Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll

10 best books like Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll (Lewis Carroll): Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Eating the Alphabet, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, Bad Kitty, The Book with No Pictures, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, A Poem for Peter, Tap the Magic Tree, Back to Front and Upside Down, Pass It On!

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Author	Pablo Neruda
ISBN	0143039962

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...

Eating the Alphabet

Author

Lois Ehlert

Just as the sub-title indicates, this is an A to Z listing of fruits and vegetables paired with water color illustrations.

The best part? Using it as a tool. For younger children: letter identification (by sight or by sound). Each food is labeled in upper as well as lower case letters. The book...

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

Author

Esther Hautzig

It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia.

For five years, Esther and...

Bad Kitty

Author	Nick Bruel
ISBN	1596430699

From the creator of The New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk -- four times over an in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy when she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are Asparagus, Beets, Cauliflower, Dill...and 22 other...

The Book with No Pictures

Author	B.J. Novak
ISBN	0803741715

A book with no pictures?

What could be fun about that?

After all, if a book has no pictures, there's nothing to look at but the words on the page.

Words that might make you say silly sounds... In ridiculous voices...

Hey, what kind of book is this, anyway?

At...

The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

Author	John Hendrix
ISBN	1419728385

Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....

A Poem for Peter

Author	Andrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN	0425287688

A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.

The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats’s obvious talent, his...

Tap the Magic Tree

Author	Christie Matheson
ISBN	0062274457

The acclaimed interactive picture book about the changing seasons. “Like Hervé Tullet’s Press Here, Matheson’s Tap the Magic Tree proves you don’t need apps for interactivity,” praised the New York Times.

Every book needs you to turn the pages. But not every book needs you to...

Back to Front and Upside Down

Author	Claire Alexander
ISBN	0802854141

It's the principal Mr. Slipper's birthday, and while the rest of the class gets busy writing cards for the occasion, Stan becomes frustrated when his letters come out all in a muddle. Stan is afraid to ask for help, until a friend assures him that nobody's good at everything. And after lots and lots of practice,...

Pass It On!

Author	Marilyn Sadler
ISBN	1609051882

Bee's friend Cow is stuck in a fence and asks for his help. Bee cannot help cow by himself so he decides to get the word out to as many farmyard friends as possible. But when he tells Frog about Cow's predicament and asks him to "Pass it on!", the message that gets passed to Pig is: "Cow put duck in a tent!" From...

After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again

Author	Dan Santat
ISBN	1626726825

My name is Humpty Dumpty.
I'm famous for falling off a wall.

(You may have heard about it.)

But that's only half the story...
Because I decided to get back up.
And when I did, something amazing happened.

This story is about my life...
AFTER THE FALL.

Inspiring...