If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries

10 best books like If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries (Judith Viorst): Hailstones and Halibut Bones, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, Fish is Fish, Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems, An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Selected Poetry and Prose, A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms, Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou, Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life, The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Author	Mary O'Neill
ISBN	0385079117

These poems were okay (except for using "an Indian" as an example of the color Red. C'mon O'Neill, even leaving political correctness aside Native Americans are not actually carmine). They didn't do much for me, but I see many people really liked them, so ymmv.

I had the 1989 reissue with illustrations...

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0394900871

In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for...

Fish is Fish

Author	Leo Lionni
ISBN	0394827996

Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the minnow, now a fish, tries to follow in his footsteps,...

Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems

Author

Mary Michaels White

Updated and illustrated for use by families from the teacher's collection "Poems Children Will Sit Still For."
A broad enough selection that most readers will find something to love. I admire the editors for trying to avoid the commonplace but instead going back to the source to find each poet's...

An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

Author	Christopher Andersen
ISBN	0380731584

She was a living legend, a symbol of fierce independence who defied convention to live life on her own terms. He was the greatest screen actor of all time, the personification of the rock-solid American male. During their twenty-six years together, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy mesmerized the...

Selected Poetry and Prose

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day, a fiery political visionary committed to social change and progress. The generous selection in this...

A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms

Author	Paul B. Janeczko
ISBN	0763606626

From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.


Please
Open this book for something
Extraordinary.
Twenty-nine different poetic forms await you
Inside...

Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou

Author	Maya Angelou
ISBN	1402720238

Award-winning poet, author, playwright, historian, songwriter, singer, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, and civil rights activist: Dr. Maya Angelou needs no introduction. She is a true American icon—and now she is the first living poet included in Sterling’s celebrated Poetry...

Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life

Author	Candace Fleming
ISBN	0689865449

No matter how the question is answered, one thing is clear: There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south...

The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

Author	Rebecca Loncraine
ISBN	1592404499

In the first major literary biography of L. Frank Baum, Rebecca Loncraine tells the story of Oz as you've never heard it, with a look behind the curtain at the vivid life and eccentric imagination of its creator.

L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1899 and it was first published in...

Gooney Bird Greene

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0440419603

Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories.

There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school...