An Angel For Solomon Singer
10 best books like An Angel For Solomon Singer (Cynthia Rylant): Come On, Rain!, Just Plain Fancy, My Mama Had a Dancing Heart, Water Dance, The Lotus Seed, Something Beautiful, The Hungry Thing, What You Know First, Tight Times, Be Good to Eddie Lee
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0590331256 |
I love the colors of this book. It’s about a time that I really don’t like; those hot muggy days you can hardly breath and people are praying for rain to keep things from dying. I can’t stand that time. It makes me want to live in Scotland.
A Mama is taking care of her wilting plants and a girl...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0440409373 |
3.5 stars. This story tells you about some Amish girls who find an unusual egg with their hens eggs. When they discover this bird is no ordinary chicken they are worried the bird will be shunned for being too fancy so try to hide their friend. I really liked most of the story, the illustrations were lovely...
| Author | Libba Moore Gray |
| ISBN | 0531071421 |
I love this book. I even mentioned it on my blog a few years ago when someone else's post went viral about why we shouldn't try to give our kids a magical childhood (I've run a non-profit site and later the related blog called "A Magical Childhood" for nearly 20 years).
In that post, I wrote:
"There...
| Author | Thomas Locker |
| ISBN | 0152163964 |
This novel in verse does an excellent job of explaining the water cycle to a reader. The word choice and usage takes something quite ordinary and lifts it to an extraordinary level. Explaining how water is one thing yet many things all at the same time really paints a picture in the reader’s mind. The...
| Author | Sherry Garland |
| ISBN | 0152014837 |
A girl takes a lotus seed to remember her country Vietnam, and flees to the U.S with her family. That lotus seed is a reminder of her homeland and is also there to calm her when she has troubles. That lotus seed is her symbol of hope. When she's a lot older and has many grandchildren, one of her grandsons takes...
| Author | Sharon Dennis Wyeth |
| ISBN | 0440412102 |
A little girl longs to see beyond the scary sights on the sidewalk and the angry scribbling in the halls of her building. When her teacher writes the word beautiful on the blackboard, the girl decides to look for something beautiful in her neighborhood. Her neighbors tell her about their own beautiful...
| Author | Jan Slepian |
| ISBN | 0439275989 |
One of my favorite tongue tickling, rhyme time books from childhood! The happy, but hungry monster comes to a fictitious Highlander town with a sign around his neck proclaiming: "Feed Me". The people try to feed the Hungry Thing, by asking him what he'd like to eat. And with answers such as: "Smancakes"...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0064434923 |
The stunning picture book collaboration between Newbery Medal–winning author Patricia MacLachlan and acclaimed illustrator Barry Moser.
A young girl comes to terms with the fact that she and her family are leaving the prairie. As she talks herself into acceptance, her Mama helps her...
| Author | Barbara Shook Hazen |
| ISBN | 0140504427 |
Daddy said tight times are why we don't have roast beef on Sunday.
Instead we have soupy things with lima beans. I hate lima beans. If I had a dog, I'd make him eat mine.
I'm here to tell you about an amazing book.
This book is about a little boy who really wants a dog. He keeps asking...
| Author | Virginia Fleming |
| ISBN | 0399219935 |
Be Good to Eddie Lee is a book about a girl named Christy and a boy in her neighborhood named Eddie Lee. Eddie Lee is a child with down syndrome, who is not always well liked by Christy and her friend. One day Christy decides to go down to the river with her friend, and Eddie Lee tags along much to her disappointment....
| Author | Candace Ryan |
| ISBN | 0802723365 |
Cow and Owl are best friends. MOO HOO! They do everything together, like make music (TWO COO) and go trick-or-treating together (BOO! BOO!). But when a strange playmate shows up (ROO NEW), they will discover that three is better than two (NEW TRUE CREW).
From the team that brought you last year's...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0395861462 |
Each button on Laura’s memory string represents a piece of her family history. The buttons Laura cherishes the most belonged to her mother—a button from her prom dress, a white one off her wedding dress, and a single small button from the nightgown she was wearing on the day she died. When the string...
"When I was nine or ten years old I couldn't wait for Saturdays."
In this poetic memory, a young boy rides his bicycle every Saturday up and down country roads past farms, a graveyard, and a filling station, until he reaches his beloved Mammaw's house. She is waiting for him. While she picks tomatoes,...
| Author | Marla Frazee |
| ISBN | 0152055738 |
Trying something new is never easy. Like walking, for instance. But aren't you sick of sitting on your bottom day in and day out? Hasn't lying around all the time become a little bit boring? This handy guide, both practical and inspirational, is here to help. With useful tips, common pitfalls, and Marla...
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0395848261 |
Sunsets and sunrises have always been special to me especially when they involve bodies of water. In college, I was fortunate enough to live in a dorm next to the Elizabeth River where I was able to enjoy daily sunsets. The beauty of the sun reflecting on the water is very peaceful to me. Every night it seemed...
| Author | Barbara Bottner |
| ISBN | 0060002247 |
Wallace, a mouse, could do almost anything. Anything that is, as long as he had a list. Wallace is a shy mouse. He writes lists. Lists of recipes, funny words, and frightening experiences. Wallace meets his lively neighbor named Albert. His world is swiftly opened to new delights, such as painting and...
| Author | Alison Jackson |
| ISBN | 0142404004 |
Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Valentine. I have written forty letters, but you've never read a line. Set to the tune of the song "Clementine," Alison Jackson tells the sweet tale of Valentine and her beau. Valentine goes about her day, doing chores around her mountain cabin, while her secret...
