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10 best books like Princess Hyacinth: The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated (Florence Parry Heide): The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Owl Moon, The Relatives Came, A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Polar Bear's Underwear, Last Stop on Market Street, Hello Lighthouse, The Most Magnificent Thing, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
AuthorMo Willems
ISBN1423151283
Much to the chagrin of Pigeon, little Duckling uses very polite manners to request a cookie, and actually gets one. Filled with righteous fury, Pigeon loses his temper and complains bitterly about this terrible state of affairs. However, things aren't what they seem, and Duckling has a secret plan!...
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
AuthorMarjorie Priceman
ISBN0679880836
Illus. in full color. An apple pie is easy to make...if the market is open. But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat....
Owl Moon
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0399214577
Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.

But there is no answer.

Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling...
The Relatives Came
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0689717385
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.
When they finally...
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
AuthorGrace Lin
ISBN0316404489
A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin

Pat, pat, pat...

Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake.

Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she...
Polar Bear's Underwear
AuthorTupera Tupera
ISBN1452141991
Polar Bear has lost his underwear! Where could it be? There's only one thing to do: Remove the book's underwear-shaped bellyband to find the missing pair! Is that Polar Bear's underwear? No, it's Zebra's—see the colorful stripes? What about that itty-bitty pair? No, those belong to Butterfly! And...
Last Stop on Market Street
AuthorMatt de la Pena
ISBN0399257748
Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...
Hello Lighthouse
AuthorSophie Blackall
ISBN0316362387
On the highest rock of a tiny island
at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse.
It is built to last forever. Sending its light out to sea.
The fog rolls in, and the fog rolls out.
The waves rise and crash. The wind blows and blows...
This beautiful picture book caught my eye on the Goodreads...
The Most Magnificent Thing
AuthorAshley Spires
ISBN1554537045
Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work....
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
AuthorLindsay Mattick
ISBN0316324906
Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...
Dog Loves Books
AuthorLouise Yates
ISBN0375864490
A picture-book treat for the youngest dog lovers.

Dog loves books SO much he opens his very own bookstore. At first he’s short of customers. But that’s all right, because when Dog is surrounded by books, he is never short of friends—or fun. And when customers begin arriving, he knows just...
Saturdays and Teacakes
AuthorLester L. Laminack
"When I was nine or ten years old I couldn't wait for Saturdays."
In this poetic memory, a young boy rides his bicycle every Saturday up and down country roads past farms, a graveyard, and a filling station, until he reaches his beloved Mammaw's house. She is waiting for him. While she picks tomatoes,...
The Princess and the Pit Stop
AuthorTom Angleberger
ISBN1419728482
Once upon a time there was a Princess . . .
. . . who made a pit stop.
While the Birds and Beasts changed her tires, her Fairy Godmother told her she was in last place! With just one lap left! She might as well give up!
Give up? Not THIS princess! Instead, she hit the gas!
 
Join Her Royal...
The Raft
AuthorJim LaMarche
ISBN0064438562
Inspired by various experiences from his childhood, Jim LaMarche, beloved illustrator of A Story for Bear and The Elves and the Shoemaker, brings this touching story about one boy's unexpected summer as a river rat to life with his bold, picturesque paintings.

Nicky isn't one bit happy about...
I'm New Here
AuthorAnne Sibley O'Brien
Maria is from Guatemala, Jin is from Korea, and Fatima is from Somalia. All three are new to their American elementary school, and each has trouble speaking, writing, and sharing ideas in English. Through self-determination and with encouragement from their peers and teachers, the students learn...
The Pigeon Has to Go to School
AuthorMo Willems
I can't believe that I was looking forward to a children's book! But it is about our favourite pigeon .
Llama Destroys the World
AuthorJonathan Stutzman
ISBN1250303176
Meet Llama, the next great picture-book megastar, who has most definitely driven a bus and who loves tacos way more than you.

He also loves cake, and that’s where our story begins.

On Monday, Llama discovers a pile of cake, which he promptly eats.
On Tuesday, Llama squeezes into...
The Night Library
AuthorDavid Zeltser
ISBN1524717983
The Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books and libraries, perfect for book lovers of all ages!

After a young boy goes to sleep upset that he's getting a book for his birthday, he's visited in the night by Patience and Fortitude,...
Coat of Many Colors
AuthorDolly Parton
ISBN0064434478
Winter is coming to Tennessee and there's no money to buy a new coat, so a little girl's mama sews one for her out of rags. The little girl wears it to school proudly, and when the other children laugh, she gives them a quick lesson about what it means to be rich. Judith Sutton's beautiful paintings bring one...
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