Books like Me... Jane
By Patrick McDonnell
For the kid who fills pockets with rocks and leaves and stops every walk to stare at a bug, this is the true story of a girl whose backyard wondering grew into a life's calling. Gentle, nostalgic, and quietly hopeful, with a nature-scrapbook warmth.
A decommissioned aircraft carrier, the USS Oriskany, is stripped down and sunk off the coast of Florida, transforming from a retired warship into the world's largest artificial reef.
A woman who loves the trees of her Kenyan homeland begins planting seeds one by one, teaching other women to do the same, until the whole country grows strong and green again.
A little girl named Little Miss plants a kiss in the ground, then tends and believes in it as it grows into something far bigger than she imagined.
During the Syrian Civil War, an ambulance driver stays behind in Aleppo when his neighbors flee, and finds himself feeding and comforting the many cats they left behind.
A costumed superhero girl and her Bug Squad friends volunteer at a dog-adoption fair, doing small jobs like brushing and feeding dogs until Lulu dreams up a plan to help every one of them find a home.
A gentle pony too plain for the beautiful horses inside the walled city ends up the only one who can save its children when the bridge breaks in half.
A girl grows up among fig trees and clear streams in the Kenyan highlands, then returns from college to find the land stripped bare and her people struggling — so she begins teaching them to plant trees again.
A young girl in Pakistan wishes for a magic pencil to fix small things — the smell of garbage, an extra hour of sleep — then realizes the world needs bigger fixes, and she can work toward them herself.
A spider too big to join the Itsy-Bitsy Spider's water spout games gets left out by his smaller friends — until a sudden rainstorm gives his huge size a purpose.
A skilled quiltmaker refuses to make a quilt for a rich, unhappy king unless he gives away everything he owns — and the more he gives, the happier he becomes.
Imprisoned with her family at a WWII incarceration camp, a young woman finds a small library and, in it, a quiet friendship with a man who checks out an armful of books every single day.
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.
