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Mrs. Armitage: Queen of the Road

10 best books like Mrs. Armitage: Queen of the Road (Quentin Blake): The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas, Too Purpley!, The Adventures of Abdi, Museum ABC, There's a House Inside My Mummy, "Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate, Pete the Sheep-Sheep, Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness, The Sea Of Tranquility, Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley

The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas
AuthorTony Wilson
ISBN1407111450
After tiring of the needs of overly demanding princesses, Prince Henrik devises a test to find a girl who s not so sensitive, using a very thin mattress and an entire packet of frozen peas. His dream girl shows up unexpectedly in the form of his old friend Pippa, who is all too happy to pitch a tent or play a...
Too Purpley!
AuthorJean Reidy
ISBN1599903075
Too purpley, too tickly, too puckery, too prickly!

There is not a single outfit in the closet that our little fashion plate wants to wear. She tries on everything, but nothing is quite right. And the outfits are getting wilder by the minute!

It's a scene that is all too familiar to parents,...
The Adventures of Abdi
AuthorMadonna
ISBN0670058890
"The power of certainty is without limits."

Abdi is a little boy who has been given a very big task. He is to deliver the most precious necklace in the world -- made by Eli, his teacher and a master jeweler -- to the queen. Along the way he is robbed in the desert, thrown in a dungeon, and has a surprising...
Museum ABC
AuthorMetropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN0316071706
Museum ABC introduces more than one hundred works art--using the alphabet!

This unique alphabet book features four works of art from different cultures and periods for each letter of the alphabet. Simple words matched with intriguing illustrations provide an opportunity for endless exploration....
There's a House Inside My Mummy
AuthorGiles Andreae
ISBN1841210684
This book helps explain pregnancy to children. It is about a little boy, whose mother is pregnant. The little boy believes that there is a house inside his mother where his brother or sister lives. It explains that the baby is in sort of a giant bathtub inside his mother’s tummy and that the baby needs...
"Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate
AuthorBob Graham
ISBN0763614521
The Barnes & Noble Review
A little girl's dream comes true -- twice -- in this outstanding picture book from gifted author/illustrator Bob Graham. After her cat, Tiger, dies, Kate needs another companion to love, someone to keep her feet warm at night. "Let's get a pup!" she proclaims as she...
Pete the Sheep-Sheep
AuthorJackie French
Australian sheep shearers always have sheep dogs--smart, well-trained dogs with names like Brute, Tiny, and Fang, who bark commands--"Woof! Arf arff arff! Grrrr!"--to round up the sheep for shearing.

But sheep shearer Shaun doesn't have a sheep dog. Instead, he has a sheep-sheep named...
Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness
AuthorLynley Dodd
ISBN0140545506
Hairy Maclary is a scruffy dog from Donaldson's Dairy. He desperately wants to check out the Riverside Cat Club Annual Show. Using his stealth skills, he manages to sneak into the dazzling world of cats.

Little did Hairy know that his visit would create kitty chaos. Humans scramble to catch...
The Sea Of Tranquility
AuthorMark Haddon
ISBN0001981625
Leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the excitement of this momentous event is captured through the eyes of a child in this glorious picture book, reformatted with a new cover design. Mark Haddon is the prize-winning, highly-acclaimed author of the best-selling novel 'The...
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley
AuthorAaron Blabey
ISBN1590785967
A delightfully uplifting tale about self-belief, courage, and—above all—the power of friendship. Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every way: Pearl loves solving mysteries and moves rather fast in the world, and Charlie likes taking leisurely...
The Foggy, Foggy Forest
AuthorNick Sharratt
ISBN0763639214
Peek through each foggy vellum page to guess what lies beyond in an innovative novelty book that's a surefire page turner.

"What can this be in the foggy, foggy forest?" That's the question on every spread of this clever book, each depicting the black-and-white silhouette of a fairy-tale figure...
Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes
AuthorJudy Hindley
ISBN0763604402
Peekaboo! From a blink and a wink of their eyes, to a wiggle of their shoulders, to a stomp of their feet, a group of lovable toddlers joyfully explores the many ways to use their bodies. Readers are invited to join in the fun of learning all the moves our bodies are able to make--and how, for instance, lips...
That's Not My Truck
AuthorFiona Watt
ISBN0794502105
Board Book
This book is one of a series of "touchy feely" books by Usborne designed for children ages 2-6. The text is repetitive and therefore predictable to the emerging reader. Children love these books and they allow those new to reading to interact with each page in a verbal, visual and tactile...
Leaf Trouble
AuthorJonathan Emmett
ISBN0545160707
As the leaves on the trees go from green to red and gold, two curious squirrels embrace the change of seasons!

When he wakes up one morning to find that his home tree is changing, the little squirrel is scared! Why are all the leaves falling off?
Quickly he corrals his sister and they gather...
Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero
AuthorAnne Cottringer
ISBN1589250834
By day, Eliot is quiet. He reads his books, feeds his goldfish, and watches Mr. Smith wash his car. Eliot is such a quiet little thing, say all the grown-ups. But the grown-ups don't know that when the clock strikes midnight Eliot is a SUPERHERO! Eliot's midnight adventures include saving a crowd from...
The Racecar Alphabet
AuthorBrian Floca
ISBN0689850913
A is for Automobiles, machines on wheels.
B is for Belts turning, fuel burning, the buzz and bark of engines.
C is for Curves and crowds and cars, of course --
A century of racecars, from bare beginnings to present-day marvels, from stock cars to Formula 1, from Ford to Ferrari, caught in crackling...
Everything but the Horse
AuthorHolly Hobbie
This gorgeous, resonant tale is a beautiful recollection from Holly Hobbie's own childhood about her love affair with horses.When Holly's family moves from the city to the countryside, she's scared of this new world at first, but gradually comes to love the animals she encounters. Soon she is drawing...
Wag!
AuthorPatrick McDonnell
ISBN0316045489
It seems that everything gets Earl's tail wagging--a bowl of food, a field of flowers, long walks, and belly rubs. But Mooch, Earl's best friend, knows what all of these things have in common: love is what makes Earl's tail wag. Patrick McDonnell, creator of the nationally syndicated comic strip, Mutts,...
Whose Nose and Toes?
AuthorJohn Butler
ISBN0670059048
Whose nose and Toes by Whose John Butler
ISBN0-670-05904-8
Whose nose and Toes by John Butler is a guessing picture book written for N-Nursery ages 2-5. In this book, they show a picture of an animal's nose and toes and the reader is to guess what animal they belong too. By turning the page they...
Arlene Sardine
AuthorChris Raschka
ISBN0531301117
Born in a fjord, a tiny fish named Arlene wants to be a sardine. Fully grown by two, she swims into a big purse net along with thousands of friends from her school. After three days and three nights, she is lifted out of the water and dropped onto the deck of a fishing boat, where she dies. But that's not the end...
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard
AuthorGregory Rogers
ISBN1596432675
A comic romp through Shakespeare's London featuring an intrepid little boy, a friendly bear, and-in the role of dastardly villain-the Bard himself.

What happens when a boy bursts through the curtain of a deserted theatre and onto the world's most famous stage? He lands on the Bard himself...
Fox and Hen Together
AuthorBéatrice Rodriguez
ISBN1592701094
Fox and Hen Together continues the wordless story of The Chicken Thief, focusing on Fox and Hen’s life together. As the illustrations quickly reveal, Crab has become a fast friend, Fox and Hen have an empty refrigerator, and Hen has laid an egg. As to the fate of her egg, that will take a little longer...
My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch
AuthorGraeme Base
ISBN0810915472
Author/Illustrator: Graeme Base
First Published: 1983

Graeme Base is one of those seriously lucky (and talented!) authors - the first publisher he sent his first book to accepted it. "My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch" has subsequently been produced as a play. He has gone on to make a huge...
Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms
AuthorJulia Rawlinson
Fletcher loves everything about spring: listening to the birds sing, smelling just-opened flowers, and playing chase with butterflies. But then Fletcher sees something he never expected to see in spring: snow. Oh, no!

But it turns out that spring has another surprise in store for Fletcher—a...
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