Hairy Maclary's Bone
10 best books like Hairy Maclary's Bone (Lynley Dodd): Belinda, Magic Beach, Wombat Stew, The Gruffalo's Child, A Lion in the Meadow, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, Hunwick's Egg, Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake, Josephine Wants to Dance
| Author | Pamela Allen |
| ISBN | 0140556168 |
Belinda is an excellent story about a simple couple who live in the country and grow their own vegetables and collect their own milk from their cow, Belinda. This would be a great story for teaching students that vegetables and milk do not simply come from the supermarket - they typically come from farms...
| Author | Alison Lester |
| ISBN | 1741144884 |
I've always liked this book from when I was little and it's a book that children all seem to love no matter how old the book now is. The illustrations are great to look over more than once, I was reading it recently to a child and then I started to notice a pattern with certain object would turn up in nearly every...
| Author | Marcia K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 0382092112 |
When I was in the book store very recently, I saw this book on the sale table and nostalgia just brimmed out of me. I showed it to my fiance and surprisingly he had never heard of the book. It's fantastic!! I NEED to go back and get it! It's just brilliant!
The story, moral, catchy rhyme and beautiful...
| Author | Julia Donaldson |
| ISBN | 1405020458 |
The Gruffalo said that no gruffalo should ever set foot in the deep dark wood.
But one wild and windy night the Gruffalo's Child ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist . . . does he?
'A brilliant sequel.' - Observer
'Scheffler's...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140506306 |
I'm still new to Margaret Mahy and this was a present from the guys at work. One of her more famous stories I believe. It's a nice warm story about the nature of stories and imagination and where the line between them and reality can blur, especially in the mind of a child.
Jenny Williams creates...
| Author | Eve Sutton |
| ISBN | 0140502424 |
Don't mind me, this is for my cat.
So. This book told me that "the cat from France liked to sing and dance".
See? Here.
When I talked to you about this talent you're supposed to share with your fellow French cats -
Oh, yes. You did that. Just FLEE. Because...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152163182 |
When a mysterious egg appears outside Hunwick's burrow after a terrible storm, no one knows what to do with it. And when it doesn't hatch right away, everyone is even more bewildered. Everyone, that is, but Hunwick. For Hunwick understands the egg. It is his friend. And he is the only one who knows its secret....
| Author | Aaron Blabey |
| ISBN | 1590785967 |
A delightfully uplifting tale about self-belief, courage, and—above all—the power of friendship. Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every way: Pearl loves solving mysteries and moves rather fast in the world, and Charlie likes taking leisurely...
| Author | Hazel Edwards |
| ISBN | 0340286970 |
'My daddy says there's a hole in our roof. I know why there's a hole. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake.'
The cake-eating hippo is ageless. This classic story about one of the largest and most famous imaginary friends has been delighting children around the world for almost 40 years....
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0207200750 |
From the award-winning duo of Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget.
Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through...
| Author | Eric Hill |
| ISBN | 0142501212 |
Spot can count is specifically designed to help young children learn to count and recognize putting an object with a number. Most children learn to count to ten at a pretty young age but it’s a new concept for them to understand matching an item per number to really understand the value of a number. This...
| Author | Felicia Bond |
| ISBN | 0399256148 |
A joyful picture book about love from the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!
Big or small,
Furry or not,
Here or there,
Inside or out,
Everyone hugs all over the world.
With bold and beautiful art, mega-selling author and artist...
| Author | Frances Watts |
| ISBN | 1877003786 |
When a grumbly Baby Bear refuses to give his father a goodnight kiss, their bedtime routine is transformed into a delightful game, as Daddy imagines all the different sorts of kisses that other animal babies give their dads: "'Now what about a big bear kiss for me?' said Dad. 'No!' said Baby Bear. 'No kiss...
| Author | Libby Gleeson |
| ISBN | 0439889774 |
The U.S. debut of an incredible new illustrator introduces two everyday friends whose closeness endures no matter how far apart they are.
"If I call Amy really loudly, she'll hear me, won't she?" Louie asked his mom.
His mom shook her head. "Amy is half a world away."
Amy and Louie...
| Author | Nick Bland |
| ISBN | 1742831702 |
Bear is very grumpy, perhaps partially because he is not catching anything with his fishing line. When he casts out and hooks something, he reels it in with all his might. Before him is a polar bear, arms full of fish. The polar bear strikes a deal with bear; free fish if he helps find an ice-appropriate home...
| Author | Annie Kubler |
| ISBN | 1904550398 |
Children are able to communicate by signing before they develop the skills necessary for speech. By teaching sign language to children from as young as seven months we can help them to convey their emotions and their needs. This first signing guide for hearing and deaf children contains over forty key...
