Hattie and the Wild Waves: A Story From Brooklyn
10 best books like Hattie and the Wild Waves: A Story From Brooklyn (Barbara Cooney): Roxaboxen, The Story of Holly and Ivy, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story, The Philharmonic Gets Dressed, Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote, Autumn Story, Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man, Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, Oh, Were They Ever Happy!, Tillie the Terrible Swede: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History
| Author | Alice McLerran |
| ISBN | 0060526335 |
From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination.
Marian called it Roxboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing...
The Story of Holly and Ivy
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0670062197 |
Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she's sure she can find. Holly, a doll, wishes for a child to bring her to life. And the Joneses wish more than anything for a son or daughter to share their holiday....
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
| Author | Gloria Houston |
| ISBN | 0140558772 |
This is a sweet story that children will love at Christmas time, and the illustrations are really great.
A little girl named Ruthie is picked to be the angel at the Christmas play, but she has no angel costume to wear. Her father is away from home in a war that is across the sea, which has created a...
"It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker," and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people...
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0805079033 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the inspiring...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830548 |
Bad weather is on the way and the autumn crops are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly Hedge set to work to finish the harvesting before the rain begins. Primrose, Lord Woodmouse's daughter, meant to help, but somehow she daydreamed her way over the cornfield and into the Chestnut Woods,...
This is a longer story with beautiful artwork. Robert uses repetition well in this story. Each person or thing is associated with a sound or a color and whenever that thing is mentioned, he gives the sound or color with it. It makes for a fun and dynamic story when reading aloud. It was easy to get into the...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 0618492984 |
When he was born in 1879, Albert was a peculiarly fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, frustrated his teachers, and had few friends. But Albert’s strange childhood also included his brilliant capacity for puzzles and problem solving: the mystery...
| Author | Peter Spier |
| ISBN | 0440841313 |
This book has been around for awhile and I can see why! It's the sort of story that parents and children will read and enjoy together--yet both will get something different out of it. When the parents in this story leave to run errands all day, the baby sitter fails to show up and the kids decide to "help" Mom...
| Author | Sue Stauffacher |
| ISBN | 0375944427 |
When Tillie Anderson came to America, all she had was a needle. So she got herself a job in a tailor shop and waited for a dream to find her. One day, a man sped by on a bicycle. She was told "bicycles aren't for ladies," but from then on, Tillie dreamed of riding—not graceful figure eights, but speedy, scorching,...
| Author | Jacqueline Davies |
| ISBN | 0618243437 |
John James Audubon was a boy who loved the out-of-doors more than the in. He was a boy who believed in studying birds in nature, not just from books. And, in the fall of 1804, he was a boy determined to learn if the small birds nesting near his Pennsylvania home really would return the following spring.
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| Author | Barbara Helen Berger |
| ISBN | 0698114345 |
What would you do if a golden carriage pulled by a lion came to your playhouse one sunny morning? Invite him in, of course! The author of Grandfather Twilight has created a radiant picture book dreamscape that perfectly captures all the joy of a child's imaginary play date."An inspired work of art". --...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0316968609 |
This one caught my eye because I'm a fan of Barbara Cooney's ethereal artwork, but there's a fascinating, though ultimately sad story here - the flooding of a New England valley to create the Quabbin Reservoir.
So it was voted in Boston to drown our towns
that the people of the city might drink.
We...
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
| Author | Linda Glaser |
| ISBN | 0547171846 |
Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
Who wrote these words? And why?
In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that was to give voice to the Statue of Liberty. Originally a gift...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0618040315 |
Marianne, heading west with fourteen other children on an Orphan Train, is sure her mother will show up at one of the stations along the way. When her mother left Marianne at the orphanage, hadn't she promised she'd come for her after making a new life in the West? Stop after stop goes by, and there's no sign...
| Author | Michael Bedard |
| ISBN | 0385306970 |
This is a fictionalized account of a family who moves in near Emily Dickinson and the child's interactions with her. It's cute and sweet, but I'd rather have had an actual picture book biography. There are some beautiful descriptions of poetry, though. "Listen to mother play. She practices and practices...
| Author | Kazuno Kohara |
| ISBN | 1596439858 |
So cute. In fact, too cute. I quite admire Kohara's graphic skills, especially the balance of spaces and light/dark, but for me, too cute.
Also, too facile at times. I especially thought this about the scene when the one library patron cries and doesn't want to finish the book because...
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 0064430871 |
I enjoyed this tale. I also enjoyed the Canterbury Tales in school and this is adapted from Nun's Priests Tale. For once the fox is outsmarted by someone else. How about them apples. Chanticleer is a beautiful rooster. I think the page with detail of him is really beautiful. I can't say I'm a huge fan of roosters,...
Annie and the Wild Animals
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0395510066 |
Well... This time I actually thought Brett did a good job with illustrating cute little Annie. And, of course, the animals are great. I just thought the story was really boring and just really unbelievable. The mother cat leaves her warm home to go outside (in the snow! In a hollow tree!) to have her kittens?...
Blue Moo: 17 Jukebox Hits From Way Back Never
| Author | Sandra Boynton |
| ISBN | 0761147756 |
The Baby Boomer Generation sings out loud, clear, and funny in this kid-friendly multimedia package. Author/illustrator Sandra Boynton and composer Michael Ford has enlisted a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame roster of performers to belt out such children's ditties as "Rabbit Tango," "One Shoe Blues,"...
