Books like Moomin and the New Friend
By Tove Jansson
For the kid who worries a new playground buddy means an old one gets pushed aside, this one gently says otherwise. Gentle, adventurous, and warmly reassuring, with a real jolt of sea-storm excitement.
Moomintroll and his friends set out to find the legendary Ocean's Song, hidden inside a shell only its finder can hear, but a sudden thunderstorm forces them to turn back before reaching home safely.
A curious fox named Marco joins a ship captained by a deer and crewed by pigeons, sailing off in search of a wondrous island and answers to his endless questions.
A fish and his best friend, a tadpole, grow up together in a pond until the tadpole becomes a frog and hops off to explore dry land, leaving the fish desperate to follow.
Eight little ballerinas practice plié, relevé, and jeté together in perfect step until Miss Lina introduces a ninth dancer, Regina, and their tidy rows suddenly fall into disarray.
A friendly ghost named Leo loves drawing and making snacks, but when a new family misunderstands his attempts to help, he leaves home to find where he truly belongs.
An imaginary friend waits and waits to be chosen by a child, and when no one picks him, he does the unimaginable — he leaves his island to find his perfect match himself.
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.
A boy's tiny pet elephant gets turned away from the neighborhood Pet Club because he's too unusual — so the boy sets out to build a club where every strange, wonderful pet belongs.
A girl who lives alone on a mountain asks the wind for a friend, and the wind sets out to bring her one.
A girl named Treva notices her family's Christmas decorations and presents mysteriously vanishing, and when she tracks down the culprit, she finds two trolls who have never had a Christmas of their own.
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 boy strolls down Market Street from A to Z, buying a gift from each shopkeeper — who are dressed head-to-toe in exactly what they sell, from gloves to oranges to wigs.
