12 Ways to Get to 11

10 best books like 12 Ways to Get to 11 (Eve Merriam): The Lion and the Mouse, Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, Locomotive, Last Stop on Market Street, The Bracelet, Rose Blanche, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, The Bear That Heard Crying, Inside Outside, The Greedy Triangle

The Lion and the Mouse

Author	Jerry Pinkney
ISBN	0316013560

In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's...

Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay

Author	Susan Hood
ISBN	1481430955

From award-winning author Susan Hood and illustrator Sally Wern Comport comes the extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.

Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on...

Locomotive

Author	Brian Floca
ISBN	1416994157

I see why people love Floca's book. The illustrations of the trains are terrific. As far as train-technology goes, it is way-cool. However, in 2013, couldn't it have been made more inclusive?

The Chinese laborers, for example, are shown in illustrations twice, but never mentioned in the part...

Last Stop on Market Street

Author	Matt de la Pena
ISBN	0399257748

Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...

The Bracelet

Author

Yoshiko Uchida

Emi, a young Japanese girl in second grade, receives a gold bracelet from her friend just before she, her mother, and her sister leave their home for an internment camp. War is raging across the sea, and because Japanese-Americans look like the enemy, they are the enemy. Emi's father has already been...

Rose Blanche

Author	Roberto Innocenti
ISBN	1568461895

This is a horror story. Highly disturbing. Who the heck is this aimed at?!

It’s about the horrors of war/the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young (non-Jewish) German girl who doesn’t fully understand the situation of the war going on. She does see some suffering though and tries...

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Author	Lindsay Mattick
ISBN	0316324906

Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...

The Bear That Heard Crying

Author	Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
ISBN	0140558543

This is a true story set in New Hampshire. The author is a distant relative of Sarah Whitcher, the little girl whom the story is about.
Sarah is just three years old when she wanders off by herself and becomes lost in the woods. A rescue team was sent out to look for her to no avail. A man comes to town and...

Inside Outside

Author	Lizi Boyd
ISBN	1452106444

Summary: This wordless picture book, details the course of a year and focuses of the adventures between a boy and his many pets. He enjoys his life both inside and outside with them and finds fun things to do throughout different seasons. The new discoveries of various inside and outside items are shown...

The Greedy Triangle

Author	Marilyn Burns
ISBN	0590489917

Greedy Triangle is written by Marilyn Burns and illustrated by Gordon Silveria and is part of the Sholastic book range.

The triangle is bored with his shape and asks a shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape....over and over again. He becomes many different shapes until at last he he misses...

Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake

Author	Michael B. Kaplan
ISBN	0803734077

Meet Betty Bunny, a loveable handful nobunny can resist.
 
From author Michael B. Kaplan, creator of Disney’s T.V. show Dog with a Blog, comes the debut picture book of the Betty Bunny series. It's a story about patience—seen through the eyes of a precocious preschooler.
 
Betty...