Books like The Library
By Sarah Stewart
For the kid who'd rather finish a chapter than come to dinner, Elizabeth Brown is proof that a life built around books is a life well lived. Quiet, wry, and warmly old-fashioned, with verse that reads like a fond biography.
A dragon-like creature called the Funny Thing has a habit of eating children's dolls, until a kindly old man named Bobo invents a strange new treat to change its appetite for good.
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.
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 sturdy farm girl named Fanny Agnes waits in her garden for a fairy godmother to whisk her off to the mayor's grand ball and her destined prince — but who actually shows up changes everything.
A small boy is invited to tea at the palace and always asks the same question — may he bring a friend? — and each time, a surprising animal guest shows up beautifully behaved.
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.
A little boy insists there's a lion in the meadow, but his mother doesn't believe him — until the matchbox dragon she gives him to scare it away turns out to be real too.
A pig who has every toy imaginable unwraps a Christmas box containing nothing at all — and has to figure out, with friends, what to do with an empty box.
Six classic fairy tales get turned inside out in rhyme, as Cinderella, Snow-White, Little Red Riding Hood and others swap their storybook endings for wickedly unexpected ones.
A boy walks home from school and imagines wilder and wilder sights on Mulberry Street, building a story fantastic enough to tell his father.
A student gets stuck with a science curse after his teacher claims poetry is everywhere in science, and suddenly every rhyme in his head turns into a poem about amoebas, black holes, or the food chain.
A young inventor imagines the ultimate car — complete with a snack bar, a swimming pool, and a robot chauffeur named Robert — then takes it out for a wild test drive with his dad.
