Chickens Aren't the Only Ones: A Book About Animals that Lay Eggs
10 best books like Chickens Aren't the Only Ones: A Book About Animals that Lay Eggs (Ruth Heller): One Tiny Turtle, Ol' Mama Squirrel, Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors, Red Knit Cap Girl, Humphrey the Lost Whale, Digging Up Dinosaurs, How Do Apples Grow?, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, Heads, Spinky Sulks
| Author | Nicola Davies |
| ISBN | 0763623113 |
"Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic doublepage pictures convey the astonishing facts about the loggerhead sea turtle. . . . A powerful nature story for a young audience." —BOOKLIST
Far, far out at sea lives one of the world's most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. For...
| Author | David Ezra Stein |
| ISBN | 0399256725 |
Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein’s lively tale is a fantastic read-aloud, and feisty Mama Squirrel will have fierce mamas everywhere applauding!
Ol’ Mama Squirrel has raised lots of babies, and she knows just how to protect them. Whenever trouble comes nosing around, she springs...
| Author | Roseanne Thong |
| ISBN | 0811831779 |
Discover shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and more as a little girl finds color in all sorts of everyday things. Many of the featured objects are Asian in origin, others universal: red is the dragon in the Chinese New Year parade, green is a bracelet made of jade, and yellow are the taxis she sees...
| Author | Naoko Stoop |
| ISBN | 0316129461 |
Red Knit Cap Girl is a little girl with a big dream -- to meet the Moon.
Red Knit Cap Girl lives with her animal friends in an enchanted forest. There is so much to see and do, but more than anything Red Knit Cap Girl wishes she could talk to the Moon. Join Red Knit Cap Girl and her forest friends on a journey...
| Author | Wendy Tokuda |
| ISBN | 0893463469 |
We got this for our 3 yr old's birthday party this summer and what an awesome book! All my kids love it, my preschoolers and my 5 yr old alike! A story about a lost whale named Humphrey who got stuck in the San Francisco Bay back in 1985, an event I hadn't heard anything about. (I had been ten yrs old at the time)...
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064450783 |
How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum?
Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils—bones and teeth and footprints that had turned...
| Author | Betsy Maestro |
| ISBN | 0064451178 |
As a mom, I love trying to pick out the perfect books to match my kids' interests. My four-year-old eats one to three apples each day, so I thought he might like this book.
The best part was when we learned how the blossom end of an apple still shows the remnants of its origins, and my son exclaimed,...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152661972 |
While I certainly do much enjoy the bright and expressive collage like illustrations (especially of the woodpeckers which just happen to also be my favourite birds), I personally think that it would have been better for Lois Ehlert to have either penned a non-fiction book about sugar maples (and woodpeckers)...
| Author | Matthew Van Fleet |
| ISBN | 1442403799 |
Heads is a fun interactive book that explores different types of animals. Van Fleet has found new ways to create the standard pull tab book. Because of it's fragile nature, this would be a great book for parents and younger children (1-4) to share together. As children get older (K-2), it will be an exciting...
| Author | William Steig |
| ISBN | 0374469903 |
It's easy to be injured by this world, even by those closest to oneself, and to feel the powerful pull to respond by withdrawing from the source of that pain. Spinky encounters exactly this in Spinky Sulks.
Spinky really is an especially sensitive boy who feels that he can't abide the slights...
| Author | Melvin A. Berger |
| ISBN | 0064451542 |
How are you feeling?
Most of the time you feel fine, but sometimes you get sick. Sometimes a germ catches up with you.
Germs are all around you, but they are too small for you to see. Many germs are harmless, but two kinds, viruses and bacteria, can make you sick. Read and find out about germs,...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0545046513 |
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins presents a fascinating look at the bones of the human body as compared to the bones of animals, and shows them off!
This book is far from skinny -- it's the definitive nonfiction title about human and animal bones, delivered with in-your-face accuracy and intrigue....
| Author | Brenda Z. Guiberson |
| ISBN | 0805029605 |
Brenda Z. Guiberson’s The Cactus Hotel explores the life of a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert. Megan Lloyd’s illustrations show the various types of animals that create the multiple ecosystems surrounding a saguaro throughout its lifetime. The realistic fiction picture book begins with...
| Author | Wendy Pfeffer |
| ISBN | 0064451992 |
Getting my Concept and Informational required reading out the way and yup learned a lot about worms through this book that goes through about 33 pages of little known creatures I only think about after it rains and they show up on sidewalks…This book taught me that in a garden and in the ground worms are...
| Author | Steve Voake |
| ISBN | 0763644471 |
Young readers will definitely catch the bug when they see this enticing, fact-filled invitation to explore the world of insects.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Right now, all around us, thousands of insects are doing strange and wonderful things: wasps are building nests, ants...
This Is the Way We Go to School: A Book About Children Around the World
| Author | Edith Baer |
| ISBN | 0590431625 |
Although I was intrigued with the idea and the chance to learn about some other ways of getting to school I am not sure if this book hit the mark for me. There were some pages that mentioned the cities or places where the children were while others just mentioned how they got to school while the educated reader...
| Author | Will Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0807566667 |
A boy carves a pumpkin that becomes a friend. Well, it starts to smell bad and the boy has to set it out in the garden where he watches it decompose. Seasons change and when the snow melts, not much is left of the pumpkin. He does notice a new green shoot and he knows it’s a new pumpkin vine. He nourishes this...
| Author | Peter Spier |
| ISBN | 0440413478 |
This wordless picture book captures the beauty and wonder of a brother and sister's joyous experiences in the rain. Come along as they explore their neighborhood, splash through puddles, see where the animals hide, and make footprints in the mud. From the first small drops of rain to the clear blue sky...
| Author | Gail Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0823410250 |
Flowers, trees, fruits--plants are all around us, but where do they come from?
With simple language and bright illustrations, non-fiction master Gail Gibbons introduces young readers to the processes of pollination, seed formation, and germination. Important vocabulary is reinforced...
If You Hopped Like A Frog
| Author | David M. Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0590098578 |
This book offers a fascinating look at the wonders of science and the amazing feats of strength, agility, endurance and speed that can be found throughout nature. Even our own ability to grow when we are a fetus is depicted as the marvel it truly is.
The narrative is informative, but entertaining...
