Sloppy Joe
10 best books like Sloppy Joe (Dave Keane): Ink, Scaredy-Cat, Splat!, Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth, Space Case, Two of Everything, Pumpkin Jack, Pumpkin Pumpkin, Little Boo, Say Something, Scaredy Squirrel at Night
| Author | Alice Broadway |
| ISBN | 1407172840 |
Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into a Skin Book to stand as a record of his good life. But when she discovers...
| Author | Rob Scotton |
| ISBN | 0061177601 |
It's Halloween, and Splat is determined to be the scariest cat in the class. Unfortunately he's just too much of a scaredy-cat. He's afraid of a little spider, and everyone says his costume looks more silly than scary. And when Mrs. Wimpydimple tells a ghost story in the dark, Splat gets so frightened...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 0152049312 |
Sure, first-grade teacher Mrs. Watson may look human, but it is a known and proven fact that she is actually a three-hundred-year-old alien who steals baby teeth from her students.
Thank goodness for a second grader's warning, because this little first grader has a secret: She has a loose...
| Author | Edward Marshall |
| ISBN | 0140547045 |
Future literary scholars will confirm that Space Case is among the crowning achievements of the English language. Here, Edward Marshall surpasses the eloquent banality of Shakespeare, whose works might have benefited from the illustrations of the late James Marshall. Here the Marshalls are at...
| Author | Lily Toy Hong |
| ISBN | 0807581577 |
After reading this book to my students, I will have them do an activity called Seeing Double. Students will be grouped with a partner. One student will roll one number cube. He/she will place the number rolled in the square on their Seeing Double activity sheet. Student will select that number of plastic...
| Author | Will Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0807566667 |
A boy carves a pumpkin that becomes a friend. Well, it starts to smell bad and the boy has to set it out in the garden where he watches it decompose. Seasons change and when the snow melts, not much is left of the pumpkin. He does notice a new green shoot and he knows it’s a new pumpkin vine. He nourishes this...
| Author | Jeanne Titherington |
| ISBN | 0688099300 |
Jeanne Titherington's Pumpkin Pumpkin (about a little boy named Jamie who plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and then in late October harvests a large pumpkin to carve into a Jack O'Lantern for Halloween) is the type of picture book that while the illustrations I have found sweetly magical and very much...
| Author | Stephen Wunderli |
| ISBN | 0805097082 |
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and one little pumpkin seed tries and tries to be scary. But he doesn't scare anyone . . . not the snowflakes in winter, not the bees in spring, not even the watering can!
The wind tells him to be patient—he'll be scary soon enough. But waiting is hard. Will the little...
| Author | Peter H. Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0545865034 |
The world needs your voice.
If you have a brilliant idea...say something!
If you see an injustice...say something!
In this empowering new picture book, beloved author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day,...
Scaredy Squirrel at Night
| Author | Mélanie Watt |
| ISBN | 1554532889 |
Scaredy never sleeps --- sleep might mean bad dreams about dragons, ghosts, vampire bats and polka-dot monsters. Our wide-eyed hero has a plan: stay awake all night, every night. Between counting stars, playing cymbals and making scrapbooks, he does a good job of avoiding dreamland.
With...
| Author | R.A. Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0786943408 |
Drizzt is back, and facing a world changed forever!
An uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the newly established Kingdom of Many-Arrows can't last long. The orc tribes united under Obould begin to fight each other, and Bruenor is determined to finish the war that nearly...
