Clara and Asha
10 best books like Clara and Asha (Eric Rohmann): In a Blue Room, Sea of Dreams, Melvin and the Boy, Tell Me the Day Backwards, Oh, No!, Baghead, Ping Pong Pig, Moonpowder, Enigma: A Magical Mystery, Stick
Alice is wide, wide awake. Mama brings flowers, tea, a quilt, even lullaby bells to help her sleep. But none of these things are blue, and Alice can sleep only in a blue room. Yet when the light goes out, a bit of magic is stirred up. Pale blue moonlight swirls into her bedroom window. Then the night swirls...
| Author | Dennis Nolan |
| ISBN | 1596434708 |
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A girl visiting the shore decides to build a magnificent sand castle. As she leaves to head home for the day, the sand castle sits alone, unprotected by the waves. The adventure that takes place once the castle...
| Author | Lauren Castillo |
| ISBN | 0805089292 |
When a little boy sees a turtle basking in the sun at the park, he thinks he's found the perfect pet. But when they get home, the boy soon discovers that the only time the turtle comes out of his shell is at bath time. Is it possible that the turtle would be happiest back in the pond? After all, it's always bath...
| Author | Albert Lamb |
| ISBN | 0763650552 |
In this delightful bedtime story, a young bear tells his mama all about his exciting day — in reverse — inspiring little listeners to do the same.
Just before going to bed, Timmy Bear and his mama play a game they call Tell Me the Day Backwards. Timmy tries to remember everything that happened...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375945571 |
This is definitely a picture book more suited for very young children, as the story is very simple and the language is sing-songy, with many repetitive phrases and rhymes and very few surprises. I think it'd be a nice book to read aloud for story time, complete with prompts for high-pitched sound effects...
| Author | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| ISBN | 0553111728 |
From the author of Good Night, Monkey Boy, the hilarious tale of a haircut gone awry!
One day Josh had a big, brown bag idea: to wear a paper bag over his head. He thought it was a good idea. His mother did not. Neither did his bus driver, his teacher, or his soccer coach. What could Josh possibly be...
| Author | Caroline Jayne Church |
All of the animals at Apple Tree Farm are busy doing their daily chores . . . except Ping Pong Pig. He’s busy jumping and leaping, trying to fly. And all his jumping around is creating havoc. The other animals decide that they must do something and they call a meeting. They spend a long time in the barn and...
| Author | John Rocco |
| ISBN | 1423100115 |
Young Eli Trebuckle is the "fixer of all things fixable." He fixes the vacuum cleaner, the fan, and even the radio, hoping to catch some news of his father who is away at war. But there's one thing that Eli simply can't fix-his bad dreams. It's the same one over and over again: a mountain of junk, a prize...
Bertie the Badger's Grandpa is a retired conjurer living in a retirement home for magicians and the like. One day Bertie comes to visit and see the magic show only to find that the residents have had their magic things stolen. Bertie's on the case, and goes to speak to each of them. Who stole the special magic...
| Author | Steve Breen |
| ISBN | 0803731248 |
Stick is a frog who likes to do things on his own—with no help from Mom. But one day he gets carried away . . . literally. His tongue accidentally sticks to a dragonfly when he tries to catch a mosquito, and off he’s pulled across the swamp, through town, and into the big city of New Orleans, causing some...
| Author | Taeeun Yoo |
| ISBN | 0803731450 |
A little boy enters a library with his grandfather and his little red fish at his side. But when he awakes after falling asleep amidst the library shelves, his fish is missing. Could his little friend have disappeared into that red book over there on the shelf? Join us in celebrating this stunning debut...
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 1416963944 |
From the minds of Scieszka and Shannon comes a tale of a quixotic robot determined to conquer the earth. The only problem is that the earth he lands on is a suburban kitchen and he is three inches tall. Robot Zot, the fearless and unstoppable warrior, leaves a trail of destruction as he encounters blenders,...
I picked this one up in 2008 and have been meaning to read it again for a while now. It's an amazing picture book, very mature in subject matter, a book that you'll need to revisit again and again and ponder endlessly. It's also the type of book I would have absolutely loved as a small child (I love it now, too,...
| Author | Leo Lionni |
| ISBN | 0394817494 |
As a child, the German version of Leo Lionni's Tico and the Golden Wings (Tico und die goldenen Flügel) was a personal favourite which I repeatedly requested as a read-aloud (I have always loved birds and how Tico attains his golden wings and how he then disposes of them in a charitable manner and is again...
It's Gone! It's nowhere! I can't find it anywhere! Where-is-my book? I need my book! A catlike creature finds his book missing from his comfy bed. His active imagination takes over: "Maybe a bear ate it!" "A stegosaurus stomped on it", "A rhino ran away with it", "A bat flew up high in the sky with it", "A...
| Author | Janet Stevens |
| ISBN | 0152022988 |
Every night the rhyme gets read. Every night Dish and Spoon run away. And every night they return--until tonight!
Where can Dish and Spoon be? The rhyme can't go on without them, so Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to search for their missing friends. But where to start? Should they go north? East? Northeast?...
| Author | Holly Keller |
| ISBN | 0064438724 |
This book is really precious, but I'm biased toward it . . .
When my husband proposed to me, he wrote his marriage proposal in the back of a copy of Farfallina and Marcel that he presented to me. (It was a time of great change for us because he was moving about 3 hours away and I didn't know what was going...
| Author | Komako Sakai |
| ISBN | 0811852199 |
One day, Emily gets a balloon. By the end of the afternoon, the balloon is no longer just a plaything. Emily and the balloon are friends. But when the balloon blows away, what will Emily do? The beautifully evocative illustrations and the timeless innocence of the story make this deceptively simple book...
| Author | Il Sung Na |
| ISBN | 0375961062 |
One day, he found the thingamabob.
He had no idea what it was or where it came from. . . .
So begins the story of a curious elephant and a mysterious red object. But what is it?! When none of his friends can tell him, the little elephant decides to experiment. He thinks: Maybe I can fly with...
| Author | Jon Agee |
| ISBN | 0786809027 |
”TA-DA!”
Milo the Magician is in search of a rabbit for a new trick to wow audiences. But Milo didn’t find a rabbit. He found a bear instead! Magic holds all kinds of secrets. Come see what kind of trick Milo learned from a bear, who learned it from a rabbit.
Mr. Agee knows how...
| Author | Natalie Russell |
| ISBN | 0670011703 |
Could there be someone out there?
Another little rabbit just like her? That is what Little Rabbit wonders one moonlit night. She loves living in the city. She has a wonderful home. Her favorite café. A park to play in. But sometimes she is just a little . . . lonely. And then one night, as the moon shines...
| Author | Barbara Lehman |
| ISBN | 0618581251 |
I like this wordless picture book tale of a class visit to an art museum, where a boy gets separated from his class and enters a room where there are drawings of mazes. (The art museum itself seems a kind of maze, too.) He enters some of these mazes and successfully traverses them and wins a medal, (for some...
| Author | Margie Palatini |
| ISBN | 0060001054 |
Booklist (September 1, 2004 (Vol. 101, No. 1))
PreS-Gr. 2. Palatini's tale of a cow suffering from an identity crisis is sheer entertainment from cover to cover. When Hilda the Heifer gets bonked on the noggin by a flying cow pie, she develops an ugly bump and amnesia. The ensuing story...
Meet Jumpy Jack, a very nervous snail who's afraid of monsters, and Googily, who is a--well, who is a very good friend, indeed. Wherever they go, Googily kindly checks high and low just to make sure there are no scary monsters about. But as every child knows, monsters come in many shapes and sizes. Some...
