Books like People
By Peter Spier
For the kid who points at every stranger on the street and asks a hundred questions, this book hands them the whole world to look at. Sprawling, curious, celebratory, encyclopedic in the best way.
A journey around the world explores real homes shaped by their surroundings, from bedrooms carved into Spanish mountains to a floating house in the Netherlands that rotates to catch both the sunrise and sunset.
Two neighboring groups, the Yooks and the Zooks, share a love of buttered bread but feud bitterly over which side should face up — and the argument keeps escalating into something far more dangerous.
A biracial girl with red hair and brown skin mixes polka dots with stripes and eats peanut butter and jelly burritos, refusing to pick just one side of who she is.
An exclamation point stands out among a page full of periods, bending and shrinking to try to fit in — until a question mark helps him discover exactly what he's for.
A wordless journey through city streets where ordinary things — fire escapes, scaffolding, road signs — reveal the shape of a letter, all the way from A to Z.
A curious child finds a key to a door that's been shut for ages, and stepping through it turns a gray, drab world into something vivid, strange, and alive with possibility.
A born builder who once made a tower from diapers and glue faces a teacher who despises architecture — until a class picnic goes wrong and his skills turn out to be exactly what's needed.
A gentle tour of homes of every kind — a house in the country, an apartment in the city, a shoe, a boat on the sea, even a home in myth or in an artist's own studio.
A little girl moves through her day with family and friends, noticing that everyone feels colors differently — her neighbor's red is angry, hers is brave like a fire truck.
A baby clown bounces off the circus train and lands in a lonely farmer's empty field, and the two unlikely companions spend a day together before the clown must find his way home.
Two unseen voices look at the same picture and argue back and forth — one insists it's a duck, the other swears it's a rabbit — and neither one budges.
