Happy Little Family
10 best books like Happy Little Family (Rebecca Caudill): Bridge of Time, McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales, The Most Wonderful Doll in the World, The Mitchells: Five for Victory, The Secret Language, The Prairie Thief, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Prairie School, Betsy and Billy, Pagoo
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0688155952 |
When Josh McBroom learns that the eighty acres of Iowa farmland he's purchased are all stacked up on top of each other at the bottom of a muddy little pond, he thinks he's been bamboozled. But McBroom knows he's got the better of the bargain when the pond dries up to reveal an acre of soil so rich that seeds...
| Author | Phyllis McGinley |
| ISBN | 0590434772 |
This is more of a Middle grade chapter book than a children's picture book. There are pages of only words. The artwork was nice what little there was of it, but I think it's because the story is so tedious. The art by itself wouldn't be that exciting either.
This book felt moldy to me. It is very repetitious...
| Author | Hilda van Stockum |
| ISBN | 1883937051 |
The five Mitchell children are based on the author's own family. In the first of three books about their adventures, Daddy has just gone off to World War II. One of his final words to his daughter Joan is, "No dogs " She would dearly love such a pet, but life is full and so many new friends -- pets as well as people...
| Author | Ursula Nordstrom |
| ISBN | 0064400220 |
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
In this “delightful mash-up of Little House on the Prairie and The Spiderwick Chronicles” (SLJ), experience life on the prairie—with one fantastical twist!
Louisa Brody’s life on the Colorado prairie is not at all what she expected. Her dear Pa, accused of thievery, is locked thirty...
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689716044 |
Now while I certainly have very much enjoyed Alice Dalgliesh' 1953 Newbery Honour winning The Bears on Hemlock Mountain theme and content wise and do greatly appreciate the slice of pioneer American life presented and depicted, I am nevertheless and sadly left rather majorly cold and unsatisfied...
| Author | Lois Lenski |
| ISBN | 0440470803 |
This story is based on a real life snowstorm in the 1950's. In rural area of Nebraska two children and their teacher get snowed up in the school house. There were some nice details of family life, the different foods families ate and day to day life that seems like much further back in time than 70 years ago....
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0152051007 |
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.
Second grade holds lots...
| Author | Holling Clancy Holling |
| ISBN | 0395539641 |
I want to be a Hermit Crab.
No mortgages, just move when you want a new dwelling and take it over. I like that. Pagoo (short for 'Pagurus') is a Hermit Crab. When he is born, he is no bigger than a tiny pencil dot.
When you start life like that, the odds are not good. But...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064408604 |
Welcome back to Deep Valley!Winona Root is almost eight years old. More than anything in the world, she wants a pony for her birthday. She wishes so hard for a pony that she's sure to get one--at least, that's what she tells her friends Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. It's only when the exciting day grows near that...
| Author | Elizabeth Orton Jones |
| ISBN | 1930900058 |
Had you heard of Elizabeth Orton Jones before seeing this book? If so, your familiarity was probably with her lovely illustrations in Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, which won the 1945 Caldecott Medal as the year's most distinguished picture book. Elizabeth Orton Jones is an exceptional artist,...
| Author | Carroll Watson Rankin |
| ISBN | 0938746006 |
A few years ago I bought this book for my sister, who has a thing for children's books in which the characters fix up houses and pull weeds -- whatever else may be said about it, Dandelion Cottage is an ideal exemplar of that genre. At the time, I tried to read it myself, but found it overly twee. Just a couple...
| Author | Lenora Mattingly Weber |
| ISBN | 0425014584 |
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When...
| Author | Allen French |
| ISBN | 1883937019 |
Rolf, son of Hiarandi the Unlucky, is a character who exemplifies the effect of Christ's teachings upon the Icelandic people during their heroic age. The book is set in Iceland in the days when Christianity has come to the island though the old customs still linger. Hiarandi, at the urging of his wife,...
For centuries the bears of Haven have lived quiet lives, high in the mountains at the edge of the great Precipice. That all changes for a young cub named Growly when he receives a mysterious message. With just his backpack and glider, Growly sets out on a desperate journey to find his grandfather's long...
Reread for the umpteenth time, because I'm wretchedly ill and in need of a comfort read. This is the coziest book, filled with hikes in the snowy woods, fudge-making, cats, sweet gingham dresses, mothers who greet you after school with fresh chocolate cake, and skating parties. I wish Catherine Woolley's...
| Author | Eleanor Estes |
| ISBN | 0152025774 |
You've never met anyone quite like Rufus Moffat. He gets things done, but he gets them done his way.
When he wants to check out library books, Rufus teaches himself to write...even though he doesn't yet know how to read. When food is scarce, he plants some special "Rufus beans" that actually grow...despite...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
Once upon a time in the dark of the moon there was a little raccoon…
From the beloved author of such classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown, and renowned children’s book illustrator Garth Williams comes the story of a curious little raccoon who wants to see...
| Author | Dave Jackson |
| ISBN | 1556612710 |
Many of the missionary biographies we’ve read have been really laborious to read aloud. Shanghaied to China–while more of a historical fiction piece than a strict biography–was a pleasant exception. The book tells the story of a fictional boy shanghaied into being a cabin boy on the ship that...
