Books like The Robot and the Bluebird
By David Lucas
For the child who feels for broken, forgotten things, this is a story that turns a rusting scrap-heap robot into someone worth loving. Quiet, melancholy, tender — a wintry hush that warms by the end.
A picture book biography of the Persian poet Rumi, following him from a boy enchanted by birds and books to a scholar whose grief over losing his best friend Shams led him to his greatest teaching: that love is in us and everywhere.
A tree loves a boy so completely that she gives him her apples, her branches, and finally her trunk, asking nothing in return as he grows old.
A lonely little girl finds a star that has fallen out of the sky and becomes its friend, but when the star grows sick, she must decide whether to let it go home.
A gentle picture book imagines Cat Heaven, where beloved cats run through fields of sweet grass, play with favorite toys, and are cared for by angels who rub their noses and ears.
A gentle picture of what heaven holds for dogs — endless fields to run in, fluffy clouds for sleeping, and biscuits no dog can resist.
On a snowy night, a girl finds a lost wolf cub while she herself is far from home, and the two must find a way back together.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
An 80-year-old tortoise named Oliver has shared decades in the garden with his human, Ike, who is also 80 — but when Ike stops visiting, Oliver sets out across ten gardens to ask his mother why.
A quiet meditation on the everyday moments — love and loss, hope and joy, wonder and mystery — that thread through every single life, shown through glowing art and spare text.
A curious girl full of wonder loses the special someone who shared her sense of magic, so she locks her heart in a bottle around her neck to keep from feeling the loss.
A joyful look at the natural world welcoming a new baby, as the moon pulls the tides, rain falls, and word of the coming birth spreads from animal to animal across the whole earth.
A kind, beautiful maid comes to live in a mysterious castle with a Beast, where animals in period dress attend them both — and her capacity to love may be the only thing that can break his spell.
