Barbapapa

10 best books like Barbapapa (Annette Tison): Madlenka, The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, Pancakes for Findus, Avocado Baby, Peter in Blueberry Land, Morris's Disappearing Bag, The Quangle Wangle's Hat, Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale, The Church Mouse, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes

AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374399697
A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world!

Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the...
AuthorPhyllis Krasilovsky
ISBN0749704977
This by far hasn't been the first time I've read The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, but I recently realised I hadn't added it to Goodreads and so it demanded a reread.

What a lovely children's book! The story of Henrietta and her adventure has always been a personal favourite, and now I get to share it...
Pancakes for Findus
AuthorSven Nordqvist
Pancakes for Findus is the first story in the adventures of farmer Pettson and his cat Findus. Pettson wants to bake a birthday cake for Findus, who has three birthdays a year. But how will they get the eggs with the bull in the way?
Findus and Pettson live in a ramshackle cottage in the country, with...
AuthorJohn Burningham
ISBN0099200619
This is a cute tale of a puny baby who doesn't like to eat...UNTIL...it's discovered that it (the baby is always referred to as "it" or "the baby," so I guess the gender is left up to the reader. Clever, huh?) LOVES avocados.



Just one avocado a day seems to imbue the tot with Popeye-like...
AuthorElsa Beskow
ISBN0863154980
Like with the vast majority of Floris Books of Edinburgh's editions that feature so-called translations, that present English language renderings of classical continental Western European children's literature picture books, Elsa Beskow's Peter in Blueberry Land (the original 1901 Swedish...
AuthorRosemary Wells
ISBN0142300047
Bestselling author Rosemary Wells tells a heartfelt holiday story The Chicago Tribune calls "One of the best."

It's Christmas day and Morris is missing. He was there to open his present--a teddy bear--and to watch his older sisters and brother open their gifts. His siblings went off to play...
AuthorEdward Lear
ISBN0744567947
The Quangle Wangle Quee sat on top of the Crumpetty Tree, but you could not see his face because of his hundred and two feet wide Beaver Hat.

The Quangle Wangle gets visited by an array of imaginary beasts such as a pobble who has not toes and loves to dance on the hat of the Quangle Wangle Quee.

This...
AuthorSibylle von Olfers
ISBN1933308184
The incredibly intricate and vivid illustrations in this book are details of a modern quilt inspired by Sibylle von Olfers' classic storybook Mother Earth and Her Children. This vibrant new translation, in turn inspired by the quilt, explores the changing of the seasons and...
AuthorGraham Oakley
ISBN0333493370
Buying this book is a mix of whimsy and preparedness. I say that I have two other of the authors books that I adored as a child so it was inevitable that I tried his most famous books. Some may say I'm getting clucky and feathering the future eka-Brendon's nest. They may have a point...

I adored both...
AuthorEve Sutton
ISBN0140502424
Don't mind me, this is for my cat.

So. This book told me that "the cat from France liked to sing and dance".

See? Here.



When I talked to you about this talent you're supposed to share with your fellow French cats -



Oh, yes. You did that. Just FLEE. Because...
AuthorPamela Allen
ISBN0207172854
When reading this to a small group of children, some of them enjoyed this, others thought it just silly and a couple thought it to be on the lame side. So a very mixed reaction.


Those that liked it got a kick out of Mr Archimedes trying to figure out what was happening with the bath water. One child...
AuthorGabrielle Vincent
ISBN0688008569
All of Gabrielle Vincent's books about Ernest and Celestine are adorable. Celestine is a young mouse, and Ernest is an adult bear, and they are the best of friends. There isn't any backstory as to why Ernest is caring for Celestine as he would his own daughter, but it doesn't really matter why ... what matters...
AuthorShirley Hughes
ISBN0099256053
We all know and love Alfie right? I do. He's an iconic character, created by the equally iconic Shirley Hughes, and this is one of my favourite titles starring him and his younger sister Annie Rose.

But, before I talk about this, I need to segue slightly. The other day I was discussing comic books...
AuthorGail Jorgensen
ISBN0689718810
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AuthorAntonia Barber
ISBN1844289109
*LOVE*

"At the far end of England, a land of rocks and moorland stretches itself out into a blue-green sea. ... One of these harbours is so small and the entrance between its great stone breakwaters is so narrow that fishermen called it 'the Mousehole'. The people who lived in the cottages around...
AuthorQuentin Blake
ISBN0805059334
One day, Clown is thrown into the trash, but he doesn't stay there long.

He tries to find someone to take care of his friends, but no one listens.

Then Clown finds someone he can take care of, and together, they make a home for everyone.

Follow the fortunes of Clown-- who starts...
AuthorNiki Daly
ISBN0374437203
Perfectly South African, and perfectly universal. Lively, funny, with a big crisis and a happy resolution, and an author's note that, unfortunately, is half-covered by my library's binding (still, I get the gist, and it is a good one to share with older children).

I honestly tried to talk myself...
AuthorBob Graham
ISBN0763618578
A success story for anyone who knows the highs—and lows—of learning to do something for the first time. Max will fly away with your heart!

As the son of legendary superheroes Captain Lightning and Madam Thunderbolt, Max is destined to join their ranks - once he learns to
fly, that is....
AuthorKate Greenaway
ISBN0873282167
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were even translated into German and French.

One...
AuthorElina Karjalainen
ISBN9510082449
Kokonaisen vuoden ui Uppo-Nalle maailman meriä. Se toivoo löytävänsä rauhallisen sataman, jossa on valkeaa hiekkaa ja joku ystävällinen mikä tahansa odottamassa.
Reeta on pieni tyttö valkealla hiekkarannalla. Reetan kotona on Laulava Lintukoira, villi ja menevä otus, mutta...
AuthorMira Lobe
I have read it over 100 times as a child. I grew up with this book. When my children were born I asked my family overseas to buy it and send it. Now, both my children are over the age of 20. Together, we read "Das Kleine Ich Bin Ich" another 100 times.

It is the rhyming that is so catching. It is fun, it is...
AuthorGilbert Delahaye
ISBN2203101016
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AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN9129596009
Oh that Lotta. What a brave and determined little girl. Sure, now she expresses herself by crying and stealing (I'm sure it was justified in her mind that the bike wasn't getting used anyway). But she's just turned five, after all! And it is her birthday, and she does appreciate all her other presents....
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0888997299
This story about the adventures of two children who live up in a tree is vintage Atwood -- playful, whimsical and wry. The perfect integration of words and pictures creates a coherent and delightful whole.

When this charming book was first published in 1978, there was a widespread idea that...
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