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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

10 best books like I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book (Iona Opie): Life is Funny, The Arizona Kid, The Bat-Poet, The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects, Daddy's Roommate, The Joy of Gay Sex, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys, The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters, Detour for Emmy

Life is Funny
AuthorE.R. Frank
ISBN0142300837
From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good...
The Arizona Kid
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763626953
A trip out West to work at a racetrack — and a sojourn with a sophisticated gay uncle — bring unexpected discoveries in this quick-witted coming-of-age novel by the author of STONER & SPAZ and MARGAUX WITH AN X.

I was in the West. The Old West. The Wild West! A whole summer in a new place:...
The Bat-Poet
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0062050842
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days—he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

With...
The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects
AuthorPaul B. Janeczko
ISBN0763669636
A celebrated duo reunites for a look at poems through history inspired by objects—earthly and celestial—reflecting the time in which each poet lived.

A book-eating moth in the early Middle Ages. A peach blossom during the Renaissance. A haunted palace in the Victorian era. A lament for...
Daddy's Roommate
AuthorMichael Willhoite
ISBN1555831184
this book is FAIL.

well, let me clarify: this part is GREAT: "Mom says Daddy and Frank are gay./At first I didn't know what that meant. So she explained it./Being gay is just one more kind of love./ And love is the best kind of happiness." Lovely, appropriate, true.

but the illustrations...
The Joy of Gay Sex
AuthorCharles Silverstein
ISBN0060012749
For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life.

Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs of gay...
The Drowning of Stephan Jones
AuthorBette Greene
ISBN0440226953
Hate. It's the farthest feeling from sixteen-year-old Carla Wayland's mind. She can't believe people would persecute others just because they are different. But she isn't about to worry about the injustice surrounding her because she's in love with handsome and popular Andy Harris. Although raised...
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
AuthorBetsy Franco
Teenage boys speak out—without the filter of adult sensibility—in a compelling collection of poetry and prose.

In a powerful collection of more than seventy uncensored poems and essays, more than fifty teenage boys from across the country explore their many-layered concerns: identity,...
The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters
AuthorLynda Madaras
ISBN1557044449
I checked this out from the library when I was looking for a book to give my almost-8 yr.-old. I found the content a little bit too detailed in areas I didn't feel she was ready for yet (birth control, for instance - yikes!! I'm not ready for that!) And it had some anatomical illustrations of boys and girls...
Detour for Emmy
AuthorMarilyn Reynolds
ISBN1929777051
In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend until Emmy finds that she's pregnant....
The Facts Speak for Themselves
AuthorBrock Cole
ISBN1932425713
How to describe Brock Cole's brilliant new young-adult novel, "The Facts Speak for Themselves?" Here's how the author himself did it in a recent magazine interview: "The Facts [Speak for Themselves?"] starts with a murder and the witness to the murder is a 13-year-old girl. In the initial interrogations,...
Jump Ship to Freedom
AuthorJames Lincoln Collier
ISBN0440443237
Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel's father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers' notes to buy his family's freedom.

But now Daniel's father is dead, and Mrs....
What Do You Do, Dear?
AuthorSesyle Joslin
ISBN0064431134
This is an old favorite. It was on the bookshelf as a boy. Yesterday my mother gave this book to my daughter for Christmas. Beetle doesn't quite get all the subtlety, but it was nice to read with her all the same.

This book was written in 1961. Much like Fred Gwynne's books, it is quite interesting...
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0374339716
Back in Print!

Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement....
King and King
AuthorLinda de Haan
ISBN1582460612
Once there lived a lovelorn prince whose mother decreed that he must marry by the end of the summer. So began the search to find the prince's perfect match and lo and behold... his name was Lee. You are cordially invited to join the merriest, most unexpected wedding of the year. King & King is a contemporary...
When Dad Killed Mom
AuthorJulius Lester
ISBN0152163050
Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. Mom and Dad didn't talk much, and when they did, they had to work really hard to be civil to each other. But no one could have predicted what would come next. The headline read, COLLEGE SHRINK KILLS WIFE, and suddenly everything changed. Now...
Dear Mili
AuthorWilhelm Grimm
ISBN0060543124
These illustrations are beautiful, a scary version of William Morris telling a dark fairytale of a girl and her mother that live by the woods. Soldiers come to their village so the mother takes the little girl to the woods and tells her to hide and return to her in three days. The little girl waits for three...
Scranimals
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0060753684
We're sailing to Scranimal Island,

It doesn't appear on most maps....

Scranimal Island is where you will find the fragrant Rhinocerose, the cunning Broccolions, and if you are really, really lucky and very, very quiet, you will spot the gentle, shy Pandaffodil. (You may even hear...
Draw Me a Star
AuthorEric Carle
ISBN0698116321
"Draw me a star. And the artist drew a star. It was a good star. Draw me a sun, said the star. And the artist drew a sun." And on the artist draws, bringing the world to life picture by beautiful picture until he is spirited across the night sky by a star that shines on all he has made. In "Draw Me a Star," Eric Carle...
Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes
AuthorMaurice Sendak
ISBN0060286423
Maurice Sendak has interpreted these old' Mother Goose rhymes in animated sequences that have the aliveness and immediacy of a child's own imaginings.

There is little in these verses to suggest the settings, the characterizations, the unforeseen twists and turns of Mr. Sendak's fantastical...
If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries
AuthorJudith Viorst
ISBN0689707703
Personal Reaction: I liked this book, I thought that it was very similar to Shel Silverstein's poetry that I read as a kid. It is written as the thoughts that kids have about their world and growing up so I feel like it is more easily relatable to them.

I would use this book for the beginning of a poetry...
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
AuthorJohn Ciardi
ISBN0064460606
Published to acclaim in the first years of the 60s, Ciardi’s clever verse suffers about half the time from that winking eye that some adults sport when talking to kids while only paying half attention to their first audience because the other half is reserved for the grown-ups. Some of the poems reflect...
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