Dandelion Cottage

10 best books like Dandelion Cottage (Carroll Watson Rankin): Betty Doll, The Happy Lion, Downright Dencey, The Story of a Bad Boy, Sue Barton, Visiting Nurse, Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus, Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, Happy Little Family, Betsy's Little Star, The Ark

Betty Doll
AuthorPatricia Polacco
Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll, she was there. Betty Doll saw her through happy and sad times, thunderstorms and parties, weddings and births. Now, when Mary Ellen’s daughter Trisha needs Betty Doll most, she rediscovers the sweet old doll, along with a letter written by her mother before...
The Happy Lion
AuthorLouise Fatio
ISBN0375827595
The lion at the little French zoo is a favorite of all the townspeople. Every day they stop by to feed him tidbits and say, “Bonjour, Happy Lion.” Naturally, when the lion finds his door open, he decides it would only be proper to visit all his friendly neighbors in return. But, wait—sacré bleu!...
AuthorCaroline Dale Snedeker
ISBN1883937795
This treasure of a novel, a Newbery Honor Book, is set on the island of Nantucket just before the War of 1812. Much more than a tale of whaling ships and gentle Quaker eccentricities, it is a tale of friendship-the kind most truly espoused by these 'plain' folk, with all the struggle and complexity one should...
AuthorThomas Bailey Aldrich
ISBN1406806641
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
Sue Barton, Visiting Nurse
AuthorHelen Dore Boylston
ISBN0451131592
A good piece of my enjoyment of this book is nostalgia, I know. (Along with a recognition of where I got writing habits, like the dash. All over early 1900s literature, British and American alike.) This is not a great work. But:There were only general impressions at first: the black line of tenement roofs...
AuthorJames Otis
ISBN0486293491
Cleanliness:

Children's Bad Words
Mild Obscenities & Substitutions - 1 Incident: stupid
Name Calling - 1 Incident: lazybones

Religious & Supernatural - None

Conversation Topics - 5 Incidents: A boy is ungrateful and decides to runaway from home and...
AuthorLinda Crew
ISBN0064472175
In our defense, I can say only that nothing seemed so terribly strange in the beginning...

When, in 1903, the fiery preacher Joshua arrives in sleepy Corvallis, Oregon, Eva Mae -- and the whole town -- is never the same again.

Joshua is wonderful. He's charismatic. Insisting on simplicity,...
AuthorRebecca Caudill
ISBN1883937728
It is a good thing that mothers understand what no one else seems to when you are the youngest child in the family, and are finally four years old. Bonnie is more than ready to join her older sisters and brother in the many adventures she sees come their way, whether it be sliding along the ice, searching for...
AuthorCarolyn Haywood
ISBN0440401720
More than anything, Star wants to go to school - but she's not old enough. Every morning she watches her big sister Betsy, and all her friends, walk to school, and wishes she could go with them. But Star can't stay sad. She's too busy having adventures! One day she does go to school - in a milk truck! On Halloween,...
AuthorMargot Benary-Isbert
ISBN0152039015
This is one of my favorite books of all time! I love the rich descriptions, whether of the natural beauty of the countryside or of the little rooms the refugee family stays in after the war, and the characters are so well-portrayed that I feel I truly know them and have grown to love them so much. This is a story...
AuthorRuth Plumly Thompson
ISBN0345337069
Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy...
AuthorEllis Parker Butler
ISBN1410103226
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats...
AuthorRobert McCloskey
Centerburg might be your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative citizen, unbusinesslike Uncle Ulysses and his friendly lunchroom, the flustered sheriff, the pompous judge—they are all as American as they come. But there's a subtle and delightful...
AuthorLenora Mattingly Weber
ISBN0425014584
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When...
AuthorJoan Wehlen Morrison
ISBN1613744579
This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily life growing up in the city and ruminates about the impending war,...
Ginnie and Geneva
AuthorCatherine Woolley
Reread for the umpteenth time, because I'm wretchedly ill and in need of a comfort read. This is the coziest book, filled with hikes in the snowy woods, fudge-making, cats, sweet gingham dresses, mothers who greet you after school with fresh chocolate cake, and skating parties. I wish Catherine Woolley's...
AuthorMrs. O.F. Walton
ISBN1584740035
Behind many smiling faces there hides a hurting heart, and for what may appear to be glamorous, there is usually a high price to pay. Mrs. Walton gives us a glimpse into the life of a disillusioned young actress. In her fabricated world of glamour and glitz, Rosalie finds solace in the words of a gentle old...
The Rose and the Ring
AuthorWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
Between the kingdoms of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, there lived a mysterious personage, who was known in those countries as the Fairy Blackstick, from the ebony wand or crutch which she carried; on which she rode to the moon sometimes, or upon other excursions of business or pleasure, and with which...
Blue Lonesome
AuthorBill Pronzini
ISBN0802732682
1995, Jim Messenger, CPA, San Francisco, and Beulah, NV; amateur sleuth as PI. Mild-mannered number cruncher gets a life, as he tracks down the history of an elusive acquaintance. His search leads him to a small town with loads of secrets, lots of men with muscles and bad tempers, and A Strong Woman.

What...
The Romance of a Christmas Card
AuthorKate Douglas Wiggin
ISBN1606647571
-My door is on the latch tonight, The hearth fire is aglow. I seem to hear swift passing feet -- The Christ Child in the snow.- Reba, the minister's new wife, was spirited, vigorous, courageous, and clever. She was also invincibly, incurably happy -- so that the minister seemed to grow younger every year....
The Year the Lights Came on
AuthorTerry Kay
ISBN0820311286
First published in 1976, The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international following,...
Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
AuthorZoe Weil
ISBN1582702063
With a world steeped in materialism, environmental destruction, and injustice, what can one individual possibly do to change it? While the present obstacles we face may seem overwhelming, author and humane educator Zoe Weil shows us that change doesn't have to start with an army. It starts with you....
Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened By the Moon
AuthorLeonard S. Marcus
ISBN0688171885
Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon and dozens of other children's classics, all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she knew of a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in the worldand...
Wishing for Tomorrow: The Sequel to A Little Princess
AuthorHilary McKay
ISBN0340956534
Hilary McKay revisits Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies after the events of A Little Princess and Sara Crewe's happily ever after. But Sara is much missed - and most acutely by best friend Ermengarde, who laments that 'nothing is the same as it was before'. But life must go on at Miss Minchin's...
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