Where's the Dragon? by Jason Hook

Books like Where's the Dragon?

By Jason Hook

For the kid who wants to reach into a book and touch what's inside, this one turns the hunt for a dragon into something you can feel with your own fingers. Tactile, adventurous, and full of wonder — a seek-and-find with texture under your fingertips.

It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw

A white shape drifts across page after page of blue sky, looking like a rabbit, a bird, an ice-cream cone, and more — until a final reveal answers what it really is.

Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess

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.

Weslandia by Paul Fleischman

A boy with a summer to fill decides to grow his own civilization from scratch, planting a mystery crop that towers over him and ends up supplying food, clothing, shelter, and games.

Santa Calls by William Joyce

A whiz-kid inventor gets a mysterious summons to the North Pole with his sister and best friend, but when the Queen of the Dark Elves takes his sister, he must abandon his questions and rescue her.

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

An author-illustrator named Harris Burdick vanishes, leaving behind fourteen mysterious drawings with only a title and a single line of text each — and no story to explain them.

Little Miss History Travels to Sequoia National Park by Barbara Ann Mojica

A time-traveling guide skydives into Sequoia National Park, leading young explorers through groves of giant trees to uncover the park's history, wildlife, and a hidden danger threatening its ancient giants.

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

A gallery of real animals shown at their true size — a two-foot tongue, an eye bigger than your head — turning astonishing facts into something you can see with your own eyes.

What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

A guessing game moves through noses, ears, eyes, feet, and tails, asking what different animals do with each — like eyes that squirt blood or ears built for seeing — before revealing who they belong to.

If I Built a House by Chris Van Dusen

An imaginative boy dreams up the ultimate house, sketching in a racetrack, a flying playroom, and a gigantic slide as his ideas grow wilder with every rhyme.

Señorita Mariposa by Ben Gundersheimer

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.

Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley and Anne Miranda

A cast of colorful monsters take turns wearing die-cut masks to show what makes them glad, sad, silly, mad, worried, and loving — inviting readers to try the feelings on too.

Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer

Two curious kids set off on a wonder walk through nature, asking playful questions about the world — is the sun a light bulb, is dirt the earth's skin — and seeing everything anew.