“I Love the Mountains” by Haily Meyers

The picture book genre offers a unique collaboration between words and pictures, author and illustrator. Pictures often “speak louder than words,” or certainly they can enhance and expand the meaning of words with imagery. Perhaps that’s the reason why this art form is so popular with all ages, because kids and adults alike can enjoy them on different levels. That’s also why picture books offer the perfect venue for adaptation of song lyrics such as the bestselling, illustrated The Music Is You series featuring John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” or Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” or John Lennon’s “Imagine.”