Books like The Snatchabook
By Helen Docherty
For the kid who begs for one more story every single night, this is a book about a creature who wants exactly the same thing. Cozy, mysterious, and warm, with a rhyming bounce that begs to be read aloud.
A meadow comes alive as mother animals — from one mother turtle to ten mother fireflies — count out their babies through a gentle rhyming verse.
A devoted penguin makes his case to a slightly bewildered hippo: let me be your one and only personal penguin, and let's make our little world twice as nice together.
A rhyming romp through all twelve months, each one celebrated with a bowl of chicken soup with rice — from snowy January to a windy, wild December.
When deep snow buries their doors and windows, the mice of Brambly Hedge decide there's only one thing to do: build an Ice Hall and throw a Snow Ball.
A collection of poems imagines a curious inn run by poet William Blake, where dragons, angels, and a Man in the Moon all check in for the night.
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.
Monarch butterflies leave Canada each fall and fly all the way to Mexico, crossing snow-capped mountains and deserts to reach the forests their ancestors once called home.
On a long subway ride, a boy studies strangers' faces and imagines their whole lives — until one guess turns out to be more complicated, and more familiar, than he expected.
A rhymed journey traces unicorns from sun-dappled glades through the rise of knights, trains, and smog, asking again and again where these mystical creatures could have gone to hide.
A tiny snail longing to see the world hitches a ride on a humpback whale's tail, and together they sail to icebergs and volcanoes — until the whale gets stranded and needs the smallest friend to save her.
A collection of poems that offer instructions for everyday wonders and wild imaginings alike — how to toast a marshmallow, meet a hedgehog, or even become a snowflake.
A boy walks home from school and imagines wilder and wilder sights on Mulberry Street, building a story fantastic enough to tell his father.
