[kathym44]

I'm looking for pb stories that have a "search & find" theme. Can you guys recommend some titles that I can study? Thanks!

[SYoon Posts: 675 Status: Offline Novelty and Picture Books WWW]

Kathy, do you mean books like Walter Wick's Can You See What I See? series? Where's Waldo... that sort of thing? There's also Bob Staake's "Look! A Book!" Or "Skip Through the Seasons" by Stella Blackstone. I'm not sure I'd call them pb "stories." To me, these are more activity books, though there is an underlying story in the pictures that may not be written in the text.

[Helen Posts: 224 Status: Offline WWW]

 I love I Want My Hat Back  by Jon Klassen

[kathym44]

Hi Syoon.  I should have explained better.  I've written and revised (a gazillion times) a pb story that deals with a character searching for a lost object.  My latest critiquer suggested that it might be helpful to look at other pb's with a "lost and found" theme.  Probably should have said "lost and found" and not "search and find"! 

[SYoon Posts: 675 Status: Offline Novelty and Picture Books WWW]

A HA! Thanks for the clarification, Kathy!  That makes more sense. There are lots of seek and find books in a pb format, which is why I was confused.

In PEEDIE, by Olivier Dunrea, Peedie (a gosling) loses his lucky red baseball cap.

[LoriA Posts: 87 Status: Offline WWW]

In Oliver Jeffers' LOST AND FOUND the MC finds a penguin and tries to figure out where it belongs. That might be the reverse of what you're looking for

[Donna J. Shepherd Posts: 1,074 Status: Offline Ava's Secret Tea Party WWW]

In my PB "Where is Salami?" the snake is missing. Of course, the kids have a ball finding him in the pictures. When I read at a preschool, the teacher had found either stuffed or plastic animals like in the book and the kids had a scavenger hunt after I read the book. Fun idea!

[amberturner Posts: 142 Status: Offline WWW]

What about Knuffle Bunny?

[kathym44]

 

[Ruth Donnelly Posts: 659 Status: Offline WWW]

Some oldies but goodies that come to mind are:
Dogger (Shirley Hughes)
Baby Blue Cat and the Smiley Worm Doll (Ainslie Pryor)
A Pocket for Corduroy (Don Freeman)