Here's a Penny
10 best books like Here's a Penny (Carolyn Haywood): Twenty and Ten, The Boxcar Children, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Egermeier's Bible Story Book, The Apple and the Arrow, The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems, The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago (Explainers), No Children, No Pets, Dolphin Treasure, Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories
| Author | Claire Huchet Bishop |
| ISBN | 0140310762 |
This must have been one of the earliest historical fiction children titles for World War II, since it came out in 1952. I probably read it in the 1960s. It meets one of my main problems with WWII lit for young kids: while it makes it clear that it was a case of life and death for the kids, it never actually says...
| Author | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
| ISBN | 0807508527 |
I read this book as a child and oh, did I ever cherish it. I'm a detail-oriented person, and this book speaks to the super organized control freak in me. Warner weaves so many details into the lives of the Boxcar children that, as a young'un, I found myself mentally picturing their home in exquisite detail....
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
| Author | Hugh Lofting |
| ISBN | 0060775971 |
Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends....
| Author | Elsie Egermeier |
| ISBN | 0871620065 |
Egermeier's Bible Story Book has sold nearly three million copies and continues to be America's favorite Bible story book. It has 312 stories that cover the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Younger children will sit spellbound as you read these stories to them. Older children who read for themselves...
| Author | Mary Buff |
| ISBN | 0618128093 |
The year is 1291, and Walter is the twelve-year-old son of William Tell, the greatest bowman in the land of Uri. Walter lives happily in the remote heights of the Alpine Mountains, caring for his family’s goat herd and practicing his marksmanship in the hopes of making his father proud. But as the end...
| Author | Mary Ann Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0152055711 |
The Llama Who Had No Pajama is an anthology of 100 favorite poems by Mary Ann Hoberman. This book of poems can be a great introduction to poems for young readers. It provides a variety of poems on different subjects like animals, people, childhood fun, and other concepts like time, opposites, and up comparisons....
| Author | Helen Edom |
| ISBN | 0746011091 |
This is one of my favorite Usborne books from my childhood. Well, we actually had it as individual books, and only of the first three sections, so I was even more excited to see a version where they're all together. I don't know whether this was ever used in my schooling or not -- it probably was, but what I...
| Author | Marion Holland |
| ISBN | 0394914473 |
This was a cute story (from a simpler time) about a family that moves into an inherited apartment building and goes to work fixing it up, and trying to solve a few mysteries in the process.
Sonlight includes it as a kindergarten read-aloud, but I think we'll play it by ear -- it was a fine story, but...
We recently read Dolphin Adventure: A True Story by Wayne Grover and I realized when I posted my review here that there were two follow-on tales. We borrowed both from the library and were eager to read them. I was a bit confused because the first tale is a true story and the other two are fictional, "based...
Master storyteller Rosemary Wells tells the incredible true story of a World War I nurse who brought medical care to the Appalachians
Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the isolated mountains of Appalachia and never looked back. Instead, she spent...
| Author | Julia L. Sauer |
| ISBN | 0140368574 |
Julia L. Sauer's The Light at Tern Rock (which won her a 1952 Newbery Honour designation) really does manage to remind me exceedingly sweetly and much pleasurably of some of L.M. Montgomery's sea and lighthouse themed short stories (featuring not only an engaging and inspiring narrative, but also...
| Author | Helena Clare Pittman |
When a humble farmer named Pong Lo asks for the hand of the Emperor's beautiful daughter, the Emperor is enraged. Who ever heard of a peasant marrying a princess? But Pong Lo is wiser than the Emperor knows. And when he concocts a potion that saves the Princess's life, the Emperor gladly offers him any reward...
| Author | Wayne Grover |
| ISBN | 0380732521 |
One thing I truly enjoy about being a homeschooling mom is access to books via the curriculum we've chosen; which, for us, has meant Sonlight. "Dolphin Adventure", like so many other books we've received through that route, did not disappoint!
If you've been following along with any of my reviews,...
| Author | Arleta Richardson |
| ISBN | 0781432685 |
Pieces of Magic
Remember when you were a child—when all the world was new, and the smallest object a thing of wonder? Arleta Richardson remembers: the funny wearable wire contraption hidden in the dusty attic, the century-old schoolchild's slate that belonged to Grandma, an ancient...
| Author | Maria Parr |
| ISBN | 0763672815 |
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