Richard Scarry's Great Big Schoolhouse

7 best books like Richard Scarry's Great Big Schoolhouse (Richard Scarry): War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line, In a Blue Room, Return of the Jedi, Izzy Gizmo, Richard Scarry's A Day at the Fire Station, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

Author	David Nott
ISBN	1509837027

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving...

In a Blue Room

Author

Jim Averbeck

Alice is wide, wide awake. Mama brings flowers, tea, a quilt, even lullaby bells to help her sleep. But none of these things are blue, and Alice can sleep only in a blue room. Yet when the light goes out, a bit of magic is stirred up. Pale blue moonlight swirls into her bedroom window. Then the night swirls...

Return of the Jedi

Author	Joan D. Vinge
ISBN	0590329294

Star Wars Return of the Jedi is a fun a read for the early 80’s - 90’s kid.

As a young child in the early 90’s I picked this book up several times, primarily to enjoy the images of the hero’s I admired, I constantly loved to envision myself in the fantasy as Luke Skywalker or Han Solo battling...

Izzy Gizmo

Author	Pip Jones
ISBN	1471158233

⭐️ - Girl inventor.

⭐️ - Inventions with cool names like Tea-Mendous and Swirly-Spagsonic that look like something Doc Brown would make. Remember that wonderful contraption he made to feed Einstein?

⭐️ - Lovely Grandpa who is so encouraging and adorable, and who doesn't...

Richard Scarry's A Day at the Fire Station

Author	Huck Scarry
ISBN	0307105458

The firefighters at the station have a very busy day. The painters Drippy and Sticky are trying to paint the firehouse. Trouble happens when the drop cloth falls off the fire truck and paint spills all over the fire truck and stains the fire fighters gear. This doesn't stop the firefighters from responding...

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Author

Greta Thunberg

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest...

The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter

Author	Stan Berenstain
ISBN	0394848373

This may have been my favorite book in the Berenstain Bears series as a kid. I’m not sure why, but the detailed pictures helped as always I know; it seemed like every time I read the book there was some corner of the pages that I had not discovered before. Another aspect that may have helped and may be a reason...