Books like Seven Blind Mice
By Ed Young
For the kid who insists on checking every side of a thing before deciding what it is, this one turns careful looking into the whole plot. Quiet, curious, and visually striking, with a gentle mystery-solving rhythm.
A collection of poems invites young readers through seven die-cut doorways into moods and moments — a dragon piñata, an alligator on the A train, a hungry yeti — turning everyday feelings into flights of imagination.
A journey through history traces one color across the world — from ground sapphire rocks and rare Eurasian snails to slave-grown indigo and a 1905 chemical breakthrough that made blue jeans possible.
A young Chinese American girl notices color everywhere in her everyday world, from red dragons and firecrackers to lychees, and brown in her own teddy bear.
A little girl wonders whether she's small, so she asks the animals and things she meets on her journey — and discovers that size depends entirely on who's doing the looking.
A nonfiction picture book that explains how scientists uncover dinosaur fossils bone by fragile bone, then piece giant skeletons back together inside museums for us to see today.
A collection of poems that offer instructions for everyday wonders and wild imaginings alike — how to toast a marshmallow, meet a hedgehog, or even become a snowflake.
A brilliant astronomer turns his telescope to the night sky and discovers that the earth circles the sun — a truth so radical it puts him at odds with the powerful people of his time.
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.
Monarch butterflies leave Canada each fall and fly all the way to Mexico, crossing snow-capped mountains and deserts to reach the forests their ancestors once called home.
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.
Two curious kids set off on a wonder walk through nature, asking playful questions about the world — is the sun a light bulb, is dirt the earth's skin — and seeing everything anew.
A tour through the natural world reveals how seeds travel to new ground — riding ocean waves, rolling in dung beetle balls, or drifting away on the wind.
