Hmmmmm I don't have a lot of clear childhood memories but I loved the Night Before Christmas a lot, and the Beatrix Potters more for the art than the stories which actually scared me a lot? We had a lot of Seuss books (our favourites were funnily enough Seuss-pseudonym books Wacky Wednesday and The Bug Who Went Ka-CHOO, which both my kid and my niece now own) and that's all I can really remember. I had a book about the circus? That was just a wild mess of vivid colour and it was kind of chaotic and ugly and also beautiful? I have no idea what it was but it was wordless and I read it a lot. I had a Muppet hardcover book that was pretty much just like the show, it had skits and sketches and lyrics to songs and it was really well done because it wasn't photographs, it was all drawings in a realist style...

My son loves anything with sound effects or repetition that he can remember/read and anything that makes him laugh... Robert Munsch books (illustrated by Michael Marchenko) are great. He LOVE LOVE LOVES "The Bear _____" series by Karma Wilson. They're simple rhyming stories with great friendships and they're fun to read and the paintings are beautiful. Shelley Moore Thomas's Good Knight books are great also because they have a lot of repetition and nice stories. Harold and His Purple Crayon? Linda Bailey's Stanley's Party and Mary Ann Hoberman's Seven Silly Eaters are ones we read often because they have beautiful art to look at... I get a lot of inspiration from kids' books sometimes. Seven Silly Eaters is also ridiculously fun to read! :D

Eughhh I have a huge list of kids' books I'd love to buy just due to the art but I will spare you. ;)