Lightfoot the Deer
10 best books like Lightfoot the Deer (Thornton W. Burgess): A Book Dragon, Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World, Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel With the Wrinkled Knees, Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, Survival at Sea, Classic Fairy Tales, Pete the Sheep-Sheep, Pagoo, Snowbound With Betsy, All in a Day
| Author | Donn Kushner |
| ISBN | 0380707691 |
How have I not reviewed this delightful book before? A tragedy!
This charming, charming tale is the story of a dragon who becomes obsessed with watching a monk illuminate beautiful book. Dragons, you see, can make themselves larger or smaller, depending on what they eat. A steady diet of humans...
| Author | Chris Lavers |
| ISBN | 0312303335 |
Why Elephants Have Big Ears is the result of one man's lifelong quest to understand why the creatures of the earth appear and act as they do. In a wry manner and personal tone, Chris Lavers explores and solves some of nature's most challenging evolutionary mysteries, such as why birds are small and plentiful,...
Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel With the Wrinkled Knees
| Author | Johnny Gruelle |
| ISBN | 0689846991 |
The Beautiful French doll Babette has been kidnapped by pirates and it's up to a Raggedy Ann and Andy to rescue her. After taking a magical balloon ride to Fairyland, Raggedy Ann and Andy meet a most unusual doll -- a soft flannel Camel with wrinkled knees. Stolen from his own nursery years earlier, the...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0786849584 |
Fed up with his continued refusal to clean his room and finish his baked peas, Billy Twitter's parents make good on their threat to buy him a blue whale. And so begins a hilariously surreal adventure, as Billy struggles to care for his new 100-foot pet, towing him around town on a skateboard, and disrupting...
| Author | Edward Packard |
| ISBN | 0553227688 |
Survival at Sea is the 16th Choose Your Own Adventure book and is written by Edward Packard. It has Dr. Nera Vivaldi from CYOA #7: The Third Planet from Altair/Message from Space (depending on the book edition) in it. This book is unique in the series in that it focuses quite a bit on the illustrations by...
This exquisitely illustrated, large format gift book features ten of the most enduring fairy tales of all time. The stories, chosen and edited by the artist, are a balance of 'princess' classics and frolicking adventure tales.
Artist Scott Gustafson spent more than four years creating the...
Australian sheep shearers always have sheep dogs--smart, well-trained dogs with names like Brute, Tiny, and Fang, who bark commands--"Woof! Arf arff arff! Grrrr!"--to round up the sheep for shearing.
But sheep shearer Shaun doesn't have a sheep dog. Instead, he has a sheep-sheep named...
| Author | Holling Clancy Holling |
| ISBN | 0395539641 |
I want to be a Hermit Crab.
No mortgages, just move when you want a new dwelling and take it over. I like that. Pagoo (short for 'Pagurus') is a Hermit Crab. When he is born, he is no bigger than a tiny pencil dot.
When you start life like that, the odds are not good. But...
| Author | Carolyn Haywood |
| ISBN | 0844665975 |
I found this in a Goodwill with a very vintage cover and yellowed pages and had to pick it up for our trip to Antarctica. While on the adventure, I read this and it was absolutely adorable and awesome timing to be reading such a story. I will say that it's very different from books that kids request nowadays...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0810983214 |
This lovely book illuminates all the possibilities a day offers—the opportunities and chances that won’t ever come again—and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant’s poetic text, alongside Nikki McClure’s stunning, meticulously...
Here’s Paddington once more, just returned from a visit to Darkest Peru and his Aunt Lucy’s birthday celebration at the Home for Retired Bears. Now that Paddington is home with the Browns, he’s free to cause his usual kind of trouble: dabbling in the stock market, trying a career as a barber, even...
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723206104 |
I had always looked at this book with some trepidation, glaring back at me as it did so in its Tolstoyan enormity (it is over 100 pages long, a mammoth tome in the Beatrix Potter catalogue) from the bookshelf, but eventually I realised there was no denying the inevitability of my having to take it down and...
Mandie Books Pack, Vols. 11-15
| Author | Lois Gladys Leppard |
| ISBN | 1556617585 |
Whether they're meeting Mandie for the first time or rereading her adventures for the tenth time, readers young and old will love solving mysteries and learning valuable life lessons with Mandie and her friends as they travel to London in Mandie and the Foreign Spies and to Washington in Mandie and the...
| Author | Barbara Holland |
| ISBN | 0804112762 |
A lively appreciation of cats from tip to tail, this witty analysis considers everything we think we know about cats, and offers something new, too. Meet cats in high places such as Winston Churchill's ginger tom, who attended cabinet meetings, and Teddy Roosevelt's cat, Slippers, who came to dinner....
Cinnabar: The One O'Clock Fox
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0528877682 |
George Washington meets his match in a wily fox in this legendary hunting tale from Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry
Cinnabar is a fox. He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He’s a hardworking fox who does everything he can to ensure that his family has...
| Author | Lori Zoss |
| ISBN | 1936449528 |
Ready for a nap, young Fred the Basset Hound goes to his room after a morning of play and the unthinkable happens: his comfy, red bed has disappeared! After a search through his house with a less-than-helpful mouse, Fred sets out on a journey outside to find his bed. Along the way he meets a sedentary frog,...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0439539544 |
Being a duck isn’t all it’s quacked up to be.
But don’t try telling that to Frank—he’s a chicken with a dream. All he thinks about are webbed feet, waterproof feathers, and the cool water of the pond. So when Frank takes a dip and nearly drowns, his mood turns foul. Luckily, he gets a little...
| Author | Lionel Davidson |
| ISBN | 0553253727 |
I had to take my Grandmother to the doctors (she'd broken a small bone in her arm when she fell in the front yard. Nothing major, just sore.), and so I picked up a kid's book I found several months before. Under Plum Lake, and I found I literally could not put the book down. While I waited to pay the bill at Waffle...
