Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse
10 best books like Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse (George Selden): Mog's Christmas, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, Miss Bianca, The Christmas Doll, The Little Leftover Witch, The Adventures of Johnny Chuck, The Mousewife, In the Forest, Pagoo, Cinderella
| Author | Judith Kerr |
| ISBN | 0007171358 |
When I was a smallish child (I have always been quite freakishly tall), I loved this book so much I thought my heart might burst. It is amazing. And it has christmas in it. A heartwarming tale of cat related happiness with all the goodness of a family Yule Tide thrown in. Plus I always enjoyed Mog's pissed...
| Author | Julius Lester |
| ISBN | 0142407208 |
I loved this book! The narrator and all the animals talk like deep South African Americans. It's great. The narrator uses lots of great similes. So far the stories (no more than 2 pages long at a time) are little tales of Brer Rabbit outsmarting, tricking, and causing mischief with all the other animals,...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 0316783102 |
Miss Bianca, the elegant mouse Chairwoman of the famed Prisoners' Aid Society, drew in her breath. "The prisoner," she said gravely, "is a little girl of eight. She has been kidnapped by the wicked Grand Duchess and is imprisoned in the Diamond Palace." Careful plans for the rescue are laid, but even...
| Author | Elvira Woodruff |
| ISBN | 0590318799 |
In a heartwarming novel that is destined to become a Christmas classic, acclaimed author Elvira Woodruff tells the story of two orphaned sisters whose lives are forever changed by a magical doll.
Lucy and Glory are orphaned sisters with no real place to call home. Only their memories of a beautiful...
| Author | Florence Laughlin |
| ISBN | 0027545601 |
Sweet little old-fashioned chapter book about a family who takes in a little lost witch. Yes, at times it slips toward the saccharine, and the story is definitely dated. But for the most part, this is just a nice story about the power of love.
Some readers seem to take issue with how Felina is changed,...
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0486283534 |
Spring has arrived at the Green Meadow and Johnny Chuck is strangely discontent. On a whim, he offers Jimmy Skunk his house and then wanders off. Along the way, he gets into a fight with a strange woodchuck and, after a bruising battle, chases the intruder off. At that point, Johnny is feeling rather unconquerable...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0333344847 |
Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....
| Author | Marie Hall Ets |
| ISBN | 0140501800 |
The book I checked out was a cute half sized book like a ‘Mr. Men’ book by Roger Hargreaves. The artwork is something I’m not sure, but it’s lovely to look at. It’s almost looks like a type of Pointallism in black & white ink. The drawings were adorable.
This is a walk through the forest,...
| 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 | Barbara McClintock |
| ISBN | 0439561450 |
In her most charming book yet, three-time New York Times Best Illustrator Barbara McClintock has created the Cinderella that every little girl will want to savor -- over and over again.
Poor Cinderella, who is relegated to a dingy garret room by her duplicitous stepmother and beleaguered...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0440412242 |
The bones of this book are familiar Streatfield formula, but the premise is delightful. You have the talented diva, the young, serious child, the unruly boy, the mothering nanny, the young and wise governess... And then you have a famous, single TV personality who announces on Christmas Eve how jealous...
| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
| ISBN | 0140567445 |
Roberto is excited about the paper mouse he made in school, until Amy asks, "Does it do anything?" Roberto isn't sure, so he leaves the mouse on his window sill and goes to bed. Before long his apartment building is quiet, but Roberto can't fall asleep. So he gets up to look out the window and sees Archie's...
| Author | Emily Bearn |
| ISBN | 0316027030 |
Deep inside the broom cupboard of Rose Cottage, two mice live in great style.
Tumtum and Nutmeg lead cozy and quiet lives, secretly looking after Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children of the cottage, never dreaming that so many exciting adventures will soon find them. But when evil...
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0375864571 |
Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home—all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets—into the outside. It's a new world of color and texture...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0786811560 |
I've sung King-Smith's praises in other reviews, but this time I marked a couple of passages so I could give you specific examples:
"Whether in fact Flora was more intelligent than her nine brothers and sisters we shall never know.... Whether she inherited this thirst for knowledge from her...
A better name for this book would be “If you were a white Puritan colonist of moderate means in Colonial Times”— as that is all that is covered.
The telling is interesting and accessible to kids. The facts and quotes are very memorable. It’s just narrow.
There’s no acknowledgement...
Miss Bindergarten Stays Home from Kindergarten
| Author | Joseph Slate |
| ISBN | 0142301272 |
A playful take on a topic that all parents can relate to-getting sick! The ever-lovable Miss Bindergarten is not feeling well. The flu strikes on Sunday, so she has to stay home from kindergarten on Monday. Mr. Tusky (who is a wee bit rusty) will be her substitute, but it just won't be the same. ...
Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa
| Author | William Steig |
| ISBN | 0062059017 |
“Doctor DeSoto Goes to Africa” is the sequel to William Steig’s classic book, “Doctor DeSoto” and it is about how Doctor DeSoto has to go to Africa to help an elephant with his toothache. “Doctor DeSoto Goes to Africa” is a brilliant sequel to the popular book “Doctor DeSoto” that...
| Author | Michael Bond |
| ISBN | 0395066409 |
This new revised edition of the third book about Paddington captures all the playfulness of the incorrigible little bear. Living with the Brown family in London, Paddington has a talent for getting into trouble. His intentions are always the best, but he is seldom far from disaster. While his independent...
| Author | Emma Tennant |
| ISBN | 0312115334 |
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a reader who has finished reading Pride and Prejudice must be in want of more.
After re-reading Pride and Prejudice for class, I was absolutely smitten with Jane Austen and the characters she had created. I wanted more. Since a sequel by Jane Austen...
