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10 best books like "I Can't," Said the Ant (Polly Cameron): The Big Orange Splot, A House Is a House for Me, This is the House that Jack Built, No Fighting, No Biting!, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, Sheep on a Ship, The Hungry Thing, Miss Twiggley's Tree, Rabbit's Gift

The Big Orange Splot
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0590445103
This was my very, very favorite book as a...oh, who am I kidding. This IS my very, very favorite book!! It about creativity! It is about expression! It is about going against the grain, but not just for the sake of rebellion, but rather to remain true to yourself--even if you've been hiding it for much of...
A House Is a House for Me
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN0140503943
In a rollicking rhyme, the author introduces us to all types of homes for both people and animals. The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either...
This is the House that Jack Built
AuthorSimms Taback
ISBN0142402001
Traditional stories are supposed to engage readers. The predictable, repetitive chant in this story found me almost singing along out-loud with each page. As you continue through the story, you'll see that the text gets smaller the more frequently you read the passage. The author assumes that by the...
No Fighting, No Biting!
AuthorElse Holmelund Minarik
Even though this is a beginning reader; young listeners may get bored with it. The storyline is a cute one that starts out with human children fighting with one another then they are separated and read to and they begin to listen to a couple of baby alligators and what they all go through and learn that they...
Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo
AuthorWilliam Joyce
ISBN0060210745
William Joyce (born 1957) is an American author, illustrator, and filmmaker. Newsweek has called him one of the top 100 people to watch in the current millennium. His paintings are displayed at several national museums and art galleries. He worked in several films in various roles such as conceptual...
Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales
AuthorTasha Tudor
ISBN0448442000
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.

Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
Sheep on a Ship
AuthorNancy E. Shaw
ISBN0395643767
Genre: poetry
Reading Level: lower elementary

Sheep on a ship is a poetry book. I️t tells the story of some sheep pirates and how they make it through their journey. The author uses words with similar sounds to make the story flow. This is smart especially when the audience is young readers....
The Hungry Thing
AuthorJan Slepian
ISBN0439275989
One of my favorite tongue tickling, rhyme time books from childhood! The happy, but hungry monster comes to a fictitious Highlander town with a sign around his neck proclaiming: "Feed Me". The people try to feed the Hungry Thing, by asking him what he'd like to eat. And with answers such as: "Smancakes"...
Miss Twiggley's Tree
AuthorDorothea Warren Fox
ISBN1930900171
Why did Miss Twiggley live in a tree? Why did she send her dog, Puss, out to do the shopping? Why did she always run away and hide when people came to visit? And it was rumored that Miss Twiggley had even more peculiar habits... Old Miss Twiggley, Was friendly with bears. "They shed on the sofa," she said, "But...
Rabbit's Gift
AuthorGeorge Shannon
ISBN0152060731
Snow is coming, coming soon, so Rabbit needs to find food fast. Just in time, a turnip turns up, and a second one, too. Who in the woods wouldn't want to tuck away an extra turnip for the long winter? Not Rabbit. He chooses a different path--and starts a wave of generosity that spreads among all his forest...
The Bravest Squirrel in the Forest
AuthorSara Shafer
Everyone thinks Max's sister is braver than he is, and he's sick of it. He's determined to prove he is the bravest squirrel ever. He devises a plan for the humans to trap him, so he can rescue his Uncle Louie.

But things don't go according to plan. First, he is forgotten in the cage and sprayed by a...
Let's Play in the Forest While the Wolf Is Not Around!
AuthorClaudia Rueda
ISBN0439823234
Rising star Claudia Rueda makes a sparkling debut as author and artist in this winsome story based on a traditional French and Spanish play song for the very young.

"Let's play in the forest while the wolf is not around," sing the animals in the forest. "Wolf, are you there?"

"I am putting...
An Awesome Book!
AuthorDallas Clayton
More Than Amazing Book ....
It`s All About Dreams .. Big Big Dreams :)


So please my child, do keep in mind before you go to bed;
To Dream a dream as BIG as BIG could ever DREAM to be;
Then dream a DREAM ten times as big as that dream you see;
Then once you have got that dream in mind,...
Too Much Noise
AuthorAnn McGovern
ISBN0395629853
Peter goes off to the village wise man to find out what he could do about his noisy house. It seemed like a simple enough problem at the beginning, but more and more complications set in—in the forms of a donkey, a sheep, and a cow, to name a few, until it looked as though an entire farm had come to life right...
The Little Brute Family
AuthorRussell Hoban
ISBN0374444838
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes, when Baby Brute happens upon "a little wandering lost good feeling in a field of daisies." When he brings...
Waking Beauty
AuthorLeah Wilcox
ISBN0399246150
Everyone knows Sleeping Beauty has to be woken with a kiss, except Prince Charming. Every time the fairies watching over her try to tell him, he interrupts with his ideas of how to wake her. Eventually he gets the message, and his reaction is priceless: ?One hundred years of morning breath Wow! That could...
Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do
AuthorEileen Christelow
ISBN0618040323
It's summer, school is out, and the five little monkeys are bored. "There is nothing to do!" they tell Mama. "Oh yes, there is," says Mama. "Grandma Bessie is coming for lunch, and the house must be neat and clean." Well-meaning as ever, the five little monkeys clean their room and go on to sweep the floors,...
Who Needs Donuts?
AuthorMark Alan Stamaty
ISBN0375825509
Sam’s love of donuts takes him to the Big City where he makes friends with Mr. Bikferd, a world class collector of donuts. But when Mr. Bikferd falls in love with Pretzel Annie, the prophecy of an old homeless woman comes true: “Who needs donuts when you’ve got love?” Mr. Bikferd bequeaths his...
Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo
AuthorE.S. Redmond
ISBN0763634441
Follow a sniffly girl on a hands-on trip to the zoo, and you’ll find one miserable menagerie — and a comical ode to the virtue of tissues.

ALL OF THE ANIMALS DOWN AT THE ZOO
ARE SNUFFLING AND SNORTING AND SNEEZING ACHOO.

Why are the hyenas crying boo-hoo? And what gave the rhino...
The Pirates Next Door
AuthorJonny Duddle
ISBN0763658421
The Jolley-Rogers have traded in the high seas for suburban life.

Meet the Jolley-Rogers - a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. This unusual family soon has the whole neighborhood gossiping. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda becomes...
Doggone Dogs!
AuthorKaren Beaumont
ISBN0803731574
No sooner are these ten doggone dogs out the front door than they're into a hilarious antic misadventure: disrupting the prim pups at the Perfect Pooch Obedience School, raining chaos on the playground, and--oops!--making one, two, three, four, ten stinky doggie poops. But when our lovable pups get...
Zero
AuthorKathryn Otoshi
Zero is a big round number. When she looks at herself, she just sees a hole right in her center. Every day she watches the other numbers line up to count: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 . . . !" "Those numbers have value. That's why they count," she thinks. But how could a number worth nothing become something? Zero feels...
Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives
AuthorRuth Heller
ISBN0698116410
“To further a child’s grasp of the meaning and function of adjectives, this gorgeous picture book provides enrichment and depth of understanding… A visual and auditory feast, designed to make language discovery appealing and rewarding.”
—Publishers Weekly

“An excellent...
Yoko
AuthorRosemary Wells
ISBN0786803959
Mmm, Yoko's mom has packed her favorite for lunch today-sushi! But her classmates don't think it looks quite so yummy. "Ick!" says one of the Franks. "It's seaweed!" They're not even impressed by her red bean ice cream dessert. Of course, Mrs. Jenkins has a plan that might solve Yoko's problem. But will...
The Foolish Tortoise
AuthorRichard Buckley
ISBN0689820585
This 1985 book is being released as a lap-size board book. THE FOOLISH TORTOISE follows a unhappy tortoise as he makes his decision to take off his shell so he can be faster. He longs to run like the horses and dogs that he sees, but once he gets out and about without his shell, he realizes how dangerous the...
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