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If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet

10 best books like If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet (Leslie McGuirk): Harry the Dirty Dog, When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons, Last Stop on Market Street, Boy + Bot, Maple, The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf, and Grandma, The Wolf Who Cried Boy, Ten Black Dots, Locomotion, Little Mouse Gets Ready: TOON Level 1

Harry the Dirty Dog
AuthorGene Zion
ISBN0060268654
Gene Zion cunningly disguised one of the great existential questions of our age in this Dirty Harry book.



Do you feel lucky?

This is a book about identity:

Am I white (with black spots)
or black (with white spots)

About change and transition:

Do...
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
AuthorJulie Fogliano
ISBN1596438525
december 29

and i woke to a morning
that was quiet and white
the first snow
(just like magic) came on tip toes
overnight

Flowers blooming in sheets of snow make way for happy frogs dancing in the rain. Summer swims move over for autumn sweaters until the snow comes back...
Last Stop on Market Street
AuthorMatt de la Pena
ISBN0399257748
Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...
Boy + Bot
AuthorAme Dyckman
ISBN0375867562
One day, a boy and a robot meet in the woods. They play. They have fun.

But when Bot gets switched off, Boy thinks he's sick. The usual remedies—applesauce, reading a story—don't help, so Boy tucks the sick Bot in, then falls asleep.

Bot is worried when he powers on and finds his friend...
Maple
AuthorLori Nichols
Lori Nichols’ enchanting debut features an irresistible, free-spirited, nature-loving little girl who greets the changing seasons and a new sibling with arms wide open.

When Maple is tiny, her parents plant a maple tree in her honor. She and her tree grow up together, and even though a tree...
The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf, and Grandma
AuthorDiane Fox
ISBN0545694817
A comical twist on "Little Red Riding Hood" told by Cat and Dog!

Cat starts reading "Little Red Riding Hood" and explains, "It's a story about a little girl who always wears a red cape with a hood."

Dog says, "COOL! I love stories about superheroes. What's her special power?"

Cat...
The Wolf Who Cried Boy
AuthorBob Hartman
ISBN0399246967
Little Wolf is tired of his mom's cooking! It's the same old thing night after night, Lamburgers and Sloppy Does. How he wishes his mother would serve up a nice platter of his favorite dish: Boy! But Boy is hard to come by these days. As Little Wolf trudges home from school one day, he decides to postpone his...
Ten Black Dots
AuthorDonald Crews
ISBN0688135749
Title: Ten Black Dots

Author: Donald Crews

Illustrator: N/A

Genre: Concept Book, Counting Book

Theme(s): Counting, rhyming

Opening line/sentence: “What can you do with ten black dots?”

Brief Book Summary: This book uses big black dots...
Locomotion
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0142401498
When Lonnie Collins Motion "Locomotion" was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now he's eleven, and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his...
Little Mouse Gets Ready: TOON Level 1
AuthorJeff Smith
ISBN1935179012
I'd like to think that I know a little bit about kid's books at this point. I've read about a thousand of them, I figure. And many of them, I've read many times.

This is a great one for little kids. It's fun. Simple. And shows a little mouse getting dressed. It's not hugely complex, but then again,...
A Day's Work
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0395845181
Oh dear. So this book arrived by mistake from Amazon. I forget what I had ordered instead. Definitely not this. But Eve Bunting is amazing so I kept it. It's a complicated, kind of sad story told very simply. And it makes me think about all the heavy lifting we have our children do when they read. I look at high...
The Line
AuthorPaula Bossio
In this deceptively simple wordless picture book, a small girl finds the end of a long black line and picks it up. She wiggles the line, slides down it and spins inside circles made from it. In her hands, the line transforms into bubbles to blow, a jungle vine to swing from and a tightrope to balance on. The...
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth
AuthorSanjay Patel
ISBN1452103623
The bold, bright colors of India leap right off the page in this fresh and funny picture book retelling (with a twist) of how Ganesha came to help write the epic poem of Hindu literature, the Mahabharata. Ganesha is just like any other kid, except that he has the head of an elephant and rides around on a magical...
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
AuthorRenée Watson
ISBN0375869735
From acclaimed author Renee Watson and Caldecott Honor winner Christian Robinson comes the true story of Florence Mills. Born to parents who were former-slaves Florence knew early on that she loved to sing. And that people really responded to her sweet, bird-like voice. Her dancing and singing catapulted...
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