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10 best books like George and Martha Back in Town (James Marshall): Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen, To Every Thing There Is A Season, C D B!, Ginger and Petunia, Our Tree Named Steve, Keats's Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury, ZooZical, Henry Huggins Collection, Mice and Beans, Arthur's First Sleepover (Arthur Adventure Series)

Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen
AuthorMichelle R. McCann
ISBN1582460981
Why am I still alive? Why was I spared?

One night in 1944, Luba Tryszynska’s questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Luba knew if the Nazis caught her she could be executed.

But they are someone’s children....
To Every Thing There Is A Season
AuthorLeo Dillon
ISBN0590478877
In this exquisite book -- the fortieth picture book the couple has worked on together -- Leo and Diane Dillon's breathtaking paintings accompany verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Simple yet profound, the inspiring words and pictures make this the perfect gift choice for birthdays, weddings,...
C D B!
AuthorWilliam Steig
ISBN1416903062
Wow, this was 1968 before the texting craze came to be and we actually use stuff like this. This started to give me a headache as there are some difficult puzzles in this book.

Steig is using Letters and numbers to make simple sentences and most of them I could figure out and some I could not. The pictures...
Ginger and Petunia
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399245391
Virginia Vincent Folsum, better known as Ginger, is a very elegant lady. An accomplished pianist, socially active - and what style! "You are what you wear" is her motto. But Ginger's greatest passion is her pet pig, Petunia, whom she pampers endlessly. When Ginger is called out of town for a performance,...
Our Tree Named Steve
AuthorAlan Zweibel
ISBN0142407437
Dear Kids, A long time ago, when you were little, Mom and I took you to where we wanted to build a house. . . . I remember there was one tree, however, that the three of you couldn't stop staring at. . . . After the family spares him from the builders, Steve the tree quickly works his way into their lives. He holds...
Keats's Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury
AuthorEzra Jack Keats
ISBN0670035866
Ezra Jack Keats is widely acknowledged as one of the first people to feature realistic, friendly, multi-ethnic urban settings in his picture books-forever changing the landscape of children's literature in the process. Now this beautiful collection brings together nine of his best-loved stories,...
ZooZical
AuthorJudy Sierra
ISBN0375968474
Winter weather is keeping children from visiting the zoo. So the animals are out of sorts—listless, grumpy, and no longer fun. All except two little friends, a very small hippo and a baby kangaroo. Their hip-hopping, toe-tapping,  and rap-rocking soon has the other animals joining in the hip-aroo...
Henry Huggins Collection
AuthorBeverly Cleary
ISBN0380721244
I really enjoyed reading these to my son. While a little
dated (we needed to stop to explain what a phone booth was and why we need to pay to use it) most of it is timeless. My son giggled a few times, wants to raise guppies and find a homeless dog to make his very own.

Henry is an adventurous young...
Mice and Beans
AuthorPam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN0439701368
Category: Family

Recipe for a Festive Story Time: Mix 1 birthday party, 1 delicious Mexican meal, and lots of children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, and surprise guests into a fun romp. Add comic illustrations, jaunty rhythms, and playful refrains. Spice with mystery, and stir...
Arthur's First Sleepover (Arthur Adventure Series)
AuthorMarc Brown
ISBN0316059560
Arthur's First Sleepover is a story of a young boy's adventurous night of having his first sleepover. As the days lead up, Arthur can hardly wait as he begins to set up and invite his friends. He is uninterested when all his friends want to talk about is the supposed alien sighting coming that same evening....
Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm Word Book (Richard Scarry)
AuthorRichard Scarry
ISBN0394847288
หนังสือเล่มยักษ์ ที่น่าสนใจมากกกกก เนื้อหาสนุก สอนเด็กได้หลายเรื่อง ภาพประกอบสุดยอด ด้วยความใหญ่ของมัน...
A Mango in the Hand: A Story Told Through Proverbs
AuthorAntonio Sacre
ISBN0810997347
Francisco is finally old enough to journey to the mango grove all by himself to gather the mangoes for a special dinner. But bees swarm the fruit, and Francisco has trouble picking them from the tree. He returns to his father several times, and each time his father shares a different proverb to inspire...
Whose Knees Are These?
AuthorJabari Asim
ISBN0316735760
"Whose Knees Are These" by Jabari Asim was fantastic. I found this book in the library while looking through the children's section for a book to read to my daughter. She loved it, and she laughed the whole way through...especially since I pointed to her knees as I was reading the book. Mr. Asim, along with...
The Golly Sisters Go West
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0064441326
A funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers

The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can they keep their act together long enough to get this show on the road? Find out in this hilarious...
Fat Men From Space
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0440445426
When I was a little kid (second or third grade), I read a few books (I was forced to by parents or teachers), and I didn't like anything I read. In fact, I decided that I wasn't going to read anything any more. Then one of my siblings said that before I gave up on reading, I should read Fat Men from Space. I decided...
The Bear Scouts
AuthorStan Berenstain
I forgot that these old stories of the Bears used to rhyme. The stories seem better to me when they rhyme and they roll off the tongue as well. This is a tongue in cheek little comedy about father bear trying to show the bear scouts what to do and everything he says is completely wrong. The scouts have a guide...
The Boss Baby
AuthorMarla Frazee
ISBN1442401672
From the moment he arrives, the new baby is The Boss. He holds lots of meetings, makes demands, has his own car and private jet, etc.--and, oh my gosh, the fun is in the accompanying illustrations that show him, for example, throwing a tantrum in his crib while Mom and Dad watch in terror (the "meeting")...
Mr. Putter & Tabby Pick the Pears
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0152002464
Mr. Putter's cranky, old legs can't climb the ladder to pick pears for his pear jelly this year. He makes a slingshot and shoots apples at the pears to knock them down. The apple slingshot doesn't work, but he has so much fun that he keeps shooting anyway. The next morning he is in for a surprise when his slightly...
The Book of Nonsense
AuthorDavid Michael Slater
ISBN0998333409
Before there were books, there were Words of Power, and those who spoke them could rule the world…

Dexter and Daphna Wax don’t quite fit in, even with each other. She loves reading and he loathes it, but neither is pleased by their “special” thirteenth birthday gift, a ruined old book...
Mouse Makes Words: A Phonics Reader
AuthorKathryn Heling
ISBN0375813993
Mouse Makes Words is about a cute little grey mouse that is talking about words. The mouse keeps on rhyming throughout the book. The mouse also is using phonics and replacing the first letter of a word with another letter to form a new word.

I think this book is very clever in teaching phonics to...
Gingerbread Friends
AuthorJan Brett
ISBN0399251618
That popular little character is back looking for friends, in an adventure he'll never forget.Confident and cocky, the Gingerbread Baby happens upon a bakery, where he dances and prances in front of a sugar cookie girl, trying to make friends. But she just stares and doesn?t say a word, like all the other...
The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau
AuthorJon Agee
ISBN0374435820
But who was art?

Surrealism in a book. I don't really know what to say about this one. It's about a man named Felix Clousseau who paints paintings that come to life. He paints a boa constrictor that attacks people, a volcano, and a cannon that shoots people. Because of the damage from his paintings,...
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