Santa Paws, Come Home
10 best books like Santa Paws, Come Home (Nicholas Edwards): Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Dragon Slippers, The Stranger, Rain Makes Applesauce, The Little Yellow Leaf, Tap the Magic Tree, You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?, How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids, Leaf Man, If You Hold a Seed
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
| Author | Bill Martin Jr. |
| ISBN | 0805053883 |
What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child?
Lots of noise!
Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page!
Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle...
| Author | Jessica Day George |
| ISBN | 1599900572 |
Poor Creel. She can't believe her aunt wants to sacrifice her to the local dragon. It's a ploy to lure a heroic knight so that he will fight the dragon, marry Creel out of chivalrous obligation, and lift the entire family out of poverty. Creel isn't worried. After all, nobody has seen a dragon in centuries.
But...
| Author | Chris Van Allsburg |
| ISBN | 0395423317 |
The Stranger describes a tale of Farmer Bailey and the strange man who enters into his life unexpectedly after a car crash. The Bailey family (consisting of Farmer Bailey, his wife, and their daughter) welcomes this man into their home and hopes to nurse him back to health. The stranger has very odd characteristics...
| Author | Julian Scheer |
| ISBN | 0823400913 |
The stars are made of lemon juice...
...and rain makes applesauce.
Elbows grow on a tickle tree...
...and rain makes applesauce.
Oh, you're just talking silly talk.
This is a book of silly talk. It doesn't pretend to be anything else. And yet it is an extraordinary creation,...
| Author | Carin Berger |
| ISBN | 0061452238 |
Hmm. I checked and this book was first published in 2008, but it feels like one of those touchy feely books that was so popular 40 years prior to that.
I loved the illustrations. They make this a beautiful book. Even the slightly unusual shape of the book makes it a stunner.
I think I was...
| 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...
You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?
| Author | Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt |
| ISBN | 0811854604 |
All over America, kids are losing their teeth. And who is there to gather them up, leaving coins in their places? The Tooth Fairy, of course! A self-described "action kind of gal" with plenty of attitude, she reveals her secrets at last. Learn about her amazing Tooth-o-Finder. Marvel at her ingenious...
How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids
| Author | Tom Rath |
| ISBN | 1595620273 |
An illustrated adaptation of the long-running bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? (more than 400,000 copies sold) for kids — told through the story of a boy who learns a valuable “bucket filling” metaphor and watches it come to life as the day unfolds.
Every moment matters.
Each...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152053042 |
Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one's quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.
With illustrations...
| Author | Elly MacKay |
| ISBN | 0762447214 |
I really enjoyed this inspiring picture book. I found myself smiling while reading every page. The excitement and anticipation that can be felt while reading is also great. I really think this book is one of my new favorites because it gives hope to readers that with waiting comes reward. This inspiring...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0064432270 |
"Rekindles the sense of wonder we were born with. True poetry about perceiving the world around us."*
Margaret Wise Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of the perennial classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny, asks children to think deeply about the importance of everyday objects,...
