Cat Talk

10 best books like Cat Talk (Patricia MacLachlan): A Year Down Yonder, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women, The Lion and the Mouse, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, The Water Princess, Ish, Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain, A Poem for Peter, Giant Squid, Down Comes the Rain

A Year Down Yonder

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0142300705

Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.



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Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women

Author	Rey Terciero
ISBN	0316522864

Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumphs of life in NYC in this beautiful full-color graphic novel perfect for fans of Roller Girl and Smile.


Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the...

The Lion and the Mouse

Author	Jerry Pinkney
ISBN	0316013560

In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's...

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Author	Emily Nussbaum
ISBN	0525508961

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...

The Water Princess

Author	Susan Verde
ISBN	0399172580

Based on supermodel Georgie Badiel’s childhood, a young girl dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African village

With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might,...

Ish

Author

Peter H. Reynolds

A creative spirit learns that thinking "ish-ly" is far more wonderful than "getting it right" in this gentle new fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book THE DOT.

Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere.

Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy....

Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain

Author	Cheryl Bardoe
ISBN	0316394289

The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream.

When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him...

A Poem for Peter

Author	Andrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN	0425287688

A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.

The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats’s obvious talent, his...

Giant Squid

Author	Candace Fleming
ISBN	1596435992

The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind.

An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid....

Down Comes the Rain

Author	Franklyn Mansfield Branley
ISBN	0064451666

Starts with the idea of water vapor being something that is in the air but that you can't see, or smell or feel it. It then explains evaporation by suggesting putting a teaspoon of water in a saucer in the morning and that it will have evaporated by later in the day or a boiling tea kettle. It explains that sometimes...

The Dead Bird

Author

Margaret Wise Brown

It is true, many children do seem to enjoy the stab of pathos incumbent on finding dead a creature that has no personal weight for them. Kudos to Brown for recognizing that and treating it realistically, I guess? I'm not sure what the point of this story was. Unless you are a kid who has been accused...

Hello, Crochet Friends!: Making Art, Being Mindful, Giving Back: Do What Makes You Happy

Author	Jonah Larson
ISBN	0999143700

A celebration of the beauty and power of crochet--specifically, the life-changing benefits this fiber art has brought to one extraordinary boy, 11-year-old crochet prodigy, Jonah Larson.

Part One Jonah shares his life story, including details about his adoption, significant behavior...