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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.
6) Journey
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Wordless Picture Books for Picture Walks/Libros sin palabras para caminar por las ilustraciones (BBTL)
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Wordless Picture Books for Picture Walks/Libros sin palabras para caminar por las ilustraciones (BBTL)
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Using a red marker, a young girl draws a door on her bedroom wall and through it enters another world where she experiences many adventures, including being captured by an evil emperor.
7) Ish
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Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) Eunice and Kate
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Best friends Eunice and Kate live next door to each other in apartments in the city, and do everything together. Their mothers are friends as well. One day at school when they were asked to draw a portrait of each other, they realize how different they are and wonder if they can be friends. With some help from their mothers, they find the good in each other and are relieved to be together again.
13) Drawing
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This book introduces the reader to drawing, including differences in size, technique and style.
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NYT - Children’s Picture Books
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.
15) 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...
16) People
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Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing people both realistically and as cartoons.
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Briefly examines the state symbols and unique locations, people, and images from the U.S. state of Tennessee, with tips on how to draw each sign and symbol--including the rolling hills of the state, the country music scenes of Memphis and Nashville, and its state bird, flower, and of course a juke box. Includes a glossary.
20) The pencil
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A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.