Da Wild, Da Crazy, Da Vinci

10 best books like Da Wild, Da Crazy, Da Vinci (Jon Scieszka): Turkey Trouble on the National Mall, Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott, The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, Leonardo and the Flying Boy, Zoo In The Sky: A Book of Animal Constellations, The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond, How Do You Lift a Lion?, Leonardo Da Vinci, How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning, The Little Duke

Turkey Trouble on the National Mall

Author	Ron Roy
ISBN	0307932206

Every year, the president pardons one turkey for Thanksgiving. One. But KC and her best friend, Marshall, think one isn't enough! This year, they want to gather lots of turkeys to be spared. The night before the holiday, the turkeys are in a big flock on the National Mall waiting to be set free. The next...

Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott

Author	Yona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN	0805081925

When Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was published in 1868 it was an instant success. Louisa drew on her experiences in writing the novel, but there's a lot more to her rags-to-riches story. Louisa came from a family that was poor but freethinking, and she started teaching when she was only seventeen...

The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island

Author	Laurence Yep
ISBN	0060276924

Did you want to go to America?
Pop: Sure. I didn't have a choice. My father said I had to go. So I went.

Were you sad when you left your village?
Pop: Maybe a little . . . well, maybe a lot.

Ten-year-old Gim Lew Yep knows that he must leave his home in China and travel to America with the...

Leonardo and the Flying Boy

Author	Laurence Anholt
ISBN	0764152254

There were no spaceships or airplanes when Zoro was a boy. He lived in Italy during the era we now call the Renaissance, a time when the sky belonged to the birds. But one unusual man dreamed of incredible flying machines. "One day, Zoro," he told his pupil, "people will sail through the clouds and look down...

Zoo In The Sky: A Book of Animal Constellations

Author

Jacqueline Mitton

1.Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award Parent Council Award

2.Pre-kindergarten -4th Grade

3. This illuminating book will capture the interest of children as the narrative explores the glittering constellations. Reminding children to look up at the starry night sky this...

The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond

Author	Patrick Dillon
ISBN	0763669903

Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.

We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start...

How Do You Lift a Lion?

Author	Robert E. Wells
ISBN	0807534218

Publishers of nonfiction for children please note: a lot more people would read nonfiction if it was. . . better! Take a look at this book, that manages to convey complex ideas about simple machines in a highly imaginative way, but does not talk down to the reader. For sure the dense language and concepts...

Leonardo Da Vinci

Author

Kathleen Krull

For thirty years, the whole last half of his life, Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with unlocking the secrets of nature. His notebooks are the mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientist standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. Scrupulously...

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

Author	Rosalyn Schanzer
ISBN	0688169937

Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky.

Is...

The Little Duke

Author	Charlotte Mary Yonge
ISBN	1406955302

On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small,...

Marguerite Makes a Book

Author

Bruce Robertson

Now in many ways Bruce Robertson's Marguerite Makes a Book does a truly wonderful job with both meticulous detail and engagement showing and demonstrating how a hand-painted (illuminated) Mediaeval book is (or more to the point how such a tome generally was) created, was made (and indeed also why these...

The Year of the Fortune Cookie

Author	Andrea Cheng
ISBN	0544105192

Eleven-year-old Anna heads off to sixth grade, leaving the comfort and familiarity of elementary school behind and entering the larger, more complex world of middle school. Surrounded by classmates who have their roots all in America, Anna begins to feel out of place and wonders where she really belongs. ...

Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic

Author	Robert Burleigh
ISBN	1416967338

“Hearts will be racing.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A work to inspire further learning.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Vivid.” —The Horn Book

A picture book biography of the first woman in flight—Amelia Earhart—by NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winner...

National Geographic Kids Weird but True! 6: 300 Outrageous Facts

Author	National Geographic Kids
ISBN	1426314906

I really like learning new things from a "children's book!"

This was a very entertaining, and lavishly illustrated, book of trivia!

Please enjoy these little trivia gems!

A. "Some dogs are allergic to cats!

B. Borborygmus is the word, for the rumbling sound in your...

Invisible Inkling

Author	Emily Jenkins
ISBN	0061802204

The thing about Hank's new friend Inkling is, he's invisible.

No, not imaginary. Inkling is an invisible bandapat, a creature native only to the Peruvian Woods of Mystery. (Or maybe it is the Ukrainian glaciers. Inkling hardly ever gets his stories straight.)

Now Inkling has found...

The Truth about Poop

Author	Susan E. Goodman
ISBN	0670036749

Did you know that sharks produce spiral poop? That the average Japanese woman uses 2 1/2 miles of toilet paper a year? That when wolverines are done feeding on a dead animal, they save the rest for later by defecating all over it? Those gross and fascinating facts can be found in The Truth about Poop, an informative...

Ick! Yuck! Eew!: Our Gross American History

Author

Lois Miner Huey

Kids study US history, but do they know what life long ago was really like? The past was full of yuckiness. The sounds, smells, filth, bugs, rats, poor hygiene, lack of dental and medical care, and bad food are not portrayed at today's historic sites, in movies, or in most books about US history. Yet this...

The Mask of Maliban

Author

Tony Abbott

Hob, the magic mask maker, escapes from prison and is up to no good. To stop him, Eric, Julie, and Neal must travel to the city of Tortu, where Hob has sought refuge and is crafting a new mask for Prince Maliban. The mask will give Maliban power over all of Droon. It sounds like one of evil Lord Sparr's schemes,...

Return to Ithaca

Author	Mary Pope Osborne
ISBN	0786809930

After struggling against the gods and his fate for more than twenty years, Odysseus has returned to Ithaca at last. But things have changed: what used to be his island has been overrun by suitors who clamor for his wife's hand in marriage and plague his son, Telemachus. With the help of the gray-eyed goddess,...

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone

Author	Cindy Neuschwander
ISBN	1570916012

The character names alone- "sir cumference" "lady di ameter" and their son "radius" are HILARIOUS! This truly is an adventure in math and other elementary school children will love this! It makes math fun to read a story to figure out something like this, with three dimensional shapes and formulas....

The Rock 'n' Roll Mystery

Author	Gertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN	0807570907

Another mystery to be solved by the Boxcar Children! This time the Greenfield 4`s instruments are missing, and they can`t possibly play for the big record company shot that they are getting. Working to get the whole music festival together, Jessie, Henry, Benny, and Violet find the time in the one day...