Books like My Best Friend
By Julie Fogliano
For the kid who's just discovered what it feels like to click with someone new, this book puts words to that wobbly, wonderful feeling. Tender, funny, and quietly observant, with a rambling kid-logic voice throughout.
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 girl named Marian discovers a rocky desert hill across the road and transforms it with her sisters and friends into Roxaboxen — a whole imagined town built from stones, old boxes, and pure invention.
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.
Two best friends spend a week of summer vacation at Eamon's grandparents' house, supposedly for Nature Camp — but waffles, video games, and staying inside turn out far more interesting than nature ever was.
Across a city, ninety-two men and thirteen women bathe, dress in black-and-white clothes, and gather their instruments before heading to midtown for an 8:30 concert.
A string of paper dolls, made and named by a little girl, escape a toy dinosaur and a snapping oven-glove crocodile on a journey through the house and garden — until a very real pair of scissors threatens them.
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 little red book opens to reveal a ladybug reading a smaller orange book, which opens to reveal another animal with another book inside — each one nested inside the last.
A big friendly bear heads to the swimming hole and notices someone shy rustling in the trees and scampering through the brush — who could this mysterious new creature be?
A little girl who wants a pony more than anything draws a dappled mare she names Silver, then imagines riding her through a magical countryside and even among the stars.
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.
A spirited girl claims the giant box from a new refrigerator and turns it into a castle, a clubhouse, and countless other creations, sharing every adventure with her neighbor Fats Watson.
