by Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
"Presents a series of loosely related drawings each accompanied by a title and a caption which the reader may use to make up his or her own story."
Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 (1981).
"Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game."
Ten Birds Meet a Monster
by Cybèle Young
Kids Can Press, 2013.
"When ten little birds encounter a monster in the house, they use various pieces of laundry to make themselves look bigger and scarier to ward the monster away."
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
"Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid."
Kitten's First Full Moon
by Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books, 2004.
"When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it."
Zathura
by Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
"Left on their own for an evening, two boisterous brothers find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical space adventure board game."
The Biggest Bear
by Lynd Ward
Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
"Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble."
Black Cat, White Cat
Silvia Borando
Candlewick Press, 2015.
"A black cat who only ever goes out during the day and a white cat who only goes out at night meet in the middle and start a beautiful relationship together."
Poems in Black and White
by Kate Miller
Wordsong, 2007.
"A collection of seventeen poems illustrating black-and-white monotypes and covering subjects such as a Holstein cow, the way a dog sees, a blackboard with white chalk, the contents of a doctor's lab coat, a comet, and a car ride through a tunnel."
Round Trip
by Ann Jonas
Greenwillow Books, 1983.
"Black and white illustrations and text record the sights on a day trip to the city and back home again to the country. The trip to the city is read from front to back and the return trip, from back to front, upside down."
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