Cat, You Better Come Home
10 best books like Cat, You Better Come Home (Garrison Keillor): A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas, Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores, Winter Is the Warmest Season, How Do You Hug a Porcupine?, Halloween, Henry's Awful Mistake, Catkin, Oscar, Cat-About-Town, I Don't Want to Go to Bed!, Chester's Back!
A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas
A Porcupine in a Pine Tree is basically and simply a Canadian version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, humorous, delightfully Canuck, with caribous, moose, beavers and the like taking the place of the more familiar denizens of partridges, calling birds, leaping lords etc. (nothing spectacular about...
Will their friendship ever be the same? Horace, Morris, and Dolores have been best friends forever. They do everything together -- from sailing the seven sewers to climbing Mount Ever-Rust. But one day Horace and Morris join the Mega-Mice (no girls allowed), and Dolores joins the Cheese Puffs (no boys...
Winter Is the Warmest Season
| Author | Lauren Stringer |
| ISBN | 0152049673 |
Most people think summer is the warmest season. This story, however, is brimming with evidence to the contrary--from roaring fires to grilled cheese sandwiches to toasty flannel pajamas. A unique twist on the traditional wintertime picture book, the beautiful visual narrative follows a...
How Do You Hug a Porcupine?
| Author | Laurie Isop |
| ISBN | 1442412917 |
The third book in the General Mills Spoonful of Stories series!
Can you imagine hugging a porcupine? Sure, it's easy to picture hugging a bunny or even a billy goat, but where would you begin to try to hug a porcupine?
After seeing all his friends hug their favorite animals, one brave...
| Author | Jerry Seinfeld |
| ISBN | 0316706256 |
Seems like a lot of celebrities are writing children's books these days.
I guess the name recognition helps out when it comes to picking up the book. But, as many children's stories tell us, it's what's on the inside that matters most.
Which is why I'm a bit frustrated with Jerry Seinfeld's...
| Author | Robert M. Quackenbush |
| ISBN | 0819310395 |
Henry the Duck sure gets himself into some sticky situations! Just when he thinks dinner is almost ready, he spots an ant in the house. Children and parents alike will love following disaster-prone Henry through his adventures in cooking, cleverly written and illustrated by Robert Quackenbush.
Don't...
Catkin is a tiny cat given by the Wise Woman to protect the human child Carrie. One day Carrie is taken under the hill by the Little People. Sent to bring her back, Catkin finds his courage and cleverness tested to the full.
Antonia Barber's original story reads like a classic fairy tale. Rich with...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312051379 |
Having read about Oscar in James Herriot’s Cat Stories, I wanted to see if the delightful story could be improved in any way as a picture book. It definitely is a treasure. The story has been trimmed to focus on how a lost cat was adopted by the Herriot’s only to be reclaimed by its owners, yet there is...
| Author | Julie Sykes |
| ISBN | 1888444339 |
Good Reads #3
I Don’t Want To Go To Bed!
Summary – This story takes you on the journey of a little tiger who doesn’t want to go to bed! He visits all his other animal friends, but instead of playing, he only sees them going to bed. He continues to wander in the jungle all by himself and soon...
| Author | Mélanie Watt |
| ISBN | 1554532876 |
In this uproarious sequel to Chester, the battle of the picture-book makers continues. Which author-illustrator will come out on top -- Chester or Melanie Watt -- is anybody's guess! This time, there's no denying (in Chester's mind) that he's the star of the show. His already outsize ego has ballooned...
| Author | Cynthia von Buhler |
| ISBN | 0618997180 |
Finally, the solution to Aesop’s age-old question: But who will bell the cats?
Mouse and his friend Brown Bat are tired of watching the princess’s cats enjoy the life of luxury in the banquet hall of the castle, while they languish on crumbs and sleep in smelly socks.
They are determined...
| Author | Mary Burg Whitcomb |
| ISBN | 0811820041 |
Velvet is odd. Instead of dolls that talk and cry, Velvet brings a milkweed pod for show and tell. She wins the class art contest using only an eight-pack of crayons. She likes to collect rocks. Even her name is strange-Velvet! But as the school year unfolds, the things Velvet does and the things that Velvet...
| Author | John Ciardi |
| ISBN | 0064460606 |
Published to acclaim in the first years of the 60s, Ciardi’s clever verse suffers about half the time from that winking eye that some adults sport when talking to kids while only paying half attention to their first audience because the other half is reserved for the grown-ups. Some of the poems reflect...
| Author | Alex T. Smith |
| ISBN | 0823423301 |
As an adult I really enjoyed reading this book, so this is definitely something I would read to my students. I thought this would be a predictable story, however, I did not accurately guess the ending myself. This is a fun story that tells of a fox, named Foxy DuBois, who invites an egg over for dinner. The...
| Author | D.B. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0618132015 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
Thoreau for the kiddie set? Definitely. Author and illustrator D. B. Johnson revives the 19th-century writer's desire to live a simple life with this brilliant picture book starring one determined bear. Henry the bear wants to build a cabin in the woods. As he gathers...
| Author | Lynn Downey |
| ISBN | 0805077561 |
On a dark, dark night
On an old, old farm
In a rickety, crickety
Tumbledown barn,
Everyone slept peacefully-
But not the flea . . .
A delightfully silly barnyard tale-now in paperback
What happens when a flea gets a bad case of the sniffles? Utter pandemonium in...
| Author | Margaret Bloy Graham |
| ISBN | 0060220732 |
When Billy left his pet spider, Helen, at the Zoo, the animals suddenly became happy and contented. The lions snoozed all day long, the elephants enjoyed their baths, and the zebras ate their hay in peace -- all because Helen was spinning webs and catching flies.
But one day Helen's webs were...
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 0689712030 |
When you raise a child, or teach young children, there is bound to come a time when a beloved pet dies. Given that the life cycle of animals is short, it is often the first death a child will experience. This story is first person narrative of a young boy trying to comprehend and come to terms with the death...
| Author | Kate Banks |
| ISBN | 0374313210 |
A plucky stray cat takes a Grand Tour in Kate Banks' story of a family on a European vacation. As the family travels from one city to the next, the cat finds its own means--by bus, boat, train, truck, and bike--to tag along on the trip, visiting historic landmarks like Buckingham Palace...
Fly Guy and the Frankenfly
| Author | Tedd Arnold |
| ISBN | 0545493285 |
Buzz dreams about Frankenfly--but Fly Guy is a friend, not a monster!
In the latest installment of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Fly Guy series, Buzz and Fly Guy spend a day together playing some spooky games and doing arts and crafts projects. When Buzz goes to bed, Fly Guy stays awake and is...
| Author | Frann Preston-Gannon |
| ISBN | 1843652501 |
By author of the much-loved The Journey Home and Dinosaur Farm.
Everyone knows that once a lemur takes a fancy to you there is not much that can be done about it.
While being followed by lemurs, a boy tries hiding up a tree (without luck), disguising himself (without success) and even...
| Author | Caroline Stutson |
| ISBN | 1416940057 |
From two cats waltzing to twenty cats in a conga line, dancing felines take to the streets, the fire escapes, and the rooftops in this charming concept picture book that is part counting and part introduction to music, dance, and rhythm. The short rhyming text makes it a perfect read-aloud treat, and...
| Author | John Lithgow |
| ISBN | 1416958819 |
This book gets a mixed review. I wouldn't give the text more than 2 stars, and I can't imagine it would ever have been published if it hadn't been written by a celebrity. (It may be better, though, with music - I didn't listen to the attached CD - since, as a friend of mine once said, "You can say anything if you...
