Little Grunt and the Big Egg

7 best books like Little Grunt and the Big Egg (Tomie dePaola): Oskar and the Eight Blessings, Archaeologists Dig for Clues, All the World, Mummies Made in Egypt, The First Dog, A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars, It's Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts from Around the World and Throughout History

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Author	T.R. Simon
ISBN	1596439491

A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home...

Archaeologists Dig for Clues

Author	Kate Duke
ISBN	0064451755

This book provides an engaging and informative look at how archaeologists work, as a few schoolchildren work with an archaeologist named Sofie to look for artifacts in the remains of an Archaic-era settlement.

I like how this book makes archaeology look exciting, but also focuses on the scientific...

All the World

Author	Liz Garton Scanlon
ISBN	1416985808

The artwork in this poem is beautiful. I love how the sky and the sea seem to roil and roll. This is more a poem than a story. It is little scenes of a family and things they do together and each thing they are doing seems to be all the world. It appears this family is on vacation together, possibly. It looks...

Mummies Made in Egypt

Author	Aliki
ISBN	0064460118

Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki Brandenberg describes and illustrates the techniques and reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died they would live in their tombs on earth but travel to live with gods and goddesses in another world.

The...

The First Dog

Author	Jan Brett
ISBN	0152019677

Story: 4 stars
Art: 3 stars

An imagined tale of how the wolf became domesticated into the modern dog. This picture book is not based on fact. Other than his outfit, "Kip the cave boy" looks far too modern for an early human. This very Caucasian-looking boy is scrubbed clean with a recent haircut....

A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars

Author	Seth Fishman
ISBN	0062455788

“This picture book is one in a gazillion.”—Jane O’Connor, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Fancy Nancy series

Did you know that the earth is covered in three trillion trees? And that seven billion people weigh about the same as ten quadrillion ants? Our world is full...

It's Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts from Around the World and Throughout History

Author	James Solheim
ISBN	0689843933

An interesting and nose-wrinkling collection of true food facts from around the world and throughout history.

How about a nice dish of Colonial Squirrel Pie with a side of milkweed shoots? If that doesn’t grab you, you might think about trying some Garbage Stew, just like they made in medieval...