Angus Lost
10 best books like Angus Lost (Marjorie Flack): The Thanksgiving Story, Journey Cake, Ho!, The Rag Coat, Papa Piccolo, A Pair of Red Clogs, Pelle's New Suit, The Wonder Clock or, Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales, Being One for Each Hour of the Day, Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man, Small Pig, Cross-Country Cat
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689710534 |
In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages.
Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things...
| Author | Ruth Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0140502750 |
This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.
It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...
| Author | Lauren A. Mills |
| ISBN | 0316574074 |
3.5 Lovely illustrations and a pleasant story that is perhaps a bit too predictable and "full of heart" for its own good about a poor girl whose family cannot afford to buy her a coat--thus, she cannot go to school in the winter--and the kind women who eventually make her a quilted coat of scraps. She can...
| Author | Carol Talley |
| ISBN | 1559420286 |
3.5 STARS. Sweet story about a tomcat who takes care of two stranded kittens--begrudgingly at first, then with great affection and interest. As the Note to Parents in the back of the book mentions, it is sometimes difficult to find stories where a male figure is in the nurturing role, so I do appreciate...
| Author | Masako Matsuno |
| ISBN | 1930900201 |
A child's delight in a new pair of shoes is the same all over the world, whether the shoes are patent-leather sandals, straw alpargatas, deerskin moccasins or wooden clogs. For Mako, a little Japanese girl, the new shoeswere clogs painted with red lacquer that shone beautifully. This is the story of...
| Author | Elsa Beskow |
| ISBN | 0863150926 |
I decided to read Elsa Beskow's delightful Pelle's New Suit in French, as Paul et son habit neuf because our public library system happens to have only the French version (and I am actively trying not to purchase so many picture books, mostly due to an ever-increasing lack of shelf space), and I absolutely...
It is rare indeed when a writer's original stories are regarded as masterpieces on a par with the great folkloristic fairy tales that have been handed down through the ages. But Howard Pyle's absorbing tales have for generations enjoyed such overwhelming popularity with boys and girls that they have...
This is a longer story with beautiful artwork. Robert uses repetition well in this story. Each person or thing is associated with a sound or a color and whenever that thing is mentioned, he gives the sound or color with it. It makes for a fun and dynamic story when reading aloud. It was easy to get into the...
| Author | Arnold Lobel |
| ISBN | 0060239328 |
Small Pig is about a pig who is small. He loves nothing more than to sink down in good, soft mud. But when the farmer's wife cleans up his mud puddle, the pig must go out into the world to find a place that is messy enough for him. Will he find his mud? What will the farmer and his wife do when they find that he's gone?
Small...
| Author | Mary Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0688065198 |
This is a book I haven't read in over 30 years so it was nice to read it all over again. The story itself is adorable and in a way it is like the Little Engine that Could in that Henry is determined to keep going no matter how tired he is and no matter how close the coyote gets to him.
But what I can truly appreciate...
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| ISBN | 0060233966 |
There are two kinds of winter: the nostalgic winter, in which Christmas lights twinkle in the snow and everyone drinks hot chocolate around a fireplace, and real winter, in which snow is yellow and brown, commutes to work are dangerous nightmares, and everyone's noses and toes freeze off. The Happy...
| Author | Don Freeman |
| ISBN | 0140502882 |
Why mice?
Why has so much children's literature been about mice? Why Mickey and Jerry and Fievel and their animated brethren? How in the world did such vermin ridden filth become cute?
It's not like they are endangered and we need to generate our usual, oops-too-late-false-sense-of-urgency....
| Author | Emmy Payne |
| ISBN | 0395137179 |
Once, a long time ago, my father gave me a copy of this book. It’s a story about a mother kangaroo who doesn’t have a pouch to carry her joey with. So, starts her adventure searching about for a way.
If a story stayed with you, even decades have gone by, maybe there's a very good reason or a...
| Author | C.W. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0689717768 |
Billy and Blaze are back in another exciting tale of their adventures. This time they're showing their friends Tommy and Dusty how to be as great a team as they are. Tommy and Dusty are eager learners, for they know that Billy and Blaze are the best teachers anybody (or any pony) could ever ask for.
Soon,...
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0375836101 |
This "Boston Globe Horn Book" Honor Book and ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book provides a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be. It s 1930 and times are tough for Pop and his son. But look! On the corner of 34th Street and 5th...
| Author | Mercer Mayer |
| ISBN | 0803728808 |
There are no words so it's a cute little book that your children can read to themselves.
Ages: 3 - 7
Cleanliness: a boy is shown in only underwear for one picture as he's about to jump into the river.
**Like my reviews? I also have hundreds of detailed reports that I offer too. These...
It’s a gentle story with a sweet song to sing.
This is like a poem told. It reminds me so much of little kids. They want so bad to love and play with animals they see and they go wildly chasing after them. The animals always run away from them. This book, a little girl asks animal after animal to play...
| Author | Candice Ransom |
| ISBN | 0064433951 |
On her day in town with her mother, a little girl starts off with an empty big green pocketbook—just like her mother’s—and along the way collects pieces of her day to put inside, inventing stories for each treasure. ‘Studded with inventive imagery.… A playful and most suitable setting for...
If Jesus Came to My House
| Author | Joan G. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0688409814 |
A little boy imagines what it would be like if Jesus came to spend the afternoon with him -- the little boy Jesus, of course, "about the age that I am and about the size of me."It is easy to see why this friendly little book, originally published in England, has already sold 19 editions. It offers the Golden...
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
| Author | Nancy White Carlstrom |
What does a little bear wear while he romps through a bright and sunny day? In the morning, his pants that dance, and the sun on his legs that run. At lunchtime, celery crunch and sprouts in a bunch, and juice from a pear and rice in his hair. And at night, his pjs with feet and face on the seat, and sleep in...
| Author | Judy Dunn |
| ISBN | 0394843770 |
The Little Rabbit is a story of irresponsible pet-keeping hidden behind heart-melting photos as adorable as any internet meme.Do not let the cuteness sucker you in! For one thing, pet rabbits should NOT be allowed to wander in meadows (however idyllic) without leash or pen, especially if the pet-keeper...
