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While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
22) Return
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The lonely protagonist returns to her fantastical world for friendship and adventure, where only the most powerful motivations persuade her to return home.
23) My pen
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An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.
24) Draw the line
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In this story without words, after two boys drawing their own lines realize they can connect them, a misstep creates a rift between them.
25) Sam & Eva
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Sam does not want Eva to add to his drawing, but when the scene comes to life and gets out of control, she helps him escape.
27) Draw!
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In this wordless picture book, a boy who is confined to his room fills his sketch pad with lions and elephants, then imagines himself on a safari.
28) Louise loves art
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After drawing a picture of her cat, a young girl searches for the perfect place to hang her masterpiece.
29) Quest
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In the Caldecott Honor-winning Journey, much of Becker's energy was devoted to the story's exquisite backdrops. Now, in the second wordless book of his planned trilogy, the focus is on his characters. On a rainy day in a city park, the girl who starred in Journey and the boy introduced at the end take refuge by a doorway under a bridge. To their surprise, a king emerges from the door just long enough to pass the two a map before soldiers apprehend...
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Pete the Cat loves to draw with crayons, and he can't wait to show his friends the drawings he made of each of them. But when he unveils the drawings, his friends have more criticisms than compliments. In art class, Pete is afraid to make a mistake and doesn't know what to draw. Luckily, his friends reassure him that it doesn't have to be perfect, and Pete's art is cool because it is unique to him. In the end, Pete makes a masterpiece that includes...
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"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
34) Chalk
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A wordless picture book about three children who go to a park on a rainy day, find some chalk, and draw pictures that come to life.
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Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.
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Books for Summer, in English and Spanish/Libros para el verano, en inglés y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Milo hace un largo viaje en metro. Para pasar el tiempo, observa a la gente a su alrededor y hace dibujos de cómo se imagina que son sus vidas. Está el hombre de bigotes con un crucigrama; Milo lo dibuja jugando al solitario en un apartamento desordenado. Está la mujer vestida de novia; Milo la dibuja en una gran ceremonia en la catedral. Y luego está el chico del traje; Milo lo dibuja llegando a su hogar, que es un castillo. ¿Pero qué...
39) Emma's rug
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A young artist finds that her creativity comes from within when the rug that she had always relied upon for inspiration is destroyed.
40) A squiggly story
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"A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter," his sister explains patiently. "Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy...