Dorrie and the Blue Witch
10 best books like Dorrie and the Blue Witch (Patricia Coombs): Changeling, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race, Angelina Ballerina, Tweak Tweak, Meet Molly: An American Girl, The Best Halloween Ever, I'm a Frog!, The Little Brute Family, Unicorns 101, Megabat
| Author | William Ritter |
| ISBN | 1616208392 |
Magic is fading from the Wild Wood. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind—a newborn changeling. But when the fateful night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. After laying the changeling in a human infant’s...
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
| Author | Lara Prior-Palmer |
| ISBN | 1948226197 |
For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who traveled to Mongolia to compete in the world’s longest, toughest horse race, and emerged as its youngest and first-ever female winner.
At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered...
| Author | Katharine Holabird |
| ISBN | 0670060267 |
Originally published in 1983, and then presented in this 25th Anniversary Edition in 2008, this first story about that dancing mouse, Angelina Ballerina, is immensely charming. Always dancing, always moving, Angelina is the despair of her mother, as she causes destruction wherever she goes with...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0618998519 |
Little Elephant and Mama Elephant are going for a walk. “Hold on to my tail,” says Mama. “If you want to ask me a question, tweak twice.” Tweak, tweak! “Mama, what is that?” Little Elephant is curious about the frog, the monkey, the songbird, the butterfly, and the crocodile—and especially...
Meet Molly: An American Girl
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295817 |
I used to love these books when I was a kid. Felicity was my particular favorite, though, with Molly ranking somewhere behind Samantha and Addy, and possibly also behind Kirsten. Sorry, Molly. But at any rate, I think I can safely point to the American Girls series as being the catalyst for my lifelong...
| Author | Barbara Robinson |
| ISBN | 0060766018 |
The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disasterEvery Halloween, the six Herdman kids steal candy, spray-paint other kids, and take everything that isn't nailed down. And this year promises to be the same, until the Mayor decides to up and cancel Halloween. True, that means there'd be no Herdman...
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423183053 |
Neo took us on a little adventure, alongside Gerald and Piggie, into the life of imagination. When Piggie declares that she is a frog, Gerald is both baffled and a little annoyed. No matter how loudly Piggie ‘ribbits’, Gerald will not accept that his friend is a frog. However, Piggie explains the...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 0374444838 |
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes, when Baby Brute happens upon "a little wandering lost good feeling in a field of daisies." When he brings...
| Author | Cale Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1984830376 |
Canadian picture-book author and artist Cale Atkinson, creator of such winsome titles as
Where Oliver Fits
and
Sir Simon: Super Scarer
, returns to the form in this tongue-in-cheek guide to all things unicorn. Guided by Professors Glitter Pants, Sprinkle Steed, Star Hoof and Sugar Beard, the...
| Author | Anna Humphrey |
| ISBN | 0735262578 |
A sweet and hilarious chapter book about a boy and a bat, two unlikely friends who bond over loneliness, jellyrolls and Darth Vader.
Daniel Misumi has just moved to a new house. It’s big and old and far away from his friends and his life before. AND it’s haunted… or is it?
Megabat...
