Chester
10 best books like Chester (Syd Hoff): Winesburg, Ohio, Harry the Dirty Dog, The Watermelon Seed, Days with Frog and Toad, Buzz Said the Bee, Kipper, The Fire Cat, Count the Monkeys, Small Pig, A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0192839772 |
zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not necessarily...
| Author | Gene Zion |
| ISBN | 0060268654 |
Gene Zion cunningly disguised one of the great existential questions of our age in this Dirty Harry book.
Do you feel lucky?
This is a book about identity:
Am I white (with black spots)
or black (with white spots)
About change and transition:
Do...
| Author | Greg Pizzoli |
| ISBN | 1423171012 |
With perfect comic pacing, Greg Pizzoli introduces us to one funny crocodile who has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. What will he do when his greatest fear is realized? Will vines sprout out his ears? Will his skin turn pink? This crocodile has a wild imagination that kids will love.
With...
| Author | Arnold Lobel |
| ISBN | 0064440583 |
Frog and Toad enjoy spending their days together. They fly kites, celebrate Toad's birthday, and share the shivers when Frog tells a scary story. Most of all, they have fun together—every day of the year.
Days with Frog and Toad is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their...
| Author | Wendy Cheyette Lewison |
With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic's Hello Reader series caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight vocabulary. The books at this level offer punch-out flash cards plus six additional...
| Author | Mick Inkpen |
| ISBN | 0340565640 |
As The Guardian so rightly points out ‘The charmingly comical Inkpen, as always, hits the spot’. The first from the collection of Kipper books, it describes Kipper’s struggle to get comfortable in his doggy basket. He tries a number of amusing options such as a gardening pot, only to find it incredibly...
| Author | Esther Averill |
| ISBN | 0064440389 |
Pickles the fire cat to the rescue!
Pickles is a young cat with big paws who wishes to do big things with them! When he's adopted by the local firehouse, Pickles works hard to be a good fire cat. He learns to jump on a fire truck. He learns to help put out a fire, and he even helps out in a rescue.
Beginning...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1423160657 |
I CAN'T FRIGGIN' WAIT TO READ THIS AT STORYTIME! Kids three and up will absolutely fall in love with this book. Audience participation abounds in another winner (and new classic) from Mac Barnett. I know that every child I read this to will make me count every single one of the monkeys on the final endpapers...
| Author | Arnold Lobel |
| ISBN | 0060239328 |
Small Pig is about a pig who is small. He loves nothing more than to sink down in good, soft mud. But when the farmer's wife cleans up his mud puddle, the pig must go out into the world to find a place that is messy enough for him. Will he find his mud? What will the farmer and his wife do when they find that he's gone?
Small...
A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea
| Author | Michael Ian Black |
| ISBN | 1416979220 |
A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea is brilliant.
1. The art is funny.
2. It suggests that you say "pig parade," which is fun to say.
3. The arguments presented in it are rhetorically sound. (I want to use this book with my writing students.)
4. It has marching band-like things in it.
5....
| Author | Patricia Lee Gauch |
| ISBN | 0698116763 |
This was my all time, number one, absolute favorite book when I was a child. It's one of those things that has survived my many moves, and not on accident.
The illustrations are simple but absolutely beautiful and perfectly fitting with the theme of imagination. They're almost deceptively...
| Author | Owain Bell |
| ISBN | 0679843655 |
My love of reading started when i was young, and it gives me immense pleasure to provide books to Spread the Word Nevada, an organization that passes them on to children in the community. They are a terrific organization supporting an important cause. If your local I encourage you to check them out....
| Author | Norman Bridwell |
| ISBN | 0590442961 |
While this may have taken me quite some time to finish, i find my review of this book will not. Simply put, the idea of a large, building sized dog having a role in the economy is ridiculous- How would they even collect taxes? He's a large dog, surely he cannot file tax returns? Nonetheless, the story is reminiscent...
| Author | Fabian Nicieza |
| ISBN | 0785131248 |
He's the Merc with a Mouth, the Assassin with Elan, the Wryest Wisecracker of the Weapon X Program, now in a collection of his earliest sagas Deadpool, with sidekick Weasel in tow, sets out on a quest for romance, money, and mayhem - not necessarily in that order - only to learn he's being hunted by an enemy...
| Author | Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| ISBN | 0062422502 |
The #1 New York Times bestseller that Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb calls “a beautiful, beautiful book.”
The New York Times bestselling author of
I Wish You More
, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and her daughter Paris Rosenthal collaborate to bring you the heartwarming and inspiring
Dear...
