Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky
10 best books like Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky (Esther Averill): Andrew Henry's Meadow, No Fighting, No Biting!, Catwings, Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic, Iris and Walter, Remy and Lulu, Old Mother West Wind, Carbonel: The King of the Cats, Freddy the Detective, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales
| Author | Doris Burn |
| ISBN | 0970739923 |
A classic reissued for a new generation
Andrew Henry has two younger brothers, who are always together, and two older sisters, who are always together. But Andrew Henry is in the middle--and he's always with himself. He doesn't mind this very much, because he's an inventor. But when Andrew...
| Author | Else Holmelund Minarik |
Even though this is a beginning reader; young listeners may get bored with it. The storyline is a cute one that starts out with human children fighting with one another then they are separated and read to and they begin to listen to a couple of baby alligators and what they all go through and learn that they...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0439551897 |
Catwings is a heartwarming coming-of-age, but contemporary issues and symbolism simmer beneath the surface for those willing to paw their way to greater meaning. In just forty-eight pages, Le Guin's memorable tale of four winged-kittens explores marginalized communities, race, and compassion.
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Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic
| Author | Emily Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0375839356 |
Here is the second book in the highly acclaimed Toys Trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go Out and Toys Come Home.
Lumphy, Stingray, and Plastic are back! And this time the lovable trio finds that their little girl has left for winter vacation and taken a box of dominoes, a stegosaurus...
| Author | Elissa Haden Guest |
| ISBN | 0152056440 |
When I arrived at my current library two years ago, the first question I received that stumped me was a request for the Iris and Walter books. I knew a lot of kids’ books, even then, but somehow none of the libraries I’d worked in prior to my current position had this series, so I had to admit to the nanny...
| Author | Kevin Hawkes |
| ISBN | 0449810852 |
Ooh la la! From New York Times bestseller Kevin Hawkes, illustrator of Library Lion and Weslandia, comes the charming story of a dog and her owner who become the toast of Paris.
Lulu and her master, Remy, a passionate but struggling portrait painter, wander the French countryside looking...
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0805072381 |
This is the kind of book I would check out from the library and which would normally be rejected at bedtime for a story with more pictures or something less "babyish" or of the character of--not my favorite--Diary of a Wimpy Kid. But both my 10-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter listened with great...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 1590171268 |
Back in print in the U.S. for the first time in over 30 years.
Rosemary's plan to clean houses during her summer break and surprise her mother with the money hits a snag when an old lady at the market talks her into buying a second-rate broom and a cat she can't even afford to keep. But appearances...
Reading this book hot on the tail of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair was just a confirmation of the magical pleasure that can be found in books. One minute, I can be sitting with Nina Sankovitch in her smelly purple chair, thinking deep thoughts about the meaning of life and the things that give it substance,...
| Author | Tasha Tudor |
| ISBN | 0448442000 |
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.
Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
| Author | Frank Tashlin |
| ISBN | 0486287874 |
"A fable for grownups that will be fun for children. Sit down with the book and get your own bearings." — New York Herald Tribune
With the first signs of approaching winter, the Bear's thoughts naturally turn to a cozy cave and a long snooze till spring. But when he awakes a few months later, he is surprised...
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...
Life with only the sea can be lonely. Just ask Pandora and Seabold. They've lived most of their lives with the sea -- Pandora in a lighthouse and Seabold on a boat -- and they're each quite used to being alone. Or they were.
But one day, the sea did something extraordinary: It brought Pandora and Seabold...
Everyone thinks Max's sister is braver than he is, and he's sick of it. He's determined to prove he is the bravest squirrel ever. He devises a plan for the humans to trap him, so he can rescue his Uncle Louie.
But things don't go according to plan. First, he is forgotten in the cage and sprayed by a...
| Author | Richard Bach |
| ISBN | 0743227506 |
Not many humans know. On the edges of every sea, the Ferret Rescue Service stands alongside the Coast Guard and Coastal Patrol of any country that claims an ocean shore. Just as it is the job of humans to rescue human lives at risk in storm and shipboard disaster, so it is the job of ferrets to rescue seagoing...
| Author | Julia Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0805078053 |
"All wet!" said Poppy.
"Yuk!" said Stephen. "Was that a kiss?"
Before Colette could answer, it was her turn. She was lifted up and brought toward the shining pink lips. She closed her eyes. The next second she felt a dampness all over her cheek and an explosion in her ear.
She dared herself...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0613023013 |
This book is so weird, and I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around the fact that it was written by the same woman who wrote The Outsiders.
OK, so the parents in this story get a dog instead of a brother or a sister for the only child in the family, a boy. Fair enough. The book is told through...
| Author | Jacqueline Jules |
| ISBN | 0807594806 |
One day Freddie Ramos comes home from school and finds a strange box just for him. What's inside? ZAPATO POWER-shoes that change Freddie's life by giving him super speed! But what will Freddie do with his fast new skills? Weird things are happening at the Starwood Park Apartments where he lives, and his...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0744583292 |
Sallie and I finished this last week. She absolutely loved it. There is a simple pencil drawing on nearly every page, and the story was perfect for a four year old read aloud. It's about a spoiled princess who wants a pig for her birthday. She gets the pig, but the pig, named Lollipop, will only obey its trainer,...
| Author | Frank Asch |
| ISBN | 1553378865 |
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...
| Author | Katherine Hannigan |
| ISBN | 0061626546 |
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...
| Author | Rosy Lamb |
| ISBN | 0763661309 |
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...
