The Land of Lost Things/El pais de las cosas perdidas

"Where do all the lost things go?" wonders a boy who has lost his blue pencil. Inside his pencil box, the boy finds an inky world of lost objects that can be explored and manipulated: "I tried to pull one pencil and a drop fell. It grew until the whole page turned blue." Cutting a hole in the page and falling through, he finds a myriad of other items (a frog, dice, a flip-flop) rendered in cut-paper collage, and wanders through the "Mountain of Lost Mittens" and the "Garden of Lost Umbrellas." Despite the book's abrupt ending, Bursztyn's whimsical illustrations offer a jubilant answer to a perennial question. Ages 4–8. (May)