A Dark, Dark Tale
10 best books like A Dark, Dark Tale (Ruth Brown): Home, Haunted House, Magic Beach, John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat, Zen Ghosts, Only a Witch Can Fly, Humbug Witch, Mr. Silly, The High Hills, There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake
| Author | Jeannie Baker |
| ISBN | 0066239354 |
A family.
A house.
A neighborhood.
A place to play.
A place to feel safe.Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbors begin to rescue their street. Together, children and adults plant grass and trees and bushes in the empty spaces. They paint murals over old graffiti. They...
| Author | Jan Pieńkowski |
| ISBN | 1844288749 |
Revisit – if you dare! – one of the best-loved pop-up books of all time, now more gleefully ghoulish then ever with the addition of several spooky surprises.
Come in, Doctor. Yes, it is a quaint old place - chilly, though...
The owner of the Haunted House is unwell, and it's not surprising....
| Author | Alison Lester |
| ISBN | 1741144884 |
I've always liked this book from when I was little and it's a book that children all seem to love no matter how old the book now is. The illustrations are great to look over more than once, I was reading it recently to a child and then I started to notice a pattern with certain object would turn up in nearly every...
| Author | Jenny Wagner |
| ISBN | 0140503064 |
Note: I didn't read this; I saw it on "Sammy's Story Shop."
This story is appalling! Rose, an old woman, and John Brown, her dog, live together happily, until one day the Midnight Cat begins lurking around the house. Rose likes the cat and makes overtures towards it, but John Brown feels threatened...
It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner!
When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 0312375034 |
Only a witch can fly.
But one little girl wants to fly--more than anything. So on a special night, with the moon shining bright and her cat by her side, she gathers herself up, she grips her broom tight, and she tries. And she fails. And she's brave. And she tries again. Until . . .
Utterly...
Originally published in 1965 (my edition is a reprint from Abingdon Press, put out in 1985), Humbug Witch is a charming little vintage picture-book, following the trials and tribulations of a witch who just can't seem to do anything right. Although she looks the part, with her big nose, crooked teeth,...
| Author | Roger Hargreaves |
| ISBN | 0749851910 |
-- The spring in his step has got MR. BOUNCE down -- can a pair of heavy boots help lift his spirits?
-- Join a boy named Jack as he goes on a wild adventure with MR. DAYDREAM -- without even leaving his desk
-- Square apples, twisted teapots -- who knows what will win, when MR. SILLY and his nonsensical...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830912 |
When Wilfred Toadflax learns that the mice of Brambly Hedge will be sending a delivery of blankets to the voles living in the nearby High Hills, the young mouse - fired up by stories of daring adventurers like Sir Hogweed Hoarhound - pleads to be allowed to accompany the mission. But his roadside exploration...
| Author | Hazel Edwards |
| ISBN | 0340286970 |
'My daddy says there's a hole in our roof. I know why there's a hole. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake.'
The cake-eating hippo is ageless. This classic story about one of the largest and most famous imaginary friends has been delighting children around the world for almost 40 years....
| Author | Judy Hindley |
| ISBN | 0763632848 |
"Story hour alert! Here’s a book with a clever premise, a bouncy text, and sunny, funny pictures. . . . Supremely satisfying." — BOOKLIST (starred review)
Mama Duck has a good hunch that the big brown creature waddling behind her babies is no duck! As the foxy impostor sneaks closer and closer...
| Author | Jan Thomas |
| ISBN | 0061692840 |
Booklist (September 1, 2011 (Vol. 108, No. 1))
Preschool-Kindergarten. This is a typical Thomas tale, and fortunately so. With a shiny, chartreuse and azure color palette; thickly outlined, simple shapes; and quick, word-bubble dialogue, she tells the spare, silly story of the crazy confusion...
By the Light of the Halloween Moon
| Author | Caroline Stutson |
| ISBN | 0140553053 |
A series of creatures, from a black cat to a witch, a ghoul to a ghost, each attempt to tickle or prick the tapping toe hanging down from a dock in this entertaining Halloween picture-book. As one after the other is foiled by the next creature, they eventually attract the attention of the toe-owner - a fiddle-playing...
| Author | Will Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0807566667 |
A boy carves a pumpkin that becomes a friend. Well, it starts to smell bad and the boy has to set it out in the garden where he watches it decompose. Seasons change and when the snow melts, not much is left of the pumpkin. He does notice a new green shoot and he knows it’s a new pumpkin vine. He nourishes this...
The Lamb Who Came for Dinner
| Author | Steve Smallman |
| ISBN | 1589250672 |
5 stars.
After having read this for a second time, (ok well technically I listened as it was read to me but same thing) I got to experience it all over again as it's been a while since the first time I read it. I have to say that I still enjoyed it just as much.
It's so sweet and it's sure to...
The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0064435342 |
From beloved children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown and Caldecott Medalist Richard Egielski comes an enchanting Halloween tale!
A fat little, round little, yellow little pumpkin dreams of growing up to be fierce and frightening, just like the scarecrow in the field. Then one day in...
| Author | Jeanne Titherington |
| ISBN | 0688099300 |
Jeanne Titherington's Pumpkin Pumpkin (about a little boy named Jamie who plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and then in late October harvests a large pumpkin to carve into a Jack O'Lantern for Halloween) is the type of picture book that while the illustrations I have found sweetly magical and very much...
| Author | Carin Bramsen |
| ISBN | 0375869905 |
An adorable little duckling is trying to befriend another "duck." However, he is oblivious to the fact that his potential pal is, in fact, a cat. Though resistant and stubborn at first, the cat soon realizes labels don't matter in the least—and before you know it, meowing and quacking are one and the...
| Author | Margery Cuyler |
| ISBN | 1416902767 |
With a bad case of the hiccups, Skeleton found that his everyday tasks, from brushing his teeth to polishing his bones, were far more difficult to accomplish. He tried everything he could think of, and everthing his friend Ghost suggested, to rid himself of this tiresome affliction, but nothing seemed...
Everyone has their very own dragon, and this book describes many different varieties of the beast, showing in words and stunning pictures exactly why their owners find them so entrancing. They range from a dragon as big as a village to a tiny dragon with whisper-thin wings, from a snaggle-toothed dragon...
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0547430051 |
The inimitable wombat who shared her adventures (eating, scratching, digging, sleeping) in the wildly successful Diary of a Wombat is back–with a baby! This time, it's the baby who tells the story. And a perfect wombat story it is, featuring eating, scratching, digging, sleeping, and playing,...
