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10 best books like Elsie's Bird (Jane Yolen): Ellen's Broom, Flora's Very Windy Day, Mama, Is It Summer Yet?, Zen Ghosts, Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud, Wanted: The Perfect Pet, Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse, Very Hairy Bear, The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough, Flight of the Dodo

Ellen's Broom
AuthorKelly Starling Lyons
ISBN0399250034
A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction Ellen always knew the broom resting above the hearth was special. Before it was legal for her mother and father to officially be married, the broom was what made them a family anyway. But now all former slaves who had already...
Flora's Very Windy Day
AuthorJeanne Birdsall
ISBN0618986766
When Flora and her pesky little brother, Crispin, are whisked away by a swirling and swooping wind, she gets the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to give her brother away. With tempting offers from a dragonfly, the man in the moon, and even the wind itself, she will find it difficult to choose. But...
Mama, Is It Summer Yet?
AuthorNikki McClure
ISBN0810984687
Young children see the passage of time through the seasonal changes to the world around them in this charming book, illustrated with Nikki McClure’s extraordinary cut-paper art. A little boy who can’t wait for summer keeps asking his mama, “Is it summer yet?” Mama says, “Not yet, little...
Zen Ghosts
AuthorJon J. Muth
It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner!

When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater...
Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud
AuthorSuzanne Tripp Jurmain
ISBN0525479031
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House....
Wanted: The Perfect Pet
AuthorFiona Roberton
ISBN0670073563
This was a wonderful sweet book until I noticed something that was just not right. The boy writes a list of why a Duck is a good pet and on that list is "Spare feathers can be used to build indian headdresses..." Why did this have to be included on the list? It's culturally insensitive and reinforces a bad outdated...
Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0805087931

In the late 1800s, former slave and veterinarian Bill "Doc" Key realized that his new foal, Jim, was no ordinary horse. Believing in the power of kindness and patience, Doc taught Jim to spell, recognize the primary colors, and even make change from a cash register!   Performing...
Very Hairy Bear
AuthorAlice Schertle
ISBN0152165681
All through the year, this shaggy, raggy, rumbly, bumbly bear faces down whatever comes his way: bee stings and scolding squirrels, cold rushing rivers and prickly bushes. And he does it all with a spring in his step and a smile on his face. There’s just one thing he can't abide. Luckily, he knows exactly...
The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
AuthorKatie Smith Milway
ISBN1554534887
Eleven-year-old María Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor, and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials, such as health care, school uniforms and books.

When María's father must leave home to find work, she is left in charge of their garden....
Flight of the Dodo
AuthorPeter Brown
ISBN0316110388
This is a perfect book for kids who are at the ages when poop is funny and/or fascinating. There are a lot of poop jokes in here.

I suspect that certain children are liable to go into fits of the giggles over this book.

It’s also effective as a story that talks about taking risks, solving...
The 3 Little Dassies
AuthorJan Brett
ISBN0399254994
The Three Little Pigs with a twist! In the tradition of her bestseller The Three Snow Bears, Jan Brett finds inspiration for her version of a familiar story in Namibia, where red rock mountains and vivid blue skies are home to appealing little dassies and hungry eagles. Mimbi, Pimbi and Timbi hope to find...
Forever Friends
AuthorCarin Berger
ISBN0061915289
This is the story of the little blue bird and the little brown bunny and how they became best friends one spring. All through the spring, summer and fall they played together. But when winter comes, the bird has to fly south. The bird and bunny miss one another--but come spring, bird returns and he and bunny...
Little Pink Pup
AuthorJohanna Kerby
ISBN0399254358
Pink was the runt of the pig litter. He was so small that the Kerby family didn?t think he would survive? so they brought him into the house where he met Tink, a new dachshund mom. When Tink saw Pink, she immediately adopted him into her family, and helped nurse him back to health. Pink thrived in his new family:...
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375849793
Take a bite out of this deliciously funny original fairy tale, which received four starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Booklist, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and the Bank Street College of Education.

What would you do if you were invited to the princess’s tenth...
April and Esme: Tooth Fairies
AuthorBob Graham
ISBN0763646830
Two young tooth fairies make their first lost-tooth collection in Bob Graham's warm, whimsical tale.

A Junior Library Guild Selection. April Underhill, seven-year-old tooth fairy, gets a call on her cell phone. This is it! Her first tooth collection. April and her little sister, Esme, must...
In Front of My House
AuthorMarianne Dubuc
ISBN1554536413
In Front of My House is a whimsical celebration of a child's imagination and all the places it can travel. This circular story begins and ends in a tidy front yard, but in between takes the reader to mountains and mysterious caves, up to outer space, down into the ocean and beyond. It's a journey as boundless...
Tsunami!
AuthorKimiko Kajikawa
ISBN0399250069
Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn?t join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something is coming?something he can?t describe. When he sees the monster wave pulling away from the beach, he knows. Tsunami! But the villagers below can?t...
Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie
AuthorJennifer Berne
ISBN1402773234
Calvin is one unusual starling! While his siblings and cousins learn to fly, this rare bird lets his imagination soar while reading about pirates, dinosaurs, and other fascinating things. The other birds call him “geeky beaky,” but Calvin just ruffles his feathers and buries his beak in a book....
Grandma's Gloves
AuthorCecil Castellucci
A child who loses a beloved grandparent finds comfort in carrying on the activities they shared in this sweet, genuine look at a universal rite of passage.

Grandma is always on her knees in the dirt, with her gardening gloves on, talking to her roses and laughing with the birds-of-paradise....
Insect Detective
AuthorSteve Voake
ISBN0763644471
Young readers will definitely catch the bug when they see this enticing, fact-filled invitation to explore the world of insects.

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Right now, all around us, thousands of insects are doing strange and wonderful things: wasps are building nests, ants...
Bridget's Beret
AuthorTom Lichtenheld
ISBN0805087753
Bridget loves to draw, and she likes to wear a beret for inspiration. So when her beloved hat blows away, Bridget searches for it high and low. She files a Missing Beret Report. She even considers other hats, but none of them feel quite right. It’s no use; without her beret, Bridget can’t seem to draw....
Fletcher and the Snowflake Christmas
AuthorJulia Rawlinson
ISBN0061990337
I’m thinking no Fletcher book will ever match Fletcher and the Falling Leaves but I do think I enjoyed this one more than Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms. It’s a sweet Christmas story, a fine enough story for this Fletcher series, and I loved the illustrations.

Fletcher, always helpful,...
The Boy in the Garden
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0547214103
There was a story that Mama read to Jiro:

Once, in old Japan, a young woodcutter lived
alone in a little cottage. One winter day he
found a crane struggling in a snare and set it
free.

When Jiro looks out the window into Mr. Ozu’s
garden, he sees a crane and remembers
that...
That Cat Can't Stay
AuthorThad Krasnesky
ISBN0979974658
Narrated by a cat-loving little girl, this story is a hysterical romp through a family's pet adoption dilemma. Poor Dad does not like cats, and he voices his opposition to the steady stream of stray cats that always seem to wind up on his doorstep—thanks to a cat-loving Mom who wants to save every...
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