Otis Spofford
10 best books like Otis Spofford (Beverly Cleary): All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, The Truth About Stacey, Flora's Very Windy Day, Fog Magic, Leroy Ninker Saddles Up, Happy Little Family, The Chocolate Touch, Dawn and the Impossible Three, Mary Anne Saves the Day, Doggone Dogs!
All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0929093216 |
Sydney Taylor grew up among immigrant families on New York City's Lower East Side prior to World War I and wrote the All-of-a-Kind Family series for her daughter. This sequel finds talented Ella, mischievous Henny, studious Sarah, dreamy Charlotte, and little Gertie helping Mama with their new baby...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590251589 |
The truth about Stacey is that she has diabetes. Nobody knows... except her friends in the Baby-sitters Club.
But even they don't know the real truth about Stacey. Stacey's problem is her parents. They won't admit she has the disease, and they drag her to practically every doctor in America!
Seeing...
| Author | Jeanne Birdsall |
| ISBN | 0618986766 |
When Flora and her pesky little brother, Crispin, are whisked away by a swirling and swooping wind, she gets the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to give her brother away. With tempting offers from a dragonfly, the man in the moon, and even the wind itself, she will find it difficult to choose. But...
Originally published in 1943, this edition features a rare cover by the ground-breaking illustrator Lynd Ward.
Greta had always loved the fog—the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was...
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763663395 |
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books.
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn’t have is a horse — until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it’s...
| Author | Rebecca Caudill |
| ISBN | 1883937728 |
It is a good thing that mothers understand what no one else seems to when you are the youngest child in the family, and are finally four years old. Bonnie is more than ready to join her older sisters and brother in the many adventures she sees come their way, whether it be sliding along the ice, searching for...
| Author | Patrick Skene Catling |
| ISBN | 0688161332 |
In this zany twist on the legend of King Midas and his golden touch, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate!
Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? John Midas is about to find out….
The Chocolate Touch has remained a favorite for millions...
Dawn and the Impossible Three
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590251600 |
this is the first dawn book of the series, in which she becomes the regular sitter for the barrett family. buddy, suzi, & marnie are being raised by a single mom who recently went through a pretty acrimonious divorce. the kids seem to be coping well enough, but their mom is struggling to find steady...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590251597 |
Mary Anne has never been a leader of the Baby-sitters Club. She's left that up to Kristy... or Claudia... or Stacey. But now there's a big fight among the four friends, and Mary Anne doesn't have them to depend on anymore.
It's bad enough when she's left alone at the lunch table at school. But when...
| Author | Karen Beaumont |
| ISBN | 0803731574 |
No sooner are these ten doggone dogs out the front door than they're into a hilarious antic misadventure: disrupting the prim pups at the Perfect Pooch Obedience School, raining chaos on the playground, and--oops!--making one, two, three, four, ten stinky doggie poops. But when our lovable pups get...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152053042 |
Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one's quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.
With illustrations...
| Author | Oliver Butterworth |
| ISBN | 0316119202 |
Young Nate Twitchell is surprised when one of the hens on his family farm lays a giant egg. After a painstaking wait, Nate is even more surprised when it hatches and out pops a baby triceratops that he names Uncle Beazley! But when Nate decides to keep the dino and raise it on his own, he has no idea what he's...
| Author | Frank Asch |
| ISBN | 0689835175 |
I was looking in the library catalog for Pavese's El bello verano. They hadn't got the Italian novel about adolescent loss of innocence and subsequent disillusionment, and recommended this picture book about a bear eating cake instead.
It was a nice book for younger children. I didn't especially...
| Author | Arleta Richardson |
| ISBN | 0781432685 |
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...
Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0590227637 |
Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne and Stacey have had some strange adventures since they started the Baby-sitters Club. But nothing's been as spooky as what's going on right now. The baby-sitters have been getting mysterious phone calls when they're out on their jobs. When a phone rings and they pick up, there's...
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers
| Author | Donald J. Sobol |
| ISBN | 0553158511 |
A stolen teacup...An extra set of footprints...
Four very strange words...
A pirate's treasure...
And a race to find a cheater in Idaville's annual disgusting sneaker contest!
These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must...
Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins
| Author | James Dean |
| ISBN | 0062304186 |
New York Times Bestseller!
Bestselling author and artist James Dean brings us a groovy rendition of the classic favorite children’s song “Five Little Pumpkins,” sung by cool cat Pete and perfect for Halloween.
Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins is in a sturdy paper-over-board...
"Oh brother," Mitch groaned softly to himself. "It's that bank robber for sure, and he's got Lyle and Beanie locked up in the cabin!"
Spook Cabin is the deserted hut where Mitch and his friends like to picnic. But this is no picnic! Mitch knows he must go for help. But there is something else he must...
