Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens
10 best books like Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens (Cindy Neuschwander): Hop On Pop, The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: A Chet Gecko Mystery, The Titanic: Lost and Found, Rosie's Walk, Anno's Magic Seeds, Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares, First-Class Friends, B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC, Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Carnival Crime
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0007158491 |
Call me old fashioned but I think that there is far too much pop hopping going on in America these days. It's disgusting, revolting, quite possibly illegal, and then they turn around and turn it into a children's book? What's next? Leaving two unsupervised children alone with a giant cat? An elephant...
| Author | Bruce Hale |
| ISBN | 0152022813 |
Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee--stinkbug pie. So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy as pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters,...
| Author | Judy Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0394886690 |
Titanic. Just the name evokes tales of the doomed ship that have captivated people of all ages for more than 100 years.
Early readers will enjoy this exciting account of the world's most famous disaster-at-sea and the discovery of it's remains many years later.
Step 4 books are perfect...
| Author | Pat Hutchins |
| ISBN | 1416908358 |
I actually first heard about this book when I was watching it on “Weston Woods” which is a children’s programming company that turns classic children’s books into ten minute long cartoon shorts. “Rosie’s Walk” is a children’s book by Pat Hutchins and it is about the wacky...
| Author | Mitsumasa Anno |
| ISBN | 0698116186 |
A man is given two magic seeds. He is told he can eat one, and it will sustain him all winter, and plant the other one, which will bear two more magic seeds. For several years he does so, and each year winds up with one seed to plant.
But then he gets smart. He decides to eat something else, and plants BOTH...
| Author | Richard Platt |
| ISBN | 0763621641 |
"Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)
What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal...
| Author | Frank Murphy |
| ISBN | 0375806210 |
A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the "magic square."
A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including on the diagonal!
Teachers and...
| Author | Linda Chapman |
| ISBN | 0545053633 |
"I was going to come back. I would never going leave you here.'" (p.g 97, Oriel) Willow is a One Year class student and is trying to make friends. She meets a couple of beautiful unicorns named, Storm, Sapphire, and Troy. Together they think they can do anything but really they are they are no match for the...
B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC
| Author | June Sobel |
| ISBN | 0152022503 |
Get ready for a ride through the alphabet at a busy construction site. There's a big yellow Bulldozer, a tall shiny Crane, and a rusty red Dump truck--and the construction crew is hard at work. But what are they building?
Melissa Iwai's bright, bold illustrations perfectly complement June Sobel's...
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Carnival Crime
| Author | Donald J. Sobol |
| ISBN | 0525422110 |
The boy detective is back with ten new exciting adventures
Since 1963, when Dutton published Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, the first book in the series, the brainy crime-stopper has been a favorite character among middle-grade readers. Following the classic formula, this new installment...
| Author | Steve Smallman |
| ISBN | 1589251970 |
A thinly veiled Marxist critique, Smallman's message is an absurdist twist on the premise: "If only I could sell poo for a ridiculous amount of money, I would be set for life." The final spread shows the protagonist finally free from labor through his miraculous sale, with the labor now performed through...
The Silent Patient: The First Three Chapters
This is a three-chapter sampler.
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home...
