Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words

10 best books like Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words (Leda Schubert): One Crazy Summer, Curious George, Frindle, Horton Hears a Who!, Amelia Bedelia, Hop On Pop, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People

One Crazy Summer

Author	Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN	0060760885

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion...

Curious George

Author

H.A. Rey

The first adventure in this highly popular series tells how the little monkey Curious George, caught in the jungle and brought back to the city by a man in a yellow hat, can't help being interested in all the new things around him. Though well meaning, George's curiosity always gets him into trouble. Young...

Frindle

Author	Andrew Clements
ISBN	0689818769

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.

Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty...

Horton Hears a Who!

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0679800034

In the fifties, my Mom was head librarian for our small-town library (politically, we were termed a Police Village, whatever that meant).

So we kids got our literacy skills off and running when she used to catalogue books in our kitchen.

Especially since City View was in the middle...

Amelia Bedelia

Author	Peggy Parish
ISBN	0064441555

Once upon a school day, I think when I was in second grade (so this would have been pre-1980, I believe), we went on our bi-weekly library outing. The librarian had us sit in front of her in the storytime area and whipped this book out. She read it to us.
That may have been when I realized my love for wordplay.
I...

Hop On Pop

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007158491

Call me old fashioned but I think that there is far too much pop hopping going on in America these days. It's disgusting, revolting, quite possibly illegal, and then they turn around and turn it into a children's book? What's next? Leaving two unsupervised children alone with a giant cat? An elephant...

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Author

Kate DiCamillo

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person...

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

Author	Don Brown
ISBN	1328810151

In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Author	Jan Greenberg
ISBN	1596433388

A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance

Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer

Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer

Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman

Award-winning...

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People

Author	Dav Pilkey
ISBN	0439903815

Dav Pilkey's eighth epic novel promises evil, horror, and "laffs," and delivers on all three. In this rowdy episode, George and Harold take a wrong turn somewhere and wind up in a surrealistic alternate reality where everything defies expectation. As they try to adjust to a realm where teachers are...

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

Author	Debbie Levy
ISBN	1481465597

Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—in the first picture book about her life—as she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing...

House Arrest

Author	K.A. Holt
ISBN	1452134774

Stealing is bad.
Yeah.
I know.
But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive.

I didn’t think anyone would notice,
if I took that credit card,
if, in one stolen second,
I bought Levi’s medicine.

But someone did notice.
Now...