I got tons of great responses. Thanks so much.
Childhood memoir picture books.
HIT
Almost all of Patricia Polacco's books are memoirs.
All the Places To Love by Patricia Maclachlan
The Sea Chest by Toni Buzzeo is a story-within-a-story in which an old woman
remembers her life growing up on a lighthouse island and the arrival of her baby
sister in a sea chest.
Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," is a wonderful story, easily available in
picture book form.
26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie dePaola - really enjoyed this book myself
How about the Art Class by Tommie DePaola?
Patricia Polacco books such as The Trees of the Dancing Goats, Betty
Doll, etc. are from her childhood. Also One Thousand Tracings by Lita
Judge is a wonderful memoir of her family helping WWII refuges in
Europe.
Tomie dePaola has a few books -- his autobiographies are memoirs of his childhood
written as fiction books, but my favorite picture book by him is "The Art Lesson"
when he tells about his struggles to create his own artistic style in elementary
school.
El Chino by Allen Say
Song and Dance Man Ackerman
The Two of Them Aliki
Air mail to the Moon Bir
More than Anything Else Bradby
The Summer my Father was Ten Brisson
Butterfly House Bunting
Secret Place Bunting
So Far from the Sea Bunting
Wednesday Surprise Bunting
Your Move Bunting
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs DePaola
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox
The Lotus Seed Garland
My Mother has a Dancing Heart Gray
Grandpa's Face Greenfield
My Great-Aunt Arizona (Biography - Hughes) Houston
Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) Howard
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys Howard
Earthquake Lee
Nim and the War Effort Lee
I Gave My Mother a Castle (811 LIT) Little
All the Places to Love MacLachlan
Through Grandpa's eyes MacLachlan
What You Know First MacLachlan
The Potato Man McDonald
Molly Bannaky McGill
The Rag Coat Mills
Uncle Ted's Barbershop Mitchell
My Life in Dog Years (Biography - Paulsen) Paulsen
Betty Doll Polacco
Chicken Sunday Polacco
Meteor! Polacco
Mrs. Katz and Tush Polacco
My Ol' Man Polacco
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother Polacco
Some Birthday! Polacco
The Butterfly Polacco
The Keeping Quilt Polacco
Thunder Cake Polacco
When Lightning Comes in a Jar Polacco
The Chalk Doll Pomerantz
Dinner at Aunt Connie's House Ringgold
Tar Beach Ringgold
The Relatives Came Rylant
When I was Young in the Mountains Rylant
Grandfather's Journey Say
Tree of Cranes Say
Ragtime Tumpie Schroeder
Satchmo's Blues Schroeder
The Day Gogo went to Vote Sisulu
The Gardner Stewart
The Journey Stewart
The Tenth Good Things About Barney Viorst
Keepers Watts
Chair for My Mother Williams
The Memory Coat Woodruff
Miz Berlin Walke Yolen
Owl Moon Yolen
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