Moving all my books with me across the ocean later this month will be a hassle, but I won’t be able to leave them behind. I like reading, but I also love picture books. One of my favourites include I Like You by Sandal Stoddard Warburg, as it was a beloved gift. The tiny square book is filled with silly verses that are brilliant and capture the simple essence of friendship.

No More Friends by Avery Monsen and Jory John is also one that I need to add to my collection once I get to New York.

If you’re a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you’re a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you’re a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this book illustrates the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie, letting you laugh at the inevitable while exploring each character’s unique grievances and predicaments, from the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners. Here are little matters of life and death, illustrated for your amusement!

This book looks hilarious, putting a smile on my face just with the sneak peak. I especially love that the cover has a big green brontosaurus (even though I learnt this week that they actually never existed).

And this illustrated book by Dallas Clayton is truly awesome. I’ve read the entire book here again and again, and passed it along to so many friends, but I’d still like to have a hard copy of my own. I just love that the author donates books to inspire children to dream. It also reminds young adults like myself not to forget or stop chasing the dreams I had.

PS. An early hint to my secret santa: incase it’s not obvious enough–I want these! And I also wouldn’t mind owning this.