ChildrensPictureBooks.info is a site that offers recommendations of picture books.  They also offer information on how to select picture books for your child and helping your child learn to read. They also have lists of picture books with an emphasis on math, science, social studies, art, holidays, religion, and fairy tales.  

Ruth McNally Barshaw makes Sketches of Famous Authors when she attends session and booksignings of authors and illustrators of children’s literature.  Best of all, she not only sketches the authors, but adds some of their comments on the side, so that you discover how they write as well.  This is definitely a site worth visiting!