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10 best books like Something Queer is Going On (Elizabeth Levy): Strega Nona, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snow Man, Julius, Morris Goes to School, The Star Wars Storybook, Gus Was a Friendly Ghost, Duck and his Friends, The Santa Claus Book

Strega Nona
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN8424133498
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Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola is the first book in a classic children's literature series from the 1970s and 1980s. It was eventually made into a cartoon and several other children's merchandise, all fun and educational toys as kids grew up. I enjoyed the premise of the books but only read...
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
AuthorJudith Viorst
ISBN0689711735
The perennially popular tale of Alexander's worst day is a storybook that belongs on every child's bookshelf.

Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in this hair.

And it got worse...

His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
AuthorBarbara Shook Hazen
ISBN0307020711
Well, Christmas is coming very soon (I'm in the midst of final exams personally, so it doesn't feel like it), but I figured it might be nostalgic to read this old classic Christmas tale. My edition of this book at one point came with a vinyl record, but the record has long since been lost so I didn't consider...
Frosty the Snow Man
AuthorAnnie North Bedford
ISBN0307140210
Based on the beloved song of the same name, this colorfully illustrated version of Frosty the Snow Man, told by Annie North Bedford, is a sure delight for all ages. Who can resist the tale of children enjoying the fun of building Frosty, when suddenly to their astonishment, he comes alive! The children...
Julius
AuthorSyd Hoff
ISBN0060224916
First sentence: Davy went to Africa. His father was going to catch an animal for the circus.

Premise/plot: Mr. Smith is looking to bring back an animal for the circus. His son, Davy, is there to help. In fact, it is Davy who finds Julius, a gorilla, who is super-excited about belonging to the circus....
Morris Goes to School
AuthorBernard Wiseman
ISBN0064440451
What a pleasant surprise Morris Goes to School turned out to be. Brimming with wonderfully friendly laugh-out-loud humor from start to finish, and with illustrations reminiscent of the best in children's literature of the 1940s, '50s and '60s, Morris Goes to School tells a story that is engaging to...
The Star Wars Storybook
AuthorGeraldine Richelson
ISBN0394837851
Adding this now because I've just been watching the movie with my son -- the first time for him (unfortunately, it turns out to be the updated version -- that scene with Jabba, oh dear).

I remember I won this book as a prize in 5th grade, and I read it avidly many times. This was before the dawn of the...
Gus Was a Friendly Ghost
AuthorJane Thayer
ISBN1930900740
Back in print from Purple House Press!

There was once a friendly ghost, by the name of Gus, who lived in an old house in the country. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their twins, Susie and Sammy, lived there too during the summer. Then autumn came and the Scott family left. Which meant Gus had nothing to do...
Duck and his Friends
AuthorKathryn Jackson
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The Santa Claus Book
AuthorEileen Daly
ISBN0307100464

First sentence: Santa's sleigh was piled high with toys. And Santa's list of boys and girls was so long that it made a curly tail behind the sleigh. "Ho-ho!" laughed Santa as the sleigh landed softly on a rooftop. "This is a good Christmas!" Down the chimney he went. He put a doll under the Christmas...
Donald Duck And The Magic Mailbox (A Golden Look-Look Book)
AuthorWalt Disney Company
ISBN0307118517
This brand new copy was published in 1978 and my brother must have won it several years later. I didn't know this marvellous story, that I easily give four stars. French wouldn't impact on our memory or meaning as strongly as English. It is fun to be brushing up on it a lot. Since we attended French immersion,...
Donald Duck's Toy Train
AuthorJane Werner Watson
Children's writer Jane Werner Watson (1915-2004) was born in Fond du Lac, Wis. She earned a B.A. in English in 1936 from the University of Wisconsin, began a career in publishing, and became a prolific writer who specialized in non-fiction.

She was one of the first editors for the original Golden...
Walt Disney's Peter Pan (A Little Golden Book)
AuthorWalt Disney Company
ISBN0736402381
In the neighborhood of Bloomsbury, where George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of the boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates, which was told to them by their older sister, Wendy. Their father, who is fed up with the stories...
The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery
AuthorSandra Markle
ISBN1467714631
Little brown bats do us a big favor. They eat huge numbers of insects! That helps limit the spread of diseases and the damage that insects do to farm crops. But in recent years, large populations of little brown bats have been dying off each winter. Is a virus killing them? Could climate change or pesticides...
Star Wars: The Wookiee Storybook
AuthorEleanor Ehrhardt
ISBN0394842561
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You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown
AuthorCharles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.

Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul...
Puss in Boots
AuthorPaul Galdone
ISBN0590324985
When a miller retires and divides up his wealth amongst his three sons, the youngest is left with a cat named Puss. The young man is sure that he has been duped, but the talking cat convinced his new owner that with a pair of boots and some basic supplies, he can prove a very useful pet. The young man does as requested...
Rags (Little Golden Book)
AuthorPatricia M. Scarry
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