Hands: growing up to be an artist
8 best books like Hands: growing up to be an artist (Lois Ehlert): Roxaboxen, Miss Buncle's Book, Happy Birthday, Moon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction, Leaf, Perfectly Norman, Maude: The Not-So-Noticeable Shrimpton, Florette
| Author | Alice McLerran |
| ISBN | 0060526335 |
From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination.
Marian called it Roxboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing...
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0708908349 |
Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from fellow residents of her quaint English village, writing a revealing novel that features the townsfolk as characters. The smashing bestseller is published...
| Author | Frank Asch |
| ISBN | 0689835442 |
Bear loves the moon so much that he wants to give him a birthday present. But he doesn't know when his birthday is or what to get him. So Bear goes to have a little chat with the moon. A poetic fantasy, Happy Birthday, Moon has delighted fans for years as a simple yet reassuring celebration of love and friendship....
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
| Author | Meghan Cox Gurdon |
| ISBN | 0062562835 |
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
| Author | Sandra Dieckmann |
| ISBN | 1911171313 |
When a polar bear arrives unexpectedly in the woods, the animals fear and avoid him, suspecting him to be dangerous—and his habit of collecting leaves only adds to their distrust. Then one day, they watch as he attempts to fly over the water with wings made of colorful leaves, just trying to go home.
Maybe...
| Author | Tom Percival |
| ISBN | 1408880962 |
Norman had always been perfectly normal. That was until the day he grew a pair of wings!
Norman is very surprised to have wings suddenly - and he has the most fun ever trying them out high in the sky. But then he has to go in for dinner. What will his parents think? What will everyone else think? Norman...
Maude: The Not-So-Noticeable Shrimpton
| Author | Lauren Child |
| ISBN | 0141342773 |
Lauren Child teams up with a debut illustrator to tell a cautionary tale about the surprising perils of craving constant attention.
Meet the Shrimpton family — so talented, so eccentric, so larger than life, you couldn’t miss them if you wanted to. Mrs. Shrimpton wears flamboyant hats,...
| Author | Anna Walker |
| ISBN | 0544876830 |
I love this kind of story. This poor girl is a gardener. Her parents moved her to the city where there is no green. It’s a concrete jungle and this little girl is so sad. She longs for plants and draws them on everything. Why would you bring a little girl like that to the city —yeah yeah, I know, work.
Anyway,...
