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10 best books like Ounce Dice Trice (Alastair Reid): Wee Gillis, Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature, All the Small Poems and Fourteen More, Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, Goodnight Songs, Winter Poems, Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young, Uncle, The School for Cats, The Bear That Wasn't

Wee Gillis
AuthorMunro Leaf
A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand.

Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the Lowlands, while the other half finds him in the Highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family...
Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature
AuthorNicola Davies
This gorgeously illustrated volume of poetry — sprinkled with facts and fun things to do — sows an early love for nature in all its beauty and wonder.

The buzz of bees in summertime. The tracks of a bird in the winter snow. This beautiful book captures all the sights and sounds of a child’s...
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
AuthorValerie Worth
ISBN0374403457
This is a lovely collection of very short poems about myriad things. There's a wide variety of topics and I was fascinated at the different ways of describing the things. Occasionally, the poem would provide a different perspective, such as how fleas see their world from the back of a dog.

We...
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
AuthorGary Golio
ISBN0618852794
Jimi Hendrix was many things: a superstar, a rebel, a hero, an innovator. But first, he was a boy named Jimmy who loved to draw and paint and listen to records. A boy who played air guitar with a broomstick and longed for a real guitar of his own. A boy who asked himself a question: Could someone paint pictures...
Goodnight Songs
AuthorMargaret Wise Brown
ISBN1454904461
From Margaret Wise Brown, author of the beloved Goodnight Moon, comes a previously unpublished collection of charming lullabies, gorgeously illustrated by 12 award-winning artists. The roster of celebrated names includes Carin Berger, whose The Little Yellow Leaf was a New York Times Best Illustrated...
Winter Poems
AuthorBarbara Rogasky
I bought this for a friend who, in the midst of the We Need Diverse Books fundraising campaign in Nov/Dec 2014, complained about the lack of brown children in the picture books she was collecting for her adopted Ethioipan son. I also bought a copy for myself because Trina Schart Hyman is my favorite illustrator...
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0394872185
First published in 1986 and just as fresh and relevant today, this widely acclaimed, child-friendly poetry anthology is now being reissued with a striking new jacket. In his introduction to this book Jim Trelease, bestselling author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, writes, “No one better recognizes...
Uncle
AuthorJ.P. Martin
ISBN1590172396
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...
The School for Cats
AuthorEsther Averill
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...
The Bear That Wasn't
AuthorFrank Tashlin
ISBN0486287874
"A fable for grownups that will be fun for children. Sit down with the book and get your own bearings." — New York Herald Tribune
With the first signs of approaching winter, the Bear's thoughts naturally turn to a cozy cave and a long snooze till spring. But when he awakes a few months later, he is surprised...
The Peterkin Papers
AuthorLucretia P. Hale
ISBN1590172124
Before Amelia Bedelia and the Stupids there were the Peterkins. The Peterkin Papers collects all of Lucretia Hale’s beloved tales of a thoroughly silly family.

The Peterkin Papers record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted...
Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat
AuthorBarbara Sleigh
ISBN0140311874
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy

“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
Mud Pies and Other Recipes
AuthorMarjorie Winslow
ISBN1590173686
Whether you’re entertaining garden sprites, feeding a regiment of toy soldiers, or simply whiling away a lazy afternoon, Mud Pies and Other Recipes is the only make-believe cookbook you’ll ever need. With Marjorie Winslow’s timeless guide on hand, you’ll never be at a loss for something...
A Small Miracle
AuthorPeter Collington
ISBN0679887253
This is a Christmas miracle like no other, with such richness in image and
story that children will return to it again and again" "(Booklist,"
starred review).
The wooden figures in a Christmas crè che come to life to save a poor old
woman in this truly original, deeply moving contemporary...
I Have the Right to Be a Child
AuthorAlain Serres
ISBN1554981492
Selected for the IRA Notable Books for a Global Society List, selected for the Children's Literary Assembly 2013 Notable Children's Books and the USBBY Outstanding International Book List



With a very simple text accompanied by rich, vibrant illustrations a young narrator describes...
Poetrees
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN1416986723
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his signature wit and whimsy. Featuring a dynamic vertical format that illustrates...
The Wonder Book
AuthorAmy Krouse Rosenthal
ISBN0061429740
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of I Wish You More, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, "a joyous, totally original potpourri of stories, poems, lists, palindromes, visual jokes, and random observations about the universal delights and conundrums of childhood."*

Reminiscent of...
A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play
AuthorMarilyn Singer
ISBN0547124937
A paean to play from an award-winning poet and a New York Times best-selling illustrator.  The trappings of childhood change from generation to generation, but there are some timeless activities that every kid loves. Marilyn Singer and LeUyen Pham celebrate these universal types of play, from organized...
Mad About Monkeys
AuthorOwen Davey
ISBN1909263575
With over 250 species inhabiting our planet, this book explores the many different types of monkeys from the smallest Pygmy Marmoset to the largest Mandrill, and provides all the facts you wanted to know and more. Discover where monkeys come from, how they swing from tree to tree, and why they fight and...
A Poem in Your Pocket
AuthorMargaret McNamara
ISBN0307979474
Usher in National Poetry Month with Mr. Tiffin and his students, stars of the hugely popular How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? and The Apple Orchard Riddle.

Once again, Margaret McNamara sets her playful, child-friendly story in the classroom, and this time, poetry—from metaphors to acrostics...
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
AuthorFranck Prévot
Maathai's political activism shines through in this biography, in her determination to reverse environmental damage caused by large, colonial plantations and empower local villagers--especially women--to improve their local conditions. Prévot begins by introducing young readers to Maathai's...
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
AuthorDuncan Tonatiuh
ISBN1419725327
Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández, dancer and founder of El Ballet Folklórico de México.

Published in time for the 100th anniversary of Hernández’s birth, Danza! is the first picture book about the famous dancer and choreographer.

Danza!...
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