by michelle chang
drama by raina telgemeier
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, adapated by Sonja Cherry-Paul with art by Rachelle Baker
The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara
Global Art by Jessica Lack
Protest: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics by Liz McQuiston
People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings by Pete Scully
My Ideal Bookshelf, illustrated by Jane Mount, edited by Thessaly La Force
Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators edited by Leonard S Marcus
The Great American Read: The Book of Books-- Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels by Jessica Allen, PBS
cook korean: a comic book with recipes by robin ha
Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South by Emily Wallace
happiness is baking: favorite desserts from the queen of cake by maida heatter
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live by Ben Thompson
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure by Henry Petroski
A History of the Phillippines by Luis H Francia
oak flat: a fight for sacred land in the american west by lauren redniss
Havana: Autobiography of a City by Alfredo José Estrada
The Story of the World in 100 Species by Christopher Lloyd
Rejected Princess: Illustrated Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
Gut by Giulia Enders, illustrations by Jill Enders
Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: A Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
The triumph of seeds: how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history by thor hanson
the book thief by markus zusak
Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart by Shane Snow
The Emotionary: n. a dictionary of words that don't exist for feelings that do by Eden Sher and Julia Wertz
The Nerdy Parent's Guide to Raising a Nerdy Child by Leo Murphy
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Will Buckingham, Douglas Burnham, Peter J. King, Clive Hill, Marcus Weeks, John Marenbon
We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by José Andrés with Richard Wolfe
Wisdom from a Humble Jellyfish by Rani Shah
houseplants for all: how to fill any home with happy plants by danae horst
plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

Only 53 days left to complete both the 2021 Read Great Things Challenge and the 2021 Reading SPRINT! 

While your SPRINT books don't count towards your Read Great Things 2021 Challenge completion, you can definitely complete both challenges. Or just one. Or neither. Either way, you're still welcome to come join us in December for our bookish celebration. 

One of our favorite* categories in the 2021 Read Great Things Challenge is A book with pictures. Pictures are for everyone!

Click through for some options from the Durham Tech on-campus and digital collections! 

We have some graphic novels

And check out our whole Graphic Novel Collection on Main Campus!

Main Campus Graphic Novel collection at bottom of staircase

Or you could read a kid's book

Check out many more of our children's books in the Children's Books Collection on the Main Campus!

three shelves full of children's books at Main Campus (downstairs by the Q section of the stacks)

We have books about art and artists

And even some books about books

We've got lots of books with pictures of food

There are always books about history

(Some of these are also microhistories, for all you fans of double dipping your book categories!)

How about some books about science?

And a wide variety of other books of all kinds with pictures!

Want to put a hold on a book to pick it up on your primary campus?

If you already have a Durham Tech Library account and would like to place your own hold, click on the call number in the item caption above and it will take you to the catalog record for the title.

Click "Place Hold" beside the book title. 

Screenshot of an item entry in the library catalog with a circle around "Place Hold" on the left side.

To log in to your library account, use either your library barcode number or your Durham Tech ID number (users who have been with us for a while may need to add DTCC to the beginning of their ID number). Your pin should be the last four digits of your Durham Tech ID number (like on your email address). 

My Account login for library catalog. Login using user ID OR alternate ID and pin. User ID is the 29024000 barcode from the library that you would have received when registering for a library card. Alternate ID is your Durham Tech ID number. The pin should be the last 4 digits of your Durham Tech ID number. Email or chat us with issues logging in.

You can also email or chat us and we can put the book on hold for you.

Questions? Contact Meredith Lewis (lewisma @ durhamtech.edu) or stop into a Durham Tech Library location. 

*Well, our real #1 favorite category is A book suggested by a Durham Tech Library staff member or on the Library blog, but now all these books fit in that category, too! 

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