Kermit the Hermit
10 best books like Kermit the Hermit (Bill Peet): The Blessing Cup, Gingerbread Baby, Roxaboxen, Mother Bruce, Dragons Love Tacos, Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification, The Butterfly, Emma Kate, The Witch Next Door, Lizard from the Park
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 1442450479 |
I have always loved what Patricia Polacco does in her books as most of her books had detailed her real life experiences with her friends and family and this book is definitely no exception! “The Blessing Cup” is a sequel book to Patricia Polacco’s well-loved picture book “The Keeping...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0399234446 |
Remember how the Gingerbread Boy is eaten by the fox? Well, not this Gingerbread Baby in a delicious twist to a favorite old tale.It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbread Bay. He leads Matti's mother and father, the dog and the cat. And a whole colorful cast...
| Author | Alice McLerran |
| ISBN | 0060526335 |
From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination.
Marian called it Roxboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing...
| Author | Ryan T. Higgins |
| ISBN | 1484730887 |
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Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins is a children's book about a bear who loves to eat eggs and keep to himself. He's sort of a grump and doesn't seem to like anybody or anything, except for eggs. He enjoys heading out to find eggs...
| Author | Adam Rubin |
| ISBN | 0803736800 |
This scrumptious New York Times bestseller has a whole lot of kick!
Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately,...
| Author | Cindy Rollins |
| ISBN | 0986325740 |
It was back in the 1980's when Cindy Rollins, then a new mom in search of the best ways to teach her baby son, first heard of homeschooling. Thirty years and nine children later, Cindy has become a popular blogger, podcaster, and award winning teacher. This is her story. It's a story of big families and cross-country...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399231706 |
Since the Tall Boots--the Nazis--have marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her. Until the night Monique encounters "the little ghost" sitting at the end of her bed. When she turns out to be--not a ghost at all--but a young girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399244522 |
That adorable Emma Kate has an imaginary friend.They walk to school together every morning, and sit together in class.They sleep over at each other’s houses, and do their homework side by side.They even have their tonsils out and eat gallons of pink ice cream together. But a hilarious twist ending...
| Author | Norman Bridwell |
| ISBN | 0590003429 |
Norman Bridwell, creator of the popular
Clifford the Big Red Dog
series, also wrote and illustrated a number of picture-books featuring a friendly neighborhood witch, beginning with this 1969 title. With simple text, The Witch Next Door unfolds the tale of two (unnamed) children, who come to be...
| Author | Mark Pett |
| ISBN | 1442483210 |
While this may not have been Mark Pett's thinking, Lizard in the Park was sort of a love letter to New York City for me. Leonard finds an friend, first in the form of an egg, which then becomes a lizard of quite a significant size. Leonard and his friend, Buster, explore New York City, in just the way I love to...
| Author | Ryan T. Higgins |
| ISBN | 1484743628 |
When Bruce gets home from a southern migration trip with his goslings, he is tired. He is grumpy. And he is definitely not in the mood to share his home with the trio of mice who have turned his den into a hotel.
There's a possum pillow fight wreaking havoc in one room, a fox luring guests into a stew...
The Apple Pie That Papa Baked
| Author | Lauren Thompson |
| ISBN | 1416912401 |
When I was in first grade, (forty years ago!), I would borrow a Virginia Lee Burton book, Life Story, from my school library so often that the librarian gave me the book at the end of the school year. I still have that book.
So when my son and I were at our local library recently, this book immediately...
| Author | Paul Galdone |
| ISBN | 0899192254 |
I’m not quite sure why I picked up this book from the new arrivals shelf at the public library to share with my nearly 13 year old daughter, except for the fact that I grab all the new arrival books. We have a different version of Henny Penny that we would read again and again when my daughter was younger that...
