Books like Nen and the Lonely Fisherman
By Ian Eagleton
For the family who wants fairy tales to widen, not just repeat — this is a love story where two searching hearts finally find each other. Tender, dreamy, and hopeful, with the hush of moonlit water and the sweep of a classic fairy tale.
A stuffed toy rabbit longs to become Real through the love of the boy who owns him, even as he grows shabbier and worn — until the fear of being thrown away threatens everything.
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 witch famous throughout Russia for eating children is secretly a lonely old woman who longs for a grandchild, so she disguises herself as a village babushka to find one.
A lonely sail maker named Osamu nurses an injured crane back to health one stormy night, an act of quiet kindness that sets his life on an unexpected new course.
A poor washerwoman on the island of Martinique uses her mother's magic wand to help her beloved goddaughter Cendrillon win the heart of a rich man's son.
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 king adopts a family of orphans, who each try to win his approval with gifts and displays of talent — until one simply chooses to spend time with him instead.
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.
On the night a child is born, the whole natural world responds — the moon lingers, geese fly home, polar bears dance — celebrating that this one and only child has arrived.
A wolf who has always lived alone atop a hill grows uneasy when a little wolf quietly settles beside him and won't leave — and slowly, warily, learns to let him stay.
A poem-portrait of one family — brown-skinned mama, white-skinned daddy, and their two children — celebrates every skin tone between them as simply, joyfully theirs.
A gentle picture book imagines Cat Heaven, where beloved cats run through fields of sweet grass, play with favorite toys, and are cared for by angels who rub their noses and ears.
