Imagine a Day
10 best books like Imagine a Day (Sarah L. Thomson): June 29, 1999, The Art of Miss Chew, The Seven Silly Eaters, The Black Book of Colors, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young, Clara and Asha, Enigma: A Magical Mystery, A Story for Bear, Museum ABC
| Author | David Wiesner |
| ISBN | 0395727677 |
Flotsam was the first David Wiesner book I read and so far it remains my favorite. I have enjoyed most of his books and this one was excellent. It’s an unusual Wiesner in that there’s significant text, but the illustrations are amazing and on their own are able to tell the bulk of this story.
I...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399257039 |
After spending the summer with her artist grandmother, Trisha knows she wants to be an artist, too. She's thrilled when her sketches get her into Miss Chew's special art class at the high school. A substitute teacher tells her she's wasting time on art when she should be studying - but fortunately, this...
| Author | Mary Ann Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0152024409 |
Five stars thanks to Marla Frazee's illustrations. I loved her work in All the World and am now a devoted fan. Her illustrations of family life just make me feel so happy! I am at once flooded with sweet memories of my own childhood and full of dreams for when I have kids of my own. She creates families and home-life...
| Author | Menena Cottin |
| ISBN | 0888998732 |
A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008
It is very hard for a sighted person to imagine what it is like to be blind. This groundbreaking, award-winning book endeavors to convey the experience of a person who can only see through his or her...
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
| Author | Chris Van Allsburg |
| ISBN | 0395827841 |
Fourteen black-and-white drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption, entice readers to make up his or her own story. A fictional editor's note tells of an encounter with an author and illustrator named Harris Burdick, who provided the images and captions as samples, each from a different picture...
| Author | Jack Prelutsky |
| ISBN | 0394872185 |
First published in 1986 and just as fresh and relevant today, this widely acclaimed, child-friendly poetry anthology is now being reissued with a striking new jacket. In his introduction to this book Jim Trelease, bestselling author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, writes, “No one better recognizes...
| Author | Eric Rohmann |
| ISBN | 1596430311 |
In Clara and Asha -- as in Eric Rohmann's Caldecott Medal-winning My Friend Rabbit--a simple storyline becomes the basis for fun and sophistication. Clara's friend Asha is an enormous fish, which means that hide-and-seek, Halloween, snow days, and afternoons in the park offer surprising opportunities...
Bertie the Badger's Grandpa is a retired conjurer living in a retirement home for magicians and the like. One day Bertie comes to visit and see the magic show only to find that the residents have had their magic things stolen. Bertie's on the case, and goes to speak to each of them. Who stole the special magic...
| Author | Dennis Haseley |
| ISBN | 0152002391 |
Open your heart and imagination to this magical fantasy about friendship and reading...
One sunlit afternoon, ab ear discovers a mysterious fragment of paper that leads him to a cabin and to an unlikely friend. Although he can't understand her words, he returns day after day all summer to hear...
| Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| ISBN | 0316071706 |
Museum ABC introduces more than one hundred works art--using the alphabet!
This unique alphabet book features four works of art from different cultures and periods for each letter of the alphabet. Simple words matched with intriguing illustrations provide an opportunity for endless exploration....
| Author | Aaron Blabey |
| ISBN | 1590785967 |
A delightfully uplifting tale about self-belief, courage, and—above all—the power of friendship. Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every way: Pearl loves solving mysteries and moves rather fast in the world, and Charlie likes taking leisurely...
| Author | Nick Sharratt |
| ISBN | 0763639214 |
Peek through each foggy vellum page to guess what lies beyond in an innovative novelty book that's a surefire page turner.
"What can this be in the foggy, foggy forest?" That's the question on every spread of this clever book, each depicting the black-and-white silhouette of a fairy-tale figure...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1894965086 |
A Moreton Bay Fig tree, planted as a memorial to Australian soldiers killed in World War I, is slated to be cut down by the local council. A young boy tells the moving story of the tree, as related by his great grandfather, grandfather, and father, each of whom has participated in wars over the years. Interweaving...
| Author | Anh Do |
| ISBN | 1742378323 |
After Australian comedian Anh Do told his story about being a refugee in his award-winning memoir, The Happiest Refugee, he received many requests for a children’s version. This is the inspiring result.
Anh nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their...
King Pig rules his kingdom and has many sheep subjects. While they accept his rule, they do not seem to like him. Baffled, King Pig does all he can to impress his subjects, but they are still less than willing to give him the time of day. Worried, he pines and loses sleep over the matter, until a soluti0n pops...
| Author | Jeanne Willis |
| ISBN | 0689865244 |
Not for the faint-at-heart adult, but great for every child with a sadistic side (and what child doesn't have a hidden or not-so-hidden sadistic side), including every first-grade boy in the world. I read with a high, squeaky voice for the caterpillar and a low, stopped-up-nose voice for the tadpole....
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0395968879 |
I love Eve Bunting and she teams up with some of the best in the business - the real up and comers. David Wiesner, who I love his own works, is the illustrator. This is in black and white and beautifully drawn. This sets a mood and a tone. It is a safe kind of darker story, it is somewhat scary.
Gargoyles...
| Author | Greg E. Foley |
| ISBN | 0061547506 |
This is the story of Willoughby, whose new house feels too small and very lonely.
It's also the story of an enchanted lion and spectacular wishes come true: of roller coasters, and fast, fast shoes, and enormous crowds of people.
But most of all, it's the story of one important question:...
| Author | David Slonim |
| ISBN | 0811844307 |
What do you do with someone who won't get off the furniture? It's not someone who decides to couch surf or needs a place to stay overnight (Airbnb style). He's not a cat either. He just decides not to budge and he's moved into the house because "you" want that piece of furniture very badly. Nobody knows exactly...
| Author | Helen Ward |
| ISBN | 0525478450 |
In the middle of a windswept wasteland full of discarded scrap metal lives a sad and lonely old man. In spite of his gloomy surroundings, he dreams every night of a lively forest full of trees, birds, and animals. When he finds a broken light fixture that looks like a flower, his imagination is sparked....
| Author | Michael Foreman |
| ISBN | 0763642711 |
For a boy in a warravaged world, nurturing a fragile vine has far reaching effects in this simple, universal fable of hope and connection.
A little boy’s home has been reduced to ruin and rubble, and now a wire fence and soldiers separate him from the streams and hills he once visited with his...
| Author | Pamela Zagarenski |
| ISBN | 0544416864 |
When a little girl received a curious book filled only with pictures, a whisper urges her to create the words she cannot see. As the pages turn, her imagination takes flight and she discovers that the greatest storyteller of all might come from within.
A celebration of reading and the power of...
