Books like The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
By William Joyce
For the kid who already treats books like treasured friends, this is a story that makes that feeling visible on the page. Wistful, painterly, and quietly hopeful, with a sense of wonder around every page turn.
A little rabbit named Llewellyn collects ordinary treasures in jars until his friend Evelyn joins him, gathering wonders like rainbows and ocean sounds — then she must move away.
A girl who left her homeland as a baby must draw it for a school assignment, so she gathers memories from family and neighbors to imagine her way back to The Island.
On a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is whisked away by a mischievous cloud to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7, where he starts sketching wild new cloud shapes for bored clouds.
A little girl waits eagerly for a new hat from her favorite aunt, but when it arrives plain and ordinary, she sets out to make it beautiful herself.
A kitten spots the full moon and mistakes it for a bowl of milk, then sets off on a quest to reach it — a night that leaves her tired, wet, and hungry.
An overworked girl named Blanche shows kindness to a strange old witch-woman and follows her into a world of two-headed cows and dancing rabbits, where talking eggs offer a choice that will test her heart.
On the day before Christmas, the very first snow falls and children build a snowman who comes to life the moment a magic hat lands on his head.
During hard times in a Florida forest, a girl named Calpurnia sets off with her little dog to find enough fish to feed her hungry family and neighbors, guided by a mysterious tip from the forest's wisest old woman.
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.
While the other field mice work all autumn gathering corn and nuts for winter, a quiet mouse gathers sun rays, colors, and words instead — and when the food runs low, his stories are what feed everyone.
A determined girl chases every trick her neighbors suggest to try to capture Brother Wind himself as her partner for the junior cakewalk jubilee, certain nothing else will do.
Every night at six o'clock, a City Watch commander reads his little boy a farmyard picture book about cows and lambs, then starts reimagining it as a story about the city streets his son will actually grow up in.
