The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum by Kate Bernheimer

I absolutely love the illustrations in this book. This artist is one of my preferred. Her pictures are so soft and expressive, I just love it. And as if the illustrations themselves weren't enough, the story isn't that bad either. It's very short and is about a girl inside a miniature castle in a museum (hence the title). Someone tells us about the girl and then we get to see the girl up close and find out that she wants a friend. In the end she gets the reader to be her friend... in a way. It's a cute story line, but with the ethereal pictures it goes beyond being cute to being something more meaningful.

Amazingly well done.