Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?

10 best books like Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Jean Fritz): The Trumpet of the Swan, Greg's Microscope, Snowflake Bentley, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Toliver's Secret, Felicity's Surprise, Sarah Morton's Day: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Girl, The Ancient One, If You Lived At The Time Of The American Revolution, Oh No She Didn't: The Top 100 Style Mistakes Women Make and How to Avoid Them

The Trumpet of the Swan

Author	E.B. White
ISBN	0064408671

Swan Song

Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.

Louis tries...

Greg's Microscope

Author

Millicent E. Selsam

This classic reader has been around since the sixties and pairs two frequent contributors to this series, Selsam who specialized in science books and the unequalled author/illustrator Arnold Lobel. Originally this book and a slew of others were in a sub-series called "An I Can Read Science Book";...

Snowflake Bentley

Author	Jacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN	0395861624

"Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." — Wilson Bentley (1865–1931)

From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera...

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Author	Jean Lee Latham
ISBN	0618250743

Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings...

Toliver's Secret

Author	Esther Wood Brady
ISBN	0679848045

I read this book aloud to my children. It is an historical fiction adventure set in New York in the 1700s.

Ten year-old Ellen Toliver is a meek and mild girl, who is often bullied by another girl named Dicey. Grandfather encourages Ellen to stand up for herself and talk back to Dicey, but Mother...

Felicity's Surprise

Author	Valerie Tripp
ISBN	1562470108

Felicity is invited to a dancing lesson at the Governor's Palace, the most wonderful honor she can imagine. Mother promises to make a beautiful new gown for her. As the splendid event draws near, Mother becomes dreadfully ill. Felicity spends all her days caring for her, sadly accepting that there will...

Sarah Morton's Day: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Girl

Author	Kate Waters
ISBN	0590474006

I know I read this ages ago but couldn’t remember the details. I like the examination of what the everyday details would have been like for the Plymouth colonists. It struck me as well researched and presented in a very plausible manner to make history “real” to kids.

One thing that...

The Ancient One

Author

T.A. Barron

LOST CRATER IS LIKE NO OTHER PLACE ON THE PLANET...

When Kate travels to Oregon for a quiet week at Aunt Melanie's cottage, her plans are dashed by the discovery of a grove of giant redwood trees in nearby Lost Crater. Caught up in the struggle to help protect the redwood forest from loggers, Kate...

If You Lived At The Time Of The American Revolution

Author	Kay Moore
ISBN	0590674447

I find if you are like me and do not remember the history that was studied in school when you were younger that picking up a kids book on history helps you better understand what you are learning about.

This written very simply and broken up in lite paragraphs. It gives an overview of what happened...

Oh No She Didn't: The Top 100 Style Mistakes Women Make and How to Avoid Them

Author	Clinton Kelly
ISBN	1439163162

Muffin tops. Scrunchies. Suntan hose. Slut shoes. Visible panty line. Who hasn’t had the unfortunate experience of witnessing—or (gasp!) actually wearing—one of these fashion disasters? The atrocities Clinton Kelly has seen—it’s a surprise he hasn’t gouged out his own eyes....