A Big Ball of String

Author	Richard Scarry
ISBN	0394818237

While Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? definitely is engagingly entertaining, full of details upon details and thus both textually and illustratively informative (and albeit I do also have fond memories using a school library copy in grade four to practice my English vocabulary), personally...

Author	Audrey Wood
ISBN	0152026320

Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (1984) is close on its heels in the race for posterity: “And on that granny / there is a child / a dreaming child / on a snoring granny / on a cozy bed / in a napping house, / where everyone is sleeping.” Included...

Author	Else Holmelund Minarik
ISBN	0590319671

Enter the world of Little Bear. Children will be entranced by Little Bear's trip to the moon, his birthday party, and his wishes and adventures.This is the first of the five classic books about Little Bear, introducing the funny and strikingly childlike bear cub and his friends. The combination of Else...

Author	Arnold Lobel
ISBN	0064440206

Celebrate the power of friendship in these five adventurous stories starring Frog and Toad—a Caldecott Honor Book!

From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other—just as best friends should be. Frog and...

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Robert Lopshire

“Put Me in the Zoo” by Robert Lopshire is a children’s book written about an animal that wants to be in a zoo.The animal really wanted to be kept in a zoo, but when he asked the zookeepers, they said no and kicked him out. At first, he was very upset and did not understand why they would not keep...

Author	Elsie Egermeier
ISBN	0871620065

Egermeier's Bible Story Book has sold nearly three million copies and continues to be America's favorite Bible story book. It has 312 stories that cover the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Younger children will sit spellbound as you read these stories to them. Older children who read for themselves...

Author	Thomas P. Lewis
ISBN	0064440400

I feel like I have no choice but to rate a book that literally haunted my dreams for my childhood five stars. What is more terrifying than a volcano sprouting up out of nowhere? To me as a child, literally nothing.

I saw this on Reading Rainbow as a kid and had recurring nightmares for years and years....

Author	Ann Weil
ISBN	0140328580

The minute he saw the boat with the red sails moving into the harbor, Michele knew that something exciting was going to happen. It was the biggest and most beautiful ship fourteen-year-old Michele had ever seen. Sailing on the ship were three men who would come to stay at Michele's parents' inn. The men...

Author	Mary Peterson
ISBN	1570914613

Cute, but not spectacular. The text is fun and alliterative, the short length making it great for the youngest audiences. A lot of the story and action is contained in the pictures so that they work well with the text, especially with the fun round shapes which are echoed across the page. However, there's...

Author	Leslie Patricelli
ISBN	0763644773

Digga-digga-digga-digga, zat, zoom, crash! Leslie Patricelli's lovable (but noisy!) new character finds an ingenious way to create a sound all his own.

Even before he was born, Mike started drumming. Kick! Thump! Pow! Wherever he goes, his rhythms sing: swis, thak, go his books; bang, clank,...

Author	Arnold Lobel
ISBN	0064440591

Arnold Lobel’s wonderful collection of Frog and Toad stories adds a new layer with five pieces geared towards all the seasons. From a winter of snow and ice to a scorching sunbeams of the summer and even some ideas about what happens on Christmas Eve when someone is late, the stories take readers on adventures...