If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon
10 best books like If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon (Ellen Levine): Bunnicula, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, Wolf Brother, A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children, Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems, Kids Pick The Funniest Poems: Poems That Make Kids Laugh, Joey Pigza Loses Control, So Big
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 1416928170 |
(This review is from 2004.)
Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.
So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...
On the Banks of Plum Creek
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885408 |
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. They settle into a house made of sod on the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds them a sturdier house, with real glass windows and a hinged door....
By the Shores of Silver Lake
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885416 |
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first...
| Author | Michelle Paver |
| ISBN | 0060728272 |
Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined.
In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told...
| Author | Caroline Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0786851112 |
Last Thursday, I got this hardbound pristine book from a second-hand bookstore. I have always liked to read poetry but there are those that I do not understand. So, when I saw that this book contains poems for children and it is written by Caroline Kennedy (born 1957), the only surviving child of U.S. President...
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story
| Author | Andrea Warren |
| ISBN | 0395698227 |
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about...
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...
Betcha laugh!
This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It’s a classic because it’s the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children’s poetry, including Bill Dodds,...
| Author | Jack Gantos |
| ISBN | 0060739436 |
Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as he used to be, to show his dad how much he loves him. But Carter Pigza's not an easy guy to love. He's eager to make it up to Joey for past wrongs and to show him how to be a winner, to take control of his life. With his...
| Author | Edna Ferber |
| ISBN | 1417906774 |
Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her...
| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 1596433213 |
History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West.
With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin's Which Way to the Wild West? delivers America's...
