Mother, Mother, I Want Another
10 best books like Mother, Mother, I Want Another (Maria Polushkin Robbins): A Hat for Minerva Louise, The Cow Who Clucked, The Frogs and Toads All Sang, Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors, Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Bed?, Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping, Good-Night, Owl!, Sylvie, A Boy and His Bunny, Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
| Author | Janet Morgan Stoeke |
| ISBN | 0140556664 |
Before performing this book at a library pre-school story time gasp and ask the children what the white stuff pictured on the cover is. "SNOW!" they'll say. This provides an opportunity for a MUSIC WIGGLE BREAK. Sing "Snow is Falling All Around" (here is the tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XaC......
| Author | Denise Fleming |
| ISBN | 0805072659 |
Cow has lost her moo—can she find it again?
Having lost her moo, Cow is stuck clucking. The only thing to do is go out and find that moo! Join Cow and her friends as they conduct their vocal barnyard search. Cow tramps through a wheat field and on into the starry night until she is too tired to look...
| Author | Arnold Lobel |
| ISBN | 0061800228 |
From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes a brand-new collection of rhyming stories about frogs and toads. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, The Frogs and Toads All Sang has the same warmth, compassion, and humor that is found in his best-loved work. Brimming with sweet silliness,...
Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors
| Author | Petr Horáček |
| ISBN | 0763633437 |
Little ones will hover over this colorful look at insect critters as they peek through die-cuts and enjoy a final pop-up surprise.
Lucy sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden, along with a bright green beetle, a brilliant blue dragonfly, some red ladybugs, and many more flying and crawling...
Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Bed?
| Author | Barney Saltzberg |
| ISBN | 0763633038 |
"A cheery piglet calls out affirmatives to a series of bedtime queries. . . . But the brightly colored pictures tell a different story. - KIRKUS REVIEWS
It’s time for bed, and Cornelius P. Mud knows what that means — putting his toys away, brushing his teeth, putting his pajamas on, all the...
Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping
| Author | Julie Markes |
| ISBN | 0060537906 |
Does the farmer sleep on a mattress of hay? Is the baker's bed made of soft, doughy bread? And is the grocer most comfortable resting on a bed of lettuce? No matter what the bed or walls look like, when the day's activities are done, it's time for everyone, big or small, to go to sleep.
With whimsy...
| Author | Pat Hutchins |
| ISBN | 0689713711 |
Owl can’t get to sleep in Pat Hutchins’s beloved Good-Night, Owl!
How is Owl supposed to sleep the day away with the bees buzzing, the woodpecker pecking, the doves cooing, and the squirrels crunching? But when night falls and everything is finally quiet, suddenly there’s a new sound—and...
| Author | Jennifer Sattler |
| ISBN | 0375857087 |
Meet a flamingo of a different stripe!
"Mama, why are we pink?" asks an ever-curious young flamingo named Sylvie. Like Leo Lionni's chameleon in A Color of His Own, Sylvie comes to learn that being yourself is the best thing to be. When she learns that it's due to the little pink brine shrimp they...
| Author | Sean Bryan |
| ISBN | 1559707259 |
I have finally read the prequel and sequel to A Girl and Her Gator by Sean Bryan and Tom Murphy. Having read the entire trilogy (perhaps with more to come), I feel like my life is complete. These are some of my most favorite picture books of all time.
The genius started in 2005 with A Boy and His Bunny...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0763631418 |
This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one’s library and a gorgeous gift to be both shared and treasured.
Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston...
| Author | Deborah Bruss |
| ISBN | 0439135257 |
2/23/2001 BOOK! BOOK! BOOK! by Deborah Bruss, Illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke, Arthur A. Levine Books May 2001
In those years when I'd do daily circle times with preschoolers and kindergarteners, I used to love to have the children act out stories from picture books they knew from repeated readings....
| Author | Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| ISBN | 1599903415 |
When it's Mommy's bedtime, she begs her little girl --
Five more minutes?
Ok, but then brush your teeth!
But then Mommy wants another glass of water…another story…luckily this little girl is very patient!
A hilarious reversal of the classic bedtime routine in...
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea
| Author | Jan Peck |
| ISBN | 0689851103 |
I also read Jan Peck's book Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea to my reception class while on placement. The book tells the story of a little boy who swims under the sea and meets different sea creatures. It has a regular rhyming pattern throughout the book, a perfect book to read aloud to a class. I feel that...
| Author | Paul Hoppe |
| ISBN | 0811875474 |
Being afraid of the dark doesn't mean being afraid alone. When a boy can't find his favorite stuffed bunny, he bravely heads into the woods to look for it. Instead, he finds a big, scary brown bear! But the bear is just lonely, so the boy shares his night light and forges ahead with his new companion, until...they...
| Author | Ruth Lercher Bornstein |
| ISBN | 0618051589 |
Little Gorilla is a perfect book for approximate ages one to three years. It succeeds in many ways. Physically, it is a good size for small hands, it is a sturdy board book, and it is the right length for this age. The illustrations are simple and engaging and characters and their expressions are easily...
A little red hen grows grain, threshes wheat, bakes bread, and feeds her chicks—all by herself, without any help from her lazy friends. Young readers will laugh and learn a valuable lesson about teamwork from this classic tale! This oversize edition (18 x 18") is prefect for sharing in a library or...
"If I've told you once I've told you a million times, no jumping on the bed!"
But Walter just can't resist, so he ignores his father's bedtime warning. Higher and higher he bounces gleefully, until his hair brushes the ceiling. But when he lands back on the bed--thump, creak, crack--it crashes...
| Author | Kate Lum |
| ISBN | 0142300926 |
Patrick is having his first sleep-over at his grandmother's house. It's almost bedtime, but there's a problem-Patrick doesn't have a bed at Granny's. So Granny goes out to her yard, chops down some trees, and makes a comfy bed for Patrick. Now he can go to sleep. Right? Not yet. He doesn't have a pillow!...
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Grade Level: preK-Kindergarten
This book is such a cute children's fiction book. I love the sequence that the book follows and the children would too! I think the ending is so cute and its funny enough that the children would understand and get a laugh too! I...
| Author | Steve Webb |
| ISBN | 0439578442 |
Rhyming has never been so much fun as in Steve Webb's bold, new picture book, which encourages children to read aloud, following the easy and catchy rhythm of the text.
"Skunka Tanka
Skunka Tanka
Tanka Tanka Skunk!
They've got the beat, and so do their friends."
"Meet...
| Author | Lauren Thompson |
| ISBN | 0689847246 |
Little Mouse’s sister sneaks around the house getting different craft supplies. She looks for paste, lace, ribbon and other craft supplies. Little Mouse wants to know what his sister is making, but she will not tell him until she is completely finished. At the end of the story, Little Mouse receives...
Little Mouse and the Big Cupcake
| Author | Thomas Taylor |
| ISBN | 1907152474 |
When one small mouse finds one BIG cupcake (a chocolate chip, raspberry cream cupcake!), he wonders how he will get it home. It's much too heavy for him to carry. So, one by one, Little Mouse asks his animal friends to help. They all say “yes”-but only after taking a nibble of the yummy treat. Will there...
| Author | Keiko Kasza |
| ISBN | 0698113748 |
The wolf loves to eat more than anything in the world and one day he has a terrible craving for chicken stew. He spots a chicken who seems just right, but then he thinks how much more stew there will be if he fattens her up before dining himself. So he goes home and begins to cook all kinds of scrumptious food...
| Author | Jane Cabrera |
| ISBN | 0823420272 |
Ten in the bed by Jane Cabrera is a story about a boy who is trying to sleep with ten cuddly animals in his bed, he is tired and wants more room so he can sleep. As he rolls over each animal falls out until eventually he is left alone in the bed. Cold and lonely he gets them all to get back into the bed before he goes...
