Books like Laura's Star
By Klaus Baumgart
For the child who talks to the moon at bedtime or swears they saw a star fall, this is a friendship story that takes that wonder seriously. tender, quiet, a little bittersweet, glowing at the edges
After his plane crashes in the Sahara, a pilot meets a strange, solemn boy who has traveled from a tiny distant asteroid, and who slowly reveals the loneliness of the worlds he's left behind.
A lonely sail maker named Osamu nurses an injured crane back to health one stormy night, an act of quiet kindness that sets his life on an unexpected new course.
A poor washerwoman on the island of Martinique uses her mother's magic wand to help her beloved goddaughter Cendrillon win the heart of a rich man's son.
A merman searching for a partner in the deep sea and a fisherman wondering what waits beyond the horizon find each other under a star-filled sky, and their love changes both worlds.
A stuffed toy rabbit longs to become Real through the love of the boy who owns him, even as he grows shabbier and worn — until the fear of being thrown away threatens everything.
A warm, wandering list of reasons friendship matters, from knowing exactly where someone's ticklish to sticking together through pig-eating swamps and quicksand, real or imagined.
A lion finds an injured bird in his garden after its flock flies south without it, and quietly takes it in, tending to it through the changing seasons.
A baby clown bounces off the circus train and lands in a lonely farmer's empty field, and the two unlikely companions spend a day together before the clown must find his way home.
A bear cub finds a piano in the forest and, drawn back again and again, teaches himself to play beautiful music — then must choose between city fame and the friends who love him at home.
A girl spends her best friend's last day in the neighborhood playing among moving boxes, watching the truck swallow up furniture and memories before saying a hard goodbye.
A tree loves a boy so completely that she gives him her apples, her branches, and finally her trunk, asking nothing in return as he grows old.
On a moonlit night, a childless couple discovers a dozen tiny babies scattered in a meadow after a magical moonshower, and takes them in to raise as their own.
