A Toad for Tuesday
10 best books like A Toad for Tuesday (Russell E. Erickson): The King of the Golden River, Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems, The Lion's Paw, Uncle Wiggily's Story Book, Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep, The Skirt, Anno's Counting Book, Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia, Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark, The Book of Nature Myths
| Author | John Ruskin |
| ISBN | 1599151251 |
There are many starting points within the fantasy genre. J. R. R. Tolkien is often, with good reason, regarded as the father of fantasy, despite the fact that there was a vast expanse of stories before his time. Going further back, one can find the early 20th century classics that inspired the master,...
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems
| Author | Mary Michaels White |
Updated and illustrated for use by families from the teacher's collection "Poems Children Will Sit Still For."
A broad enough selection that most readers will find something to love. I admire the editors for trying to avoid the commonplace but instead going back to the source to find each poet's...
| Author | Robb White |
| ISBN | 0913122416 |
September 2019: I just edited this review a little bit because in my twenties, when I wrote this, I felt invisible on the internet: by which I mean, I wrote this carelessly and goofily and with more cussing than feels apt to me today, in my forties. At the time, I worked at Strand in Manhattan, at the main-floor...
| Author | Howard R. Garis |
| ISBN | 0448400901 |
Uncle Wiggily is one of the most popular and enduring characters in American literature. A cheerful “bunny rabbit gentleman” with a wonderful knack for setting things right, he has been a reassuring friend to millions of children since early in the century. Uncle Wiggily’s amusing stories...
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
| Author | Eleanor Farjeon |
| ISBN | 0763601330 |
Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. By the time she’s seven, the tireless girl can even outskip the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it many years later to save the children’s fabled skipping grounds from a greedy, factory-building lord? Charlotte Voake’s...
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0440409241 |
What I really liked about this book was how, despite its brevity, the reader is able to quickly be drawn into the story. Miata and her friend Ana are such appealing characters. Miata has left her folklorico, her colorful dancing skirt, on the bus, and it's Saturday morning and she needs it to dance in on...
Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
| Author | Nora Burglon |
| ISBN | 1892857138 |
I read this aloud to my daughter, and we all fell in love with it. This book is another example of a book I would have never picked up if it wasn't for being a part of the homeschool curriculum we use. It was delightful to step back in time to a different country and see what it was like to live as a child at the end...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0195202198 |
This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as well...
| Author | Elizabeth Orton Jones |
| ISBN | 1930900058 |
Had you heard of Elizabeth Orton Jones before seeing this book? If so, your familiarity was probably with her lovely illustrations in Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, which won the 1945 Caldecott Medal as the year's most distinguished picture book. Elizabeth Orton Jones is an exceptional artist,...
| Author | Ann Cameron |
| ISBN | 0394828925 |
Julian is a quick fibber and a wishful thinker. And he is great at telling stories. He can make people—especially his younger brother, Huey—believe just about anything. Like the story about the cats that come in the mail. Or the fig leaves that make you grow tall if you eat them off the tree. But some...
| Author | Sara Pennypacker |
| ISBN | 0439301815 |
Stuart’s Cape
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Illustrator: Martin Matje
Publisher: Scholastic
Copyright: 2002
Number of pages: 56
Genre: Fiction
Grade(s): 2-3
Lexile level: 500
Guided Reading level: L
Summary: Stuart is facing every child’s nightmare....
| Author | Edward B. Fry |
| ISBN | 0787982571 |
The definitive reference for reading and literacy from kindergarten through college This comprehensive fifth edition of a bestselling classic offers an unparalleled source of timely, practical information on all aspects of reading instruction. Ready for immediate use, it offers over 190 up-to-date...
| Author | Shea Darian |
| ISBN | 0931055962 |
Waldorf mother and educator Shea Darian offers a unique and wonderfully creative guide to help parents and children forge a strong family bond. Weaving songs, stories, family rituals, and verses throughout, Darian shows how to bring joy to such daily events as mealtimes, going to bed, chores, naps,...
| Author | Angela Shelf Medearis |
| ISBN | 0590738860 |
Summary:
Two friends are talking to each other and one invites the other over for dinner. He tells his friend that his family eats dinner in the bathroom. He then explains how they cook in the bedroom, the dog sleeps in the garage, and so. What his family does is very different than what his friend's...
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 0689839480 |
Dear possible reader of this book,
I want to be a writer, just like my uncle Harold, who wrote a bunch of books about our friend Bunnicula. So I wrote this story. And boy! Did I ever get into trouble! My friend Delilah stopped speaking to me because I put her in my book. Uncle Harold stopped speaking to...
| Author | Peggy Parish |
| ISBN | 0440444381 |
Each summer Lisa, Bill, and Jed visit their grandparents, and they hear the story of the sketches hung above the mantel. The sketches are clues to a hidden treasure, and no one has been able to figure them out for a century. There is a missing first clue, but when the children stumble upon the second clue,...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0823417662 |
One of the first major award-winning titles to feature an interracial family, A Child's Calendar combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman.
Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this Caldecott Honor book, featuring twelve poems about a family and...
| Author | Gerdt von Bassewitz |
| ISBN | 3423079126 |
Maikäfer Sumsemann will mit Hife seiner beiden Freunde Peterchen und Anneliese sein sechstes Beinchen zurückholen, das vor langer Zeit auf den Mond gezaubert wurde. Auf ihrer Reise erleben die drei spannende Abenteurer.
"Immer schneller und immer höher flogen die drei. Das Haus, die Wiese,...
| Author | Michael O. Tunnell |
| ISBN | 0688128785 |
Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a...
Math Dictionary for Kids: The Essential Guide to Math Terms, Strategies, and Tables, Grades 4-9
| Author | Theresa R. Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1618211676 |
Equipped with this handy, updated reference of more than 400 full-color, illustrated definitions, children will be able to quickly find the definitions and illustrated examples that will enable them to solve many of the math challenges they face. Covering everything from "addend" to "zero," the...
| Author | Tim Egan |
| ISBN | 0547138164 |
Dodsworth and his pal duck take a trip to London and have quite an adventure. First duck causes quite a stir at the local pub when his dart throwing turns out to be disastrous. Then there’s a big mix while Dodsworth and duck are waiting for the double decker bus and Dodsworth. Dodsworth realizes the duck...
The Silver Chair and The Last Battle
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0001846698 |
The Silver Chair:
NARNIA . . . where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans (and, if carefully cooked, on Marsh-wiggles, too), where a prince is put under an evil spell . . . and where the adventure begins. Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange door...
