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If a whale is what you want to see — as does the boy in this expressive, delicately illustrated tale — then patience (plus an ocean) is needed.
There are things to do indoors and outside. But the inside goes outside and the reverse with cutouts on pages in this attractive wordless book. Simple-lines and flat colors are appealing on brown paper and encourage careful — and multiple — examinations.
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While at the library, Isabella imagines herself in the lead role of several children's classics. The Yellow Brick Road she follows as Dorothy brings her back to reality where she checks out as Isabella.
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A child travels to visit her grandmother, "practically on the other side of the world" on a lime green train with orange doors.
Starting in space, an alien family bids adieu to their offspring (they look a lot like octopuses) who then head for earth landing in the ocean. When read the other way, he journeys home.
Look! Watch various animals in their own environment with a young dreamer. Here, expressive but realistic watercolor illustrations are truly worth a thousand words. They are accompanied by brief, repeating language just right for new readers.
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While Mama Duck and her five ducklings left their pond for a trip to town, the ducklings fall into trouble. With help from the townspeople, the Duck family is reunited in this handsomely illustrated, touching story based on an actual event.
Benign-looking, cheerful creatures love playing with color as they lend red, blue and yellow to make new colors for gray monsters. Energetic lines and lively language swirl and dance across the pages of this spirited homage to color and creativity.
At the behest of Pete, the pirate parrot, a group of grubby pirates clean themselves up for a little girl's party. Polly, however, wants real pirates at her birthday celebration! Comic illustrations combine with straightforward text for a piratical tale.
Ol' Mama Squirrel scares off anyone or anything that tries to encroach on her tree home with a fierce "chook, chook, chook!" Onomatopoeic language and comic illustrations tell a recognizable tale about a small but heroic rodent.