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10 best books like Game On! (Jennifer L. Holm): Little Red Writing, The Story of Fish and Snail, Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom, Crankee Doodle, Bink & Gollie: Best Friends Forever, Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton, The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Fishy Business, Odd Duck, Binky Takes Charge, Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas

Little Red Writing
AuthorJoan Holub
ISBN0811878694
I'm going to wax a little less enthusiastic than some of the other reviewers. And the basic reason is that this book, with all it's great features, isn't all that intrinsically exciting.

The colors and all the visual aspects of the book are outstanding. It's VERY visually appealing.

LITTLE...
The Story of Fish and Snail
AuthorDeborah Freedman
ISBN0670784893
Every day, Snail waits for Fish to come home with a new story.

Today, Fish's story (about pirates!) is too grand to simply be told: Fish wants to show Snail. But that would mean leaving the familiar world of their book—a scary prospect for Snail, who would rather stay safely at home and pretend...
Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom
AuthorJohn Rocco
ISBN1423121899
Every super hero gets his powers from somewhere. The young hero of this book, Rocco, thinks his abilities come from his shock of red hair, and the longer it gets, the stronger he becomes. He even has a posse of super friends with wild hair of their own. Our hero is unstoppable--until the day he's dragged...
Crankee Doodle
AuthorTom Angleberger
ISBN0547818548
“Yankee Doodle went to town / a-riding on a pony / stuck a feather in his hat / and called it macaroni.” Many know the song “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” but few understand it. This unapologetically silly picture book reveals that the legendary ride to town (and the whole macaroni thing) was all suggested...
Bink & Gollie: Best Friends Forever
AuthorKate DiCamillo
ISBN0763634972
All righty, then! Celebrate the tall and short of a marvelous friendship with a new Bink and Gollie adventure.

Gollie is quite sure she has royal blood in her veins, but can Bink survive her friend’s queenly airs — especially if pancakes are not part of the deal? Bink wonders what it would...
Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton
AuthorMatt Phelan
Matt Phelan, graphic novelist extraordinaire, presents a rollicking tribute to vaudeville, small-town dreams, and Buster Keaton as a boy.

In the summer of 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, a visiting troupe of vaudeville performers is about the most exciting thing since baseball. They’re...
The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Fishy Business
AuthorMaxwell Eaton III
ISBN0375864482
The Flying Beaver Brothers are back, and this time they're hot on the trail of another eco-villain: Fish Stix  Environmental Manufacturing. When Fish Stix sets up shop, most of the islanders are thrilled. After all, Fish Stix are the most popular, best-selling sticks around AND they're good for the...
Odd Duck
AuthorCecil Castellucci
ISBN1596435577
Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that.  Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can't overlook his odd habits. It's...
Binky Takes Charge
AuthorAshley Spires
ISBN1554537681
A NetGalley first reads
The author of this review received an advance copy for an honest review


A clever story for children, "Binky Takes Charge," follows the continuing adventures of Binky the Space cat (though I haven't read the others and apparently you don't need to have read the...
Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas
AuthorPhilippe Coudray
ISBN1935179225
Benjamin Bear walks on water, rides a square-wheeled bicycle, and wears a fishbowl helmet under the sea.

Benjamin Bear walks on water, rides a square-wheeled bicycle, and wears a fishbowl helmet under the sea. Told in the form of one-page comic strips, each of Benjamin’s adventures is a...
What Floats in a Moat?
AuthorLynne Berry
ISBN1416997636
A goat and a hen turn a playful exploration of physics into scientific fun that rises to the top!

Archie the Goat has a delivery to make. He has several barrels of buttermilk that the queen needs, but in order to get them to her, he needs to cross the moat.

Testing several different theories...
Follow Follow
AuthorMarilyn Singer
ISBN0803737696
Once upon a time, Mirror Mirror, a brilliant book of fairy tale themed reversos - a poetic form in which the poem is presented forward and then backward – became a smashing success. Now a second book is here with more witty double takes on well-loved fairy tales such as Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid.

Read...
Pug and Other Animal Poems
AuthorValerie Worth
ISBN0374350248
In the follow-up to the well-received Animal Poems, Pug: And Other Animal Poems examines a wide range of animal behavior, from the fleetingness of a fly sipping spilled milk to the constant steely presence of a powerful bull; the greedy meal of a street rat to a cat's quiet gift of a dead mouse on...
Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000
AuthorEric Wight
ISBN1416964851
Frankie Pickle returns for another imaginative adventure and this time it all comes down to race cars. Well, not quite race cars, but the Pine Run Derby for scouts. Frankie is in danger of not advancing to the next ranking with the rest of his troop unless he can win the Pine Run 3000. But Frankie wants to...
Lunch Lady and the Video Game Villain
AuthorJarrett J. Krosoczka
ISBN0307980790
The race is on for a new student council president, and the Breakfast Bunch is rallying for Hector! The competition is already heavy, but the race heats up when school security is at stake: student and staff high-tech gadgets are disappearing left and right. Whoever the culprit is, this is one stealthy...
The Big Wet Balloon
AuthorLiniers
ISBN1935179322
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...
Bird & Squirrel on the Run
AuthorJames Burks
ISBN0545312833
Bird and Squirrel outwit Cat and become best friends in this zany adventure.

Squirrel is afraid of his own shadow. Bird doesn't have a care in the world. And Cat wants to eat Bird and Squirrel. Of course, he'll have to catch them first, and that's not going to be easy.

Join this trio as they...
Mal and Chad: Food Fight!
AuthorStephen McCranie
ISBN0399256571
So what are “Mal and Chad” books like? Well imagine "Dexter's Laboratory," "Jimmy Neutron," and a dash of "Calvin & Hobbes" and you've got a pretty good idea. And please don't take that as me saying that Stephen has co-opted these other guys for his own, no no...Mal and Chad is unique in it's own...
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