Books like Charlie Anderson
By Barbara Abercrombie
For families with two homes, this is the rare story that makes having a mom's house and a dad's house feel less like a loss and more like double the love. Gentle, quiet, and reassuring, with a cozy warmth that settles rather than excites.
A stray cat named Debbie starts visiting Mrs. Ainsworth's house, welcomed despite the three Basset hounds already living there, and gives the household an unexpected Christmas gift.
When a crocodile egg rolls into her nest, Mother Duck simply hatches it with the rest and raises the little crocodile as one of her own ducklings.
A girl's cat Sheba has three kittens, but her father says their one-cat apartment can't keep them all — so April must find a way to save the family she loves.
A little bird named Choco longs for a mother and searches among all kinds of animals, none of whom look like him, before finding one in a warm, unexpected shape.
A girl mails away twenty-five cents for a unicorn and waits weeks for him to arrive — but when Sparkle shows up smelly, fleabitten, and nothing like she imagined, she has to decide whether to love the unicorn she actually got.
A young hare tries to show his father just how much he loves him, stretching his arms wide and reaching as high as he can — but Big Nutbrown Hare always finds a way to love him back more.
An extra-long dachshund named Pretzel wins every dog show with ease, but Greta, the dachshund across the street, isn't impressed by long dogs — until his unusual length turns out to be exactly what saves the day.
A young transgender girl shares what it's like to have a girl's brain in a boy's body, from loving pink and mermaid costumes to helping her family understand who she really is.
A stray dog named Widget finds a home with a kind woman by pretending to be a cat like the six felines already living there — until his true dog nature saves the day.
A fisherman's son who spends his days alone with six cats finds a baby whale washed up after a storm and secretly brings it home to care for it — until it needs the sea again.
A gentle, repeating question moves through the animal world — from kangaroos to lions to dolphins — showing every baby, a joey, a cub, a calf, has a mother who loves it.
At the Central Park Zoo, two male penguins named Roy and Silo build a nest together, and a kindly zookeeper gives them an abandoned egg to hatch and raise as their own.
