Moody Cow Meditates

10 best books like Moody Cow Meditates (Kerry Lee MacLean): What Do People Do All Day?, Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too, The Rabbit Listened, The Most Magnificent Thing, Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!, If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't!, A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles, Be Kind, Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda, The Heart and the Bottle

What Do People Do All Day?

Author	Richard Scarry
ISBN	0394818237

While Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? definitely is engagingly entertaining, full of details upon details and thus both textually and illustratively informative (and albeit I do also have fond memories using a school library copy in grade four to practice my English vocabulary), personally...

Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too

Author	Anna Dewdney
ISBN	0670012270

For those who don't know, Nelly Gnu is Llama Llama's friend. This picture book is done in the same style as the Llama Llama books, but focuses on Nelly and her relationship with her father.

After the family gets a new high chair and other baby furniture for Nelly's younger sibling, Daddy Gnu and...

The Rabbit Listened

Author

Cori Doerrfeld

A universal, deeply moving exploration of grief and empathy

With its spare, poignant text and irresistibly sweet illustrations, The Rabbit Listened is a tender meditation on loss.

When something terrible happens, Taylor doesn't know where to turn. All the animals are sure they...

The Most Magnificent Thing

Author	Ashley Spires
ISBN	1554537045

Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work....

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

Author	Candace Fleming
ISBN	1416909680

Tippy, tippy, tippy, Pat!

That's the sound three hungry bunnies make when the sun goes down and the moon comes up and Mr. McGreely's garden smells yum, yum, yummy. While's he's dreaming of his mouth-watering carrots, the bunnies are diving over fences and swimming trenches to get the veggies...

If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't!

Author	Elise Parsley
ISBN	0316376574

Note to self: If your teacher tells you to bring something from nature for show-and-tell, she does not want you to bring an alligator! But nothing will stop Magnolia, who's determined to have the best show-and-tell of all--until her reptilian rapscallion starts getting her into some major trouble....

A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	1937006212

Pebble meditation is a groundbreaking and completely unique technique to introduce children to the calming practice of meditation. Developed by Zen master, best selling author, and peace Nobel Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh A Handful of Quiet contains complete instructions for pebble meditation...

Be Kind

Author	Pat Zietlow Miller
ISBN	1626723214

A picture book about the power of kindness.

When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores...

Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda

Author	Lauren Alderfer
ISBN	0861716833

This wonderful picture book for children and adults alike introduces the powerful practice of mindfulness in a fun and exciting way. With the delightful Monkey and his serene friend Happy Panda guiding readers to a calmer and more attentive mind, this whimsical yet warm presentation will delight...

The Heart and the Bottle

Author	Oliver Jeffers
ISBN	0399254528

A picture book about grief. A little girl likes to read with her grandfather as he sits in his rocking chair, and then one day she faces an empty chair. Yes, it's that subtle, the chair is just empty, no explanation, really. Her grandpa is gone, and since she feels like she can't risk too much strain on her...

London Rain

Author	Nicola Upson
ISBN	0062418157

Intrepid writer and amateur sleuth Josephine Tey returns in this sixth installment of Nicola Upson’s popular series—perfect for fans of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Jaqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs—that unfolds in 1930s London as England prepares to crown a new king.

London,...

Nine Lessons

Author	Nicola Upson
ISBN	1683313216

Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church's organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic note....

Quantum Entanglement for Babies

Author	Chris Ferrie
ISBN	1492656232

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Hello, friends! Today’s book is Quantum Entanglement For Babies by Chris Ferrie, a introduction to the titular physics phenomenon for little ones.

Using a series...

Near, Far: A Minibombo Book

Author	Silvia Borando
ISBN	0763687839

From up close and far away, things can look so different. Can you guess what animals you’re looking at as they zoom in, then zoom back out?

No words are needed in this striking and colorful exploration of animal shapes. Bold graphic forms create a playful exercise in visual perception. At first...

Goose the Bear

Author	Katja Gehrmann
ISBN	1626363846

If a goose walks like a bear, talks like a bear, and acts like a bear, is it a bear?

Bear got more than he bargained for when he accidentally ran into Fox. Little did he know that Bear had picked up Fox's stolen goose egg. Soon, the egg hatches, and Bear finds himself holding a confused little creature...

Ready and Waiting for You

Author	Judi Moreillon
ISBN	0802853552

The bus driver, the principal, the teachers -- all these and more wait behind doors, ready to welcome new students. Each school setting offers warm and friendly characters perfect for reassuring any child nervous about starting school.

Children will be delighted by the colorful illustrations...

Take a Hike, Miles and Spike!: (Funny Kids Books, Friendship Book, Adventure Book)

Author	Travis Foster
ISBN	1452164711

A humorous rhyming story that demonstrates the importance of being thoughtful and kind.

Friends Miles and Spike decide to take a hike in the woods, much to their friends' chagrin. As they go about damaging/destroying the woods while gathering treasures for their backpack, they rather rudely...

This Is What Inequality Looks Like

Author

You Yenn Teo

What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try?

This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but have been...