Hero Cat
10 best books like Hero Cat (Eileen Spinelli): Journey Cake, Ho!, April's Kittens, It's My Birthday, The Bee-Man of Orn, Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis, Dig!, Footprints in the Snow, Animals in Winter, Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man, Tumble Bumble
| Author | Ruth Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0140502750 |
This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.
It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...
| Author | Clare Turlay Newberry |
| ISBN | 0060244003 |
Since it was first published over fifty years ago, April's Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition. Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strickly...
| Author | Helen Oxenbury |
| ISBN | 0763649708 |
What could be better than sharing a birthday cake with the friends who helped to bake it?
It's one lucky toddler's birthday, and of course there must be a cake. So the child asks some animal friends to gather ingredients, one by one: the chicken an egg, the bear some flour, the cat the butter and...
| Author | Frank R. Stockton |
| ISBN | 0763622397 |
Written at the turn of the 20th century, The Bee-Man of Orn shurgs off the didactic noose which threatened a lot of children's literature at the time and, instead, seems to honour the themes and ideas prevalent in the earlier traditional tales in which it feels like it has been based. Here we encounter...
| Author | Robbin Gourley |
| ISBN | 0618158367 |
Long before the natural-food movement gained popularity, before greenmarkets sprouted across the United States, Edna Lewis championed purity of ingredients, regional cuisine, and the importance of bringing food directly from the farm to the table. She was a chef when female chefs—let alone...
| Author | Andrea Zimmerman |
| ISBN | 0152167854 |
Dig up rock and dig up clay! Dig up dirt and dig all day!
Mr. Rally and his faithful dog, Lightning, have a busy day ahead of them, but they don't mind. What could be more fun than using a big yellow backhoe to build a pool at the school and a drain for the rain? Follow Mr. Rally through his day as he travels...
| Author | Cynthia Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0590466631 |
I forget where we picked this up but I've been collecting different beginner level books because Julia's starting to learn to read. So far I'm reading them to her with her reading the few words she knows. She enjoys them but still isn't so into them that she gets to excited. She'd much rather either sit and...
| Author | Henrietta Bancroft |
| ISBN | 0060271574 |
What beautiful illustrations!. The story starts in autumn and discusses migration and traveling south for warmer weather. Then it transitions into staying in the cold north for the winter, but hibernating. I love the illustration of a woodchuck's burrow. That was new information for me. Lastly,...
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 | Felicia Bond |
| ISBN | 0064435857 |
Written and illustrated by Felicia Bond, the illustrator of the bestselling If You Give... series, Tumble Bumble is a fun-filled tale of a tiny bug who goes for a walk and meets all kinds of creatures!
When a tiny bug decides to go for a walk, anything can happen! He might meet a cat, a crocodile,...
| Author | Helme Heine |
| ISBN | 0689710836 |
Goods friends always stick together.
Charlie Rooster, Johnny Mouse, and Percy the pig are the best of friends. They do everything together. They ride their bike together, play games together, and even do their chores together. Because that's what good friends do. When night falls, though,...
| Author | Marjorie Flack |
| ISBN | 0374403848 |
In this third installment of his continuing adventures, Angus the Scottish terrier - whose story began in
Angus and the Ducks
, and continued in
Angus and the Cat
- finds his way onto the open road, and chasing another dog (a collie), is lead far from home. When night begins to fall, Angus discovers...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0618168265 |
High above the rooftops of Rome, Angelo begins his work restoring the façade of a once glorious church. As with every project, he starts his final masterpiece by clearing away the years of debris left behind by the many pigeons who nest in the nooks and crannies of Rome’s great architecture. There,...
| Author | Patricia Lauber |
| ISBN | 0064451305 |
Informative and intriguing, this science book teaches children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival, no matter how big or how small. Lively drawings from Holly Keller illustrate...
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| ISBN | 0060233966 |
There are two kinds of winter: the nostalgic winter, in which Christmas lights twinkle in the snow and everyone drinks hot chocolate around a fireplace, and real winter, in which snow is yellow and brown, commutes to work are dangerous nightmares, and everyone's noses and toes freeze off. The Happy...
| Author | Jeff Mack |
| ISBN | 0399256172 |
Six slurpy stories, two comical combatants, and one laugh-out-loud picture book
Frog and Fly are constant companions. There is only one problem . . . Frog thinks Fly is delicious! This leads to a never-ending battle of wits with laugh-out- loud consequences. Told in six short comic stripstyle...
| Author | Rebecca Caudill |
| ISBN | 0805075240 |
" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...
Catkin is a tiny cat given by the Wise Woman to protect the human child Carrie. One day Carrie is taken under the hill by the Little People. Sent to bring her back, Catkin finds his courage and cleverness tested to the full.
Antonia Barber's original story reads like a classic fairy tale. Rich with...
| Author | Jim LaMarche |
| ISBN | 0064438562 |
Inspired by various experiences from his childhood, Jim LaMarche, beloved illustrator of A Story for Bear and The Elves and the Shoemaker, brings this touching story about one boy's unexpected summer as a river rat to life with his bold, picturesque paintings.
Nicky isn't one bit happy about...
Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival
| Author | Kirby Larson |
| ISBN | 0802797547 |
from Newbery award winning author Kirby Larson comes a remarkable true story of the devotion, friendship, and survival of two pets left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In the tradition of Owen and Mzee, this beautiful picture book is a testament to the spirit that defined post-Katrina rescue...
| Author | Judy Schachner |
| ISBN | 0142500623 |
Simon is a very old cat. He has had a wonderful life chasing butterflies, eating houseplants, and even playing the piano. His family adores him and they do everything they can to keep him comfortable. Now that he is old, Simon feels useless. Then one day his family drops something small and soft...
A Picture Book of Anne Frank
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0823410781 |
A thoughtful and accessible look at the life of Anne Frank, author of Diary of a Young Girl and victim of the Holocaust.
Anne and her Jewish family hid in a secret apartment in Amsterdam from 1942 through 1944, when they were discovered by the Nazis. During those harrowing years, Anne kept a diary...
Too Many Fairies: A Celtic Tale
| Author | Margaret Read MacDonald |
Our pre-school story time crowd enjoyed standing up and doing the actions suggested in this picture book. (There were nearly sixty children in one session and thirty-five in another session. We don't have sign-ups, name-tags, or age-breaks. The littlest ones sit on laps and the others fill our decorative...
