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10 best books like Iris and Walter (Elissa Haden Guest): Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky, A Home for Bird, Penny and Her Doll, Three Bears in a Boat, Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia, Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius, A Properly Unhaunted Place, Operation Bunny, Emmaline and the Bunny, How Tia Lola Learned to Teach

Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky
AuthorEsther Averill
ISBN1590170474
In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni, and stately, plump Mr. President....
A Home for Bird
AuthorPhilip C. Stead
ISBN1596437111
While out foraging for interesting things, Vernon the toad finds a new friend - a small blue bird who is curiously silent. Vernon shows Bird the river and the forest and some of his other favorite things, but Bird says nothing. Vernon introduces Bird to his friends, Skunk and Porcupine, but Bird still...
Penny and Her Doll
AuthorKevin Henkes
ISBN0062081993
Penny and Her Doll by Kevin Henkes (2012)
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Format: Book
Plot summary: Penny recieves and new doll and has trouble finding the perfect name for her.
Considerations or precautions for readers advisory (strong language, sex, death, religious overtones, violence,...
Three Bears in a Boat
AuthorDavid Soman
ISBN0803739931
From the co-creator of the New York Times bestselling Ladybug Girl series comes a high seas adventure inspired by the classic picture books Little Bear and Where the Wild Things Are.
 
Three bear siblings break their mother’s favorite blue seashell, and rather than tell her, they decide...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia
AuthorPalmer Brown
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius
AuthorFrank Asch
ISBN1553378865
Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue -- and sticking his nose into his big brother's business.
That's...
A Properly Unhaunted Place
AuthorWilliam Alexander
ISBN1481469150
From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two kids who try to save their town by bringing back its ghosts.

Rosa Ramona Díaz has just moved to the small, un-haunted town of Ingot—the only ghost-free town in the world. She doesn’t want...
Operation Bunny
AuthorSally Gardner
ISBN1444003720
When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, she discovers a magical world she never knew existed. But a fairy-hating witch, a mischievous set of golden keys, and a train full of brightly coloured bunnies are just a few of the surprises that come with it.

With the help of a talking cat called Fidget...
Emmaline and the Bunny
AuthorKatherine Hannigan
ISBN0061626546
Emmaline lives in a very tidy town, but Emmaline is not tidy. Emmaline likes to hop, hop, hop and holler, “Hoopalala!” And, more than anything, Emmaline wants a bunny.

Orson Oliphant is mayor of the town. He is very tidy. Orson Oliphant does not like hopping and hollering. And, more than...
How Tia Lola Learned to Teach
AuthorJulia Alvarez
ISBN0375864601
Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew’s elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn’t had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn’t like living so far away from Papi, who has a new girlfriend and an announcement...
Guests
AuthorMichael Dorris
ISBN0786813563
Moss is frustrated. His father has invited outsiders who dress in strange clothes and speak an odd language to the village's special harvest meal - and no one but Moss seems to care how that will change the way things have always been. No matter whom he talks to, no matter what he says, people just smile and...
Mouse and Mole: A Winter Wonderland
AuthorWong Herbert Yee
ISBN0547341520
Yippee! It is a winter wonderland! What better day for Mouse and Mole to go sledding, whirl around on ice skates, and build snowmen together?

But Mole does not want to go outside. Too cold! Too windy! He prefers to stay as snug as a bug in a rug inside his nice, warm bed.

Mouse is lonely. Ice...
Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day
AuthorKate McMullan
ISBN0803730853
A short-chapter book is a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. It is part of a series of books featuring two friends - Pearl, a rabbit, and Wagner, a mouse. It is intended as a reading together book for pre-kindergarten through second grade readers.
I found this book just delightful. It not only has short...
The Case of the Lost Boy
AuthorDori Hillestad Butler
ISBN0807509108
"My name is King. I am a dog. I am also a detective."



King has a very big mystery to solve. His family is missing, and he's been put in the P-O-U-N-D. Why doesn't his beloved human (Kayla) come to get him? When King is adopted by Connor and his mom, things get more confusing. The new family...
The No. 1 Car Spotter
AuthorAtinuke
ISBN1610670515
When I discovered the amazing, remarkable, one-of-a-kind, never before seen Anna Hibiscus books by Atinuke last year I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It just didn't seem possible. A contemporary early chapter book set on the continent of Africa? To understand how rare this was visit your local...
Mr. Putter & Tabby Paint the Porch
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0152024743

First sentence: It was springtime and Mr. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, were feeling very chipper. The birds sang, the sun shone, the flowers bloomed.


Premise/plot: The book begins with Mr. Putter promising to read his cat, Tabby, a funny story. But he gets distracted when he notices...
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
AuthorDan Yaccarino
ISBN0375966420
“This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred
 
Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text...
Paul Meets Bernadette
AuthorRosy Lamb
ISBN0763661309
Visual humor sweetens an artful tale about a fish who suddenly sees everything a new way — thanks to a charismatic companion.

Paul is a fish who used to go around in circles. He made big circles and little circles. He circled from left to right and from right to left. He circled from top to bottom...
Just Grace and the Double Surprise
AuthorCharise Mericle Harper
ISBN0547370261
In this seventh installment in the Just Grace series, any day now Grace’s best friend in the whole world, Mimi, is going to be getting a brand-new sister. Grace is really excited, plus nervous, plus worried, plus happy all mixed together. But both Grace and Mimi are in for a surprise when they find out...
Amelia Bedelia Makes a Friend
AuthorHerman Parish
ISBN0062075160
I remember reading the original Amelia Bedelia series as a kid, and thinking they were pretty great. I loved seeing her misinterpretations of the instructions she received from Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, which led her to do things like throw dust on the furniture and cut up a calendar to make a date cake. But...
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