Books like Do Not Open
By Brinton Turkle
For the kid who can't resist a locked box or a sign that says keep out, this is a story built entirely around that irresistible pull. Salty, atmospheric, a little eerie, with the hush of a beach after a storm.
A boy named Rudy longs to fly more than anything, so he adopts a wild hawk, hoping their bond will somehow let him join it in the sky.
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.
An old nursery rhyme imagines all the world's seas as one giant sea, all its trees as one enormous tree, and then asks: what if that tree came crashing down into that sea?
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.
One ordinary Tuesday evening, a pond full of frogs suddenly rises into the air on their lily pads and drifts off to explore the sleeping town nearby.
A science-minded boy examining flotsam on the beach finds a barnacle-crusted underwater camera, and the developed photos reveal astonishing secrets from the deep.
Tiny forest children living among the roots of an old pine tree move through a full year of seasons, swimming and picking berries in summer, gathering mushrooms with fairies in fall, and feeding animal friends through the snow.
A young dreamer who learns to read from her mother's tombstone runs away with a poet at sixteen, then on a stormy night in Switzerland invents a monster story that becomes Frankenstein.
Three sisters home alone must outwit a wolf disguised as their grandmother, who has slipped inside their door at nightfall claiming to be Po Po.
A traveling trickster arrives in a village too terrified to celebrate Hanukkah, and must outwit a houseful of goblins — one each night — before facing their monstrous King.
A father and daughter hike down into the Grand Canyon, layer by layer, uncovering fossils and creatures that reveal millions of years of history hidden in the rock.
