Museum ABC
10 best books like Museum ABC (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Alphabet City, Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef, The Adventures of Abdi, Mrs. Armitage: Queen of the Road, Enigma: A Magical Mystery, The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book, There's a House Inside My Mummy, Pete the Sheep-Sheep, Cat, Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley
| Author | Stephen T. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0670856312 |
The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A" — while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book,...
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
| Author | Marianne Berkes |
| ISBN | 1584690623 |
I put Over in the Ocean in my favorites tab because it is a great way to integrate poetry, rhyme, and song into the classroom. The illustrations are very colorful, intricate, and lively, which I think would really get the students engaged. It is a great way to teach counting and numbers as well because each...
| Author | Madonna |
| ISBN | 0670058890 |
"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...
| Author | Quentin Blake |
| ISBN | 0224070185 |
I'm very familiar with Quentin Blake's illustrations of Roald Dahl, but I'm embarrased to say I wasn't aware of his other works.
A quick check of his website reveals that he has been involved in more than 300 books - only 27 of which were written by Roald Dahl and a full 35 which were written and illustrated...
Bertie the Badger's Grandpa is a retired conjurer living in a retirement home for magicians and the like. One day Bertie comes to visit and see the magic show only to find that the residents have had their magic things stolen. Bertie's on the case, and goes to speak to each of them. Who stole the special magic...
| Author | Lisa Campbell Ernst |
| ISBN | 0689856857 |
The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book is written by Lisa Campbell Ernst. This book helps to teach letters to young students or even ELL students. Each page contains a letter in the alphabet, first starting with A and ending at the end of the book with Z. As you look at each letter, there are 4 sentences...
| Author | Giles Andreae |
| ISBN | 1841210684 |
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...
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...
| Author | Matthew Van Fleet |
| ISBN | 1416978003 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book creator Matthew Van Fleet.
Purrrrrfect fun for toddlers!
In Matthew Van Fleet's captivating multiconcept book, watch twenty-two breeds of frolicking felines demonstrate synonyms, action words, opposites, and more....
| Author | Aaron Blabey |
| ISBN | 1590785967 |
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...
| Author | Sarah L. Thomson |
| ISBN | 0689852193 |
Imagine a day when your swing swings you higher than the highest treetops. Imagine a day when you can ride your bike up a path of falling leaves into the very tree they are falling from. Imagine a day when you release a handful of blue balloons into a cloudy, gray sky to create a postcard-perfect day. Imagine...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1894965086 |
A Moreton Bay Fig tree, planted as a memorial to Australian soldiers killed in World War I, is slated to be cut down by the local council. A young boy tells the moving story of the tree, as related by his great grandfather, grandfather, and father, each of whom has participated in wars over the years. Interweaving...
| Author | Barnabas Kindersley |
| ISBN | 0789402017 |
Tadesse from Ethiopia, Suchart from Thailand, Celina from Brazil. . . each of these children has hopes and fears, dreams and beliefs. Their cultures are different, yet in many ways their daily lives are very similar, as are their hopes for the future and their ways of looking at the world.
Over...
| Author | Lucy Micklethwait |
| ISBN | 0688147305 |
Fun and mostly well done; a book that can be enjoyed together by children and adults (teachers, parents, grandparents) as the selection of art is excellent and covers a wide range of (mostly Western) paintings from the past six centuries with subject matter appealing to young children (animals, children...
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0064430235 |
From the creator of the treasured children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes another adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.
Harold is going on an alphabet adventure from A to Z with his trusty purple crayon! This imaginative classic story is just...
| Author | Denise Fleming |
| ISBN | 0805081127 |
An artist's approach to introducing the alphabet
Mouse airbrushes the A,
buttons the B,
carves the C . . .
Mouse is hard at work constructing each letter of the alphabet. He dyes the D, erases the E, and folds the F. Mouse works his way right through to Z, constructing an alphabet...
| Author | Sharon Werner |
| ISBN | 1934706787 |
Hooray! I found a Chanukah present for my favorite graphic artist. Just yesterday a student (K) asked me whether the book she was checking out was in cursive. She wanted to say "I CAN READ CURSIVE" but I would have loved to have this book to show her how in books authors use a variety of typeface. My favorite...
| Author | Andrew Zuckerman |
| ISBN | 0811869784 |
An elegant addition to any library, this deluxe alphabet book features 120 pages of Andrew Zuckerman's breathtaking wildlife photography. From alligator to zebra, each featured animal boasts two striking studio portraits against a clean white background, offering a unique up-close view of the...
So Many Bunnies: A Bedtime ABC and Counting Book
| Author | Rick Walton |
| ISBN | 0688173640 |
A sweet, rhyming, bunny-led introduction to ABCs and 123s!
Little ones can count along with Mother Rabbit through her rambling house and garden as she tucks in a whole alphabet of baby bunnies, from Abel through Zed. This cozy bedtime book has the comforting familiarity of a lullaby combined...
| Author | Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
| ISBN | 0761319417 |
Open this unusual book and you'll be greeted by a striking image of an arrowhead, surrounded by a simple black frame. Lift the frame and the arrowhead will be magically transformed into the letter A. And so it goes, from Balloons, Cloud, and Door, through Leaf and Mice, to Yolk and Zipper. Bold distinctive...
| Author | James Mayhew |
| ISBN | 1841216348 |
Katie visits five paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne! Katie tries to pick the sunflower seeds from the Vincent Van Gogh painting, but when the vase tips over, the flowers go everywhere. Mimi, a little girl from a painting nearby, comes to help Katie, but when Mimi's dog Zazou comes too disaster...
How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
| Author | Jessie Hartland |
| ISBN | 1609050320 |
One of the most frequent requests I get from parents in my library is a desire for books on "community workers". Which is to say, their children have been given an assignment in school on writing about the people who work in their neighborhood, and so we are charged with coming up with books about sanitation...
| Author | Laura Rankin |
| ISBN | 0140558764 |
Gorgeous pencil illustrations of diverse human hands--male and female, young and old--signing the letters of the alphabet make this alphabet book an incredible learning resource. The entries are further supplemented with objects that begin with the same letter. Author Laura Rankin was inspired...
| 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...
