A gorgeous picture book about the influential American painter Bob Ross and his timeless words of wisdom, by award-winning creators Richard Ho and Daniel Miyares.*A blank canvas is your world. A limitless sky. A new horizon. You are the creator, adding blotches of blue and circular strokes of white.You might not like it at first. You might call it a mistake. But there are no mistakes...only happy accidents. For you are experiencing the joys of painting.*

**Here is the dramatic coming-of-age graphic novel memoir of 12-year-old Carlos (who would grow up to become the author’s father), his life during the Cuban Revolution, and his family’s harrowing escape to America.A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner • A Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table (GNCRT) Outstanding Comics Award Honor for Best Children's NonfictionONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Publishers Weekly, Horn Book, School Library Journal**Carl...

**NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNERBEST OF THE YEAR:NPR - Booklist - School Library Journal - Chicago Public Library - Evanston Public Library - Kirkus - Wall Street Journal**The Silk Road comes to life in this picaresque epic adventure with twists and turns and a wonderful surprise ending from Printz Medalist Daniel NayeriThis is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larg...

From Jess Townes with illustrations by Daniel Miyares, this poignant picture book deftly tackles the wide array of emotions experienced in childhood, and especially reminding readers that there’s nothing wrong with crying.Sometimes I cry. . . when I’m angry.. . . when I’m scared.. . . when I’m happy.There are all sorts of feelings that can make us cry—from disappointment to joy, from grief to love. So...

A girl who doesn't fit in befriends a blind horse who also struggles to find his place in the herd. A beautiful picture book that helps readers celebrate the qualities that challenge us and make us different.Moon cannot see but he hears sounds that other horses ignore: the eggshell crack of a meadow lark hatching. The glide of a salamander into the pond. Clara does not speak but she hears sounds that other children ignore: the hum of the oven when her mother bakes ...

Hope doesn’t only want to listen to her father’s stories about his voyages at sea, she wants to be part of those stories.And so, unbeknownst to her parents, she stows away on her father's 19th-century merchant vessel. But look... The wind has picked up and the sky is darkening...Could there be such a thing as an adventure that is too exciting?Join high-spirited Hope on a trip of a lifetime in this exquisitely illustrated picture book that also capt...

You Are (Not) Small meets The Quiet Book in this beautiful compilation of all the little things that make up our big world.This wide, wonderful world contains many things. Some things are as big as a family of bears; some are as small as a reflection in a puddle. Some things are felt rather than seen.In between it all is . . . you. What kinds of things will you collect?This lovely, lyrical book collects the world by size. Divided i...

Acclaimed author/illustrator Daniel Miyares returns to the sweet, nostalgic tone of his beloved illustrated book, Float, in this gorgeous, spare picture book about making a new friend.There’s a new boy in the neighborhood, and he’s up to something very curious. His next door neighbor, a girl his age with two long braids, peeps around corners and watches as he scavenges wood from the fence between their houses, drags around a hammer and a bucket of nails, a...

Winner of the Northern Lights Nature AwardA gorgeous picture book that celebrates the magic of the seasons and the joys of family.Come next season . . .The lake will sparkle.The leaves will fall from the trees.We’ll play all day in the snow.We’ll visit the farm—and maybe make a friend.Every season is full of its own magic, every change brings new excitement, and every experience is better when it’s shared. With poetic tex...

A boy’s small paper boat—and his large imagination—fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own.A little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure. The boy and his boat dance in the downpour and play in the puddles, but when the boy sends his boat floating down a gutter stream, it quickly gets away from him.

From the author-illustrator of Pardon Me! and Float comes a funny and fun picture book about a little bug who proves that even the small can be mighty.When a power-hungry grasshopper king wants a throne to loom over his bug subjects, he summons each of them to “bring me a rock!” One by one, the bugs bring him the biggest rocks they can carry, but one little bug can contribute only a very small pebble. The grasshopper king shuns the little bug. But...

Evoking picture book classics like Aaron Becker's Journey and Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express, here is an emotionally rich bedtime picture book about a lonely child's nighttime adventure that is also a showcase for the extraordinary illustrations of Daniel Miyares.When a small, friendless boy goes to bed at his boarding school, an adventure is about to begin! First he finds an invitation in his turtle's bowl. Next he makes an escape--out th...