Storybook
(noun)
- A book containing a collection of stories, usually for children.
- A book illustrated with pictures and containing a short story or fairy tale.
- Something resembling a storybook in its charm or innocence.
Origin:
Compound word of story and book, it is a recent term, likely to have been formed in the last century.
Examples:
- He read a storybook to the children before bedtime.
- The little girl had a storybook of her favorite fairy tales.
- The house was a storybook cottage with a thatched roof and a white picket fence.
- The movie had a storybook ending where they all lived happily ever after.
- The garden was a storybook setting with a pond and a bridge.