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The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination

10 best books like The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination (Jimmy Liao): Ballerino Nate, The Black Book of Colors, Moonpowder, The Seeing Stick, My Friend, the Starfinder, The Boy Who Grew Flowers, The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone, The Scar, Annie and Helen, Once Upon an Ordinary School Day

Ballerino Nate
AuthorKimberly Brubaker Bradley
ISBN0803729545
This book was a hit in our house. We're big on challenging gender roles and allowing people to do what is right for them. While we've found some good books for girls in this department, this is the first I've encountered for the boys. It's nicely complex, yet not overly wordy, and has a really sweet ending.

Nate...
The Black Book of Colors
AuthorMenena Cottin
ISBN0888998732
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...
Moonpowder
AuthorJohn Rocco
ISBN1423100115

Young Eli Trebuckle is the "fixer of all things fixable." He fixes the vacuum cleaner, the fan, and even the radio, hoping to catch some news of his father who is away at war. But there's one thing that Eli simply can't fix-his bad dreams. It's the same one over and over again: a mountain of junk, a prize...
The Seeing Stick
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0762420480
The same story that captivated readers in 1977 is back in a stunning new edition! Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, has been blind since birth. Her father offers a reward to anyone who can find a cure for the little girl. It seems that no one from magicians to physicians can help her. Then,...
My Friend, the Starfinder
AuthorGeorge Ella Lyon
ISBN1416927387
"Though poetic, Lyon's words are spare, never florid, for an elegantly powerful effect with silence built in, allowing readers space to use their own imaginations. Gammell's art begins with exuberant shades, but when the story enters the past, the pictures are as gray as Dorothy's Kansas until the...
The Boy Who Grew Flowers
AuthorJen Wojtowicz
ISBN1841486868
Think about the title of this book, The Boy Who Grew Flowers. This book is about a boy who is different than other children. How do you think he is different? (children might respond that maybe he liked to grow flowers in his garden) Well actually this boy grew flowers all over his body at certain times! How...
The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone
AuthorTimothy Basil Ering
ISBN0763613827
"FROG BELLY . . . plants the idea that with some strategy, good communication and goodwill, you can grow wonderful things." —PORTLAND PRESS HERALD


"Frog Belly Rat Bone,
one, two, three . . .
the specks in the earth
are protected by me.
You must be patient and
then...
The Scar
AuthorCharlotte Moundlic
ISBN0763653411
A little boy responds to his mother’s death in a genuine, deeply moving story leavened by glimmers of humor and captivating illustrations.

When the boy in this story wakes to find that his mother has died, he is overwhelmed with sadness, anger, and fear that he will forget her. He shuts all...
Annie and Helen
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0375957065
"What is breathtakingly shown here, through accurate, cross-hatched watercolor paintings; excerpts from Sullivan’s correspondence to her former teacher; and concise and poetic language, is the woman’s patience and belief in the intelligence of her student to grasp the concepts of language,"...
Once Upon an Ordinary School Day
AuthorColin McNaughton
ISBN0374356343
A celebration of extraordinary teachers!

The boy's breakfast is ordinary, his walk to school is ordinary, even his thoughts are ordinary. But when he goes to his classroom and sits down at his desk, his day begins to change - a new teacher, Mr. Gee, bursts into the classroom with an extraordinary...
Wink: The Ninja Who Wanted to be Noticed
AuthorJ.C. Phillipps
ISBN0670010928
The happiest day of Wink's life was when he was accepted to the Summer Moon School for Young Ninjas. He is sure that he will be a great ninja. Silence is the fi rst lesson and everyone is very very silent . . . except for Wink. Stealth is the second lesson and everyone is very very stealthy . . . except for Wink....
The Other Side
AuthorIstvan Banyai
ISBN0811846083
In The Other Side, artist, designer, provocateur Istvan Banyai takes readers on another exceptional visual journey. In graphically stunning illustrations that feature many clever twists in point of view, familiar scenes turn and turn again to show us the back, the front, the top, the bottom, the...
The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum
AuthorKate Bernheimer
ISBN0375836063
Once there was a girl who lived in a castle. The castle was inside a museum. When children visited, they’d press against the glass globe in which the castle sat, to glimpse the tiny girl. But when they went home, the girl was lonely. Then one day, she had an idea! What if you hung a picture of yourself inside...
Long Night Moon
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0689854269
Long Night Moon Cynthia Ryland and illustrated by Mark Siegel is a picture book story about the different names of the moon. Each month the Native Americans named the full moon and each name was like a story about what that season was going to bring. A beautifully illustrated book that is written in poetry....
Weird!
AuthorErin Frankel
ISBN1575423987
Luisa is repeatedly teased and called "weird" by her classmate Sam, even though she is simply being herself—laughing with her friends, answering questions in class, greeting her father in Spanish, and wearing her favorite polka-dot boots. Luisa initially reacts to the bullying by withdrawing...
Hi, Cat!
AuthorEzra Jack Keats
ISBN0670885460
Now I do indeed realise that Hi, Cat! is an award winner, but frankly, I have not really enjoyed either the narrative or the accompanying illustrations overmuch. And while author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats' pictorial renderings of Archie, the cat he salutes and which then follows him around wreaking...
Zagazoo
AuthorQuentin Blake
ISBN0099265346
Quentin Blakes’s Zagazoo is a fantastic book, looking at the possible difficulties of parenting from a very humorous perspective.
George and Bella are a happy couple who receive a strange looking parcel in the mail, which contains a pretty little pink creature as pretty as could be: Zagazoo!
Blake...
I Can Be Anything!
AuthorJerry Spinelli
ISBN0316162264
When I grow up, what shall I be?

This exuberant book offers up everything from a paper plane folder to a puppy dog holder, from a silly joke teller to a snowball smoother.

Newbery-Award winning author Jerry Spinelli's simple and charming rhymes are accompanied by internationally-renowned...
Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story
AuthorDavid A. Johnson
ISBN0618473106
Sweep, crunch, swoosh, scrape . . . All night long, snow falls silently, bringing forth a world blanketed in white—and a very noisy day.
For at dawn’s light, machine, man, and child begin to dig out: first the big highway grader and snowplow, then the smaller town plow, a father’s snow blower,...
How to Be a Baby . . . by Me, the Big Sister
AuthorSally Lloyd-Jones
ISBN0375838430
The New York Times praised this best-selling picture book as "adorable, original, well-illustrated and fabulous." In this first book in the How-To Series (which includes How to Get Married and How to Get a Job), the know-it-all big sister narrator tells it like it is: When you're a baby you don't read...
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?
AuthorLauren Child
ISBN0786809264
Herb never imagined the dangers when he decided to scribble on and cut up his book of fairy tales. Drawing mustaches on the characters, pasting telephones into the rooms, and cutting out Prince Charming and the royal thrones had seemed like good fun.
But then Herb never imagined he'd fall into the...
It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel
AuthorJamie Lee Curtis
ISBN0060080957
Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind Today I Feel Silly and I'm Gonna Like Me, return with It’s Hard to Be Five, a story of self-control and learning to do your best every day!

Learning not to hit? Having to wait your turn? Sitting still? It's hard to...
Sophie's Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0689866801
Sophie is an artist who wants to spin beautiful creations all day long and, someday, a masterpiece. As a spider, though, Sophie has a hard time finding a welcoming place in which she can be free to live and spin. She's shooed and shuffled all over Beekman's Boardinghouse until one day she finally finds...
People
AuthorBlexbolex
ISBN1592701108
Mother and father, dancers and warriors, gardener and farmer, hypnotist and genie. . . . All sorts of people appear in People, linked together in ways that begin to emerge page after page. Real, mythic, and imaginary types inhabit this extraordinary, gorgeously rendered world, referring to each other...
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