Books like The Iguanodon's Horn
By Sean Rubin
For the kid who wants to know how we actually know what dinosaurs looked like, this book pulls back the curtain on the guesswork, mistakes, and revisions behind the pictures in every dinosaur book. curious, detail-rich, quietly thrilling about the process of discovery
A science picture book zooms in on atoms and elements, then shows how scientists manipulate very (very) small materials to build self-washing windows, stronger airplanes, and other everyday wonders.
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.
A white shape drifts across page after page of blue sky, looking like a rabbit, a bird, an ice-cream cone, and more — until a final reveal answers what it really is.
An alphabet journey through iconic fine art, pairing each letter with a famous painting — spotting the earring in Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring, counting fruit in Cezanne's still life, and more.
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 big, friendly bear wanders through the woods noticing colors all around him — inviting little ones to spot matching colors of their own on every page.
A gallery of real animals shown at their true size — a two-foot tongue, an eye bigger than your head — turning astonishing facts into something you can see with your own eyes.
An author-illustrator named Harris Burdick vanishes, leaving behind fourteen mysterious drawings with only a title and a single line of text each — and no story to explain them.
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 young artist paints animals exactly as imagination sees them — a blue horse, a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a polka-dotted donkey — with growing joy and confidence.
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.
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.
