Books like Truman
By Jean Reidy
For the kid who still watches the door after a parent leaves for work, Truman puts that exact feeling into a shell-covered body on a living room floor. Quiet, tender, and a little wistful, with a slow-building sense of courage.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
A young girl leaves her grandmother's house in Mexico to join her parents and brother in New York, facing a new language, unfair accusations, and the slow work of calling a new place home.
A boy returns with his family to their yearly camping spot at Mountain Pond, but this trip is different — he's headed into first grade, and a tiger has appeared in the woods.
A young reindeer with a glowing red nose is teased and left out by the other reindeer, until a foggy Christmas Eve gives Santa a reason to need him most.
A timid squirrel afraid of thunder, hawks, and dark forest paths must carry soup through Buckthorn Forest to her sick Granny Oak, facing creatures who want to help — and some who want the soup.
A pig named Pearl finds a talking bone on her way home from school, and their new friendship is soon tested by robbers and a hungry fox with unexpected powers.
A young hero condemned by a jealous king must earn the trust of the legendary winged horse Pegasus, then ride him into battle against the fire-breathing Chimera.
A dragon, a princess, and a knight team up as flying doctors to heal sick animals across the kingdom, until the king locks the princess away for wanting more than a royal title.
An aging donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, each cast off by masters who no longer want them, set out together for Bremen-Town to become street musicians and find a robbers' cabin standing in their way.
A mysterious young stranger begs King Arthur to let him work in the castle kitchen, hiding his noble blood until Sir Lancelot knights him and he sets off to rescue a princess from the fearsome Red Knight of the Plain.
During the Syrian Civil War, an ambulance driver stays behind in Aleppo when his neighbors flee, and finds himself feeding and comforting the many cats they left behind.
A child, her mother, and her grandmother travel together across India to Kanyakumari, where three oceans meet, sharing meals and memories along the way to the end of the earth.
