Books like Home
By Carson Ellis
For the kid who asks a hundred questions about where people and animals live, this book hands back a hundred wondrous answers. Quiet, dreamy, and wide open — a book that invites lingering on every page.
After spotting three dazzling mermaids on the subway, a boy transforms his home into a lagoon of imagination, fashioning his own mermaid costume from a curtain and some ferns.
One vividly colored fish at a time swims across an inky black page, each one radiating a single feeling — curious, shocked, loving, content — named in letters as expressive as the fish itself.
A biracial girl with red hair and brown skin mixes polka dots with stripes and eats peanut butter and jelly burritos, refusing to pick just one side of who she is.
A child looks closely at a single flower, using every sense to explore its color, its scent, its texture — and discovers a whole universe unfolding from one small bloom.
Voted the most beautiful bird in the forest, a glossy blackbird is begged by the red, yellow, blue, and green birds to paint markings of black onto their feathers so they can be beautiful too.
A gentle picture book imagines Cat Heaven, where beloved cats run through fields of sweet grass, play with favorite toys, and are cared for by angels who rub their noses and ears.
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 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 friendly ghost named Leo loves drawing and making snacks, but when a new family misunderstands his attempts to help, he leaves home to find where he truly belongs.
