Just Plain Fancy
8 best books like Just Plain Fancy (Patricia Polacco): A House Is a House for Me, The Stranger, The Wreck of the Zephyr, The Little Yellow Leaf, Anansi and the Talking Melon, The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, How to Give Your Cat a Bath: In Five Easy Steps, The Little Island
| Author | Mary Ann Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0140503943 |
In a rollicking rhyme, the author introduces us to all types of homes for both people and animals. The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either...
| Author | Chris Van Allsburg |
| ISBN | 0395423317 |
The Stranger describes a tale of Farmer Bailey and the strange man who enters into his life unexpectedly after a car crash. The Bailey family (consisting of Farmer Bailey, his wife, and their daughter) welcomes this man into their home and hopes to nurse him back to health. The stranger has very odd characteristics...
| Author | Chris Van Allsburg |
| ISBN | 0395330750 |
The Wreck of the Zephyr is a magical story that leaves what happened in the story to the reader. The story begins with a visitor finding a boat up on a hill. The visitor is wondering how this boat got there, when he is surprised by an old man. The old man tells our visitor how there was once a storm that carried...
| Author | Carin Berger |
| ISBN | 0061452238 |
Hmm. I checked and this book was first published in 2008, but it feels like one of those touchy feely books that was so popular 40 years prior to that.
I loved the illustrations. They make this a beautiful book. Even the slightly unusual shape of the book makes it a stunner.
I think I was...
Anansi and the Talking Melon
| Author | Eric A. Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0823411044 |
Now, I have been reading the “Anansi” series ever since I was little and I was always so amazed at the gorgeous artwork and the hilarious writing in each book! So, when I stumbled upon another “Anansi” story that was written by Eric A. Kimmel along with illustrations by Janet Stevens,...
| Author | Gail Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0152712453 |
This book about nature and the changing seasons focuses on a young boy and a very special apple tree. In Gail Gibbons’s bright illustrations, Arnold collects apple blossoms in spring, builds a tree house in summer, makes apple pie and cider in the fall, and hangs strings of popcorn and berries for the...
How to Give Your Cat a Bath: In Five Easy Steps
In this hilarious and clever "how-to," a little girl and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to take a bath. The perfect read-aloud for fans of Snappsy the Alligator and Interrupting Chicken.
Step one: fill the bath
Step two: put the cat in the bath
Step three: put...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0385746407 |
If I do simply approach The Little Island with regard to Leonard Weisgard's evocatively painterly, nature imbued illustrations, I can both easily and without any doubt understand the 1947 Caldecott Medal designation (for the illustrations are truly absolutely exquisite, presenting a delightful...
