Books like Flora and the Flamingo
By Molly Idle
For the kid who turns every hallway into a stage, this wordless dance between a girl and a flamingo is one they'll want to perform right along with. Playful, elegant, and quietly funny, with a splashy finish.
A little girl waits eagerly for a new hat from her favorite aunt, but when it arrives plain and ordinary, she sets out to make it beautiful herself.
A girl's walking house trips down a mountainside, scattering her found family of creatures across the hills, and now she must gather everyone and track down her runaway home.
Two friends imagine what kind of dogs they'd be — one dreams up being a big dog, the other little — as their game of pretend becomes a way of working out who gets to decide what happens next.
A discarded toy clown is thrown out with the rubbish and sets off through town on a wordless adventure, determined to find a home for himself and his toy friends.
Three children find a bag of chalk at a rainy playground and discover that whatever they draw with it springs to life right off the pavement.
A small boy is invited to tea at the palace and always asks the same question — may he bring a friend? — and each time, a surprising animal guest shows up beautifully behaved.
A tiny snail longing to see the world hitches a ride on a humpback whale's tail, and together they sail to icebergs and volcanoes — until the whale gets stranded and needs the smallest friend to save her.
Two little pigs come home from a walk to find their den and hut crushed flat by a big friend Bear and an even larger Moose — so all four set out to build one house big enough for everyone.
A fish and his best friend, a tadpole, grow up together in a pond until the tadpole becomes a frog and hops off to explore dry land, leaving the fish desperate to follow.
A lonely boy and a bluebird form an unlikely friendship, told entirely without words — until the bird risks everything to save him from harm.
A chameleon changes color wherever he goes and longs to keep one color of his own, so he settles on the greenest leaf — until autumn turns it yellow, then red, right along with him.
After an owl attack knocks a baby fruit bat from her mother's grasp, she lands in a bird's nest and is raised alongside three baby birds, learning to live by their rules — until she finds her way back to her own kind.
