BooksList.Best
Search

Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale

10 best books like Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale (Sibylle von Olfers): Madlenka, The Secret Lives of Princesses, The Tomten, The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, Avocado Baby, Peter in Blueberry Land, The Quangle Wangle's Hat, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, Ernest and Celestine, Crocodile Beat

Madlenka
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374399697
A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world!

Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the...
The Secret Lives of Princesses
AuthorPhilippe Lechermeier
ISBN1402766777
Go beyond Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella! Some princesses are well-known to all children—but others, equally magical (and sometimes, a lot funnier) have remained anonymous, mysterious, and far from the fairy-tale crowd.

Now these captivating ladies are finally stepping out of the...
The Tomten
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN0698115910
It's official. . . I'm obsessed with Astrid Lindgren. I just ordered every possible title that I do not possess from the library, then ordered the remaining books from Amazon. (In case my husband reads this review, I would like to add that I was able to find MOST of her work at the library).

I want...
The Cow Who Fell in the Canal
AuthorPhyllis Krasilovsky
ISBN0749704977
This by far hasn't been the first time I've read The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, but I recently realised I hadn't added it to Goodreads and so it demanded a reread.

What a lovely children's book! The story of Henrietta and her adventure has always been a personal favourite, and now I get to share it...
Avocado Baby
AuthorJohn Burningham
ISBN0099200619
This is a cute tale of a puny baby who doesn't like to eat...UNTIL...it's discovered that it (the baby is always referred to as "it" or "the baby," so I guess the gender is left up to the reader. Clever, huh?) LOVES avocados.



Just one avocado a day seems to imbue the tot with Popeye-like...
Peter in Blueberry Land
AuthorElsa Beskow
ISBN0863154980
Like with the vast majority of Floris Books of Edinburgh's editions that feature so-called translations, that present English language renderings of classical continental Western European children's literature picture books, Elsa Beskow's Peter in Blueberry Land (the original 1901 Swedish...
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
AuthorEdward Lear
ISBN0744567947
The Quangle Wangle Quee sat on top of the Crumpetty Tree, but you could not see his face because of his hundred and two feet wide Beaver Hat.

The Quangle Wangle gets visited by an array of imaginary beasts such as a pobble who has not toes and loves to dance on the hat of the Quangle Wangle Quee.

This...
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes
AuthorEve Sutton
ISBN0140502424
Don't mind me, this is for my cat.

So. This book told me that "the cat from France liked to sing and dance".

See? Here.



When I talked to you about this talent you're supposed to share with your fellow French cats -



Oh, yes. You did that. Just FLEE. Because...
Ernest and Celestine
AuthorGabrielle Vincent
ISBN0688008569
All of Gabrielle Vincent's books about Ernest and Celestine are adorable. Celestine is a young mouse, and Ernest is an adult bear, and they are the best of friends. There isn't any backstory as to why Ernest is caring for Celestine as he would his own daughter, but it doesn't really matter why ... what matters...
Crocodile Beat
AuthorGail Jorgensen
ISBN0689718810
.
Jamela's Dress
AuthorNiki Daly
ISBN0374437203
Perfectly South African, and perfectly universal. Lively, funny, with a big crisis and a happy resolution, and an author's note that, unfortunately, is half-covered by my library's binding (still, I get the gist, and it is a good one to share with older children).

I honestly tried to talk myself...
Max
AuthorBob Graham
ISBN0763618578
A success story for anyone who knows the highs—and lows—of learning to do something for the first time. Max will fly away with your heart!

As the son of legendary superheroes Captain Lightning and Madam Thunderbolt, Max is destined to join their ranks - once he learns to
fly, that is....
Mother Goose
AuthorKate Greenaway
ISBN0873282167
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were even translated into German and French.

One...
Barbapapa
AuthorAnnette Tison
ISBN2878812301
This is charming and weird but not as weird as the rest of the series. I like when the rest of the Barba family is in play, doing bizarre semi-human things together with their giant shapechanging bodies.

So, the early picture of Barbapapa growing in the earth as he's watered like a flower and then...
Uppo-Nalle
AuthorElina Karjalainen
ISBN9510082449
Kokonaisen vuoden ui Uppo-Nalle maailman meriä. Se toivoo löytävänsä rauhallisen sataman, jossa on valkeaa hiekkaa ja joku ystävällinen mikä tahansa odottamassa.
Reeta on pieni tyttö valkealla hiekkarannalla. Reetan kotona on Laulava Lintukoira, villi ja menevä otus, mutta...
Das kleine Ich-bin-ich
AuthorMira Lobe
I have read it over 100 times as a child. I grew up with this book. When my children were born I asked my family overseas to buy it and send it. Now, both my children are over the age of 20. Together, we read "Das Kleine Ich Bin Ich" another 100 times.

It is the rhyming that is so catching. It is fun, it is...
Martine à la ferme
AuthorGilbert Delahaye
ISBN2203101016
.
Up in the Tree
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0888997299
This story about the adventures of two children who live up in a tree is vintage Atwood -- playful, whimsical and wry. The perfect integration of words and pictures creates a coherent and delightful whole.

When this charming book was first published in 1978, there was a widespread idea that...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024