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10 best books like Dreams (Ezra Jack Keats): I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery, One Tiny Turtle, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, The Missing Mitten Mystery, Charlie Needs a Cloak, Something Beautiful, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, Mr. Lincoln's Way, On the Farm, Oh, Were They Ever Happy!

I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
AuthorCynthia Grady
ISBN0802853862
This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of American slaves. Drawn together through imagery drawn from quilting and fiber arts, each poem is spoken from a different perspective: a house slave, a mother losing her daughter to the auction block, a blacksmith,...
One Tiny Turtle
AuthorNicola Davies
ISBN0763623113
"Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic doublepage pictures convey the astonishing facts about the loggerhead sea turtle. . . . A powerful nature story for a young audience." —BOOKLIST

Far, far out at sea lives one of the world's most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. For...
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0060821183
This story begins with shoes.
This story is all for true.
This story walks. And walks. And walks.
To the blues.

Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming...
The Missing Mitten Mystery
AuthorSteven Kellogg
ISBN0142301922
Annie and her dog, Oscar, have had a busy day playing in the snow. Somehow Annie's red mitten has disappeared in all the fun. They look high and low. . . . It's not on the sledding hill, and it's not by the snow castles. Maybe an eagle carried it off to keep its baby's head warm. Or maybe a mouse is using it as a sleeping...
Charlie Needs a Cloak
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0671664670
In the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, no one could do informational picture books like Tomie dePaola. Cultural studies, folktales, historical pieces, religious tradition, even basic science were all in his repertoire, and several classics arose among his many works. Charlie Needs a Cloak is a simple walkthrough...
Something Beautiful
AuthorSharon Dennis Wyeth
ISBN0440412102
A little girl longs to see beyond the scary sights on the sidewalk and the angry scribbling in the halls of her building. When her teacher writes the word beautiful on the blackboard, the girl decides to look for something beautiful in her neighborhood. Her neighbors tell her about their own beautiful...
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
AuthorCarmen Agra Deedy
ISBN1561453994
Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage.
That's where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increible, some shocking...
Mr. Lincoln's Way
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399237542
Mr. Lincoln is the coolest principal ever! He knows how to do everything, from jumping rope to leading nature walks. Everyone loves him . . . except for Eugene Esterhause. "Mean Gene" hates everyone who's different. He's a bully, a bad student, and he calls people awful, racist names. But Mr. Lincoln...
On the Farm
AuthorDavid Elliott
ISBN0763633224
A NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author and a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator evoke life on a farm in a simple, lyrical text and boldly expressive images.

From the bull to the barn cat to the wild bunny, the farmyard bustles with life. The rooster crows, the rams clash, the bees buzz, and over...
Oh, Were They Ever Happy!
AuthorPeter Spier
ISBN0440841313
This book has been around for awhile and I can see why! It's the sort of story that parents and children will read and enjoy together--yet both will get something different out of it. When the parents in this story leave to run errands all day, the baby sitter fails to show up and the kids decide to "help" Mom...
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
AuthorMuriel L. Feelings
ISBN0140546626
A Caldecott Honor Book

Moja Means One introduces children to counting in Swahili with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.

"Magnificient, full-page drawings throb...
Saturdays and Teacakes
AuthorLester L. Laminack
"When I was nine or ten years old I couldn't wait for Saturdays."
In this poetic memory, a young boy rides his bicycle every Saturday up and down country roads past farms, a graveyard, and a filling station, until he reaches his beloved Mammaw's house. She is waiting for him. While she picks tomatoes,...
Rosie Sprout's Time to Shine
AuthorAllison Wortche
Violet runs the fastest, sings the highest, looks the fanciest, and talks the loudest. Everyone agrees that she's the best.

Except Rosie. Rosie isn't fast, or loud, or fancy, but she's tired of hearing that Violet is the best.

When their class grows pea plants, Rosie's and Violet's...
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree
AuthorGail Gibbons
ISBN0152712453
This book about nature and the changing seasons focuses on a young boy and a very special apple tree. In Gail Gibbons’s bright illustrations, Arnold collects apple blossoms in spring, builds a tree house in summer, makes apple pie and cider in the fall, and hangs strings of popcorn and berries for the...
Cactus Hotel
AuthorBrenda Z. Guiberson
ISBN0805029605
Brenda Z. Guiberson’s The Cactus Hotel explores the life of a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert. Megan Lloyd’s illustrations show the various types of animals that create the multiple ecosystems surrounding a saguaro throughout its lifetime. The realistic fiction picture book begins with...
Doggone Dogs!
AuthorKaren Beaumont
ISBN0803731574
No sooner are these ten doggone dogs out the front door than they're into a hilarious antic misadventure: disrupting the prim pups at the Perfect Pooch Obedience School, raining chaos on the playground, and--oops!--making one, two, three, four, ten stinky doggie poops. But when our lovable pups get...
Tea Cakes for Tosh
AuthorKelly Starling Lyons
ISBN0399252134
Tosh loves his grandma Honey and her delicious golden tea cakes. When she tells the story of how the cookies became part of their family, he feels like he's flying back in time. But then one day, Honey starts forgetting things, even an ingredient for the tea cakes. Inspired by his love for his grandma and...
Sophie's Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0689866801
Sophie is an artist who wants to spin beautiful creations all day long and, someday, a masterpiece. As a spider, though, Sophie has a hard time finding a welcoming place in which she can be free to live and spin. She's shooed and shuffled all over Beekman's Boardinghouse until one day she finally finds...
Going to Sleep on the Farm
AuthorWendy Cheyette Lewison
ISBN0803710968
This is a delightful story that shares a conversation between a little boy and his father at the end of the day. The boy is still playing on the floor as he asks his questions. The dad is right there telling him a story about how the animals sleep. Heartwarming and cozy to read to little ones.
Every time...
A Second Is a Hiccup: A Child's Book of Time
AuthorHazel Hutchins
ISBN0439831067
"How long is a second?"
"A second is a hiccup--the time it takes to kiss your mom, or jump a rope, or turn around."

The newest book by acclaimed picture-book creators Hazel Hutchins and Kady McDonald Denton explains units of time in imaginative terms children can understand: A second lasts...
Groundhog Gets a Say
AuthorPamela Curtis Swallow
There's so much more to being a groundhog than just putting on a show once a year, and Groundhog has decided it's time to tell the world the Hog truth. With the help of a few of his fans, Groundhog is ready to tell everything about himself, from how loud he can whistle (loud), to how fast he can run (not fast),...
How a Book Is Made
AuthorAliki
ISBN0064460851
This book was written in 1986, and since that time, the printing industry has undergone its own technological evolution. Many of the steps described here are now computerized. But, assuming I did want to know how a book was created in the '80s, I still have concerns.

1) The author, the editor,...
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN1416971440
Barack Obama is the story of an exceptional man, as told by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Bryan Collier, winners of the Coretta Scott King Award.

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia...
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