Books like Perfectly Percy
By Paul Schmid
For the kid who has a favorite thing and refuses to give up on it, no matter how many times it goes wrong. Sweet, simple, and quietly funny, with a porcupine hero who's easy to root for.
A spider artist longs to spin beautiful webs and one true masterpiece, but is shooed from room to room of Beekman's Boardinghouse until she finally finds a home that welcomes her gift.
A dog named Rocket sits under his favorite tree as a little yellow bird teaches him the alphabet, letter by letter, until sounds turn into words he can read all on his own.
The true story of Ignacio 'Nacho' Anaya, a waiter in a Mexican border town, who invents a snack of tortilla chips, cheese, and jalapeños on the spot — and creates a food the whole world will love.
Four small animals — a yellow bird, a white dog, an orange fox, and a brown squirrel — each face a little setback in one day, until something good turns things around for all of them.
A Black boy growing up in segregated 1940s North Carolina loves to draw everything around him, but becomes a football star instead — until his dream of making art finds its way to him.
A real-life picture book biography follows young Alma Thomas from a childhood soaking up color in Georgia to becoming a celebrated painter — teaching art for decades before beginning her own boundlessly colorful paintings near age seventy.
A little Chinese boy named Fish begs his father to buy him the biggest fish-shaped kite in the shop — then a great wind called Tai Fung sweeps in and changes everything.
A shepherd needs a new cloak, so he shears his sheep, then cards, spins, weaves, and dyes the wool himself, sewing every step of it into a bright red garment.
A young left-handed girl picks up her brother's guitar, flips it upside down to play it her own way, and by age eleven has written "Freight Train," a song the world would come to know.
With a baby on her hip and laundry still waiting, a no-nonsense creator demands light and dark, earth and sky, and every living creature into being — then sits back satisfied with what she's made.
A Victorian artist named Waterhouse Hawkins sets out to show the world what dinosaurs looked like by building the first life-size dinosaur models, first in England, then in New York City.
An older man and his cat nap far too much, so they join a baseball team with their neighbor and her rowdy dog — but creaky knees and canine chaos threaten every play.
