for those who love looking at pictures

Lookybook, a site devoted to interactive browsing of picture books just launched today (in beta). This is one of the best examples I’ve seen of visually appealing book browsing off the surface of paper. I hope that parents purchase their favorite titles in book form, rather than sitting their child on their lap in front of the computer screen for repeats.

The site allows you to search for books by illustrator or author, and set up virtual bookshelves. The image above is from Sparkle & Spin by Ann & Paul Rand.

It’s a new frontier,” said Frazier. “We may be able to bring a book forward that hasn’t been seen in years. The goal of this is to create a broadened, level playing field for picture books.  — from Craig Frazier (founder of Lookybooks), as quoted in Publishers Weekly