A Drop of Blood
10 best books like A Drop of Blood (Paul Showers): Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Across Five Aprils, The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, A Seed Is Sleepy, Pink and Say, Buffalo Bill, Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad, The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, Clouds
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0763662291 |
With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.
Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425182789 |
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."
I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
| Author | Joanna Cole |
| ISBN | 0590403605 |
The first of Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen's wildly popular Magic School Bus series, which follows Miss Frizzle's class as they take fantastic field trips in the course of investigating various scientific topics, The Magic School Bus At the Waterworks sees teacher and students ascending into the clouds,...
| Author | Dianna Hutts Aston |
| ISBN | 0811855201 |
The illustrations are glorious. They’re also accurate and very educational. This is an outstanding science book about seeds and the plants that come from them. The text is convincing about just how amazing seeds are. At first I didn’t like the adjective headings, but I quickly changed my mind because...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399226710 |
3.5 stars. Such a sad story. As you might expect from a Patricia Polacco book, this is uplifting and gives you hope in human nature and it is heartbreakingly sad and makes you despair too.
The American Civil war is something I know very little about, this gives you a taste of what it was like for young...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380374 |
I've often considered the "Wild West" to be fascinating. Cowboys, buffalo, Indians, wagons and life on the pioneer are tantalizing elements of fiction. Perhaps I read a little too much Little House on the Prairie as a girl.
Of all the famous elements of the west, the person who most embodies...
| Author | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| ISBN | 1416959033 |
The inspirational, true story of how Frederick Douglass found his way to freedom one word at a time.
This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African American figures in American history. Douglass spent his life advocating for the...
| Author | F.N. Monjo |
| ISBN | 0064440427 |
The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the Underground Railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party—or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?
This Level 3 I Can Read...
After reading a delightful and positive review here I couldn't resist picking up this book. I love children's stories with animals and nature and am a huge fan of wolves and stories featuring mice. The duck was not so important but hey, the duck turned out to be the key player in this story so...
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| Author | Anne Rockwell |
| ISBN | 0064452204 |
This is a nicely detailed, very informative book about clouds that will not only interest the young child, but also the adult. The illustrations are similar to folk art paintings and are very appealing.In this book you will learn what clouds are made up of, the different kinds of clouds, what their names...
If You Give a Dog a Donut
| Author | Laura Joffe Numeroff |
If you give a dog a donut, he’ll ask for some apple juice to go with it.
When you give him the juice, he’ll drink it all up.
Then, before you can say “Woof” . . . Dog is off on a backyard adventure!
The exuberant dog who first appeared in if you give a pig a party is now the star...
