Catkin
10 best books like Catkin (Antonia Barber): April's Kittens, Gwinna, The Christmas Wish, Moss Gown, The Bee-Man of Orn, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, The Water Of Life: A Tale From The Brothers Grimm, The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale, The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur, Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
| Author | Clare Turlay Newberry |
| ISBN | 0060244003 |
Since it was first published over fifty years ago, April's Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition. Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strickly...
| Author | Barbara Helen Berger |
A stunning book that has stayed with me ever since my 5th/6th grade teacher read it aloud to us. The story was so moving to me as a child, and after briefly forgetting about it as an adult, I suddenly had something tickle my memory and then became absolutely determined to find it to share with my then 5 year...
| Author | Lori Evert |
| ISBN | 0449816818 |
In the tradition of The Snowman, The Polar Express, and the many books of Jan Brett this cozy Nordic tale filled with extraordinary photographs will have readers of all ages believing in the magic of Christmas. This is one to pull out every year and savor.
Long ago, a brave little girl named...
| Author | William H. Hooks |
| ISBN | 0395547938 |
As noted on the dust-jacket blurb, elements of
King Lear
and
Cinderella
meet in this Southern folktale, which was told to William H. Hooks as a child in North Carolina. When Candace's elderly and infirm father asks each of his daughters to describe how she loves him, her answer - that she loves him...
| Author | Frank R. Stockton |
| ISBN | 0763622397 |
Written at the turn of the 20th century, The Bee-Man of Orn shurgs off the didactic noose which threatened a lot of children's literature at the time and, instead, seems to honour the themes and ideas prevalent in the earlier traditional tales in which it feels like it has been based. Here we encounter...
| Author | Marianna Mayer |
| ISBN | 0688085008 |
Sweet, lovely Vasilisa lives with her jealous stepmother and stepsisters on the edge of a dark forest inhabited by the evil witch Baba Yaga. One night the stepmother sends Vasilisa to visit Baba Yaga, an errand from which the gentle girl has little chance of returning alive. "An engaging text and accomplished...
| Author | Jacob Grimm |
| ISBN | 0823409074 |
Now, I have read many stories from the Brothers Grimm and I had enjoyed every single one of them! So, imagine my surprise when I finally came upon one of the Brothers Grimm’s stories being put into a singular children’s book called “The Water of Life” retold by Barbara Rogasky along with...
| Author | Jacqueline K. Ogburn |
| ISBN | 0803726511 |
Love and honor can overcome even the fiercest obstacles, as we see in this spellbinding fairy tale, with shades of "Beauty and the Beast." To save her father, a young woman must go to the castle of a menacing lion. She fears for her life, but finds kindness rather than danger there, for the lion by day is a...
Well, I have modern sensibilities and could never get into Arthurian lore. But I loved Saint George and the Dragon by this team, and so I had to try this. Very glad I did. Not dumbed-down for kids, not updated for feminists, it is what it is. And it does set up the scene, tone, atmosphere, values... well enough...
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
| Author | Eleanor Farjeon |
| ISBN | 0763601330 |
Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. By the time she’s seven, the tireless girl can even outskip the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it many years later to save the children’s fabled skipping grounds from a greedy, factory-building lord? Charlotte Voake’s...
| Author | Barbara Rogasky |
| ISBN | 0823404544 |
Okay, so I really liked how this retold the semi-original tale. But unfortunately, Rapunzel as a story kind of creeps me out and I don't think Rogasky did much retelling as just editing the original. I didn't care more about characters. That's what I really look for in these sorts of books. HOWEVER, the...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399245391 |
Virginia Vincent Folsum, better known as Ginger, is a very elegant lady. An accomplished pianist, socially active - and what style! "You are what you wear" is her motto. But Ginger's greatest passion is her pet pig, Petunia, whom she pampers endlessly. When Ginger is called out of town for a performance,...
This exquisitely illustrated, large format gift book features ten of the most enduring fairy tales of all time. The stories, chosen and edited by the artist, are a balance of 'princess' classics and frolicking adventure tales.
Artist Scott Gustafson spent more than four years creating the...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0763607177 |
This delightful "modern" fairy tale describes the trials of a royal family beset with too many traditions from "historical" fairy tales. Borrowing themes from Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Melisande is a tale of traditional fairytale and mathematical logic. Unexpected things happen to characters...
| Author | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| ISBN | 0763627305 |
A dejected soldier makes a pact with the devil in this haunting, ultimately hopeful fairy tale, masterfully retold and vividly illustrated.
Man or bear? When a person gives up hope, is he still human? Such is the story of a soldier who has lost everything to war: his childhood home, his family...
| Author | Eileen Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0761452230 |
Five tiny kittens cry for their mama, as smoke begins to fill the abandoned warehouse that has been their home. But Mother Cat has left her cozy heap of kittens to go in search of food. Determined to save her babies, Mother Cat dashes into the burning building and follows the sounds of frightened mewing....
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0899197027 |
Cute if not exactly inspired. I expected more from Bunting and Brett but this is still a nice Mother's Day read. Three mice go off to find the best present they can find for mom. The littlest one is even willing to brave venturing up to the house with the scary cat just so he can pick mother some honeysuckle....
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670851124 |
A charming tale of a snobby cat running off to live a life of luxury, eventually realizing that she didn’t have it so bad back home after all.
Level: 4.2
Genre: Picture Book. Large illustrations adorn every page, with smaller illustrations occasionally intermingled within the...
| Author | Ruth Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0967290201 |
Three princes go on a quest to the Heart of the World to save their drought-ravaged kingdom.
The Enchanted Wood is an original fairytale written and illustrated by Ruth Sanderson. It was originally published in 1991 by Little, Brown and Co. and won the Irma s. Black Award and the Young Hoosier...
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0763600946 |
In an inspiring pairing, Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch create an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience.
Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America,...
| Author | Arnold Lobel |
| ISBN | 0688122655 |
This is a beautifully done book that follows along to the tune of "This Is the House That Jack Built" although focusing on the subject matter of an unknown gardener's flowers. As such the reader is taken on a journey where slowly the perceived garden is seen one added flower species at a time even as garden...
The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend
| Author | Marie Heaney |
| ISBN | 0590680528 |
I picked up this book for P.J. Lynch's beautiful illustrations, but I enjoyed these Irish tales as well. Most of them were familiar to me. "Deirdre of the Sorrows" is still my all-time favorite Irish folktale. I had fun trying to guess the pronunciations of the Irish names. Thankfully, there was a pronunciation...
