The Art of James Christensen: A Journey of the Imagination

9 best books like The Art of James Christensen: A Journey of the Imagination (Renwick St. James): The Double Comfort Safari Club, Beyond the Bright Sea, The Pencil, Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico, Voyage of the Basset, Lines, Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog, Almost to Freedom, So Big!

The Double Comfort Safari Club

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	0375424504

Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana’s remote and...

Beyond the Bright Sea

Author	Lauren Wolk
ISBN	1101994851

From the author of the critically acclaimed Wolf Hollow comes a moving story of identity and belonging.

Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift on a small boat when she was...

The Pencil

Author	Allan Ahlberg
ISBN	0763638943

The creators of THE RUNAWAY DINNER and PREVIOUSLY team up to imagine the comical world that comes to life when a lonely pencil starts to draw.

"One day that little pencil made a move, shivered slightly, quivered somewhat . . . and began to draw."

Welcome back Banjo, the boy from THE RUNAWAY...

Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico

Author	Verna Aardema
ISBN	0679889361

Petra Mather's illustrations are bright, and actually rather sweet, if not cute, and I do much appreciate the idea that a little lamb is able to cunningly outsmart a cunning and stalking coyote (the coyote reminds me a bit of the big bad wolf, so common in European folktales and culture). That being said,...

Voyage of the Basset

Author	James C. Christensen
ISBN	1885183585

"Believing is Seeing"

In the tradition of such favorite classics as Gulliver's Travels and Journey to the Center of the Earth, Voyage of the Basset takes the reader on a fantastical journey of discovery. Through richly detailed full-color paintings and line drawings, magical kingdoms emerge...

Lines

Author	Suzy Lee
ISBN	1452156654

Wave, Shadow, Mirror, Zoo, and now Lines, which for some time takes Lee's already spare approach to bare bones: Lines, made by skates, for a young figure-skater, and for an artist, perhaps the artist herself. Beginning with the simple line, creation.

And then, one falls, and the artist crumples...

Mr. Putney's Quacking Dog

Author	Jon Agee
ISBN	0545162033

I love puns. Frankly, I couldn’t have groan up in my family without loving them. So this book is write up my alley! Mr. Putney has a lot of animal friends, but you have to guess their names. The word play is a combination of illustrations and words with half of the joke coming from the text and half from the...

Almost to Freedom

Author

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's...

So Big!

Author	Mike Wohnoutka
ISBN	1547600799

A simple, clever text paired with utterly adorable animal characters makes school-day jitters seem not so big after all!

Bear is so big, and he's ready to start school!

But even if you're SO BIG, you might feel a little nervous at times.

Can Bear brave his first day and find a...