Anno's Journey
10 best books like Anno's Journey (Mitsumasa Anno): Linnea in Monet's Garden, In the Night Kitchen, Miss Rumphius, Millions of Cats, The Stranger, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Diary of a Wombat, Extra Yarn, Whistle for Willie, Lost and Found
| Author | Christina Björk |
| ISBN | 9129583144 |
Christina Björk's Linnea in Monet's Garden (which was originally published in Sweden in 1985 under the title of Linnea i Målarens Trädgård, with the English language translation penned in 1987 by Joan Sandin) has been on my to-read list for almost a decade, and I am happy to say that I have now remedied...
| Author | Maurice Sendak |
| ISBN | 0099417472 |
I have a confession to make, goodreads. You might want to sit down.
I've...
| Author | Barbara Cooney |
| ISBN | 0140505393 |
A beloved classic—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever!
Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation....
| Author | Wanda Gág |
| ISBN | 0142407089 |
Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman who were very lonely. They decided to get a cat, but when the old man went out searching, he found not one cat, but millions and billions and trillions of cats! Unable to decide which one would be the best pet, he brought them all home. How the old couple came...
| Author | Chris Van Allsburg |
| ISBN | 0395423317 |
The Stranger describes a tale of Farmer Bailey and the strange man who enters into his life unexpectedly after a car crash. The Bailey family (consisting of Farmer Bailey, his wife, and their daughter) welcomes this man into their home and hopes to nurse him back to health. The stranger has very odd characteristics...
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0689832133 |
Farmer Brown has a problem.
His cows like to type.
All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.
But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....
Doreen Cronin's understated...
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0618381368 |
Wombats are cuddly-looking, slow-moving Australian animals. Their favorite activities are eating, sleeping, and digging holes. Here, in the words of one unusually articulate wombat, is the tongue-in-cheek account of a busy week; eating, sleeping, digging holes . . . and training its new neighbors,...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0061953385 |
Annabelle finds a magic yarn box that never runs out of yarn. She lives in a drab little town where everyone is drab looking. She makes herself a sweater and it isn’t long before she makes a sweater for everyone. She still has plenty of yarn. Word gets out and people come wanting to see these wonders, even...
| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
| ISBN | 0670762407 |
I love the colors in this books. The backgrounds of pink bricks are so pretty. Amazing colors that jump off the page to this day. It's like Jan Brett, you see a Ezra Jack Keats page of art and you know who it is immediately without knowing the book. It's distinct.
Peter is so lucky. I can't whistle...
| Author | Oliver Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0399245030 |
From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day The Crayons Quit comes a humorously warm tale of friendship. Now also an animated TV special!
What is a boy to do when a lost penguin shows up at his door? Find out where it comes from, of course, and return it. But the journey to the South Pole is long...
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
| Author | Philip C. Stead |
| ISBN | 1596434023 |
Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl.
But one day—"Ah-choo!"—he woke up with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0064432270 |
"Rekindles the sense of wonder we were born with. True poetry about perceiving the world around us."*
Margaret Wise Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of the perennial classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny, asks children to think deeply about the importance of everyday objects,...
