No Fighting, No Biting!
10 best books like No Fighting, No Biting! (Else Holmelund Minarik): Greg's Microscope, Five Little Speckled Frogs, Sundiata: Lion King of Mali, Uncle Wiggily's Story Book, "I Can't," Said the Ant, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, Dinosaur Time, A Picture for Harold's Room, The Bravest Squirrel in the Forest, Rescue Ferrets at Sea
| Author | Millicent E. Selsam |
This classic reader has been around since the sixties and pairs two frequent contributors to this series, Selsam who specialized in science books and the unequalled author/illustrator Arnold Lobel. Originally this book and a slew of others were in a sub-series called "An I Can Read Science Book";...
| Author | Nikki Smith |
| ISBN | 1427616450 |
"Five Little Speckled Frogs, sitting on a hollow log, eating some most delicious bugs. Yum, yum!" This picture book beautifully illustrates the familiar children's song through watercolor, collage and graphic design. Children and adults can easily read or sing the repetitive text while they count...
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
| Author | David Wisniewski |
| ISBN | 0395764815 |
I really enjoyed reading this book. I was very enlightened by the love of a parent to their child and the courage of a young man's promised to fulfill his destiny. This book read like a TV movie and you were waiting to see who the good guys were and who were the bad guys. To wait and see who would conquer all. In...
| Author | Howard R. Garis |
| ISBN | 0448400901 |
Uncle Wiggily is one of the most popular and enduring characters in American literature. A cheerful “bunny rabbit gentleman” with a wonderful knack for setting things right, he has been a reassuring friend to millions of children since early in the century. Uncle Wiggily’s amusing stories...
| Author | Polly Cameron |
| ISBN | 1590020499 |
A teapot falls off a shelf in the kitchen and the event is witnessed by an ant. The ant feels incapable of offering any assistance, sparking commentary from all of the appliances and the food.
I’ve used this book over and over again during my daughter’s first grade year to advance her reading...
| Author | Tasha Tudor |
| ISBN | 0448442000 |
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.
Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
| Author | Peggy Parish |
| ISBN | 0064440370 |
I loved the pronunciation guide. That is this book's strength. The problem with it is that it's dated- we've learned rather a lot about dinosaurs and their extinction since 1974. It was fun to read with a five year old dino maven-
I read "Dinosaurs lived everywhere for a long time. Then they died....
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0064440850 |
From the treasured author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes an I Can Read adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.
Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall, so he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices...
Everyone thinks Max's sister is braver than he is, and he's sick of it. He's determined to prove he is the bravest squirrel ever. He devises a plan for the humans to trap him, so he can rescue his Uncle Louie.
But things don't go according to plan. First, he is forgotten in the cage and sprayed by a...
| Author | Richard Bach |
| ISBN | 0743227506 |
Not many humans know. On the edges of every sea, the Ferret Rescue Service stands alongside the Coast Guard and Coastal Patrol of any country that claims an ocean shore. Just as it is the job of humans to rescue human lives at risk in storm and shipboard disaster, so it is the job of ferrets to rescue seagoing...
| Author | Julia Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0805078053 |
"All wet!" said Poppy.
"Yuk!" said Stephen. "Was that a kiss?"
Before Colette could answer, it was her turn. She was lifted up and brought toward the shining pink lips. She closed her eyes. The next second she felt a dampness all over her cheek and an explosion in her ear.
She dared herself...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0613023013 |
This book is so weird, and I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around the fact that it was written by the same woman who wrote The Outsiders.
OK, so the parents in this story get a dog instead of a brother or a sister for the only child in the family, a boy. Fair enough. The book is told through...
| Author | Jacqueline Jules |
| ISBN | 0807594806 |
One day Freddie Ramos comes home from school and finds a strange box just for him. What's inside? ZAPATO POWER-shoes that change Freddie's life by giving him super speed! But what will Freddie do with his fast new skills? Weird things are happening at the Starwood Park Apartments where he lives, and his...
| Author | Claudia Rueda |
| ISBN | 0439823234 |
Rising star Claudia Rueda makes a sparkling debut as author and artist in this winsome story based on a traditional French and Spanish play song for the very young.
"Let's play in the forest while the wolf is not around," sing the animals in the forest. "Wolf, are you there?"
"I am putting...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0590100416 |
The Great Gracie Chase is another one of Cynthia Rylant's best written. It tells the story of a little dog named Gracie who lives a pleasant life and loves the peace and quiet of her home. One day, that all changes when painters come to redo her owners house and they are so noisy. Not only does this upset Gracie...
| Author | Heather Amery |
| ISBN | 0746042078 |
My son and I read this book as a part of Sonlight's P4/5 curriculum. It is a wonderful book! A great way to introduce the concept of other cultures to preschool age children. I believe that it is very important to teach our children that there are all kinds of different peoples and beliefs in our world. Stories...
| Author | Syd Hoff |
| ISBN | 0064442721 |
Personal Response:
My sister, Sydney, who is nine years old thought the book Oliver was a very good book. She thought that it was a good book for kids to chase their dreams, and never stop trying. I thought the book was super good. Syd Hoff, the author, taught kids to follow their dreams and never give...
| Author | Diane Redfield Massie |
| ISBN | 0060517840 |
There’s a new addition to the zoo: a baby beebee bird, who likes to stay awake at night when the rest of the zoo wants to sleep. The baby beebee bird keeps the other animals up with his incessant “beebeebobbibobbis”, before settling down to snooze when the sun comes up. The animals can’t take it!...
| Author | Franklyn Mansfield Branley |
| ISBN | 0064451666 |
Starts with the idea of water vapor being something that is in the air but that you can't see, or smell or feel it. It then explains evaporation by suggesting putting a teaspoon of water in a saucer in the morning and that it will have evaporated by later in the day or a boiling tea kettle. It explains that sometimes...
| Author | Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld |
| ISBN | 0064451631 |
This books teaches about matter, and goes into detail about solids, liquids, and gases. I really like how the author made it connect to real life so readers are able to see how they interact with matter on a daily basis. I read this as an ebook, so it could be easily accessible to students if they each had a...
| Author | Roma Gans |
| ISBN | 0064451704 |
Holly Keller has created vivacious new paintings for this favorite Reading Rainbow title about geology. Readers follow two enthusiastic rock hounds around the globe as they add to their collection. Along the way they will learn how sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks are formed. From the...
Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids
Loved sharing some favorite (Maurice Sendak) songs from my youth with Caius and Sophia! "One was Johnny" (I'll start to count backwards, and when I am through, if this house isn't empty, I'll eat all of you!), "Pierre" (The moral of Pierre is, CARE!), "Chicken Soup with Rice" (In November's gusty gale...
