Curious George Goes Fishing
9 best books like Curious George Goes Fishing (H.A. Rey): The Little House, Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, The Napping House, Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, Mercy Watson to the Rescue, Giraffes Can't Dance, The Dearly Beloved, Bunny's Noisy Book
| Author | Virginia Lee Burton |
| ISBN | 0395181569 |
Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad...
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
| Author | Esphyr Slobodkina |
| ISBN | 0064431436 |
Caps for Sale is a timeless classic beloved by millions...one of the most popular picture books ever published!
Children will delight in following the peddler’s efforts to outwit the monkeys and will ask to read it again and again. Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes...
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
| Author | Michael Rosen |
| ISBN | 0689853491 |
A Scathing Review of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, aka "The Children's Guide to Passive Suicide"
Before we go any further, a little context:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpzxz...
There are plenty of children's books about self destructive impulses. In The Cat in the...
| Author | Audrey Wood |
| ISBN | 0152026320 |
Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (1984) is close on its heels in the race for posterity: “And on that granny / there is a child / a dreaming child / on a snoring granny / on a cozy bed / in a napping house, / where everyone is sleeping.” Included...
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763623326 |
Mr. and Mrs. Watson's porcine wonder, Mercy, loves nothing more than a ride in the car. It takes a fair amount of nudging and bribing and a "You are such a good sport, darling" to get the portly pig out of the driver's seat, but once the convertible is on the road, Mercy loves the feel of the wind tickling her...
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763622702 |
To Mr. and Mrs. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig — she's a porcine wonder. And to the portly and good-natured Mercy, the Watsons are an excellent source of buttered toast, not to mention that buttery-toasty feeling she gets when she snuggles into bed with them. This is not, however, so good for the Watsons'...
| Author | Giles Andreae |
| ISBN | 0439287197 |
" We all can dance when we find music that we love." This is practically a life motto of mine. I feel dancing can fix the world. We should force our government to dance all the time and they would be better policy makers. Anyway.
I love Giraffes and I love dancing. So this was a match made in heaven....
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.
Charles is destined to succeed his...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
Margaret Wise Brown is a classic children's author best known for Runaway Bunny as well as Goodnight Moon. This title was published after her death and illustrated by Lisa McCune (which is reminiscent of Garth William's style).
The story line is limited to just following little bunny around...
