Shadow
10 best books like Shadow (Suzy Lee): The Red Tree, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Fish is Fish, Sidewalk Flowers, The Black Book of Colors, Draw!, The Lost Thing, Mirror, Duck, Death and the Tulip, Virginia Wolf
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 0968876838 |
When a child awakens with dark leaves drifting into her bedroom, she feels that 'sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to, and things go from bad to worse.'
Feelings too complex for words are rendered into an imaginary landscape where the child wanders, oblivious to the glimmer...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0763662291 |
With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.
Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....
| Author | Leo Lionni |
| ISBN | 0394827996 |
Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps,...
| 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 | 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...
| Author | Raúl Colón |
| ISBN | 1442494921 |
Based on his own childhood, beloved and award-winning artist Raúl Colón's wordless book is about the limitless nature of creativity and imagination.
A boy alone in his room.
Pencils.
Sketchbook in hand.
What would it be like to on safari?
Imagine.
Draw!
A...
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 1894965108 |
A kid finds a lost 'thing' on the beach where he's scavenging for his bottle-top collection. The thing is a large, freakish creature but no-one else really notices it--it's simply not a part of their familiar day-to-day reality. So the kid takes it upon himself to try to find where the lost thing belongs...
The...
| Author | Jeannie Baker |
| ISBN | 0763648485 |
An innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village.
Somewhere in Sydney, Australia, a boy and his family wake up, eat breakfast, and head out for a busy day of shopping. Meanwhile, in a small village...
| Author | Wolf Erlbruch |
| ISBN | 1877579025 |
This is not your usual picture book about death. The story is simple. Death, wearing a fashionably long plaid coat and bearing a black tulip, comes to stay with Duck. Understandably nervous, Duck asks, "Are you going to make something happen?" But no. "Life takes care of that," Death tells her. The two...
| Author | Kyo Maclear |
| ISBN | 1554536499 |
Vanessa's sister, Virginia, is in a "wolfish" mood --- growling, howling and acting very strange. It's a funk so fierce, the whole household feels topsy-turvy. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her up, but nothing seems to work. Then Virginia tells Vanessa about an imaginary, perfect...
| Author | Daniel Miyares |
| ISBN | 1481415247 |
A boy's small paper boat and his large imagination fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own.
A little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure....
| Author | John Marsden |
| ISBN | 0968876889 |
The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan is a book about environmental issues created by man.
After reading The Arrival we quickly became hooked on Shaun Tan's draftmanship. It's amazing how a book with very few words and mainly illustrations can send such a powerful message that will leave...
| Author | Barbara Lehman |
| ISBN | 0618756396 |
A wordless story that I must admit I couldn’t tell if this was imagination or if the boy was really going someplace. It’s a rainy day and an only child is bored. He finds a key and finds the lock it goes in. It leads to a secret passage that ends up in a lighthouse where there are other children to play with....
| Author | Marianne Dubuc |
| ISBN | 1592701515 |
One autumn day, a lion finds a wounded bird in his garden. With the departure of the bird's flock, the lion decides that it's up to him to care for the bird. He does and the two become fast friends. Nevertheless, the bird departs with his flock the following spring. What will become of Lion and what will become...
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 1444908898 |
I believe it is more difficult to describe a Shaun Tan book than it is to feel a Shaun Tan book. They are a mood conveyed through otherworldly pictures and contrasting ideas. This Shaun Tan book is a book for children.
I boy describes the rules he learns over a summer with his brother. The artwork...
