Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses

10 best books like Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses (Mary Engelbreit): Flotsam, The Napping House, Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems, Cat's Colors, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, A Ball for Daisy, Edible Colors, Oops, Pounce, Quick, Run!: An Alphabet Caper, Float, Carl Goes Shopping

Flotsam

Author	David Wiesner
ISBN	0618194576

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted...

The Napping House

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...

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems

Author	Marilyn Singer
ISBN	0525479015

What’s brewing when two favorites—poetry and fairy tales—are turned (literally) on their heads? It’s a revolutionary recipe: an infectious new genre of poetry and a lovably modern take on classic stories. First, read the poems forward (how old-fashioned!), then reverse the lines and read...

Cat's Colors

Author

Airlie Anderson

Bored one cloudy gray day, a white cat wanders about finding colorful experiences, and incorporating them into her being. From the green of the trees to the red of the roses, the blue of water to the purple of a butterfly, the cat takes everything in, developing a colorful spot for each new experience....

If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Author	Laura Joffe Numeroff
ISBN	0060244054

If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix. In this hilarious sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the young host...

A Ball for Daisy

Author

Chris Raschka

Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal

This New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is destroyed...

Edible Colors

Author	Jennifer Vogel Bass
ISBN	1626720029

As a foodie, I dig books like this. Not only does Jennifer Vogel Bass introduce kids to colors by showing fruits and veggies that we are familiar with like yellow corn, orange carrots, and green cucumbers, but in Edible Colors, she also familiarizes them to unusual, lesser-known varieties of fruits...

Oops, Pounce, Quick, Run!: An Alphabet Caper

Author	Mike Twohy
ISBN	0062377000

A cute story told by beginning each declarative word with the subsequent letter of the alphabet. A small mouse begins a game of ball with a dog, only to stir up some ire. This leads to a chase around the house and, eventually, the mouse is caught, but sneaks away before things get too hectic. But the end, currying...

Float

Author	Daniel Miyares
ISBN	1481415247

A boy's small paper boat and his large imagination fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own.

A little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure....

Carl Goes Shopping

Author	Alexandra Day
ISBN	0374311013

That baby-sitting Rottweiler, Carl, returns in this second mostly wordless picture-book from artist Alexandra Day, as Mother once again leaves her baby in her dog's care, while she runs off to another part of the store where they are shopping. Dog and infant immediately embark on an adventurous tour...

After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again

Author	Dan Santat
ISBN	1626726825

My name is Humpty Dumpty.
I'm famous for falling off a wall.

(You may have heard about it.)

But that's only half the story...
Because I decided to get back up.
And when I did, something amazing happened.

This story is about my life...
AFTER THE FALL.

Inspiring...