Books like This Is Sadie
By Sara O'Leary
For the kid who turns every cardboard box into a spaceship and every blanket fort into a kingdom, Sadie is a mirror and an invitation to keep going. Dreamy, gentle, quietly adventurous.
A string of paper dolls, made and named by a little girl, escape a toy dinosaur and a snapping oven-glove crocodile on a journey through the house and garden — until a very real pair of scissors threatens them.
A young man buys a violin for one silver piece, and the moment he plays it, fish take to the air, cows start dancing, and apple trees sprout cake and ice cream.
A boy falls asleep holding a book and drifts into a wordless dream world where chess pieces come alive, a dragon appears, and landscapes shift from canyons into cities before his eyes.
A young boy sets off on a moonlit walk armed with only an oversize purple crayon, drawing his own path through woods, seas, and dragons before finding his way safely back to bed.
A boy finds a salamander in the woods and imagines turning his own bedroom into a perfect woodland home, adding moss, trees, and stars to keep it happy.
A journey through a string of impossible moments — a swing that soars past treetops, a bike path made of falling leaves, balloons that turn a gray sky postcard-perfect — where the everyday world quietly becomes something else entirely.
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.
One ordinary Tuesday evening, a pond full of frogs suddenly rises into the air on their lily pads and drifts off to explore the sleeping town nearby.
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 little girl discovers the play of light and shadow in a dark attic, turning a single bulb's glow into a wordless adventure of shapes and imagination.
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.
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.
