Beethoven Lives Upstairs

10 best books like Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Barbara Nichol): I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Hop On Pop, Anno's Counting Book, The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites, Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México, I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words, Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street, The Digging-est Dog, The Best Nest

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007158513

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go”. In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss celebrates the joys of reading, encouraging young children to take pride in their budding reading abilities.


With his unique combination of...

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007169922

Here, started it everything!


A DATE AT MULBERRY STREET FOR IMMORTALITY

That can’t be my story. That’s only a start.

I’ll say that a ZEBRA was pulling that cart.

This is the very first story by Dr. Seuss, here, started it all.

And since...

Hop On Pop

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007158491

Call me old fashioned but I think that there is far too much pop hopping going on in America these days. It's disgusting, revolting, quite possibly illegal, and then they turn around and turn it into a children's book? What's next? Leaving two unsupervised children alone with a giant cat? An elephant...

Anno's Counting Book

Author

Mitsumasa 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...

The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0679882804

A toe-tapper babies will love--the classic Seussian book about opposites: "Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot..."  

This Little Book is an adaptation of the original book The Foot Book published by Random House in 1963..

Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México

Author	Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN	1419725327

Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández, dancer and founder of El Ballet Folklórico de México.

Published in time for the 100th anniversary of Hernández’s birth, Danza! is the first picture book about the famous dancer and choreographer.

Danza!...

I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words

Author	Michael Frith
ISBN	0394826922

A lesson in vocabulary
18 November 2013

This story, structured in beautiful meter and excellent rhyme, is about how we set ourselves huge goals, and imagine huge success, only to put it off because we prefer to sit under a tree and pass our days catching the rays from the sun. The protagonist...

Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street

Author	Roni Schotter
ISBN	0531071367

Eva sits on the front stoop of her New York walk-up, a notebook perched on her lap and a cinnamon danish to fortify her at her side. Her teacher has instructed her to “write what you know”. That’s Eva’s problem: what she knows is that nothing ever happens on 90th Street. As she sits, though, neighbouring...

The Digging-est Dog

Author	Al Perkins
ISBN	0394800478

Illus. in full color. A dog who has to learn how to dig doesn't stop until he has dug up the whole town.  .

The Best Nest

Author	P.D. Eastman
ISBN	0394800516

Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym of "Dr. Seuss" (Seuss was Geisel's middle name) and only two hundred twenty-three words, Geisel created a replacement for those dull primers: "The Cat...