Leaf
9 best books like Leaf (Sandra Dieckmann): Julián Is a Mermaid, Orange Pear Apple Bear, Sidewalk Flowers, Beegu, Perfectly Norman, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, Town Is by the Sea, The Little Gardener, Florette
| Author | Jessica Love |
| ISBN | 0763690457 |
In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world.
While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their...
| Author | Emily Gravett |
| ISBN | 1416939997 |
Yay! Finally an Emily Gravett book that I really like. (Thanks to my friends who encouraged me to read this one!) This one is so cute! The story is made up of four words (orange, pear, apple, bear) arranged in different ways to convey different meanings--the illustrations help a lot with conveying the...
| Author | JonArno Lawson |
| ISBN | 1554984319 |
In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. "Written" by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson...
| Author | Alexis Deacon |
| ISBN | 0374306672 |
The story of an alienated alien
Beegu's spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to understand her; windblown leaves won't stay still...
| 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...
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
SO Sweet! A father’s story explaining his world when his child is 2 months old.
I love this book. It does the macrocosm all the way to the day to day, not quite microcosm. It is powerful to show how small this little planet is in all that space and then when you see all the diversity and wonders on...
| Author | Joanne Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1554988713 |
A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator...
| Author | Emily Hughes |
| ISBN | 1909263435 |
The cover of this beautiful book pulled me magnetically toward it, from... ok, three feet away. But I'm myopic, so that was the distance from which I first spied it. The children's New Release section of my local library is steps away from the New DVDs, and the books are always artfully displayed. So much...
| 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,...
