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10 best books like Cat (Matthew Van Fleet): Good Luck Bear, Happy Birthday, Little Pookie, There Are Cats in This Book, The Adventures of Abdi, Enigma: A Magical Mystery, Museum ABC, There's a House Inside My Mummy, Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness, That's Not My Truck, The Character of Cats: The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis Silvestris Catus

Good Luck Bear

Author	Greg E. Foley
ISBN	0670062588

Bear and Mouse are looking for luck. Four-leaf clover luck. Will they find it? Monkey says there's no such thing. Turtle thinks it'll take too long. And Groundhog wonders if they'll be unlucky if they can't find one!

Suddenly Bear isn't sure if he should keep looking or give up . . . until Mouse...

Happy Birthday, Little Pookie

Author

Sandra Boynton

Little Pookie is up before dawn because . . . it’s Pookie’s birthday, and Pookie just can’t wait to celebrate! Pookie’s Mom gently coaxes her little one back to bed—but not for long!—in this delightful board book.
 
The celebration begins as Daddy makes Pancakes Supreme, and...

There Are Cats in This Book

Author	Viviane Schwarz
ISBN	0763639230

Open the covers of this extraordinarily inventive, interactive book to find that the cats inside are ready to play -- in very surprising ways.
There they are, purring under a blanket. But not for long! Three sprightly cats named Tiny, Moonpie, and Andre are eager to involve you in their games, whether...

The Adventures of Abdi

Author	Madonna
ISBN	0670058890

"The power of certainty is without limits."

Abdi is a little boy who has been given a very big task. He is to deliver the most precious necklace in the world -- made by Eli, his teacher and a master jeweler -- to the queen. Along the way he is robbed in the desert, thrown in a dungeon, and has a surprising...

Enigma: A Magical Mystery

Author

Graeme Base

Bertie the Badger's Grandpa is a retired conjurer living in a retirement home for magicians and the like. One day Bertie comes to visit and see the magic show only to find that the residents have had their magic things stolen. Bertie's on the case, and goes to speak to each of them. Who stole the special magic...

Museum ABC

Author	Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN	0316071706

Museum ABC introduces more than one hundred works art--using the alphabet!

This unique alphabet book features four works of art from different cultures and periods for each letter of the alphabet. Simple words matched with intriguing illustrations provide an opportunity for endless exploration....

There's a House Inside My Mummy

Author	Giles Andreae
ISBN	1841210684

This book helps explain pregnancy to children. It is about a little boy, whose mother is pregnant. The little boy believes that there is a house inside his mother where his brother or sister lives. It explains that the baby is in sort of a giant bathtub inside his mother’s tummy and that the baby needs...

Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness

Author	Lynley Dodd
ISBN	0140545506

Hairy Maclary is a scruffy dog from Donaldson's Dairy. He desperately wants to check out the Riverside Cat Club Annual Show. Using his stealth skills, he manages to sneak into the dazzling world of cats.

Little did Hairy know that his visit would create kitty chaos. Humans scramble to catch...

That's Not My Truck

Author	Fiona Watt
ISBN	0794502105

Board Book
This book is one of a series of "touchy feely" books by Usborne designed for children ages 2-6. The text is repetitive and therefore predictable to the emerging reader. Children love these books and they allow those new to reading to interact with each page in a verbal, visual and tactile...

The Character of Cats: The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis Silvestris Catus

Author

Stephen Budiansky

Simultaneously affectionate and suspicious, adaptive and intractable, dependent and aloof, cats are the least tamed and yet the most successful domestic species. Drawing upon new research into cat genetics, brain chemistry, evolution, social behavior, and interaction with humans and fellow...

Josephine Wants to Dance

Author	Jackie French
ISBN	0207200750

From the award-winning duo of Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget.

Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through...

Peek-a-Zoo!

Author	Marie Torres Cimarusti
ISBN	0525469710

Little ones love to play peek-a-boo. With its oversize flaps and bright, bold illustrations, this follow-up to the highly successful Peek-a-Moo! is sure to be another hit with young readers. On every page, kids play peek-a-boo with a different animal found at the zoo, guessing what it is, then lifting...

Merry Christmas, Ollie!

Author	Olivier Dunrea
ISBN	0618532420

An endearing and beautifully rendered tale sure to be a family favorite.

It's Christmas Eve. Gossie and Gertie hang their bright colored boots in the barn. Peedie and BooBoo hang their striped stockings in the barn. Ollie stomps through the snow. It's not easy to wait for Father Christmas Goose!

With...

Winter's Tale: Winter's Tale

Author	Robert Sabuda
ISBN	0689853637

This was an amazing Book! All the pop-ups are BEAUTIFUL and AMAZING. I went thru the book a few times before I 'discovered' the flaps on the sides. With very few words the author is so expressive and told a beautiful story about winter!
I think this book would be great to teach about what animals do in...

Beetle Bop

Author	Denise Fleming
ISBN	0152059369

They crawl up walls, they hide in cracks, they flip, they fly, and sometimes . . . crrrash. Beetles come in all shapes and sizes, and they are everywhere in this thoroughly buggy, beautifully designed book.

There are striped beetles, spotted beetles, all-over-dotted beetles--and don't forget...

Swing!: A Scanimation Picture Book

Author	Rufus Butler Seder
ISBN	0761151273

Published last fall, Gallop! introduced the amazing technology called Scanimation and took the children’s book world by storm. It became an instant bestseller—#1 on The New York Times children's list.

Now Swing! does for kids what Gallop! does for animals—a boy rides a bike, a girl...

Eric Carle's ABC

Author	Eric Carle
ISBN	0448445646

- This book did not receive any awards.

- Pre-K-Kindergarten

-Eric Carle's ABC is a children's book that teaches them about the alphabet, and also use the representation of animals which shows the first letter of their name. The font in this book is much larger as this book is made for...

Peek-a-Baby: A Lift-the-Flap Book

Author

Karen Katz

I love the Brooklyn Public Library! Lately my son has enjoyed playing peek-a-boo so I put this title on hold and checked it out of the library but I realized when I got home that several of the flaps were missing which sorta defeats the fun of peek-a-boo :) Our local library often gives babies and kids free...

Africa Is Not a Country

Author	Margy Burns Knight
ISBN	0761316477

12/11/2016 ** I am a librarian in a school with a significant number of students who have extended family in various countries in Africa. When I ask where their families are from, they simply reply, "Africa." I'm working hard with both students and staff to elicit a more specific response - the name of...