Below the Root
9 best books like Below the Root (Zilpha Keatley Snyder): The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, The Mad Scientists' Club, The Little Engine That Could, Wacky Wednesday, Age of Legend, Swords and Deviltry, Little Fuzzy, Henry Reed, Inc., Mark Twain
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0515056170 |
Farley Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies. Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable. He climbed trees and ladders, rode passenger in an open car wearing goggles and displaying hunting skills that bordered...
| Author | Bertrand R. Brinley |
| ISBN | 1930900104 |
The "mad scientists" here are a lot more Scooby Doo than HG Wells. They're like, if the Scooby Doo villains were kids playing pranks rather than adults after cash. We'll cover this sheet in luminescent paint and pretend it's a ghost! We'll make a lake monster out of this raft and some stuff from the junkyard!...
The Little Engine That Could
| Author | Watty Piper |
| ISBN | 0448405202 |
When I was seven, my Mom used to read to us from this little book.
It was one of many books scattered atop our bright red plastic-‘n-steel tabletop, and she was cataloguing them for her new Public Library!
It was a bright red-letter year for us kids, too, that year - a real Book Bonanza.
And...
| Author | Theo LeSieg |
| ISBN | 0394829123 |
An ode to a really strange day
12 February 2012
This is probably my favourite Dr Seuss book, having I read it many a time when I was a kid. I guess the reason for that was because it was one of those books that you didn't just read, but actively participated in it as well. On every page there were...
| Author | Michael J. Sullivan |
Each culture has its own myths and legends, but only one is shared, and it is feared by all.
With Age of Myth, Age of Swords, and Age of War, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan riveted readers with a tale of unlikely heroes locked in a desperate battle to save mankind. After years of warfare, humanity...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1595820795 |
For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met.
'The two thieves had themselves been robbed by two youths, who eyed each other suspiciously over the sprawled, senseless bodies.
Fafhrd said: 'Our motives for being here seem identical.'...
| Author | H. Beam Piper |
| ISBN | 0843959118 |
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government....
| Author | Keith Robertson |
| ISBN | 0140341447 |
Henry Reed has arrived in Grover's Corner--and the town will never be the same. While spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, Henry comes up with a sure-fire money-making project: Henry Reed, Inc., Research. Henry's neighbor, Midge Glass, has an even more sure-fire hit: Reed and Glass, Inc. Now...
| Author | Geoffrey C. Ward |
| ISBN | 0375405615 |
A fantastic look into the life of Mark Twain. He was clever and witty but not always wise. The man was a gambler at heart. I saw the monster "type-writer" that he invested huge amounts of money in at the museum/home in Hartford Connecticut. He had lots of good ideas, but was ahead of his time. That type-writer...
