Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
10 best books like Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei (Peter Sís): Wee Gillis, A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems, Working Cotton, My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, Thy Friend, Obadiah, Peter the Great, Anatole and the Cat, Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals
A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand.
Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the Lowlands, while the other half finds him in the Highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family...
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0802853021 |
When he wrote poems, he felt as free as the Passaic River as it rushed to the falls. Willie’s notebooks filled up, one after another. Willie’s words gave him freedom and peace, but he also knew he needed to earn a living. So he went off to medical school and became a doctor -- one of the busiest men in town!...
| Author | Joyce Sidman |
| ISBN | 0618135472 |
From spring’s first thaw to autumn’s chill, the world of the pond is a dramatic place. Though seemingly quiet, ponds are teeming with life and full of surprises. Their denizens—from peepers to painted turtles, duckweed to diving beetles—lead secret and fascinating lives. A unique blend...
| Author | Sherley Anne Williams |
| ISBN | 0152014829 |
This child’s view of the long day’s work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet’s resonant language, is a fresh and stirring look at migrant family life. “With its restrained poetic text and impressionist paintings, this is a picture book for older readers, too.”--Booklist
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My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
| Author | Becky Reyher |
| ISBN | 0688512518 |
"We do not love people because they are beautiful, but they seem beautiful to us because we love them."
This is one of the thoughts from this book. It is a wonderful thought taken one way and I can also see it as a way of saying, you're ugly, but because you are loved you're beautiful. I guess it has...
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
| Author | Dianne Snyder |
| ISBN | 0395440904 |
I really enjoyed this story. It is an adapted Japanese folktale. A mother is raising a son who loves to sleep. He sleeps all the time. He is a trickster. He comes up with a plan to have a life so that he does not have to work. The whole town knows he is lazy and they call him the boy of the 3 year nap. His mother works...
| Author | Brinton Turkle |
| ISBN | 0140503935 |
An interesting story about a seagull that befriends or follows around a little boy, Obadiah. Everyone notices and teases him and the boy doesn’t like it, but when the bird is not there, Obadiah misses him.
I didn’t think the artwork was especially Caldecott worthy. The story is simple and...
A very short book about Peter the Great - the Tsar who drug Russia (kicking and screaming) into more modern times. This is a children's book, so it is not very detailed, but the artwork is beautiful and there is enough information to whet the appetite about a historical figure whose name I knew, but not much...
Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice-President in charge of Cheese Tasting at Duvall's cheese factory. He works in secret at night--the people at Duvall have no idea their mysterious taster is really a mouse! So M'sieu Duvall thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat...
| Author | Fritz Eichenberg |
| ISBN | 0808585169 |
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
Walter Dean Myers calls to life the deep, rich, and hope-filled history of Harlem, this crucible of American culture.
Christopher Myers' boldly assembled collage art resonates with feeling, and tells a tale all its own. Words and pictures together connect readers -of all ages - to the spirit of...
| Author | David McLimans |
| ISBN | 0802795633 |
Feast your eyes on these amazing creatures before they disappear. This stampede of wild animals, from Chinese Alligator to Grevy's Zebra, are so rare, they're all endangered. David McLiman's bold and playful illustrations transform each letter into a work of art, graphically rendered with animal...
| Author | Gene Barretta |
| ISBN | 0805079173 |
The inventions and inspiration of Benjamin Franklin and how they've stood the test of time
What would you do if you lived in a community without a library, hospital, post office, or fire department? If you were Benjamin Franklin, you'd set up these organizations yourself. Franklin also designed...
| Author | Cheryl Bardoe |
| ISBN | 0810954753 |
The only picture book available about the father of genetics and his pea plants!
How do mothers and fathers—whether they are apple trees, sheep, or humans—pass down traits to their children? This question fascinated Gregor Mendel throughout his life. Regarded as the world’s first...
| Author | Marie Hall Ets |
| ISBN | 0140503250 |
A repetitive story in the fact that this is the same thing over and over with different animals. It bored me. The artwork was lovely, but nothing really special either. I think it was a kind of woodcut printed out. Basically, a young boy finds a different animal each page and tries to imitate how it walks...
| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
| ISBN | 0140564403 |
Generations of children have read, re-read, and loved Ezra Jack Keats?s award-winning, classic stories about Peter and his neighborhood friends. Now, for the first time, Peter?s Chair, A Letter to Amy, and Goggles! are available in paperback exclusively from Puffin.?A well-loved character, a...
| Author | Alvin Tresselt |
| ISBN | 0688093523 |
"Drip drop splash went the rain all day." The rain formed a puddle. . .and became a pond. . .and spilled over into a lake. . .and grew larger and larger until it joined with a river and travelled out to sea.
With this classic picture book, young readers can follow the course of a heavy rain as it drenches...
| Author | Muriel L. Feelings |
| ISBN | 0140546626 |
A Caldecott Honor Book
Moja Means One introduces children to counting in Swahili with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.
"Magnificient, full-page drawings throb...
"You will reach the far-off land if you keep hope alive within you." The words of Magic Frog give courage to the young mouse on his long and perilous journey to reach the wonderful land of legend. He faces many obstacles on his quest and sacrifices much to help others in need. But the mouse's compassion and...
| Author | Elisa Bartone |
| ISBN | 0688102689 |
In the tradition of Lois Lowry and Paul Fleischman, Elisa Bartone's Caldecott Honor-winning book gives children a glimpse into American history and the immigrant experience.
This is the story of Peppe, who becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century...
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
| ISBN | 0027861317 |
Clement and Hippolyte are handsome, sharp-witted, and as close as brothers. When Clement falls in love with enchanting Pauline, he bids Hippolyte to join his quest to court her, and the two friends set out toward danger and adventure.
Pauline is ward of the mysterious Monsieur Zabocat -- a...
| Author | Bonnie Christensen |
| ISBN | 0375867538 |
Acclaimed author-illustrator Bonnie Christensen adopts the voice of Galileo and lets him tell his own tale in this outstanding picture book biography. The first person narration gives this book a friendly, personal feel that makes Galileo's remarkable achievements and ideas completely accessible...
| Author | Byrd Baylor |
| ISBN | 0689711050 |
You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creatures together." Byrd Baylor's spare, poetic text and Peter...
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0439114942 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
A masterful blend of artistic skill, scientific prowess, and impassioned theatrics lay at the core of Waterhouse Hawkins. A man of pure determination, he created the first life-size models of dinosaurs! This brilliant book is a fantastic nod to the genius of one man,...
