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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLove You Forever
Robert Munsch · 32 pages
The story details the cycle of life by chronicling the experiences of a young son and his mother throughout the course of the boy's life, and describing the exasperating behaviour exhibited by him throughout his youth. In spite of her occasional aggravation caused by her son's behaviour, the mother nonetheless visits his bedroom nightly to cradle him in her arms, and sing a brief lullaby promising
Grandpa Green
Lane Smith · 32 pages
He was a boy on a farm and a kid with chickenpox. He was a soldier and a husband and a gardener, and most of all, an artist. Follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson through a garden where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, noted picture book creator Lane Smith explores aging, m
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Katherine Woods · 87 pages
A pilot forced to land in the Sahara meets a little prince. The wise and enchanting stories the prince tells of his own planet with its three volcanoes and a haughty flower are unforgettable. A strange and wonderful parable for all ages, with superb illustrations by the author.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo · 228 pages
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost...Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustl
Grandad's Island
Benji Davies · 32 pages
Children's picture book that uses a magical journey to an island to gently explore the theme of loss and grief, without explicitly mentioning death. The story follows a boy named Syd who visits his grandfather, only to find him in the attic, from where they travel to a colorful, wild island where Grandad decides to stay, leaving Syd to return home alone, comforted by the memory. While Grandad's ho
Grandfather's Journey
Allen Say · 32 pages
A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
A Chair for My Mother
Vera B. Williams · 32 pages
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Fredrik Backman · 96 pages
An exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.
The Snowman
Raymond Briggs · 32 pages
When his snowman comes to life, a little boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Perfection Learning Corporation
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Susan Wojciechowski · 40 pages
The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche.
The Keeping Quilt
Patricia Polacco · 48 pages
A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
Cry, Heart, But Never Break
Glenn Ringtved
A beautiful, sensitive picture book about being able to say goodbye to those we love, while holding them in memory.
Michael Rosen's Sad Book
Michael Rosen · 32 pages
A man tells about all the emotions that accompany his sadness over the death of his son, and how he tries to cope.
I'll Always Love You
Hans Wilhelm · 31 pages
A child's sadness at the death of a beloved dog is tempered by the remembrance of saying to it every nignt, "I'll always love you."
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
All the Places to Love
Patricia MacLachlan
A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside.
This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
Jacqueline Woodson · 31 pages
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 256 pages
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION** In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He “preached men into the Civi
Making Toast
Roger Rosenblatt · 166 pages
When his daughter, Amy, collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition, Rosenblatt and his wife leave their home on Long Island to move in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. He peels back the layers on this most personal of losses to create a testament to familial love.
Duck, Death and the Tulip
Wolf Erlbruch · 38 pages
The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich · 250 pages
[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establ
The Relatives Came
Cynthia Rylant · 32 pages
The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.
The Lion and the Bird
Marianne Dubuc · 82 pages
A lion finds a wounded bird in his garden and decides to care for it through the winter. When spring arrives, the bird's flock returns. The bird goes off with its flock. Lion is sad. But autumn brings a wonderful surpris ... A lion finds a wounded bird in his garden and decides to care for it through the winter. When spring arrives, the bird's flock returns and the bird goes off with its flock. L