If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States

6 best books like If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States (David J. Smith): Because Amelia Smiled, My Friend is Sad, Ivan the Terrier, How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids, The Five Love Languages of Children, The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child

Because Amelia Smiled

Author	David Ezra Stein
ISBN	0763641693

Just try not to smile! A positively inspiring picture book from the creator of the Caldecott Honor–winning Interrupting Chicken.

Because Amelia smiles as she skips down the street, her neighbor Mrs. Higgins smiles too, and decides to send a care package of cookies to her grandson Lionel...

My Friend is Sad

Author	Mo Willems
ISBN	1423102975

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.
Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.

Gerald and Piggie are best friends.

In My Friend is Sad, elephant Gerald is down in the dumps. Piggie is determined to cheer him up by dressing as a cowboy,...

Ivan the Terrier

Author	Peter Catalanotto
ISBN	1416912479

The cover is great, and the title, 'Ivan the Terrier' makes the deep down pun-loving part of myself giggle. (I think his name is up there with my favorite literary dog name - Nate the Great's pancake guzzling counterpart - 'Sludge'.) I think the art in 'Ivan' is a little wavery - some pages are better than...

How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids

Author	Tom Rath
ISBN	1595620273

An illustrated adaptation of the long-running bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? (more than 400,000 copies sold) for kids — told through the story of a boy who learns a valuable “bucket filling” metaphor and watches it come to life as the day unfolds.

Every moment matters.

Each...

The Five Love Languages of Children

Author	Gary Chapman
ISBN	1881273652

This book is brilliant! Beyond the fact that this is a book about how to love your child in the way that he or she best identifies and recognizes as love...because that alone is a smart and beautiful undertaking, this book begins by introducing the concept of learning to speak your child's love language...

The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child

Author	Ron Clark
ISBN	0786888164

Now in paperback, Ron Clark's New York Times bestseller that's changing America one child at a time! The runaway bestseller that's a must-have for every parent and teacher. How many authors would travel coast to coast on a bus to get their book into as many hands as possible? Not many. But that's just what...