New England Picture Books

Here is a list of New England picture books chosen to showcase the beauty and culture of this unique four season vacation destination.

• Robert Frost's New England

Inspired by the writings of Robert Frost and his view of man and the natural world, professional photographers Betsy and Tom Melvin present beautiful, and sometimes poignant, scenes of the New England landscape in some of its many moods and seasons.

• New England Autumn; A Sentimental Journy

A magnificent collection, a journey through the hidden corners, along the back roads of this idyllic region. Suffused with color and light, each scene brings a moment of discovery and personal reflection which awakens the senses to a simpler time long since passed.

• Thoreau's New England

Stunning full-color photographs harmonize with selections from the classic writings of Henry David Thoreau, an original thinker and a perennially inspiring nature writer. When Thoreau first entered the Maine woods he found freedom in a wild realm "far from mankind and election day!" Now you can travel in the footsteps of this now-legendary author, the photographs in this book bring a fresh eye and a keen sense of humanity's place in nature to the far reaches of untamed New England.

• The Most Beautiful Villages of New England

One of the most splendid repositories of American institutional architecture is found in New England's public meeting halls and churches, and in the industrial mills and factories of the nineteenth century. This book also celebrates New England's rich tradition of domestic architecture: seaside homes clad in weathered gray shingles, white clapboard houses surrounding village greens, and exuberant Victorian gingerbread homes. New England is justly famous for its succession of intensely realized seasons: its deep and snowy winter; its spring, which bursts forth in a cascade of melting snow and budding vegetation; its leafy, languid summer days; and, perhaps most famously, its autumn, when the landscape seems to be on fire with the vivid reds, oranges, and yellows of the foliage.

• Wild New England : A Celebration Of Our Region's Natural Beauty

As you travel from the windswept summits of Mount Washington and the Presidential Range, through the north-woods paradise of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, to the dunes of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket Island, and the Cape Cod National Seashore, this book captures in words and pictures a remarkable landscape that has somehow defied change through nearly four centuries of European-American settlement. The result is an intimate and personal portrayal of an enduring natural landscape that is at once rugged and sublime.

• Surrounded by Sea: Life on a New England Fishing Island

A wonderful story about life on the islands of New England. Learn about the different boats, how lobsters are trapped, deep sea fishing with nets. Life on an isolated is never dull. Learn about the year-round activities of the inhabitants as they weather the seasons, go to school, go to work and live their lives.

• Life in a New England Mill Town

Learn all about the industries in New England that have long since passes. New England had a once rich history of manufacturing which has largely disappeared.