FArTHER
10 best books like FArTHER (Grahame Baker-Smith): My Father's Arms Are a Boat, Orani: My Father's Village, The Mighty Lalouche, Papa's Mechanical Fish, The Whales' Song, The Boy Who Wouldn't Go to Bed, Oliver, I am Blop!, The Frank Show, The Big Wet Balloon
My Father's Arms Are a Boat
| Author | Stein Erik Lunde |
| ISBN | 1592701248 |
It's quieter than it's ever been. Unable to sleep, a young boy climbs into his father's arms. Feeling the warmth and closeness of his father, he begins to ask questions about the birds, the foxes, and whether his mom will ever wake up. They go outside under the starry sky. Loss and love are as present as the...
Orani: My Father's Village
| Author | Claire A. Nivola |
| ISBN | 0374356572 |
One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
One of Horn Book’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely...
| Author | Matthew Olshan |
| ISBN | 0375962255 |
In Paris, France, there lived a humble postman named Lalouche. He was small, but his hands were nimble, his legs were fast, and his arms were strong. When his job was replaced by an electric car, he turned to boxing to support himself and his pet finch, Genevieve. But--"You? A boxer?" the fighters...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0374399085 |
Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you...
| Author | Dyan Sheldon |
| ISBN | 1854305034 |
Grade 1-3-- Lilly's grandmother tells tales of singing whales who came from miles away in answer to a child's desire to see them dance across the waves. One night, Lilly hears the whales and watches breathlessly as they "leaped and jumped and spun across the moon." Then, waking from what she thinks is...
The Boy Who Wouldn't Go to Bed
| Author | Helen Cooper |
| ISBN | 0140567712 |
This boy is not ready to go to sleep. So he revs up his little red car and drives away so fast that his mother cannot catch him. He drives to a magical land filled with larger-than-life toys. But the toys are all too tired to play with him. The tiger is too sleepy to practice roaring, the train would rather rest...
An imaginative child who doesn’t quite fit in finds a kindred spirit in this utterly charming picture book from a debut author-illustrator.
Oliver is different. He enjoys his solitude. He likes playing with his friends, who are puppets, stuffed animals, and other toys. With his rich imagination,...
| Author | Hervé Tullet |
| ISBN | 0714865338 |
Welcome to the world of Blop! A Blop is a simple shape, somewhere between a flower and a butterfly, a sponge and a drawing of a little man -- above all Blop is whatever you want it to be. Using very few woods and handwritten text I AM BLOP! explore many concepts encountered for the first time by young children,...
| Author | David Mackintosh |
| ISBN | 1419703935 |
This hilarious, offbeat picture book from the creator of Marshall Armstrong Is New to Our School reveals that there is more to the older generation than meets the eye. Grandpa Frank doesn’t have any interesting hobbies, unless you count complaining about how everything was better in the old days....
| Author | Liniers |
| ISBN | 1935179322 |
1. This is the story of a girl showing her sister the joy of a rainy Saturday by teaching her to catch raindrops on her tongue, jump in puddles, and search for worms. As the big sister Matilda encourages Clemmie to try new things even though she may be scared and by the end they they are happily playing in the...
| Author | Selina Shirley Hastings |
| ISBN | 0744507804 |
Riding out in Inglewood one day, King Arthur encounters the sinister Black Knight, who challenges him to a battle for his very crown. With his sword Excalibur lying far away in Camelot, Arthur is rendered immobile by his foe's unearthly power, and given one chance to redeem himself: if he returns in three...
Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella
| Author | Shirley Hughes |
| ISBN | 0689873999 |
The classic story of Cinderella gains even more charm in this glamorous retelling by world-famous picture book writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes.
Ella Cinders loves helping her father in his dress shop and laughing with her friend Buttons, the store's delivery boy. Then comes the terrible...
| Author | Odile Weulersse |
| ISBN | 0802854168 |
It's time to go to market, so Nasreddine loads up the donkey and sets off with his father. But when onlookers criticize his father for riding while Nasreddine walks, the boy is ashamed. The following week, Nasreddine persuades his father to walk, and let him ride -- but then people criticize the boy for...
| Author | Catherine Rayner |
| ISBN | 1561486167 |
Harris was a very small hare with very big feet. "Why do I have such enormous feet, Grandad?" he sighed. "All hares have big feet, young Harris," said Grandad. And so begins a beautiful and remarkable story about a child's journey to independence. With help from his grandfather, Harris learns how to use...
| Author | Ross Collins |
| ISBN | 0061355348 |
The Pires are cursed with new neighbors. Things were just fine on Nostfer Avenue until the Wolfsons arrived. There seems to be no end to the new family's strange rituals. They stay up all day long, lock their windows at night, and bathe—in sunshine. What's a nice vampire family to do?
Ross Collins...
Little Mouse's Big Secret
| Author | Éric Battut |
| ISBN | 1402774621 |
Shh…! Little Mouse has a secret! He's found a delicious-looking apple and doesn't want to share a bite. So he buries it, and no matter how many of his friends ask what he hid, Little Mouse won't tell. But when a tree sprouts from the seeds of the fruit, there are enough apples for everyone-and Little...
| Author | Bob Graham |
| ISBN | 0763664375 |
At the same moment that Jodie’s baby brother takes his first step, a city’s worth of moments unfold in a masterful picture book from Bob Graham.
At 9:59 on a Thursday morning, Jodie draws a duck. As her pen hovers in the air, ready to add a silver button to the duck’s boot, her little brother...
| Author | Michael Foreman |
| ISBN | 0763642711 |
For a boy in a warravaged world, nurturing a fragile vine has far reaching effects in this simple, universal fable of hope and connection.
A little boy’s home has been reduced to ruin and rubble, and now a wire fence and soldiers separate him from the streams and hills he once visited with his...
When it comes to a sudden loss of a family member or a beloved pet nothing is much harder to uderstand. The combined talents of Australian author, Margaret Wild and Australian illustrator, Freya Blackwood, accomplish it beautifully in this story.
Will you cry when you read it? Yes but the art...
| Author | Jennifer Lanthier |
| ISBN | 1554552184 |
A city boy finds a stamp that unlocks his imagination; a country boy is captivated by stories. When they grow up, the two boys take different paths – one becomes a prison guard, the other works in a factory – but their early childhood passions remain. When the country boy’s stories of hope land him...
| Author | Tom Clohosy Cole |
| ISBN | 0763675601 |
The story of one boy’s struggle to reunite his family, on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
A young boy and his mother and sister were separated from their father when the Berlin Wall was built between East and West Germany. This story shows the family’s struggle as they...
La montaña de libros más alta del mundo
Lucas es un niño que quiere volar. Su deseo es tan fuerte que intentará por todos los medios conseguirlo, desde fabricar unas alas hasta pedírselas a santa Claus. El día de su cumpleaños, al soplar las velas, pidió su deseo de todos los años. Su madre le regala un libro y le dice que hay otras formas...
| Author | Fiona French |
| ISBN | 0192722107 |
Pulsating with the rhythm and vibrancy of the Jazz Age, this dazzling picture book is set in New York City in the 1920s. The story may be familiar, but the cast of characters will surprise you. Snow White is a beautiful jazz baby, protected by seven hot jazzmen. Instead of a wicked stepmother, her arch-enemy...
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears
| Author | Emily Gravett |
| ISBN | 1405089482 |
I think this unique and unusual book is absolutely brilliant.
It’s hilarious and serious both. It can be appreciated on so many levels, by many different readers/listeners-viewers, including very young children (without the names of the phobias) and readers of all ages through adulthood.
It...
| Author | Anushka Ravishankar |
| ISBN | 8186211047 |
4.5
I give it a 4.5 because it wasn't in a lot of color and I feel having it in more color would capture the children's attention more.
Other than that, it was a really cute book about and to me it could be used for a child who is adopted to a family with different race or culture backgrounds. In the end...
