Books like Mirandy and Brother Wind
By Patricia C. McKissack
For the kid who sets a goal and refuses every substitute, Mirandy's stubborn, joyful pursuit of the one partner everyone says can't be caught will feel like watching their own determination on the page. Warm, spirited, and full of rural Southern charm, with humor bubbling under Mirandy's determination.
A sturdy farm girl named Fanny Agnes waits in her garden for a fairy godmother to whisk her off to the mayor's grand ball and her destined prince — but who actually shows up changes everything.
On a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is whisked away by a mischievous cloud to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7, where he starts sketching wild new cloud shapes for bored clouds.
While the other field mice work all autumn gathering corn and nuts for winter, a quiet mouse gathers sun rays, colors, and words instead — and when the food runs low, his stories are what feed everyone.
A grandfather leads a lively chase through town to track down a bee tree after his granddaughter Mary Ellen grows bored with her reading, gathering half the town along the way.
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 dinosaur far too big for any studio dreams of becoming a ballerina, and sets off to chase that dream despite her size and the wrong shoes.
A kitten spots the full moon and mistakes it for a bowl of milk, then sets off on a quest to reach it — a night that leaves her tired, wet, and hungry.
A girl and her house full of rescued, misfit creatures grow restless and decide to move on — but when every one of her careful plans falls apart, she has to find another way forward.
A boy and his dog believe a few falling snowflakes will turn into something wonderful, even while every grown-up around them insists it's nothing at all.
A grandfather leads his three grandchildren up to the attic, pulls out his old bowler hat and tap shoes, and shows them the vaudeville song-and-dance act he once performed on stage.
A Black boy growing up in segregated 1940s North Carolina loves to draw everything around him, but becomes a football star instead — until his dream of making art finds its way to him.
A millionaire dog-poet arrives in Paris and is swept up by dazzling characters like Fritz from the Ritz and Pierre Potpurri, but something — namely love — still eludes him.
