Books like Who Will Comfort Toffle?
By Tove Jansson
For the quiet kid who hangs at the edge of the party watching everyone else have fun, Toffle's story is a gentle hand reaching back toward them. Wistful, tender, and quietly hopeful, with the dreamy strangeness of Moomin Valley.
When every girl at the Paris boarding school falls sick on Christmas Eve, the smallest and bravest one stays well enough to take charge — and finds unexpected help from a magical rug-selling merchant.
An imaginary friend waits and waits to be chosen by a child, and when no one picks him, he does the unimaginable — he leaves his island to find his perfect match himself.
A half-god king grows so lonely and cruel that he forces his people of Uruk to build an exhausting wall, so the Sun God sends a wild man raised among animals to teach him friendship.
Every Christmas Eve, hungry trolls knock down Kyri's door and gobble up her family's feast, but this year a boy traveling to Oslo with his pet ice bear might finally put a stop to it.
A friendly ghost named Leo loves drawing and making snacks, but when a new family misunderstands his attempts to help, he leaves home to find where he truly belongs.
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 girl in a red cloak walks alone through the woods to visit her ailing grandmother, unaware that a wicked wolf is following close behind with plans of his own.
Seven sisters, each with her own special talent, must join forces and race to rescue their baby Seventh Sister after a hungry dragon snatches her away.
After a hunter kills his mother, a young elephant flees to the city, where a kindly old woman takes him in — then he returns to the great forest with his cousins Celeste and Arthur to become King of the Elephants.
A father is proud of both his daughters, but when the Great King summons the most worthy young women in the land to appear before him, only one can become queen.
A boardinghouse girl in nineteenth-century Paris spots a quiet stranger walking on air across the courtyard and begs him to teach her — not knowing he's a once-famous wire-walker now gripped by fear.
Scarred from tending the fire, a girl and her two beautiful but cruel sisters all try to win the hand of a rich, powerful Invisible Being — but only his sister's watchful gaze can tell who has truly seen him.
