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10 best books like No Children, No Pets (Marion Holland): Twenty and Ten, Capyboppy, The Pink Motel, The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin, Egermeier's Bible Story Book, Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark, The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems, How Do You Lift a Lion?, The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago (Explainers), The Greek News

Twenty and Ten
AuthorClaire Huchet Bishop
ISBN0140310762
This must have been one of the earliest historical fiction children titles for World War II, since it came out in 1952. I probably read it in the 1960s. It meets one of my main problems with WWII lit for young kids: while it makes it clear that it was a case of life and death for the kids, it never actually says...
Capyboppy
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395383684
The creator of whimsical fantasies featuring a bevy of lifelike and lovable creatures, Bill Peet consistently combined excellent storytelling with enduring illustrations, becoming one of the most popular picture book creators of our time. Born in Grandview, Indiana, Bill Peet nurtured his childhood...
The Pink Motel
AuthorCarol Ryrie Brink
The moment Kirby and Bitsy arrive with their parents at their newly inherited motel in Florida, they know it's an unusual place. First of all, it's pink. Not just regular pink, but pink, pink, PINK!

Then there's the roster of regular guests: an artist from Greenwich Village, a magician from...
The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin
AuthorBailey MacDonald
The play’s the thing . . .

To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
Egermeier's Bible Story Book
AuthorElsie Egermeier
ISBN0871620065
Egermeier's Bible Story Book has sold nearly three million copies and continues to be America's favorite Bible story book. It has 312 stories that cover the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Younger children will sit spellbound as you read these stories to them. Older children who read for themselves...
Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark
AuthorNora Burglon
ISBN1892857138
I read this aloud to my daughter, and we all fell in love with it. This book is another example of a book I would have never picked up if it wasn't for being a part of the homeschool curriculum we use. It was delightful to step back in time to a different country and see what it was like to live as a child at the end...
The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN0152055711
The Llama Who Had No Pajama is an anthology of 100 favorite poems by Mary Ann Hoberman. This book of poems can be a great introduction to poems for young readers. It provides a variety of poems on different subjects like animals, people, childhood fun, and other concepts like time, opposites, and up comparisons....
How Do You Lift a Lion?
AuthorRobert E. Wells
ISBN0807534218
Publishers of nonfiction for children please note: a lot more people would read nonfiction if it was. . . better! Take a look at this book, that manages to convey complex ideas about simple machines in a highly imaginative way, but does not talk down to the reader. For sure the dense language and concepts...
The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago (Explainers)
AuthorHelen Edom
ISBN0746011091
This is one of my favorite Usborne books from my childhood. Well, we actually had it as individual books, and only of the first three sections, so I was even more excited to see a version where they're all together. I don't know whether this was ever used in my schooling or not -- it probably was, but what I...
The Greek News
AuthorAnton Powell
ISBN0763603406
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly

Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
The Minstrel in the Tower
AuthorGloria Skurzynski
ISBN0394895983
In this gripping medieval page-turner, Roger and his sister Alice are
kidnapped and held for ransom in an ancient tower. To escape and find their
uncle, the children must summon all their courage and imagination. "Designed as
easy-reading material for middle-graders, this has the virtues...
Missionary Stories with the Millers
AuthorMildred A. Martin
ISBN0962764345
Sad to see this book end. While reading it to my 7yr old, my 10yr old daughter would always listen with one ear open while she was supposed to be reading her own school books. I can't rave enough about it! It engaged us in true stories of missionaries across the globe throughout many centuries of time. It demostrates...
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess
AuthorRichard Platt
ISBN0763621641
"Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal...
The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose: A Treasury of More Than 300 Classic Nursery Rhymes
AuthorArnold Lobel
ISBN0679887369
Knopf is proud to reissue the complete and unabridged Arnold Lobel-illustrated treasury of Mother Goose rhymes, originally published in 1986 as The Random House Book of Mother Goose and unavailable for several years. Reviewers were unanimous in their acclaim of a collection "brimming over with...
Dolphin Treasure
AuthorWayne Grover
We recently read Dolphin Adventure: A True Story by Wayne Grover and I realized when I posted my review here that there were two follow-on tales. We borrowed both from the library and were eager to read them. I was a bit confused because the first tale is a true story and the other two are fictional, "based...
Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories
AuthorRosemary Wells
Master storyteller Rosemary Wells tells the incredible true story of a World War I nurse who brought medical care to the Appalachians

Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the isolated mountains of Appalachia and never looked back. Instead, she spent...
The Light at Tern Rock
AuthorJulia L. Sauer
ISBN0140368574
Julia L. Sauer's The Light at Tern Rock (which won her a 1952 Newbery Honour designation) really does manage to remind me exceedingly sweetly and much pleasurably of some of L.M. Montgomery's sea and lighthouse themed short stories (featuring not only an engaging and inspiring narrative, but also...
A Grain of Rice
AuthorHelena Clare Pittman
When a humble farmer named Pong Lo asks for the hand of the Emperor's beautiful daughter, the Emperor is enraged. Who ever heard of a peasant marrying a princess? But Pong Lo is wiser than the Emperor knows. And when he concocts a potion that saves the Princess's life, the Emperor gladly offers him any reward...
Five True Dog Stories
AuthorMargaret Davidson
ISBN0590424017
What a delightful read, tinged with sadness and irony too.

My kids and I really like true stories. The fantastical that don't seem as if they could possibly be real; but, are. They pull at your heartstrings like nothing else can❤️

I'm not necessarily a dog lover. Having grown up...
Here's a Penny
AuthorCarolyn Haywood
ISBN0152052259
From Carolyn Haywood, author of the beloved Betsy series, here are four more classics for young readers. These adorable stories of childhood adventures are as fresh today as when they were written more than a half century ago. And now, thanks to dynamic new covers, they're ready to charm a whole new generation...
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
AuthorFaith McNulty
ISBN0064432181
‘[An] irresistible account of a child’s imaginary 8,000-mile journey through the earth to discover what’s inside. Facts about the composition of the earth are conveyed painlessly and memorably.’ —SLJ. ‘An exciting adventure. . . . Illustrations [by Caldecott Medal winner Marc Simont]...
The Case of the Gasping Garbage
AuthorMichele Torrey
ISBN0525466576
In this clever chapter book, the first in a new series, real science is seamlessly woven into four separate mysteries solved by Science Detectives Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey. No case is too big or too small for this dynamic duo, who never miss an opportunity to decipher anonymous love notes or unveil...
In Grandma's Attic
AuthorArleta Richardson
ISBN0781432685
Pieces of Magic

Remember when you were a child—when all the world was new, and the smallest object a thing of wonder? Arleta Richardson remembers: the funny wearable wire contraption hidden in the dusty attic, the century-old schoolchild's slate that belonged to Grandma, an ancient...
Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book
AuthorRichard Scarry
ISBN0394826817
Overall good book, useful for teaching good manners to children. It is geared just right for the kindergarten age group. My children found it very funny & entertaining. I feel the book could have been organized a bit better. I wish there weren't so many blatant examples of bad behavior in the book....
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