Dogs Don't Do Ballet
9 best books like Dogs Don't Do Ballet (Anna Kemp): The Great Paper Caper, The Day War Came, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, The Heart and the Bottle, Cyril and Pat, Town Is by the Sea, There's a Lion in My Cornflakes, Just Because, Rules of Summer
| Author | Oliver Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0007182295 |
The wonderful Oliver Jeffers, illustrator of such books as
The Day the Crayons Quit
, and author/illustrator of titles like
How to Catch a Star
, creates an entertaining picture-book mystery and ecological fable in The Great Paper Caper. As the residents of the forest notice that branches have...
| Author | Nicola Davies |
| ISBN | 1536201731 |
A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee.
The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep.
Imagine if,...
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
SO Sweet! A father’s story explaining his world when his child is 2 months old.
I love this book. It does the macrocosm all the way to the day to day, not quite microcosm. It is powerful to show how small this little planet is in all that space and then when you see all the diversity and wonders on...
| Author | Oliver Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0399254528 |
A picture book about grief. A little girl likes to read with her grandfather as he sits in his rocking chair, and then one day she faces an empty chair. Yes, it's that subtle, the chair is just empty, no explanation, really. Her grandpa is gone, and since she feels like she can't risk too much strain on her...
| Author | Emily Gravett |
| ISBN | 1509857273 |
Cyril is the only squirrel in Lake Park, and he's very lonely. Until one day he meets Pat – Pat the big, grey . . . other squirrel. Cyril and Pat have lots of adventures and fun together and Cyril is so pleased he's made a friend. But everyone is adamant that Cyril and Pat simply cannot be friends, and they...
| Author | Joanne Schwartz |
| ISBN | 1554988713 |
A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator...
There's a Lion in My Cornflakes
| Author | Michelle Robinson |
| ISBN | 1408845601 |
Have you ever collected coupons from a cereal box? Maybe you were saving them up for a book or a toy. Well, when Dan and his brother decide to collect 100 coupons so that they can have their very own lion, they assume the task will be easy enough. How wrong can you be?! A wildly wacky story where anything can...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0763696803 |
This book is full of imagination! When my youngest daughter and I started reading it, I wasn't sure about it because as the child in the story asks questions, her father gives her absurd answers in return. But then we were laughing...and then we were talking...and then we were reading it all over again....
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 1444908898 |
I believe it is more difficult to describe a Shaun Tan book than it is to feel a Shaun Tan book. They are a mood conveyed through otherworldly pictures and contrasting ideas. This Shaun Tan book is a book for children.
I boy describes the rules he learns over a summer with his brother. The artwork...
