Books like Russell and the Lost Treasure
By Rob Scotton
For the kid who turns every backyard walk into an expedition, Russell's treasure hunt feels like their own imagination handed a map and a mission. Playful, curious, warmhearted — a gentle adventure with a satisfying payoff.
A boy who loves stars decides to catch one for himself, trying a tall tree and a paper rocket ship before finding an answer in an unexpected place.
A cat on Nantucket Island searches for the perfect place to live, using up eight of his nine lives along the way before finding home.
A curious fox sets out just to watch a mysterious parade of animals heading somewhere unknown, freeing a caged pair of doves along the way, until he finds his reason for joining them waiting by a great wooden ship.
A spider sets off on a dangerous journey and is rescued in turn by his six sons — then faces a puzzle: which son deserves the glowing reward he found?
A grandfather leads a lively chase through town to track down a bee tree after his granddaughter Mary Ellen grows bored with her reading, gathering half the town along the way.
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.
A girl and her house full of rescued, misfit creatures grow restless and decide to move on — but when every one of her careful plans falls apart, she has to find another way forward.
A spunky young rabbit named Little Snow doubts the animals have their own Santa, until Big Snowshoe finds a way to see for himself who delivers the presents on Christmas Eve.
A man and his dog set out on a peaceful camping trip, but a marshmallow-loving bear sends them plunging down a mountain and racing down a river toward a waterfall.
A girl named Emily writes to her teacher, Mr. Blueberry, insisting a blue whale is living in her pond, and the two trade letters all summer as he tries to set her straight.
Two scarecrows, Betty O'Barley and Harry O'Hay, fall in love and plan a wedding in the fields, gathering the farm's animals and birds to help them celebrate.
Six blind mice each investigate a mysterious Something by the pond, one by one, and each returns with a different, contradictory guess about what it is.
