The desirable and valuable features a children book should have:

• character development
• color
• with human courage, cleverness or grit as examples
• suspense
• humour/wit
• fantasy
• surprise
• repetition
• hope
• charm
• sensitivity
• realistic dialogue
• cultural insight
• action
• predicatability

Benefits of illustrations:

• Provision of pleasure
• Nourishment of the imagination
• Promotion of creative expression
• Development of imaginary

Categories of children books:

• Story books (picture books)
• family and home
• folktales and fables
• fanciful stories
• fairy tales
• animal stories
• others
• Nonfiction books
• Wordless books
• Interaction books
• Concept books
• Predictable books
• References books
• Alphabet and word books
• Novelty books and magazines
• Teacher- and child- made books
• Therapeutic books
• Seasonal and holiday books
• Books and audiovisual combinations
• Toddler books and board books
• Multicultural and cross-cultural books
• Oversized books