Books like A House for Hermit Crab
By Eric Carle
For the kid facing a big change — a new bedroom, a new school, a new sibling — this book turns growing up into something worth looking forward to. gentle, hopeful, quietly reassuring, textured with sea-life wonder
A boy leaving New York City and a girl leaving Mexico City each face the same nervous questions about their move — will they make friends, what will they eat, where will they play?
An exclamation point stands out among a page full of periods, bending and shrinking to try to fit in — until a question mark helps him discover exactly what he's for.
A girl named Allashua sneaks onto the sea ice to fish against her parents' warning, and gets caught by the Qallupilluit, forcing her to outwit them with a dangerous promise.
A curious child finds a key to a door that's been shut for ages, and stepping through it turns a gray, drab world into something vivid, strange, and alive with possibility.
A shy hippopotamus watches from the sidelines as other animals romp in a bog, try on hats, and go jogging together, until she must decide whether to finally say yes and join in.
A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg on a leaf and eats his way through days of the week and an amazing variety of foods, growing bigger as he prepares to become a butterfly.
In a tiny town where every meal falls from the sky, life is delicious until the food weather turns dangerous, growing bigger and wilder until the townspeople fear for their safety.
A duckling too odd-looking for his own barnyard is mocked and driven off, then must survive hunters and harsh seasons alone before discovering what he truly is.
A big, scary-looking fish longs for friends in the wide blue sea, but the little fish keep swimming away — until a fisherman's net traps them all and Big Al gets his chance to help.
A hungry squirrel searches for the nuts he buried, poking around a nest of fledglings, Mr. Owl, Frog, Vole, Mole, a cave of bats, and the woodchopper's house along the way.
A picture book imagines what would happen if animals wore clothes — a snake loses its clothes, a billy goat eats them, and a walrus stays soggy in a wet suit that never dries.
On the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain, a herdsman named Ki-pat sets out to bring the rain back, told in a cumulative rhyme that builds line by line like The House That Jack Built.
