Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
10 best books like Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse (Ursula Moray Williams): What Katy Did, Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Twist of Gold, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wolf Brother, Private Peaceful, Ghost Hunter, The Iron Man, Danny the Champion of the World, Slinky Malinki
| Author | Susan Coolidge |
| ISBN | 0543904709 |
Twelve-year-old Katy is constantly making and quickly breaking resolutions about how she will change her ways and treat others, especially her five younger brothers and sisters, with more respect and compassion. When Katy meets her Cousin Helen, an invalid, Katy is awed by her kindness, prettiness,...
| Author | Peter Allison |
| ISBN | 0762745657 |
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!”
In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush,...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 1405229284 |
Sean and Annie have one chance to escape the potato famine in Ireland, and after surviving a shipwreck they land safely in America in search for their father. But their new land is one of hardship and they live in poverty on the streets of Boston. However, their adventure is just beginning. After living...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0375822070 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG!!! YOU ARE OLD!!!! EVEN OLDER THAN LAST YEAR!
greg's birthday is today, so i am floating this now to remind you that you still have time to shower him with presents!
it is greg's birthday!!! and as a treat for him, i am going to create a book review in which i use plenty...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 0060728272 |
Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined.
In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told...
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0439636485 |
From the Children's Laureate of England, a stunning novel of the First World War, a boy who is on its front lines, and a childhood remembered.
"They've gone now, and I'm alone at last. I have the whole night ahead of me, and I won't waste a single moment of it . . . I want tonight to be long, as long as...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 1842551752 |
Her cry rips the souls from your marrow. With her spear she snares them. She devours them. Eostra truly is an eater of souls.
Winter is coming. Souls' Night draws near. Eostra, the Eagle Owl Mage, holds the clans in the grip of terror. Torak must leave the Forest and seek her lair in the Mountain...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0571226124 |
When you write a review of a kid's book, there really should be a way to give it two different star ratings. One for you, and one for the kids you've read it to.
For me, this book might be a three star book. Four if I was feeling generous. I find it wordy and ponderous. Overwrought. The plot is pretty...
Danny the Champion of the World
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0375814256 |
Danny’s life seems perfect: his home is a gypsy caravan, he’s the youngest car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. And when Danny discovers his father’s secret, he’s off on the adventure of a lifetime. Here’s Roald Dahl’s famous...
| Author | Lynley Dodd |
| ISBN | 1582461481 |
From the creator of Hairy Maclary comes a new series starring a rascally cat named Slinky Malinki. “What was he up to? At night, to be brief, Slinky Malinki turned into a THIEF.” But by morning, Slinky comes to realize that crime doesn’t pay.This story spins off a character first introduced in HAIRY...
| Author | Charles Causley |
| ISBN | 1408319543 |
I absolutely love the idea of calling mermaids merrymaids, which apparently they sometimes do in Cornwall. I love stories about mermaids anyway, but it was really the title which got me to pick up The Merrymaid of Zennor. Apparently this book, written by a Cornish poet, is actually based on a local legend....
Dean's A Book of Fairy Tales
| Author | Janet Grahame Johnstone |
Contents
Little Red Riding Hood
Mother Goose
Hop O'My Thumb
Goldilocks and thr Three Bears
The Three Little Pigs
Rumpelstiltskin
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Frog Prince
The Princess and the Pea
The White Cat
Little Ida's Flowers
Ole Luckoie or...
| Author | Edward Ardizzone |
| ISBN | 1845074564 |
Little Tim wants to be a sailor, but his parents tell him he's too young, even though his retired boatman friend has taught him all about ships. He decides to convince them by stowing away on a steamer. When he is discovered, he is put to work scrubbing the decks, which is a lot harder than he expected.
Here's...
| Author | Alexis Deacon |
| ISBN | 0374306672 |
The story of an alienated alien
Beegu's spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to understand her; windblown leaves won't stay still...
| Author | María Elena Walsh |
| ISBN | 9505116292 |
Recuerdo que estaba fascinado con la idea de que había un pueblo llamado "Ituzaingó". Abstenerse de corregirme "pueblo" con "ciudad", por favor. No me tiren cuántas personas viven en Ituzaingó. En el libro era un pueblo con pinta a pueblo y rol de pueblo. Quizás creció desde que Walsh lo escribió,...
| Author | Babette Cole |
| ISBN | 0099650819 |
*OCD/ germaphobia warning - This book deals with hygiene issues, and made me compulsively over-wash my hands as a child as a form of OCD*
Despite the warning I give, don't be put off! Although this book needs to be handled with care, especially around children who are susceptible to every day...
| Author | Kenneth Thomasma |
| ISBN | 1880114003 |
In the fourth grade my elementary school had Kenneth Thomasma come to our school to do a talk on his new book: Naya Nuki. I remember being enthralled by his speech (I was also incredibly into Native Americans at the time) and my sweet mother must've given me money to buy the book that day, because my copy is...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch
TWO COMEDY GREATS TALK LIFE, FRIENDSHIP AND THE JOYS OF FISHING...
Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have been friends for 30 years, but when life intervened, what was once a joyous and spontaneous friendship dwindled to the odd phone call or occasional catch up. Then, Glory Be! They were both...
Le petit Prince ( Illustrate)
| Author | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
À LÉON WERTH
Je demande pardon aux enfants d’avoir dédié ce livre à une grande personne. J’ai une excuse sérieuse : cette grande personne est le meilleur ami que j’ai au monde. J’ai une autre excuse : cette grande personne peut tout comprendre, même les livres pour enfants....
| Author | Tima Kurdi |
| ISBN | 1501175238 |
An intimate and poignant memoir about the family of Alan Kurdi—the young Syrian boy who became the global emblem for the desperate plight of millions of Syrian refugees—and of the many extraordinary journeys the Kurdis have taken, spanning countries and continents.
Alan Kurdi’s...
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Piano Solo)
| Author | Richard Harris |
| ISBN | 0571520928 |
This collection brings together music played by Captain Corelli himself and original pieces evoking the sounds and events of the book and of 3 earlier novels, the Latin Trilogy', by Louis de Bernieres. Mandolin music by Beethoven and Hummel is idiomatically arranged for piano by Richard Harris and...
Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an...
'I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of house in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.'
So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle...
Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation
Publisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys.
Animals plainly know where they’re going, but how they get there has remained surprisingly mysterious—until now.
In Supernavigators, award-winning author David Barrie catches...
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir
Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to an illegitimate daughter without acknowledging her?...
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
| Author | Peter Marren |
| ISBN | 0224098659 |
A uniquely personal look about butterflies and about the people who love them -- which, surely, is most of us.
Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies. Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists...
Badger (Encounters in the Wild)
| Author | Jim Crumley |
| ISBN | 1910192627 |
Jim Crumley is a nature writer with almost 20 books to his name, mostly on the landscape and wildlife of Scotland. He is renowned for his style - passionate, inspiring, visionary, sensitive, majestic - no work of his should be missed. He is also a columnist and presenter of radio programmes.
He...
Give Me My Yam!: Read and Share
| Author | Jan Blake |
| ISBN | 0763608734 |
Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!
READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children that helps build early readers’ confidence. Grouped in four progressive levels, Read and Share books - available individually for the first time - are specially selected...
The Trouble With Gran (Mini Book)
| Author | Babette Cole |
| ISBN | 1405211237 |
I was never familiar wit this novel until very recently. One of the kids at the camp I worked at read this book and when I saw it on the bookshelf I decided to read it also. After I read it I found it to be extremely adorable and funny. I felt like a kid again wen I was reading this because it was simple to read and...
| Author | Nicola Davies |
| ISBN | 1910862460 |
Perfect is a story of anticipation, disappointment, acceptance, and, ultimately, love. Suffused with natural imagery, Perfect is an ideal way to open up the subject of disability with children, as well as being a great story in its own right. This beautifully illustrated, truly remarkable...
