Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons

10 best books like Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons (Rob D. Walker): If You Lived Here: Houses of the World, Reading Beauty, The Quiet Book, Show Way, Just Us Women, Pecan Pie Baby, The Loud Book!, Coming on Home Soon, This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration, Florette

If You Lived Here: Houses of the World

Author	Giles Laroche
ISBN	0547238924

Step into unique homes from around the world and discover the many fascinating ways in which people live and have lived.If you lived in the mountains of southern Spain, your bedroom might be carved out of a mountain. If you lived in a village in South Africa, the outside of your house might tell the story...

Reading Beauty

Author

Deborah Underwood

Once upon a planetoid,
surrounded by book lovers,
a princess, Lex, read morning, noon,
and night (beneath her covers).

When a fairy's curse—a deathlike sleep via paper cut—threatens to make her kingdom barren of books, it's up to space princess Lex to break the spell and...

The Quiet Book

Author	Deborah Underwood
ISBN	0547215673

All quiet is not created equal. In this irresistibly charming picture book, many different quiet moments are captured, from the anticipation-heavy “Top of the roller coaster quiet” to the shocked-into-silence “First look at your new hairstyle quiet.” The impossibly sweet bears, rabbits,...

Show Way

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0399237496

Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways...

Just Us Women

Author	Jeannette Franklin Caines
ISBN	0064430561

this was such a sweet story about a little girl and her aunt going to visit some relatives and they make so many pit stops along the way just to spend quality time together. they bring maps to help them chart their course (this takes place in the 80's) and stop at roadside markets to buy "all the junk we like"...

Pecan Pie Baby

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...

The Loud Book!

Author	Deborah Underwood
ISBN	0547390084

BANG!
CRACKLE!
BOO!

Just like there are lots of quiets, there are also lots of louds:

Good louds
(HOORAY!)

and bad louds

(CRASH!)And louds that make you feel like you are
the center of attention (BURP!).

The Loud Book compiles all these...

Coming on Home Soon

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0399237488

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily...

This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0399239863

The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her family’s history. But for three generations, that rope is passed down, used for everything from jump...

Florette

Author	Anna Walker
ISBN	0544876830

I love this kind of story. This poor girl is a gardener. Her parents moved her to the city where there is no green. It’s a concrete jungle and this little girl is so sad. She longs for plants and draws them on everything. Why would you bring a little girl like that to the city —yeah yeah, I know, work.

Anyway,...