Penny and Her Marble
10 best books like Penny and Her Marble (Kevin Henkes): Clementine and the Spring Trip, I Love My New Toy!, Flora and the Flamingo, Ballet Cat The Totally Secret Secret, The Good Egg, I'm a Frog!, Bink & Gollie: Best Friends Forever, The Good for Nothing Button, The Itchy Book!, I Really Like Slop!
Clementine and the Spring Trip
| Author | Sara Pennypacker |
| ISBN | 1423123573 |
For Clementine, spring is a really big deal. It's the time for seeing her apple tree start to grow, for watching her friend Margaret go crazy with spring cleaning, and for going on the school trip to Plimoth Plantation. Clementine is ready for Ye Olden Times, but she isn't so sure about surviving lunch...
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423109619 |
Elephant and Piggie return for yet another entertaining book sure to be a laugh for young readers. When Piggie shows up with a new toy, she wants to share the experience with Gerald. However, moments after they begin to play, Gerald tosses the toy into the air and it breaks. What was a wonderful experience...
| Author | Molly Idle |
| ISBN | 1452110069 |
In this innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and her graceful flamingo friend explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance. With a twist, a turn, and even a flop, these unlikely friends learn at last how to dance together in perfect harmony....
| Author | Bob Shea |
| ISBN | 1484713788 |
Ballet Cat and Sparkles the Pony are trying to decide what to play today. Nothing that Sparkles suggests--making crafts, playing checkers, and selling lemonade--goes well with the leaping, spinning, and twirling that Ballet Cat likes to do. When Sparkles's leaps, spins, and twirls seem halfhearted,...
| Author | Jory John |
| ISBN | 0062866001 |
In this follow-up to Jory John and Pete Oswald’s popular picture book The Bad Seed, meet the next best thing: a very good egg, indeed!
The good egg has been good for as long as he can remember. While the other eggs in his carton are kind of rotten, he always does the right, kind, and courteous thing....
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423183053 |
Neo took us on a little adventure, alongside Gerald and Piggie, into the life of imagination. When Piggie declares that she is a frog, Gerald is both baffled and a little annoyed. No matter how loudly Piggie ‘ribbits’, Gerald will not accept that his friend is a frog. However, Piggie explains the...
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763634972 |
All righty, then! Celebrate the tall and short of a marvelous friendship with a new Bink and Gollie adventure.
Gollie is quite sure she has royal blood in her veins, but can Bink survive her friend’s queenly airs — especially if pancakes are not part of the deal? Bink wonders what it would...
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 1484726464 |
Yellow Bird has a button. It does . . . nothing! It is a good for nothing button. Red Bird and Blue Bird are excited to try the button. But when they press it, they discover that the button makes them happy. Happy is something! A flabbergasted Yellow Bird insists the button does nothing. But it sure does seem...
| Author | LeUyen Pham |
| ISBN | 1368005640 |
Sometimes, when you have an itch, you really want to give it a scratch. Makes sense... but not when there's a sign, 'Dinosaurs do not scratch'. Alas, this collection of dinos are so eager to scratch that feeling that comes across the skin, but cannot disobey the sign. One of them is acting like quite the...
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1484722620 |
Mo Willems reminds his young readers that it is always nice to try new foods, even if you do not like them. When Piggie arrives with a huge pail of slop, Gerald is extremely disinterested. However, Piggie raves all about a pig's favourite food, slop! Hesitantly, Gerald inches it closer to his mouth, trunk...
| Author | Dan Santat |
| ISBN | 1484726367 |
Cookies for Everyone! This is the social Justice cry of the 4 friends who only have 3 cookies. It’s also about fractions. The artwork is bright and the characters are animated. They most scream it seems. There was not much character work going on.
I love Dan Santat’s work and I’m not feeling...
| Author | Ame Dyckman |
| ISBN | 0316226149 |
Not every child views the imposition of a new sibling as an interloper, but a fair number of them do. They’re just tooling along, enjoying the natural bliss that comes with being the one and only star in their parents’ firmament when BLAMMO! A squalling person of inadequate size is there, hogging...
