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10 best books like Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar (Masaichiro Anno): Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Leo the Late Bloomer, Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale, A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, Anno's Journey, Anno's Counting Book

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
AuthorBill Martin Jr.
ISBN0805053883
What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child?

Lots of noise!

Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page!

Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle...
Leo the Late Bloomer
AuthorRobert Kraus
“Captivating and rollicking.” —The Horn Book

Leo isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he's ready.

This heartwarming story of how a little tiger...
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
AuthorMaira Kalman
ISBN0142403628
The John J. Harvey fireboat was the largest, fastest, shiniest fireboatof its time, but by 1995, the city didn't need old fireboats anymore. So the Harvey retired, until a group of friends decided to save it from the scrap heap. Then, one sunny September day in 2001, something so horrible happened that...
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
AuthorMichelle Markel
ISBN0061804428
When Clara Lemlich arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast.

But that did not stop Clara.

She went to night school, spent hours studying...
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
AuthorDemi


I have read many books by world-renowned children’s book author, Demi, but I have not gotten around to reviewing any of Demi’s books yet. “One Grain of Rice” is the first book by Demi that I am reviewing and it is a folktale from India that is about a young woman named Rani who tries to trick...
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
AuthorSharon Rudahl
ISBN1595580646
The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist.

"You are a terrible child and will grow into a worse woman! You have no respect for your elders or for authority! You will surely end on the gallows as a public menace!"—Emma Goldman's...
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
AuthorJavaka Steptoe
ISBN0316213888
Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw...
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
AuthorLindsay Mattick
ISBN0316324906
Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...
Anno's Journey
AuthorMitsumasa Anno
ISBN0698114337
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner

Join Anno, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, on a spectacular tour of Europe!

A pictorial journey through the traditional countryside, farms, and towns of northern Europe takes readers past familiar storybook characters, visual...
Anno's Counting Book
AuthorMitsumasa Anno
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...
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
AuthorRobert Frost
ISBN0806906332
"In an attractive large-size volume...25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's handsome watercolor illustrations capture the feel of the New England landscape without in any way trying to provide literal images for the poetry....
The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0805090495
I really admire Jane Addams. For a semester in college (in-between majoring in English literature and psychology) I took classes in sociology and studied her in depth. I either learned more from this book, or more likely relearned some of what I learned back then. She was a remarkable woman.

This...
Miss Mary Mack
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN0316076147
A lively picture book adaptation of the well-known children's hand-clapping rhyme, perfect for the whole family.
Everyone knows some version of this popular children's hand-clapping rhyme, but in this adaptation, the elephant's fateful jump over the fence is just the beginning of the fun....
Little Pear
AuthorEleanor Frances Lattimore
ISBN0152055029
Little Pear is a young boy who lives in a small village in China. Although his story takes place long ago, he is much like any little boy today--always on the lookout for excitement and adventure!

Little Pear is just looking for fun, but he has a knack for finding trouble without even trying! Join...
The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating
AuthorAlice W. Flaherty
ISBN0618556443
Once upon a time, on a long, slow trip to Scotland, a little girl named Katerina-Elizabeth tossed her oatmeal overboard—again, and again, and again. She was a picky eater, and oatmeal was her least favorite food.

And once upon a time, a small worm, no bigger than a piece of thread, swam alongside...
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