by story and pictures (by) Max Velthuijs (1972)
After an artist sells his favorite painting of a bird, the bird becomes so homesick he flies out of the picture and sets off to find his creator.
Lauryn Marie Burks
Faced with the constant challenge of staying on task, Lauryn Marie Burks did what all children do, she day-dreamed. This book, My 100 hands, is a product of Lauryn Marie Burks' vivid imagination of how to put her little helping hands to work and make life easier. My 100 hands is Lauryn's creative thoughts and language translated on paper by Mom and Dad. The illustrations aptly denote the colorful images of a young child's universe.
E. Nesbit
Matilda and her stern nursemaid accidentally pay a visit to a kingdom in which everything is constantly made topsy-turvy every time the Cockatoucan laughs, and so Matilda sets herself to putting things right once and for all.
Catherine Egan
Julia has the unusual ability to be unseen. Not invisible, exactly. Just beyond most people s senses. It s a dangerous trait in a city that has banned all forms of magic and drowns witches in public Cleansings. But it s a useful trait for a thief and a spy. And Julia has learned crime pays.
Jane Langton
After a new neighbor begins cutting down all the trees in town, the Halls and their friends band together to protect the magical and mysterious tree that has sprouted overnight in their backyard.