Mud Pies and Other Recipes
10 best books like Mud Pies and Other Recipes (Marjorie Winslow): Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Box Set, The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, A Pussycat's Christmas, The Squirrel's Birthday and Other Parties, Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis, D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, In a Blue Room, The House of Arden, Autumn Story, Written and Drawn by Henrietta
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Box Set
| Author | Betty MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0590648985 |
One of my favorite childhood collections! A fabulous early chapter book. Each chapter can be read as a self-contained story, making them excellent for a "one chapter a night" bedtime read. Each story of a child's less than desirable behavior is told from the parents' perspective (which is a good taste...
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
| Author | Dan Yaccarino |
| ISBN | 0375855734 |
Jacques Cousteau was the world s ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people s living rooms. Now, in this exciting picturebook biography, Dan Yaccarino introduces young readers to the man behind the snorkel.
From the first moment he got...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0064434664 |
Experience all the mystery and beauty of Christmas through the eyes of a cat in this simple, rhythmic story by Margaret Wise Brown, beloved author of Goodnight Moon. With stunning illustrations by Anne Mortimer, this is a perfect gift for cat lovers and Christmas revelers of all ages.
“She...
The Squirrel's Birthday and Other Parties
| Author | Toon Tellegen |
| ISBN | 1906250936 |
This charming little book is as delicious as a piece of cake—which just happens to be Squirrel’s favorite food! Young readers are invited to Squirrel’s birthday party—and into a magical world of the imagination. Brief, evocative, thought-provoking, and unlike anything else ever written,...
| Author | Robbin Gourley |
| ISBN | 0618158367 |
Long before the natural-food movement gained popularity, before greenmarkets sprouted across the United States, Edna Lewis championed purity of ingredients, regional cuisine, and the importance of bringing food directly from the farm to the table. She was a chef when female chefs—let alone...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 1590172175 |
In this spectacular follow-up to their beloved Book of Norse Myths, the husband-and-wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire explore the uncanny reaches of Norse mythology, an enchanted night-world populated by trolls of all kinds--mountain trolls, forest trolls, trolls who live underwater...
Alice is wide, wide awake. Mama brings flowers, tea, a quilt, even lullaby bells to help her sleep. But none of these things are blue, and Alice can sleep only in a blue room. Yet when the light goes out, a bit of magic is stirred up. Pale blue moonlight swirls into her bedroom window. Then the night swirls...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 1590172027 |
The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arden line, Edred, Elfrida, and their Aunt Edith, have nothing to their names but the crumbling castle they live in. Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0689830548 |
Bad weather is on the way and the autumn crops are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly Hedge set to work to finish the harvesting before the rain begins. Primrose, Lord Woodmouse's daughter, meant to help, but somehow she daydreamed her way over the cornfield and into the Chestnut Woods,...
Written and Drawn by Henrietta
A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Reading books is fun . . . but what about making them? Armed with new colored pencils, Henrietta's ready to try. Peek over her shoulder as she draws the story of a brave young girl, a three-headed monster, and an impossibly wide world of adventure. Whether read...
| Author | John Masefield |
| ISBN | 0006724167 |
‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. We’re the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’
Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are...
| Author | J.P. Martin |
| ISBN | 1590172396 |
If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent...
Jenny Linsky, the famous little black cat of Greenwich Village, has never been to school before. When her master, Captain Tinker, sends her to a boarding school in the country to learn the special knowledge of cats—manners and cooperation—she is a little afraid, among strangers, and so far from...
| Author | Alastair Reid |
| ISBN | 1590173201 |
What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
Life with only the sea can be lonely. Just ask Pandora and Seabold. They've lived most of their lives with the sea -- Pandora in a lighthouse and Seabold on a boat -- and they're each quite used to being alone. Or they were.
But one day, the sea did something extraordinary: It brought Pandora and Seabold...
| Author | Linda Newbery |
| ISBN | 1416971122 |
I'm in love with Posy. This is such a fun, sweet, delightful little book about a fun, sweet, delightful kitten! The illustrations are definitely a bit unusual in style, but I just adore them. And the text is very sparse, just two words per page, rhyming, but it completely captures all the variations in...
| Author | Meghan Mccarthy |
| ISBN | 0375844597 |
DO YOU HAVE what it takes to be an astronaut? Meghan McCarthy blasts readers off to astronaut school in her new, young, nonfiction picture book. Take a ride on the "Vomit Comet" and learn how it feels to be weightless. Have your measurements taken—100 to be exact—for your very own space suit. Meghan...
Owen and Mzee: The Language of Friendship
| Author | Isabella Hatkoff |
| ISBN | 0439899591 |
The in-demand follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, OWEN & MZEE, the friendship that has touched millions around the world.
In this exciting follow-up to OWEN & MZEE, the New York Times bestselling story about an orphaned baby hippo named Owen and the 130-year-old giant turtle,...
| Author | Barbara McClintock |
| ISBN | 0374380449 |
When Simon's older sister, Ad�le, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Ad�le makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause...
Never Smile at a Monkey: And 17 Other Important Things to Remember
When it comes to wild animals, everyone knows that there are certain things you just don’t do. It's clearly a bad idea to tease a tiger, pull a python's tail, or bother a black widow spider. But do you know how dangerous it can be to pet a platypus, collect a cone shell, or touch a tang fish? Some creatures...
Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again
| Author | Juliana Hatkoff |
| ISBN | 0545123356 |
The original hardcover upon which the major motion picture is based on!
When Winter was a baby, she was rescued from a crab trap, her tail seriously damaged, and rushed to Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Winter survived, but eventually her tail fell off. Then Winter received a prosthetic tail....
Teff Love: Adventures in Vegan Ethiopian Cooking
Why wait for a trip to your favorite Ethiopian restaurant? Import the delicious flavors of Ethiopia right to your own kitchen! Kittee Berns has demystified this cuisine so you can savor authentic Ethiopian food without ever leaving home. Discover how to source and use the tantalizing seasonings and...
