Books like Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
By Christine Baldacchino
For the kid who loves dress-up more than anything and doesn't understand why anyone would draw a line around imagination, Morris feels like being seen. tender, quietly brave, dreamy with a hopeful lift at the end
A bear cub finds a piano in the forest and, drawn back again and again, teaches himself to play beautiful music — then must choose between city fame and the friends who love him at home.
A little girl sets off to find the perfect gift for her mother, journeying up through the sky and meeting the stars, the moon, and the sun along the way.
A boy returns with his family to their yearly camping spot at Mountain Pond, but this trip is different — he's headed into first grade, and a tiger has appeared in the woods.
A lonely little girl finds a star that has fallen out of the sky and becomes its friend, but when the star grows sick, she must decide whether to let it go home.
A young ballet student listens to music from Swan Lake in her dance class and is magically transported into the story, where she meets Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer.
A picture-book biography of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who began writing poems as a girl and grew up to become the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize.
A young Japanese American artist grows up determined to draw, even as her family is sent to a WWII internment camp — and she goes on to create groundbreaking picture books that show children of every race together.
A merman searching for a partner in the deep sea and a fisherman wondering what waits beyond the horizon find each other under a star-filled sky, and their love changes both worlds.
After his plane crashes in the Sahara, a pilot meets a strange, solemn boy who has traveled from a tiny distant asteroid, and who slowly reveals the loneliness of the worlds he's left behind.
A young boy sets off on a moonlit walk armed with only an oversize purple crayon, drawing his own path through woods, seas, and dragons before finding his way safely back to bed.
An eight-year-old girl lies on her Harlem rooftop under the stars and imagines herself flying above the city, claiming its buildings and bridges as her 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.
