Elizabeti's Doll
10 best books like Elizabeti's Doll (Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen): Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa, How My Parents Learned to Eat, I Hate English!, Beautiful Blackbird, The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, We All Went on Safari, Angel Child, Dragon Child, On the Farm, Jabutí the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon, Allison
| Author | Gerald McDermott |
| ISBN | 0152999671 |
Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? “The tale moves along with the swift concision of a good joke, right down to its satisfying punch...
How My Parents Learned to Eat
| Author | Ina R. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0395442354 |
This is a wonderful story to show that the way people EAT food is so much a part of their culture. The little girl in the story has a Japanese mom and an American dad and she explains that sometimes they eat with chopsticks and sometimes with knives and forks. She goes on to explain about how her parents met...
| Author | Ellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0590423045 |
"I Hate English" is a realistic-fiction book who tells the story in which a young girl Mei Mei hates English like the title suggests. She is a immigrant girl who just moved from Hong Kong. She misses everything that has to do with her hometown, but most importantly the language. She struggles throughout...
| Author | Ashley Bryan |
| ISBN | 0689847319 |
Black is beautiful, uh-huh!
Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black so they could be beautiful too. Although...
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
| Author | Dianne Snyder |
| ISBN | 0395440904 |
I really enjoyed this story. It is an adapted Japanese folktale. A mother is raising a son who loves to sleep. He sleeps all the time. He is a trickster. He comes up with a plan to have a life so that he does not have to work. The whole town knows he is lazy and they call him the boy of the 3 year nap. His mother works...
Join a group of friends as they set out on a counting journey through the grasslands of Tanzania. Along the way, the children encounter all sorts of animals including elephants, lions and monkeys, while counting from one to ten in both English and Swahili. The lively, rhyming text is accompanied by an...
Angel Child, Dragon Child
| Author | Michele Maria Surat |
| ISBN | 0590422715 |
Ut comes to the United States from Vietnam along with her father and siblings. Ut misses her mother who has had to stay behind in Vietnam because there is not enough money to bring everyone to America. Ut must deal with the cruel children in her school who make fun of her wardrobe and the way she speaks. One...
| Author | David Elliott |
| ISBN | 0763633224 |
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...
| Author | Gerald McDermott |
| ISBN | 0152053743 |
Of all the animals in the rain forest, Jabutí was the favorite. His shell was smooth and shiny, and the songs he played on his flute were sweet.
But his music was a reminder, too, of the mischievous pranks Jabutí sometimes played. His song reminded Tapir of being tricked, Jaguar of being fooled,...
| Author | Allen Say |
| ISBN | 0618495371 |
When Allison tries on the red kimono her grandmother has sent her, she is suddenly aware that she resembles her favorite doll more than she does her mother and father. When her parents try to explain that she is adopted, her world becomes an uncomfortable place. She becomes angry and withdrawn. She wonders...
Tim O'Toole and the Wee Folk
| Author | Gerald McDermott |
| ISBN | 0140506756 |
Many, many (many) stories for kids, especially fairy tales, have had their violence removed or softened. While this is an old, old habit among some, and it makes sense, the fact is that children are bloodthirsty critters and never mind seeing a little fictional blood shed so long as it's shed by the deserving....
