Gingerbread Friends
10 best books like Gingerbread Friends (Jan Brett): When Sadness Is at Your Door, The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Girl, Bear Stays Up for Christmas, Snowmen at Night, Those Darn Squirrels!, The Little Yellow Leaf, Miss Nelson Is Back, Arthur's Christmas, The Apple Pie Tree
When Sadness Is at Your Door
| Author | Eva Eland |
| ISBN | 0525707182 |
In the style of Harold and the Purple Crayon comes a picture-book primer in emotional literacy and mindfulness that suggests we approach the feeling of sadness as if it is our guest.
Sadness can be scary and confusing at any age! When we feel sad, especially for long periods of time, it can seem...
| Author | Jim Aylesworth |
| ISBN | 0590972197 |
The classic tale of the runaway Gingerbread Man, who escapes his hungry creators, as well as a string of others met upon the road, before his fateful encounter with a fox, is here retold by the marvelously talented Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock, whose other projects include
Goldilocks and...
| Author | Lisa Campbell Ernst |
| ISBN | 0525476679 |
The lonely old woman and the lonely old man decide to bake a girl this time, but when they open the oven, she runs off like her brother did. Never fear, this smart cookie has a plan to outfox the fox. Will it work? Let's just say that the ending is sweet for everyone. Ernst's familiar art, here placed against...
Bear Stays Up for Christmas
| Author | Karma Wilson |
| ISBN | 0689852789 |
"The day before Christmas,
snuggled on his floor,
Bear sleeps soundly
with a great big snore...."
Bear's friends are determined to keep Bear awake for Christmas! So they wake Bear up and have him help them find a Christmas tree, bake cakes, hang up stockings, and sing Christmas songs....
| Author | Caralyn Buehner |
| ISBN | 0803725507 |
Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you've wondered . . . what do snowmen do at night? This delightful wintertime tale reveals all! Caralyn Buehner's witty, imaginative verse offers many amusing details...
| Author | Adam Rubin |
| ISBN | 0547007035 |
Old Man Fookwire is sick of the squirrels stealing his birdseed, and driving away his beloved birds. He attempts several schemes to thwart them, but, alas, the squirrels have some schemes of the own. In addition to being furry freeloaders, they're also mechanical geniuses.
This...
| Author | Carin Berger |
| ISBN | 0061452238 |
Hmm. I checked and this book was first published in 2008, but it feels like one of those touchy feely books that was so popular 40 years prior to that.
I loved the illustrations. They make this a beautiful book. Even the slightly unusual shape of the book makes it a stunner.
I think I was...
Sweet Miss Nelson has a new class of students in Room 207, but like their predecessors in
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
, they have a talent for trouble, and like to test the boundaries a bit! When Miss Nelson must miss a week of school, after having her tonsils out, the children at first imagine that this will...
| Author | Marc Brown |
| ISBN | 0316111805 |
I love the artwork of this book. It’s not as bright and glossy as the later ones, but it’s so beautiful and it reminds me of being a kid.
I have never heard of this, but Arthur is trying to figure out what to give Santa for Christmas. I never even thought of doing something like that. I was pretty...
| Author | Zoe Hall |
| ISBN | 0590623826 |
Two sisters observe their apple tree through the seasons in this charming picture-book for younger children, delighting in the robin's nest in its branches, admiring its soft pink blossoms and growing fruit, and playing in its welcome shade. When fall comes, and the apples are ready for picking, the...
Clifford's First School Day (Classic Storybook)
| Author | Norman Bridwell |
| ISBN | 0439082846 |
Clifford is going to school!
Emily Elizabeth remembers taking her small red puppy Clifford to school and all the comical calamities that occured there. Clifford tries to fingerpaint and, sliding through the paint, makes a very creative masterpiece. Then, during water play, he is captain of the...
Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys
| Author | H.A. Rey |
| ISBN | 0618800662 |
There is originality and a childlike humor in both the amusing antics and engaging pictures.” Booklist Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys was the first book to feature Curious George, as well as being Hans and Margret Rey’s first book for children. In this initial effort, about a lonely giraffe...
President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0763663174 |
I find it interesting that the most negative reviews of this book often start out with, "Maybe I just don't have a sense of humor." Clearly, these readers are not completely out of the loop, because they recognize that they do not have a sense of humor.
If you are looking for a serious,...
| Author | C.J. Leigh |
| ISBN | 0545814308 |
I love fractured fairy tales and reading the different gingerbread stories is always entertaining. I find that my students love seeing and hearing the different variations in this classic story. In The Ninjabread Man, a sensei is making the cookie when he peeks into the oven too early and Ninjabread...
The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk
Fall, and Halloween, and a Ghost Walk … sounds delightfully perfect; right? Brother and Sister aren’t so sure, but Papa is (I do have some issues with Papa and Mama throughout the series, as another reviewer was kind enough to remind me of, and I may try to write a mini blog on the subject at some point...
The Serpent Came to Gloucester
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0763620386 |
Drawing on a true story, an award-winning author and illustrator present a picture-book tribute to the beauty and mystery of the ocean, and to the mesmerizing creatures that may frolic there.
It came from the sea, from the lonely sea,
It came from the glittering sea.
In a small...
Duddle Puck: The Puddle Duck
| Author | Karma Wilson |
| ISBN | 1442449276 |
Meet the one and only Duddle Puck, a plucky duck who does anything but quack in this picture book from New York Times bestselling duo Karma Wilson and Marcellus Hall that is anything but stereotypical.
Everyone knows that ducks quack, right? Well, everyone except Duddle Puck, a puddle duck...
| Author | Kristin Kladstrup |
| ISBN | 0763632236 |
What if a brave Captain Cookie stood up to Santa? A fresh, funny story that sparkles with all the excitement of a pirate adventure — and all the magic of Christmas morning.
It’s Christmas Eve, and Jim and his mother are making pirate gingerbread men to leave for Santa. Jim’s favorite is...
