South
10 best books like South (Patrick McDonnell): Where's Walrus?, Fox's Garden, Sidewalk Circus, Flora and the Penguin, Hank Finds an Egg, The Boy and the Airplane, The Farmer and the Clown, Red Sled, Re-Zoom, The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard
| Author | Stephen Savage |
| ISBN | 0439700493 |
A happy-go-lucky Walrus escapes the zoo in search of adventure in this wordless instant classic.
Bored with life at the zoo, an adventurous walrus escapes to the outside world. With the zookeeper in hot pursuit, Walrus cleverly tries on all sorts of hats to disguise himself. Will a yellow hardhat...
| Author | Princesse Camcam |
| ISBN | 1592701671 |
One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village. Chased away by the grown ups, Fox takes shelter in a greenhouse. A little boy sees this from his window. Without hesitating, he brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox. His gift is noticed and the night becomes a garden...
This delightful book will fascinate children and help them to see their world with new eyes.
-- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Step right up and witness an astounding assemblage of tightrope walkers, strong men, sword swallowers, and clowns....
Having mastered ballet in Flora and the Flamingo, Flora takes to the ice and forms an unexpected friendship with a penguin. Twirling, leaping, spinning, and gliding, on skates and flippers, the duo mirror each other's graceful dance above and below the ice. But when Flora gives the penguin the cold...
| Author | Rebecca Dudley |
| ISBN | 1441311580 |
Delight young children with this endearing and uniquely illustrated wordless picture book!
While walking through the forest, Hank finds an egg on the forest floor. After spotting its nest high up in a tree, he uses his ingenuity to help get the egg home safe and sound, and is joyfully rewarded...
| Author | Mark Pett |
| ISBN | 1442451238 |
On the surface, this is a really sweet book about a boy and his airplane--something that many of us can relate to if we ever had a favorite toy as a child. The drawings are fun and simple, yet still elicit emotion as you follow the boy and his plane.
As you read, it hits you on a much deeper level--the...
| Author | Marla Frazee |
| ISBN | 1442497440 |
Whimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee.
A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train...
| Author | Lita Judge |
| ISBN | 1442420073 |
Fun, simple and nearly wordless, while I have in many ways adored Lita Judge's Red Sled, and absolutely love the joyful (and at times also horrified) expressions on the animals' faces as they proceed to toboggan down the hill with the little girl's sled (and the few choice onomatopoeic accompanying...
After reading Zoom, I was interested in looking at Re-zoom. I didn’t think another book could be made using the same idea and still be good. I’m glad I did! I liked the second book just as much as the first. I still think that it is such a great and creative concept for a children’s book. The illustrations...
| Author | Gregory Rogers |
| ISBN | 1596432675 |
A comic romp through Shakespeare's London featuring an intrepid little boy, a friendly bear, and-in the role of dastardly villain-the Bard himself.
What happens when a boy bursts through the curtain of a deserted theatre and onto the world's most famous stage? He lands on the Bard himself...
| Author | Anne-Margot Ramstein |
| ISBN | 0763676217 |
Everyone knows that a tiny acorn into a mighty oak grows, and a caterpillar emerges into a butterfly. But in this book, it's also true that a cow can result in both a bottle of milk and a painting of a cow, and an ape in a jungle may become an urban King Kong. Just as day turns into night and back again, a many-tiered...
| Author | Ingrid Schubert |
| ISBN | 1935954008 |
1. The Umbrella has received the 2012 Outstanding International Best Book of the Year Award and The United States Board on Books for Young People Award. 2. For children ages 3-7. 3. This illustrated literature begins with a small black dog reaching for a red umbrella, barren trees and loose leaves around...
| Author | Mark Newgarden |
| ISBN | 0152058133 |
Bow-Wow may look like your average terrier. The streets he walks may seem familiar. But just around the corner, things get a little unusual.
With nary a word, Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash have created a story about a bold new doggy who goes where no doggy has gone before. With...
| Author | Béatrice Rodriguez |
| ISBN | 1877467316 |
In this wordless story that is both funny and sweet, a fox steals a hen away from her home. Bear, rabbit, and rooster give chase, but in a twist on the usual children's story, this fox is not a villain. Rather, he tenderly holds hen as he runs into the night. A funny and life-affirming story, The Chicken Thief...
| Author | Suzy Lee |
| ISBN | 0811872807 |
A dark attic. A light bulb. An imaginative little girl.
Internationally acclaimed artist Suzy Lee uses these simple elements to create a visual tour de force that perfectly captures the joy of creative play and celebrates the power of imagination. Stunning in their simplicity, Lee's illustrations,...
| Author | Marije Tolman |
| ISBN | 1590788060 |
Pure picture-book magic. A polar bear rides a whale to a tree rising out of the water. At the top of the tree is a tree house. He’s joined by a brown bear in a boat. The bears find that the tree house is the perfect place to read. When the water recedes, they are joined by flamingos, panda bears, and other animals...
Hunters of the Great Forest
| Author | Dennis Nolan |
| ISBN | 1596438967 |
While their friends and neighbors send them off enthusiastically, a band of hunters--males and females--set off in search of something. They endure quite a few hardships and face challenges from the peaks they must climb and the animals they encounter. Readers will smile in delight and surprise when...
| 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 | Jae-Soo Liu |
| ISBN | 1929132360 |
The perfect book for a rainy day, but also for an art lesson, a lazy afternoon, or a quiet classroom. Accompanied by a CD of original and evocative piano music, this is a book meant to be enjoyed by all people, connecting us through music and art and transcending language and cultural barriers. Readers,...
| Author | Sara Varon |
| ISBN | 0439634067 |
Friendship has never been sweeter with this charming picture book by emerging artist Sara Varon.
Cat comes to the big city to stay with best friend, Chicken. The city is exciting (and there's so much to do!) but after a while Cat pines for the country with its trees and bright colors. Chicken takes...
