Goggles!
10 best books like Goggles! (Ezra Jack Keats): What Do You Say, Dear?, The Relatives Came, Outside Over There, Thank You, Omu!, Snowflake Bentley, Ben's Trumpet, The Paperboy, The Talking Eggs, Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, Peppe the Lamplighter
| Author | Sesyle Joslin |
| ISBN | 0064431126 |
Oh, this is some great comedy. This had us all laughing at the absurdity of it. The whole set up is some strange things is happening, say someone is giving away baby elephants, what would you say to introduce yourself to the elephant. The response is always polite and things we are taught to say, but the situation...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0689717385 |
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.
When they finally...
| Author | Maurice Sendak |
| ISBN | 0064431851 |
this is the only thing my summer class was useful for: it tipped me off that this book existed. for future reference, if there are books that exist that were the source material for childhood favorite movies of mine, i need to be informed. in a timely manner. not twenty years later, thats just humiliating....
| Author | Oge Mora |
| ISBN | 0316431249 |
A generous woman is rewarded by her community in this remarkable author-illustrator debut that's perfect for the Thanksgiving season, perfect for fans of Last Stop on Market Street.
Everyone in the neighborhood dreams of a taste of Omu's delicious stew! One by one, they follow their noses...
| Author | Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
| ISBN | 0395861624 |
"Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." — Wilson Bentley (1865–1931)
From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera...
| Author | Rachel Isadora |
| ISBN | 0688109888 |
The artwork in this diverse beginning story is amazing. It captures the mood of a hot city night and the jazz club groovin’ out hits. Each page is its own tone. It conveys the mood of Ben, our character. It is also Escher-like at points. I love it.
Ben lives close to the zig zag jazz club and he loves...
| Author | Dav Pilkey |
| ISBN | 0531071391 |
This book encourages me to stay in bed. We see that early morning time it’s still dark and the paperboy gets up out of bed and starts work. It looks brutal. He gets home when the sun is coming up and goes back to bed for some ‘z’s.
Dav does a wonderful job at showing what it’s like in the early...
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
| ISBN | 0803706197 |
I’ve never heard anything like this tale before. It is a great tale. It could be an excellent movie done right. It’s a Creole folktale. The artwork is done in colored pencils.
I love this line “They lived on a farm so poor, it looked like the tail end of bad luck.” That is a great way to start...
| Author | David McLimans |
| ISBN | 0802795633 |
Feast your eyes on these amazing creatures before they disappear. This stampede of wild animals, from Chinese Alligator to Grevy's Zebra, are so rare, they're all endangered. David McLiman's bold and playful illustrations transform each letter into a work of art, graphically rendered with animal...
| Author | Elisa Bartone |
| ISBN | 0688102689 |
In the tradition of Lois Lowry and Paul Fleischman, Elisa Bartone's Caldecott Honor-winning book gives children a glimpse into American history and the immigrant experience.
This is the story of Peppe, who becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399237488 |
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily...
| Author | Marc Simont |
| ISBN | 0439442540 |
A sweet and simple story about a family who meets a friendly dog while picnicking and, after thinking about him all week, go back to find him. My only criticism would be that leaving the dog in the first place is not very responsible. Even if, as the parents tell the concerned children, the dog already has...
