Blaze and the Forest Fire: Billy and Blaze Spread the Alarm

9 best books like Blaze and the Forest Fire: Billy and Blaze Spread the Alarm (C.W. Anderson): The City in the Middle of the Night, Pinky Pye, The Happy Lion, Pippi Goes on Board, The Little Engine That Could, Johnny Appleseed, The Living Mountain, Adèle and Simon, Pumpkin Island

The City in the Middle of the Night

Author	Charlie Jane Anders
ISBN	0765379961

"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."

Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind...

Pinky Pye

Author	Eleanor Estes
ISBN	0152025650

No matter how many times I read this book, I come away renewed and re-charmed. It's an almost 60 year old book, but it's still crisp and enchanting, with its small mystery and chatty yet wry narrative; reading Pinky Pye - really, reading Estes period - arouses an overwhelming sense of nostalgia for a another...

The Happy Lion

Author	Louise Fatio
ISBN	0375827595

The lion at the little French zoo is a favorite of all the townspeople. Every day they stop by to feed him tidbits and say, “Bonjour, Happy Lion.” Naturally, when the lion finds his door open, he decides it would only be proper to visit all his friendly neighbors in return. But, wait—sacré bleu!...

Pippi Goes on Board

Author	Astrid Lindgren
ISBN	0140309594

Outrageous Pippi Longstocking of Villa Villekulla has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She has been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too - like buying, and eating, seventy-two pounds of candy on a shopping trip, or...

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...

Johnny Appleseed

Author	Reeve Lindbergh
ISBN	0316526347

Johnny Appleseed was a real person while his life has become legend. He was a bit like St Francis - he was very kind to animals. He was also on friendly terms with the Indians. The one thing we know he did barefoot or not in the snow was plant apple trees. This is a nice poem about his legend. The paintings are...

The Living Mountain

Author

Nan Shepherd

This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0857861832/ ISBN13: 9780857861832.

The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing...

Adèle and Simon

Author	Barbara McClintock
ISBN	0374380449

When Simon's older sister, Ad�le, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Ad�le makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause...

Pumpkin Island

Author	Arthur Geisert
ISBN	1592702651

Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert’s Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins.
Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life—that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing...