I Lost My Tooth In Africa
10 best books like I Lost My Tooth In Africa (Penda Diakité): Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, When We Were Alone, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Islandborn, The Deaf Musicians, Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, The Honeybee, The Good Egg, Beatrice's Goat, Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0689832133 |
His cows like to type.
All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.
But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....
Doreen Cronin's understated...
When We Were Alone
| Author | David Alexander Robertson |
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
| Author | Ellen Levine |
Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream...
Islandborn
| Author | Junot Díaz |
| ISBN | 0735229864 |
So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby....
The Deaf Musicians
| Author | Pete Seeger |
| Author | Patricia Storace |
| ISBN | 0786807911 |
"You live in a tower without a stair,
Sugar Cane, Sugar Cane, let down your hair."
Stolen away from her parents on her first birthday by island sorceress Madam Fate, beautiful Sugar Cane grows up in a tower overlooking the sea. With only a pet green monkey named Callaloo for company,...
The Honeybee
| Author | Kirsten Hall |
| ISBN | 1481469975 |
Bzzz…
What’s that?
Do you hear it?
You’re near it.
...
The Good Egg
| Author | Jory John |
| ISBN | 0062866001 |
The good egg has been good for as long as he can remember. While the other eggs in his carton are kind of rotten, he always does the right, kind, and courteous thing....
Beatrice's Goat
| Author | Page McBrier |
| ISBN | 0689869908 |
| Author | Mary Chamberlin |
| ISBN | 1905236646 |
A lovely picture-book, with...
| Author | Sue Macy |
| ISBN | 1481401203 |
While sitting in the bleachers of a Soap Box Derby in the 1950s, Mary Garber overheard two African-American boys in the following exchange: “See that...
| Author | Jory John |
This is a book about a bad seed. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you really want to know?
He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. He’s been bad since he can remember! This seed cuts in line...
My Rows and Piles of Coins
| Author | Tololwa M. Mollel |
| ISBN | 0395751861 |
Just Because
| Author | Rebecca Elliott |
| ISBN | 0745962351 |
My big sister Clemmie is my best friend. She can’t walk, talk, move around much, cook macaroni, pilot a plane, juggle or do...
The Day of Ahmed's Secret
| Author | Florence H. Parry |
| ISBN | 0688140238 |
As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded with cars and camels, down alleys filled with merchants' stalls, and past buildings a thousand...
The Color of Home
| Author | Mary Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0803728417 |
The Pigeon Has to Go to School
| Author | Mo Willems |
Harold & Hog Pretend For Real!
| Author | Dan Santat |
| ISBN | 1368027164 |
Premise/plot: Harold & Hog Pretend For Real! is one of the books in the series Elephant & Piggie Like Reading. The books in this series are introduced by...you guessed it...Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie....
All Are Welcome
| Author | Alexandra Penfold |
| ISBN | 0525579656 |
Follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms. A school where kids in patkas, hijabs, and yamulkes play side-by-side with friends...