Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem

10 best books like Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem (Mac Barnett): Pssst!, Singing Away the Dark, Waiting for Winter, Humphrey the Lost Whale, A Is for Musk Ox, Sparrow Girl, A Penguin Story, Brief Thief, Dotty, Princess Hyacinth: The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated

Pssst!
AuthorAdam Rex
ISBN0152058176
A child, a visit to the zoo, animals--sounds like good, simple all-American fun. But there’s something different about this zoo. These animals want things. Unusual things. What will they do with them?
    
Laughs, jokes, and surprises abound in this graphic picture book about a feisty,...
Singing Away the Dark
AuthorCaroline Woodward
ISBN1897476418
It’s a windy winter morning, and a little girl has to walk a mile to catch the school bus. Along the way she faces wire gates, dark shadowy woods, a bull grazing with the cattle, and wickedly cold wind. Will she be able to sing her way through the dark morning? Lilting rhyming text by Caroline Woodward and...
Waiting for Winter
AuthorSebastian Meschenmoser
ISBN1935279041
What can I say about Sebastian Meschenmoser’s Waiting for Winter except for wow, what a sweet and simply wonderful little story, with equally enchanting illustrations (although I do wish that my local library also had this book in the original German, as Herr Eichhorn und der erste Schnee but that...
Humphrey the Lost Whale
AuthorWendy Tokuda
ISBN0893463469
We got this for our 3 yr old's birthday party this summer and what an awesome book! All my kids love it, my preschoolers and my 5 yr old alike! A story about a lost whale named Humphrey who got stuck in the San Francisco Bay back in 1985, an event I hadn't heard anything about. (I had been ten yrs old at the time)...
A Is for Musk Ox
AuthorErin Cabatingan
This book should have started with “A is for Apple”; however, Musk Ox ate the apple. So Zebra is upset that his “book is ruined” but Musk Ox thinks that the book would be much better when “A” is for “awesome…Arctic…and Alaska” all of which describe Musk Ox or where Musk Ox lives. And...
AuthorSara Pennypacker
ISBN1423111877

Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country's leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers--they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great "Sparrow War" to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase...
AuthorAntoinette Portis
ISBN0061456888
Some of the picture books I read make me wish I were a better reviewer. I know my history of the art form. I know what makes one book a stronger better read than another. I can sense when a book will feel right to an adult and to a child. But I am bested by the best sometimes. A Penguin Story comes from Antoinette...
AuthorMichaël Escoffier
ISBN1592701310
We have a real winner here. This book is great.

From the page four, where the kid you're reading this with will look at you incredulously as the word "poo" appears, to its shocking surprise twist ending, you can't ask for better children's literature than this.

Leon is a chameleon. He...
Dotty
AuthorErica S. Perl
It's Ida's first day of school. She carries her new lunch box and a long, blue string with her special friend Dotty attached to it. A big, colorfully spotted pal with horns, Dotty just happens to be invisible. On that first day of school, Ida and Dotty find out there are plenty of other imaginary friends...
AuthorFlorence Parry Heide
ISBN0375845011
Bestselling Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith and legendary author Florence Parry Heide have teamed up to create an unforgettable princess sure to charm and delight young readers.

Princess Hyacinth has a problem: she floats. And so the king and queen have pebbles sewn into the tops of her...
AuthorMargaret Mahy
ISBN0547074212
Another hilarious rhyming romp from the team who brought us the popular DOWN THE BACK OF THE CHAIR.

When little Mabel’s bubble gets away from her, it’s her baby brother who gets into trouble. Soon he’s floating out of the house, above the fence, and all over town! And it’s up to Mabel,...
AuthorHallie Durand
Hop in for a hilarious, heartwarming ride with four-year-old Mitchell, a kid with a need for speed, a lead foot, and a very special license to drive.

Mitchell was four years, one month, and five days old when he got his license. He may need a little boost getting into the driver’s seat, but once...
AuthorLinda Newbery
ISBN1416971122
I'm in love with Posy. This is such a fun, sweet, delightful little book about a fun, sweet, delightful kitten! The illustrations are definitely a bit unusual in style, but I just adore them. And the text is very sparse, just two words per page, rhyming, but it completely captures all the variations in...
AuthorMargie Palatini
ISBN0689802463
I don't want to say "I didn't like it," because it was entertaining. In addition, I don't even want to say "It was okay," because I choked on the first line of the first page, which states, ". . . grapes hanging from a vine growing high on a tree." I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure grapevines do not grow up...
AuthorMatthew McElligott
ISBN0802797687
When Ant receives a special invitation to dine with Lion, she is ready to be on her best behavior. During dessert, the other guests do not mind their manners, each one taking half of the remaining cake as it is passed around. By the time it reaches Ant, barely a crumb is left for her to share with the King! She...
AuthorJeanne Willis
ISBN0689865244
Not for the faint-at-heart adult, but great for every child with a sadistic side (and what child doesn't have a hidden or not-so-hidden sadistic side), including every first-grade boy in the world. I read with a high, squeaky voice for the caterpillar and a low, stopped-up-nose voice for the tadpole....
Willoughby & The Lion
AuthorGreg E. Foley
ISBN0061547506
This is the story of Willoughby, whose new house feels too small and very lonely.

It's also the story of an enchanted lion and spectacular wishes come true: of roller coasters, and fast, fast shoes, and enormous crowds of people.

But most of all, it's the story of one important question:...
Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo
AuthorE.S. Redmond
ISBN0763634441
Follow a sniffly girl on a hands-on trip to the zoo, and you’ll find one miserable menagerie — and a comical ode to the virtue of tissues.

ALL OF THE ANIMALS DOWN AT THE ZOO
ARE SNUFFLING AND SNORTING AND SNEEZING ACHOO.

Why are the hyenas crying boo-hoo? And what gave the rhino...
Except If
AuthorJim Averbeck
ISBN1416995447
In the beginning, there is an egg. Which may become a baby bird, except if it becomes a baby snake instead. Except if the baby snake is really truly a dinosaur!

In this young, clever, and whimsical picture book in the spirit of Not a Box and First the Egg, an egg is not just an egg, but a symbol of the...
Once Upon a Twice
AuthorDenise Doyen
ISBN0375856129
A cautionary tale for mice reminiscent of Carroll’s Jabberwocky!


Out in the open, in the clear,
Where any wisenmouse would fear,
Jam licks his paw, he grooms an ear,
And never hears approaching hisssss . . .

What will happen to the brave mouse Jam when he breaks the...
Let's Do Nothing!
AuthorTony Fucile
ISBN0763634409
Don't move! A master of animation explores the elusive art of doing nothing in this comical tale of two very active imaginations.

Frankie and Sal have already played every sport and board game invented, baked and eaten batches of cookies, and painted a zillion pictures. What's left to do? Nothing!...
Never Smile at a Monkey: And 17 Other Important Things to Remember
AuthorSteve Jenkins
When it comes to wild animals, everyone knows that there are certain things you just don’t do. It's clearly a bad idea to tease a tiger, pull a python's tail, or bother a black widow spider. But do you know how dangerous it can be to pet a platypus, collect a cone shell, or touch a tang fish? Some creatures...
Crow Call
AuthorLois Lowry
ISBN0545030358
Two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry has crafted a beautiful picture book about the power of longing and the importance of reconnection between a girl and her father in post-WWII America.

This is the story of young Liz, her father, and their strained relationship. Dad has been away at WWII...
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