Books like The Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians
By Carla Morris
For the kid who asks a hundred questions a day and wants a book that treats that as a wonderful thing, Melvin's story is a love letter to curiosity itself. Warm, funny, and quietly nostalgic, with the steady comfort of a favorite place that never changes.
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.
Three hungry soldiers march into a French village where every scrap of food has been hidden, so they announce they'll make soup from nothing but water and stones — and talk the wary townspeople into adding just a little more.
A rat who can't pronounce his R's gets teased at school until a bigger, meaner, smarter capybara arrives — and his very speech impediment turns out to be exactly what saves the day.
A boy drops his white mitten in the snow, and one by one a mole, a rabbit, a badger, and other woodland animals squeeze inside — each one bigger than the last — until a bear and a tiny mouse push things too far.
A beautiful young cockroach must choose a husband, so her grandmother teaches her the Coffee Test — spilling coffee on a suitor's shoes to see how he reacts to anger.
A second-grade teacher's whole school year unfolds through the letters she receives — sympathetic, informative, apologetic, even one from a local firefighter — revealing all the chaos and warmth of her classroom.
A bear wakes up from hibernation ravenous and thin, and as his forest friends bring him roots, berries, clover, and fish, his hunger keeps growing — until it's satisfied in a surprising way.
A warm, wandering list of reasons friendship matters, from knowing exactly where someone's ticklish to sticking together through pig-eating swamps and quicksand, real or imagined.
A crocodile mistakenly turns up under the tree on Christmas Eve and starts eating everything in sight — the roast, the stove, even the tree — while one girl fights to save him.
A little mouse named Chrysanthemum loves her name until classmates like Victoria and Jo tease her for being named after a flower, leaving her wilted and unsure how to feel about herself again.
A little troll wakes up thrilled for his birthday, but when he goes looking for his friends in Moominvalley, every single one of them seems too busy to notice.
A boy declares Jeremy Ross his enemy the moment he moves in down the street, so Dad offers his secret weapon: Enemy Pie — but the recipe requires spending a whole day playing with the enemy first.
