Books like Little Beaver and the Echo
By Amy MacDonald
For the kid who's ever felt like the only one without a friend, this one names that ache and then gently answers it. Quiet, tender, a little wistful, warm at the edges
A visitor-hating bear puts up a no-visitors sign and orders a mouse out of his house, but the mouse keeps turning up in the most unexpected places anyway.
A little bird wakes to find his flock has already flown south without him, and an unlikely friendship with Mooch the cat helps him find his way home.
A gorilla with nearly everything he could want is still missing one thing — a friend — so his keepers try pairing him with a tiny kitten to see what happens.
A toy bear waits on a department store shelf night after night, hoping someone will love him despite his missing button — until a little girl named Lisa decides he's exactly the bear she wants.
An elderly man living alone decides what he needs is a cat to keep him company, and finds one in an old, comfortable companion named Tabby.
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.
An elderly man catches a cold despite his cat Tabby's best efforts to keep him warm, so his neighbor Mrs. Teaberry sends her dog Zeke over with special treats to help him feel better.
A curious little penguin finds a lost pinecone in the snow and becomes fast friends, until Grandpa explains that pinecones belong in the warm forest, far from home.
A girl in a red knit cap and her forest friends find a hollow tree and turn it into a shared library, each animal adding its own gift to the spot.
A lonely piece of bread searches for a friend, asking Hamburger, Cupcake, and Egg to play — but each one is too busy with their own thing to notice what he's really looking for.
A boy finds a penguin at his door and rows it all the way to the South Pole to return it, only to discover the penguin was never lost — just lonely.
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.
