Harold's Fairy Tale
10 best books like Harold's Fairy Tale (Crockett Johnson): Child of Faerie, Child of Earth, Fast Food, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together, Mole Music, Mouse and Mole: A Winter Wonderland, Because I'm Your Dad, Mousterpiece, Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure, The Charles Addams Mother Goose, Babar and Zephir
Child of Faerie, Child of Earth
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0316968978 |
Caressing and sweet, with a rhythmic and songlike lyricism (although the rhyming scheme and word choices of Child of Faerie, Child of Earth unfortunately and a trifle annoyingly do feel somewhat awkwardly halting and forced at times, especially near the end of the presented narrative), Jane Yolen's...
Fruits and vegetables leap off the plate and off the page in Saxton Freymann's fast-paced tribute to things that GO!
When you see piles of veggies lying sedately around the corner store, you'd never guess all that produce really wants to go, go, GO! But Saxton Freymann did, and he's transformed those...
| Author | Mary Ann Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0316146110 |
From New York Times best-selling author and Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman comes a new collection of fresh read-aloud takes on eight favorite fairy tales, including "The Three Bears," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Riding Hood."
Designed with emerging readers in mind, each...
| Author | David McPhail |
| ISBN | 0805067663 |
A spiritual story about the far-reaching effects of private actions.
Mole has always led a simple life, but lately he feels something is missing. When he first hears someone playing a violin, Mole realizes that he longs to make beautiful music, too.
Through practice and patience,...
| Author | Wong Herbert Yee |
| ISBN | 0547341520 |
Yippee! It is a winter wonderland! What better day for Mouse and Mole to go sledding, whirl around on ice skates, and build snowmen together?
But Mole does not want to go outside. Too cold! Too windy! He prefers to stay as snug as a bug in a rug inside his nice, warm bed.
Mouse is lonely. Ice...
Because I'm your dad, you can have spaghetti for breakfast, French toast for dinner, and rocky road ice cream in the bathtub.
In a text that's both playful and loving, a father expresses his hopes and dreams for a one-of-a-kind relationship with his child. Whimsical monster characters...
| Author | Jane Breskin Zalben |
| ISBN | 1596435496 |
When Janson the mouse who lives in a museum stumbles into the parts of the museum where artwork is displayed, she begins copying the artistic styles of the artists whose work is on display. Eventually, her work is seen, leading to her own art exhibition and developing her own art style. the author/illustrator...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689878303 |
When Jimmy asks his mother for a Moon Pie, and she tells him he will have to wait until after dinner, the young boy wishes that his homemade jalopy could take him to the moon, where he can get his favorite treat in person. To his great surprise, his jalopy comes to life and whisks him off on an outer-space adventure,...
| Author | Charles Addams |
| ISBN | 0689848749 |
"Girls and boys, Come out to play, The moon does shine As bright as day. Come with a hoop, Come with a call, Come with a good will, Or not at all."
"Addams, master New Yorker cartoonist and black-humor prankster par excellence, has thrown tradition to the winds and taken matters into his own bedeviled...
| Author | Jean de Brunhoff |
| ISBN | 0394805798 |
Bright blue shiny boards with a colorful picture of Zephir in a boat are in good condition. Corners show some slight wear (see image). Endpapers have grey elephants on bright yellow. Interior pages (40) are fine with no extraneous marks or inscriptions. Not ex-libray and no remainder marks. Printed...
| Author | Jeremy Tankard |
| ISBN | 0545065704 |
Bird and Raccoon are playing ball, when Bird gets bonked on the head. "Boo hoo hoo!" he cries. What will make Bird feel better? A kiss? A cookie? A Band-Aid? Bird's friends Raccoon, Rabbit, Beaver, Sheep, and Fox are full of sweet and funny ideas.
Perfectly pitched and hilariously imagined,...
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea
| Author | Thomas Locker |
| ISBN | 0140546138 |
Beautiful illustrations reminiscent of the Dutch masters. My only criticisms are that they never show the hole in the dike, meaning that children who are unfamiliar with the concept will have difficulty picturing it. Also, the text prefers to describe what characters said instead of having actual...
| Author | Lane Smith |
| ISBN | 1596437588 |
This is the baby version of It’s a Book by Lane Smith. Shorter, sweeter, and with the characters in diapers, It’s a Little Book is one of those reads that’s fun for parents too. You’ll enjoy a chuckle (in the it’s-funny-because-it’s-true way) at the crazy uses the characters think up for...
That's Not My Reindeer: Its Body Is Too Furry
| Author | Fiona Watt |
| ISBN | 0794518907 |
Fiona Watt graduated from Exeter University with a B.Ed. (Hons.), specialising in Psychology and Art and Design. After university she worked as a researcher and writer for a company which published educational material for places where children went on school visits (zoos, museums, stately homes...
All the Awake Animals Are Almost Asleep
| Author | Crescent Dragonwagon |
| ISBN | 0316070459 |
My little one, lay down your head.It's time to doze, it's time for bed.You tell me, "I'm not sleepy now.""Just try," I say. You ask me, "How?"
In this lyrical animal ABC book, a mother tries to tuck her child in for the night by telling him about all the awake animals that are getting sleepy. From antlered...
Amelia Bedelia's First Vote
Amelia Bedelia is sure she will love everything about school election day.
The fun choices
Having a voice
Running for office
Working together
Voting
Amelia Bedelia can’t wait.
What could be better?
Hooray for school!
Hooray for elections!
Hooray...
This Plus That: Life's Little Equations
| Author | Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| ISBN | 0061726559 |
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of I Wish You More, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a delightful book of fanciful equations.
Whether it's "wishes + frosting = birthday" or "birds + buds = spring," each equation is a small delight. This Plus That proves that life's total experience...
A very silly (not-too-scary) story about losing a beloved toy.
That summer night, the toys were left outside. . . . For the very first time, the Wonderdoll, the helpful wind-up robot, the thoughtful green dinosaur, and the rest of their plucky gang lie in the grass, gazing up at the stars. But...
| Author | Jonathan Emmett |
| ISBN | 0763615773 |
The illustrator of DOWN IN THE WOODS AT SLEEPYTIME creates a cozy woodland world for this story about a mole on a mission.
Mole thinks the moon is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen, and he wants to have it for his own. But as his friends Rabbit, Hedgehog, and Squirrel remind him, some things are...
| Author | Bill Peet |
| ISBN | 0395395941 |
What I most appreciated about this book were the fantastic, colorful, creative illustrations, and Bill Peet's amazing imagination! I really enjoyed the creativity he had in coming up with all these creatures and how they adapted to their environment.
That said, there really isn't a story...
| Author | Reeve Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0763634484 |
When a quietloving cat takes an unexpected tour of the neighborhood, he's in for some rude surprises--until he discovers the purrfect solution.
Homer is a very quiet cat. He lives in a very quiet house with a very quiet lady. But one day, while the lady is away, Homer hears a very loud sound, and...
| Author | Steven Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0688070450 |
This story is very old and well known. I used it during literacy t get the children to read along with me. This is the story of a little chicken that thought the sky was falling down after an acorn fell on his head. He convinced many other animals including a duck and a fox that the sky was falling down.
The...
