How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language
10 best books like How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language (Aline Alexander Newman): You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry, Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today, Why Fish Fart and Other Useless Or Gross Information About the World
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 0786837470 |
ONE GRADUATE'S JOURNEY TO FIND HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD
In 1990, before embarking on his groundbreaking children's book career, Mo Willems packed a small bag and a sketchbook and set out to explore the world--by place, car, boat, bus, motorcycle, and rickshaw. At the end of each day, he drew a cartoon...
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1423340868 |
I think Dave Barry retired at the right time. I grew up loving his humor, but it's become more and more formulaic as time goes on, and there's only so many times that the letters in someone's name rearranged, or a goofy suggested band name, or even, dare I say it, a fart joke, can be funny. This book is mostly...
| Author | Michael Driscoll |
| ISBN | 1579122825 |
This is a nice hardback book with an extremely diverse selection of poetry. Along with the explanations of the different forms of poetry; you will find little biographies of some famous Poets, and an accompanying CD of poetry that is read aloud.
Some forms of poetry you will find include; Nursery...
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0670011142 |
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subject-a man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday...
| Author | Andy Warner |
| ISBN | 1250078652 |
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates
In the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If?...
| Author | Jacob Lentz |
| ISBN | 1608190250 |
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426311087 |
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.
When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
| Author | Jessica Stern |
| ISBN | 0060505338 |
For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively—to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola—she discovered that the Islamic...
| Author | Cynthia Levinson |
| ISBN | 1561459453 |
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced--then they offer possible...
| Author | Francesca Gould |
| ISBN | 1585427578 |
Weird and gross facts about history, the human body, and the natural world are presented in short entries. As is typical with these sorts of books, I think some of the info was a little exaggerated.
I do like that the author educates readers about the gross (and cruel) origin of the hormone replacement...
| Author | Patrick Dillon |
| ISBN | 0763669903 |
Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.
We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0544232704 |
With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus...
Ka-splash! Head to the river, where a frolicsome bunch of otters plays all year round in a nonfiction story sprinkled with facts — and loaded with fun.
It’s spring, and a litter of baby river otters emerges from a den . . . to play! Follow the otters through the seasons as they chase one another,...
Sophie Scott Goes South by Alison Lester is a fantastic book written in diary format about a 9 year old's journey to Antarctica. I loved how the author wrote this as a nine year old and in diary format because it doesn't really seem like it is fiction. The author shares factual information so that the reader...
| Author | John Bemelmans Marciano |
| ISBN | 1596916532 |
An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.
Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing.
Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.
Anonyponymous,...
| Author | Margie Palatini |
| ISBN | 1419714880 |
The publisher and author of Under a Pig Tree seem to be having communication issues. The author has written a clear, no-nonsense history of figs. But the publisher is sure she meant pigs. After all, what’s the difference between two measly letters? What results is a hilarious illustrated history...
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0062316524 |
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0544630904 |
A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In...
| Author | Joseph D'Agnese |
| ISBN | 0805063056 |
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.
When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in...
| Author | Markus Motum |
| ISBN | 0763695041 |
This is a gorgeously put-together story, full of information but not too wordy of heavy for young readers, and a great way to introduce young scientists to a little bit of space travel history (complete with a two[page spread about Apollo 11, though the majority of the book is about rover-kind and their...
| Author | Karma Wilson |
| ISBN | 1416980059 |
This laugh-out-loud poetry collaboration from a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and a Caldecott Honor illustrator is anything but ordinary.
Dive in to Karma Wilson's latest collection of more than 100 poems: some humorous, some poignant, and all of them Outside...
It is a religious look at the time in Rome when many of the thoughts of the day were varying from a belief in the one true God. A picture of the one true God without a begotten Son within his being. Also all the thoughts of the former ways of Rome and the pantheon of gods, who formerly years earlier were the staple...
| Author | Martin Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0763681008 |
There are so many kinds of frogs in the world — more than 5,000! — and all of them are fabulous.
Huge frogs, tiny frogs, hairy frogs, and flying frogs hop through the pages of this colorful nonfiction book. Discover the Goliath frog, biggest in the world, and the Darwin’s frog, which has...
