The Imaginary Garden
10 best books like The Imaginary Garden (Andrew Larsen): The Art of Miss Chew, My Garden, On Meadowview Street, More, Crafty Chloe, The Cloud Spinner, Waiting for Winter, A Book, The Girl Who Hated Books, Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms
| 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 | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0061715174 |
I didn't know anything about the book and was surprised to discover it is not so much about actual gardening (though there is a real garden the mom and daughter plant) as imaginative gardening as the little girl dreams of having a garden with no weeds or dead plants, and wants to plant seashells (to grow...
| Author | Henry Cole |
| ISBN | 0060564814 |
When Caroline and her family move into their new house on Meadowview Street - a typical suburban subdivision, where all the properties look alike - and set about putting everything in order, the young girl asks her father to mow around the pretty flower growing in the middle of their lawn. Setting up a...
| Author | I.C. Springman |
| ISBN | 0547610831 |
One magpie,
lots of stuff,
and a few friendly mice
show us that less is
more.
This innovative and spare picture book asks the question: When is MORE more than
enough? Can a team of well-intentioned mice save their friend from hoarding too
much stuff? With breathtaking...
| Author | Kelly DiPucchio |
| ISBN | 1442421231 |
Fancy Nancy meets Martha Stewart in Crafty Chloe, the adorable DIY star of a new picture book series!
When another girl has already purchased the most perfect birthday gift for Chloe’s friend Emma, Chloe decides she’ll make a present—something you can’t buy in a store. But crafting...
| Author | Michael Catchpool |
| ISBN | 0375870113 |
One small boy has a special gift—he can weave cloth from the clouds: gold in the early morning with the rising sun, white in the afternoon, and crimson in the evening. He spins just enough cloth for a warm scarf. But when the king sees the boy's magnificent cloth, he demands cloaks and gowns galore. "It...
| Author | Sebastian Meschenmoser |
| ISBN | 1935279041 |
What can I say about Sebastian Meschenmoser’s Waiting for Winter except for wow, what a sweet and simply wonderful little story, with equally enchanting illustrations (although I do wish that my local library also had this book in the original German, as Herr Eichhorn und der erste Schnee but that...
| Author | Mordicai Gerstein |
| ISBN | 1596432519 |
A CHILD IN SEARCH OF HER STORY Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein looks at books from a whole new angle.
Once upon a time there was a family who lived in a book. All but the youngest had stories they belonged to--fighting fires, exploring space, entertaining in the circus--but she didn't have...
| Author | Manjusha Pawagi |
| ISBN | 1896764096 |
I laughed so hard I cried.
The overflowing books in Meena’s house were just too close to home. So funny! This is a fantastic book for those whose homes are overflowing with books. I have such a place now, and my childhood home (especially until a friend of my parents built them a large bookcase)...
Fletcher loves everything about spring: listening to the birds sing, smelling just-opened flowers, and playing chase with butterflies. But then Fletcher sees something he never expected to see in spring: snow. Oh, no!
But it turns out that spring has another surprise in store for Fletcher—a...
| Author | Laurence Anholt |
| ISBN | 0764138553 |
Julie is a happy little girl who lives in Paris, but she wishes she could walk in a country garden. Julie is pleased when her mother decides to take her to visit the most wonderful garden in the world, owned by a great friend of the family.
They arrive at their destination, and for this little girl...
| Author | Vivian French |
| ISBN | 0763644463 |
Here’s to nature’s recyclers! Kids will burrow right into this book about the industrious — and danger-filled — life of the delightfully yucky earthworm.
Who would want to be friends with a wiggly, slimy worm? You can’t even tell which end is which! But there’s more to these lowly...
| Author | Peter McCarty |
| ISBN | 0805069348 |
Alone in his room, Jeremy draws amonster. But then themonster wants lunch! As his creation takes over, Jeremy begins to wonder how he will ever get rid of themonstrous nuisance.He entertains his unwanted guest all day, but enough is enough. Jeremy finally draws him a bus ticket out of town!
With...
| Author | Peter H. Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0763646415 |
A sweet fable dedicated to Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy that celebrates the spirit of community, the beauty of nature, and the power of faith and imagination.
A sweet fable dedicated to Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy that celebrates the spirit of community, the beauty of nature, and the power of faith...
In this deceptively simple wordless picture book, a small girl finds the end of a long black line and picks it up. She wiggles the line, slides down it and spins inside circles made from it. In her hands, the line transforms into bubbles to blow, a jungle vine to swing from and a tightrope to balance on. The...
| Author | Denise Brennan-Nelson |
| ISBN | 1585363421 |
Miss Hawthorn's room is neat and tidy, not a pencil or paintbrush is out of place. And that's how she likes it. And she likes trees that are colored green and apples that are painted red. Miss Hawthorn does not like things to be different or out of the ordinary. Into Miss Hawthorn's classroom comes young...
| Author | Chieri Uegaki |
| ISBN | 1553377524 |
Suki's favorite possession is her blue cotton kimono. A gift from her obachan, it holds special memories of her grandmother's visit last summer. And Suki is going to wear it on her first day back to school --- no matter what anyone says.
When it's Suki's turn to share with her classmates what she...
| Author | Marianne Dubuc |
| ISBN | 1554536413 |
In Front of My House is a whimsical celebration of a child's imagination and all the places it can travel. This circular story begins and ends in a tidy front yard, but in between takes the reader to mountains and mysterious caves, up to outer space, down into the ocean and beyond. It's a journey as boundless...
A child who loses a beloved grandparent finds comfort in carrying on the activities they shared in this sweet, genuine look at a universal rite of passage.
Grandma is always on her knees in the dirt, with her gardening gloves on, talking to her roses and laughing with the birds-of-paradise....
| Author | Steve Voake |
| ISBN | 0763644471 |
Young readers will definitely catch the bug when they see this enticing, fact-filled invitation to explore the world of insects.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Right now, all around us, thousands of insects are doing strange and wonderful things: wasps are building nests, ants...
How Groundhog's Garden Grew
| Author | Lynne Cherry |
| ISBN | 0439323711 |
Little Groundhog learns how to plant and tend to his own food garden through every season in this beautifully-illustrated, thoroughly researched picture book by naturalist Lynne Cherry.Little Groundhog, in trouble for stealing from his friends' gardens, is taught by Squirrel to grow his very own....
| Author | Elizabeth Rusch |
| ISBN | 0873589106 |
When Liza's mother takes away her beloved crayons, her world suddenly goes gray. How does the budding artist repond? She squirts her toothpaste angrily and stomps through mud puddles. Through these acts, Liza inadvertently creates art-and eventually discovers color in the world around her.Liza...
This book is reminiscent of so many art & children books, including Ish and The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds, and even The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster (which really is different, I suppose) and the very famous classic Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson....
| Author | Laurel Croza |
| ISBN | 0888999232 |
The little girl in this story lives in a trailer near a forest where her father is building a dam. Everything in her world is familiar and precious to her. But the dam is nearly finished and the family is moving to the city, which the little girl knows only as a place marked by a big red star on the map at school....
