Books like Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
By Muriel Feelings
For the kid who loves counting everything in sight, this turns numbers one through ten into a doorway into a whole other place and language. Warm, grounded, quietly proud.
A young boy at Mission San Juan Capistrano listens to the bell ringer's tale of swallows returning each spring from South America, then plants his own garden hoping the birds will choose it.
A young girl travels to Paris and then to Giverny, walking through Claude Monet's real flower garden and studying his famous paintings up close to discover how the artist saw the world.
A six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
Two children upset about being apart from their mother learn that everyone who loves each other is connected by an Invisible String made of love, one that stretches any distance and never breaks.
A dog named Rocket sits under his favorite tree as a little yellow bird teaches him the alphabet, letter by letter, until sounds turn into words he can read all on his own.
A boy named Eli grows up on his grandparents' farm, learning to love the barn, the fields, and the river that surround him — then shares those same places with his baby sister, Sylvie.
A joyful look at the natural world welcoming a new baby, as the moon pulls the tides, rain falls, and word of the coming birth spreads from animal to animal across the whole earth.
A wordless village grows page by page across twelve months, with one house, two hills, three children and more slowly filling the landscape as the seasons and numbers climb together.
Off a small island, a young boy sails an old boat, riding the shifting tides and catching wants and wishes until a change at sea reshapes what home means to him.
A six-year-old Kentucky farm boy catches a cricket on his way home with the cows and keeps it as a companion, later bringing it to school where its chirping causes an uproar.
A day in the life of family and friends unfolds from morning to night, moving from a tiny shell on the beach to the wide, darkening sunset sky.
