If You Sailed On The Mayflower

10 best books like If You Sailed On The Mayflower (Ann McGovern): Sounder, Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China, Big Red Barn, Snowflake Bentley, Baseball Saved Us, All You Need for a Snowman, Johnny Appleseed, Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr., How Full Is Your Bucket?, Safe and Sound: Standing Firm in Spiritual Battles

Sounder

Author	William H. Armstrong
ISBN	0064400204

Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him.

During the difficult years of the nineteenth century South, an African-American boy and his poor family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the...

Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

Author	Ed Young
ISBN	0399216197

"Not for the faint-hearted, Lon Po Po (Grandmother Wolf), is a tale of a menacing danger and courage....(Young's) command of page composition and his sensitive use of color give the book a visual force that matches the strength of the story and stands as one of the illustrator's best efforts." --Booklist"Absolutely...

Big Red Barn

Author	Margaret Wise Brown
ISBN	0694006246

Another book has migrated downstairs for my review. Before I wrote this review, I had to do a little research on the author. I vaguely remembered that she had no children and died young -- I was right: she never married, had no children and died of a post-surgery blood clot in 1952 at the age of 42. Yet her work...

Snowflake Bentley

Author	Jacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN	0395861624

"Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." — Wilson Bentley (1865–1931)

From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera...

Baseball Saved Us

Author	Ken Mochizuki
ISBN	1880000199

Shorty and his family, along with thousands of Japanese Americans, are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fighting the heat and dust of the desert, Shorty and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and form a league in order to boost the spirits of the internees. Shorty...

All You Need for a Snowman

Author	Alice Schertle
ISBN	0152061150

Horn Book November/December, 2002

"One small snowflake / fluttering down- / that's all you need / for a snowman," declares Schertle on the first spread in what might be called an accumulative tale. There's one more word at the lower right corner of the page-"EXCEPT..."-setting the pattern...

Johnny Appleseed

Author	Reeve Lindbergh
ISBN	0316526347

Johnny Appleseed was a real person while his life has become legend. He was a bit like St Francis - he was very kind to animals. He was also on friendly terms with the Indians. The one thing we know he did barefoot or not in the snow was plant apple trees. This is a nice poem about his legend. The paintings are...

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr.

Author	Jean Marzollo
ISBN	0439782244

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This book is a beautifully-rendered study of Martin Luther King Jr.'s...

How Full Is Your Bucket?

Author	Tom Rath
ISBN	1595620036

I read this book for a Strategic Leadership group I'm a part of at work, which I only reference because I know that I probably would not have ever chosen this book to read on my own. However, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it and how applicable it is not only to your professional life, but to all relationships...

Safe and Sound: Standing Firm in Spiritual Battles

Author	David A. Powlison
ISBN	1948130734

Safe and Sound by best-selling author David Powlison guides readers to see the normality of their struggles with themselves, the world around them, and the powers of darkness.

Counselors tend to be interested in what they can easily describe: psychological dynamics, social influences,...

A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620

Author

Kathryn Lasky

Journey to the New World (Mayflower) / 0-590-50214-X

Like so many of the Dear America series, this book has wonderful history; the journey across the sea is so real, you can almost feel the narrator's sea sickness. The arrival in the New World is presented realistically: full of hope, joy, and...