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It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale

10 best books like It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale (Margot Zemach): Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest, My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, Tibet: Through the Red Box, Anatole and the Cat, Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals, Just Me, The Wave, Goggles!

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
AuthorEric A. Kimmel
ISBN0823411311
Hershel and the Chanukah Goblins by Eric Kimmel is my family's favorite Chanukah book. It holds a special place in our home, to the point where I actually purchased it last year as opposed to borrowing it from the library. We start reading this on the first day of the Jewish month of Kislev- 3 1/2 weeks before...
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
AuthorGerald McDermott
ISBN0152024492
I read Manybooks review (it's a review worth reading - it's very good!) about this book before I did my review. She really made me think - a lot. I admit to not knowing who Gerald really was or much about the Raven history in stories. I was going to give it 4 stars and after reading Manybooks, I don't think I can...
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
AuthorBecky Reyher
ISBN0688512518
"We do not love people because they are beautiful, but they seem beautiful to us because we love them."

This is one of the thoughts from this book. It is a wonderful thought taken one way and I can also see it as a way of saying, you're ugly, but because you are loved you're beautiful. I guess it has...
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
AuthorDianne Snyder
ISBN0395440904
I really enjoyed this story. It is an adapted Japanese folktale. A mother is raising a son who loves to sleep. He sleeps all the time. He is a trickster. He comes up with a plan to have a life so that he does not have to work. The whole town knows he is lazy and they call him the boy of the 3 year nap. His mother works...
Tibet: Through the Red Box
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374375526
A father's diary, an artist's memoir.

By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys.

While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings...
Anatole and the Cat
AuthorEve Titus
Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice-President in charge of Cheese Tasting at Duvall's cheese factory. He works in secret at night--the people at Duvall have no idea their mysterious taster is really a mouse! So M'sieu Duvall thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat...
Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals
AuthorFritz Eichenberg
ISBN0808585169
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
Just Me
AuthorMarie Hall Ets
ISBN0140503250
A repetitive story in the fact that this is the same thing over and over with different animals. It bored me. The artwork was lovely, but nothing really special either. I think it was a kind of woodcut printed out. Basically, a young boy finds a different animal each page and tries to imitate how it walks...
The Wave
AuthorMargaret Hodges
ISBN0153075317
This book had the kids gripped. They weren’t sure what was going to happen, but they knew the old man had something serious to say. They could tell something dangerous was in the works. This was suspenseful for the children. The nephew kept asking what’s going to happen and the niece would tell him,...
Goggles!
AuthorEzra Jack Keats
ISBN0140564403
Generations of children have read, re-read, and loved Ezra Jack Keats?s award-winning, classic stories about Peter and his neighborhood friends. Now, for the first time, Peter?s Chair, A Letter to Amy, and Goggles! are available in paperback exclusively from Puffin.?A well-loved character, a...
Rain Drop Splash
AuthorAlvin Tresselt
ISBN0688093523
"Drip drop splash went the rain all day." The rain formed a puddle. . .and became a pond. . .and spilled over into a lake. . .and grew larger and larger until it joined with a river and travelled out to sea.

With this classic picture book, young readers can follow the course of a heavy rain as it drenches...
Alphabatics
AuthorSuse MacDonald
ISBN0027615200
A is for ark. But did you know that if you turn an A upside down and round the point out a little, it becomes an ark? B is for balloon. But did you know that if you blow it up really big, the hole in the middle floats away like a balloon?

In this wonderfully creative alphabet book, letters are pulled, twisted,...
The Treasure
AuthorUri Shulevitz
ISBN0374479550
Three times a voice comes to Isaac in his dreams and tells him to go to the capital city and look for a treasure under the bridge by the royal palace. Feeling a little foolish perhaps, but determined to see for himself if the dream is true, Isaac sets out on his long journey. What he finds makes a surprising...
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
AuthorElphinstone Dayrell
ISBN0395539633
I enjoy how this is told like you might see a village play acting out the story. The players all wear amazing headgear as the characters of the Sun, Moon and Water. It is a simple and straight forward telling of this legend of the Sun and Moon in the Sky.

Sun and Water are friends and Sun always goes...
The Graphic Alphabet
AuthorDavid Pelletier
ISBN0531360016
A beginning alphabet book with each letter somehow using a graphic representation of a word that starts with that letter. Like ’S’ had steps carved into the letter, or ’T’ was tripping over a dot. Some letters you can see more and some letters are more abstract like C in a circle.

The Caldecott...
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
AuthorMuriel L. Feelings
ISBN0140546626
A Caldecott Honor Book

Moja Means One introduces children to counting in Swahili with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.

"Magnificient, full-page drawings throb...
The Story of Jumping Mouse
AuthorJohn Steptoe
"You will reach the far-off land if you keep hope alive within you." The words of Magic Frog give courage to the young mouse on his long and perilous journey to reach the wonderful land of legend. He faces many obstacles on his quest and sacrifices much to help others in need. But the mouse's compassion and...
The Emperor and the Kite
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0698116445
Largely ignored by her own family, Princess Djeow Seow spends her days playing with a kite made from paper and sticks. But when the Emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, only the Princess can save the day, flying her kite high up into the sky to rescue her father.
"A familiar jewel polished to unaccustomed...
Hildilid's Night
AuthorCheli Duran Ryan
ISBN0689805381
Lovely Pencil drawings!

A beautiful picture book of pencil drawings for beginning readers and above.

Hildilid does not like the night. She is trying to get rid of the night all night long in various and silly ways. The sun comes up and she is so tired she misses it and goes to bed.

The...
The Judge: An Untrue Tale
AuthorHarve Zemach
ISBN0374439621
A horrible thing is coming this way
Creeping closer day by day--
Its eyes are scary,
Its tail is hairy...
I tell you, Judge, we all better pray!

Anxious prisoner after anxious prisoner echoes and embellishes this cry, but always in vain. The fiery old Judge, impatient with...
Noah's Ark
AuthorJerry Pinkney
ISBN1587172011
For 40 days and 40 nights rain poured from the heavens, enveloping the world. Only Noah had been warned by God of the great floodand only Noah could save life on earth. This powerful story of salvation has fascinated people of all ages for centuries. Now, four-time Caldecott Honor-recipient Jerry Pinkney...
Peppe the Lamplighter
AuthorElisa Bartone
ISBN0688102689
In the tradition of Lois Lowry and Paul Fleischman, Elisa Bartone's Caldecott Honor-winning book gives children a glimpse into American history and the immigrant experience.

This is the story of Peppe, who becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century...
The Faithful Friend
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0027861317
Clement and Hippolyte are handsome, sharp-witted, and as close as brothers. When Clement falls in love with enchanting Pauline, he bids Hippolyte to join his quest to court her, and the two friends set out toward danger and adventure.

Pauline is ward of the mysterious Monsieur Zabocat -- a...
Mice Twice
AuthorJoseph Low
I don’t like the artwork here. It is very different than anything we have seen, but I don’t think that makes it Caldecott worthy. I do think the story is funny and well done.

Cat wants to eat mouse so he invites him over for dinner and bring a friend. Mouse is too smart for this and brings dog. It’s...
Crow Boy
AuthorTaro Yashima
At first, I really did not like the artwork in this book. It's fuzzy and the colors are dull and makes me feel it's messy. As the story went on, I think it is part of the story to explain the Tiny boy in this book. At least, I think that is what it's doing.

Chibi who becomes Crow Boy is not from the village...
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