Pigs Might Fly
10 best books like Pigs Might Fly (Dick King-Smith): Stuart Little, The Whipping Boy, Misty of Chincoteague, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, What Do People Do All Day?, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear, Double Act, The Witch's Daughter
| Author | E.B. White |
| ISBN | 0064400565 |
A paperback edition of E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! With black and white illustrations.
Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0060521228 |
A shout comes echoing up the stairway. "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now?" It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve...
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 1416927832 |
On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the most mysterious of all, Phantom, a rarely seen mare that eludes all efforts to capture her--that is, until a young boy and girl lay eyes on her and determine that they can't live without her....
The Wild Christmas Reindeer
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0698116526 |
Little Teeka thought she had to be firm with the reindeer to get them ready for Santa's important flight, but when her bossy yelling only got their antlerstangled up, she knew she had to try something different."Beautifully conceived and finely wrought." -- Booklist (starred review)"Brett's precise,...
What Do People Do All Day?
| Author | Richard Scarry |
| ISBN | 0394818237 |
While Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? definitely is engagingly entertaining, full of details upon details and thus both textually and illustratively informative (and albeit I do also have fond memories using a school library copy in grade four to practice my English vocabulary), personally...
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0380709244 |
"Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--his very own motorcycle. Living in a knothole in a hotel room, young Ralph has seen plenty of families come and go, some more generous with their crumbs than others. But when young Keith and his parents...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0375822070 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG!!! YOU ARE OLD!!!! EVEN OLDER THAN LAST YEAR!
greg's birthday is today, so i am floating this now to remind you that you still have time to shower him with presents!
it is greg's birthday!!! and as a treat for him, i am going to create a book review in which i use plenty...
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
| Author | Don Wood |
| ISBN | 0859536599 |
5 Superbly Cute ★'s
I loved this book so much, it was definitely one of my most favorites as a child :) I wanted it read to me over and over again. Being an adult now, I love that I can read all my favorites to my little niece and still appreciate them just as much as I did back then. I just loved the...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0440867592 |
Ruby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. They're identical, and they do EVERYTHING together, especially since their mother died three years earlier - but they couldn't be more different. Bossy, bouncy, funny Ruby loves to take charge, and is desperate to be a famous actress, while quiet, sensitive,...
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| ISBN | 0395586356 |
For an old middle grade novel, the amount of depth and character development in The Witch's Daughter is amazing. Contrary to what the title implies, this is not a book about witches, but instead an adventure/mystery book about three young friends with individual differences whose friendship is built...
I remember reading Heidi when I was a very young girl. I now have decided to read a new version in paperback by Alma Junior books. Heidi is orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by Aunt Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, however, Dete is forced to entrust her young charge...
