Louie
10 best books like Louie (Ezra Jack Keats): How to Be an Antiracist, The Little House, Strega Nona, The Napping House, Malala's Magic Pencil, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Visiting Day, Planting a Rainbow, Dragons Love Tacos
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
| Author | Virginia Lee Burton |
| ISBN | 0395181569 |
Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 8424133498 |
Review
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola is the first book in a classic children's literature series from the 1970s and 1980s. It was eventually made into a cartoon and several other children's merchandise, all fun and educational toys as kids grew up. I enjoyed the premise of the books but only read...
| Author | Audrey Wood |
| ISBN | 0152026320 |
Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (1984) is close on its heels in the race for posterity: “And on that granny / there is a child / a dreaming child / on a snoring granny / on a cozy bed / in a napping house, / where everyone is sleeping.” Included...
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood.
Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them.
As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for...
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0689832133 |
Farmer Brown has a problem.
His cows like to type.
All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.
But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....
Doreen Cronin's understated...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
| Author | William Kamkwamba |
| ISBN | 0803735111 |
When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library . . . and figured out how to bring electricity to his village. Persevering against the odds, William...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0590400053 |
Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson has written a poignant picture book about a little girl who waits hopefully for her father's release from prison.
Only on visiting day is there chicken frying in the kitchen at 6 a.m. And Grandma in her Sunday dress, humming soft and...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152626107 |
Every year Mom and I plant a rainbow.
Each letter in the word 'rainbow' is a different color.
In the fall we buy some bulbs and plant them in the ground.
This book is a good book if you want to teach a child about plant names. Although the text is extremely simple, We have some red...
| 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 | Ame Dyckman |
| ISBN | 0375867562 |
One day, a boy and a robot meet in the woods. They play. They have fun.
But when Bot gets switched off, Boy thinks he's sick. The usual remedies—applesauce, reading a story—don't help, so Boy tucks the sick Bot in, then falls asleep.
Bot is worried when he powers on and finds his friend...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0142405558 |
3 soft snickerdoodles.
Cover Love: No, but I saw there were several editions of this book and many other great covers.
Why I Wanted to Read This:
My library has a bunch of Jacqueline Woodson books and I keep meaning to read some of them. I saw mention of this one in an article so I went...
| Author | Pip Jones |
| ISBN | 1471158233 |
⭐️ - Girl inventor.
⭐️ - Inventions with cool names like Tea-Mendous and Swirly-Spagsonic that look like something Doc Brown would make. Remember that wonderful contraption he made to feed Einstein?
⭐️ - Lovely Grandpa who is so encouraging and adorable, and who doesn't...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 1442413050 |
Listen up you hallowed members of the Caldecott Committee. Lois Ehlert deserves your medal. She has deserved your medal for years, while you have repeatedly passed her by for everything from a biography illustrated with woodcut prints to a frickin' pseudo graphic novel.
Take a look at this one....
| Author | Wolf Erlbruch |
| ISBN | 1877579025 |
This is not your usual picture book about death. The story is simple. Death, wearing a fashionably long plaid coat and bearing a black tulip, comes to stay with Duck. Understandably nervous, Duck asks, "Are you going to make something happen?" But no. "Life takes care of that," Death tells her. The two...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399239871 |
Gia is tired of hearing about the new baby. It hasn't even been born yet, but everyone, even her friends, seem fixated on it. Gia thinks things are fine just the way they are! And she's worried: if the baby's such a big deal now, what's going to happen to Gia's nice, cozy life with Mama once it's born? Beloved...
| Author | Anna McQuinn |
| ISBN | 1580891136 |
It is often a challenge to find children's books with black characters that aren't overwhelmed with historical narratives or self-affirming gobbly-gook (be like Harriet Tubman! You're special! No really!) The little touches make this book unique and lovely: Lola's soft cloud of unraveled hair...
How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
| Author | Jessie Hartland |
| ISBN | 1609050320 |
One of the most frequent requests I get from parents in my library is a desire for books on "community workers". Which is to say, their children have been given an assignment in school on writing about the people who work in their neighborhood, and so we are charged with coming up with books about sanitation...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152009868 |
I love how Elhert blends information with a simple tale through her amazing art. This is a fun and simple exploration of various types of birds, as well as a delightful little tale of an escaped cat that is desperately trying to catch a wild treat for lunch! It was a joy to discuss types of birds seen in our...
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. He’s starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool.
In Spanish, “Güero” is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake:...
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
| Author | Marjorie M. Liu |
| ISBN | 1534313362 |
Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens...
Have You Seen Elephant? (Gecko Press Titles)
I guess today is the day for elephants! This is the second picture book I've read about them today (the other one being Pete With No Pants by Rowboat Watkins). Have You Seen Elephant?, however, is the stronger of the two, both in story and in illustration.
Even though Elephant warns the boy that...
| Author | Rose Robart |
| ISBN | 0921103298 |
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| Author | Shel Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0590471643 |
Author: Shel Silverstein
Illustrator: Shel Silverstein
Genre: fictional poetry picture book
Publication Info: Harper Collins (1964)
Reading Level: Ages 4-8; early
Topic/Theme: silly stories and situations
Issues Addressed: humorous,...
| Author | Kelly DiPucchio |
| ISBN | 1484790596 |
When an elephant plants himself in the road and refuses to move, the people of Prickly Valley try all sorts of methods to get him to go-but one thoughtful little girl works up the courage to do what no one else has done: ask him.
Balancing both hilarity and sensitivity, Poe Won't Go has the feel of a contemporary...
My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis
| Author | Paul Meisel |
| ISBN | 0823436713 |
May 17: I was born today! It's a beautiful, sunny spring day!
This is the diary of P. Mantis, one of 150 brothers and sisters born on a garden bush. P. Mantis is an amazing insect: she can make herself look like a stick to hide from predators, she can swivel her head all the way around, and when she's...
| Author | Gordon MacCreagh |
| ISBN | 0226500187 |
With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew, and "dangerous savages." A combination of Twain's The Innocents Abroad...
From North to South/Del Norte al Sur
| Author | Rene Colato Lainez |
| ISBN | 0892392312 |
Jose loves helping Mama in the garden outside their home in California. But when Mama is sent back to Mexico for not having citizenship papers, Jose and his Papa face an uncertain future. What will it be like to visit Mama in Tijuana? When will she be able to come home? Award-winning children's book author...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399231161 |
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
With the addition of a brand-new author's...
Ayobami and the Names of the Animals
| Author | Pilar López Ávila |
| ISBN | 8416733422 |
Ayobami is an African girl who dreams of going to school. After war comes to an end, she can finally return to the schoolhouse. But in order to do so, she has to take a dangerous path through the jungle. Armed only with a piece of paper and a worn-out pencil, she embarks on a hazardous journey to fulfill her...
