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10 best books like Stories from Around the World (Heather Amery): The Year At Maple Hill Farm, Eric Carle's Animals Animals, The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature, Children's Book of Virtues, A Child's Book of Art: Great Pictures First Words, Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit, Uncle Wiggily's Story Book, The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book: World Folk Tales Especially for Reading Aloud, People

The Year At Maple Hill Farm
AuthorAlice Provensen
ISBN0689845006
This is a book about farm animals, and what happens during one year on a farm.
In January, the cows stay in the barnyard, and the chickens don't lay many eggs. By March, you can tell spring is coming: the barn is filled with baby animals. Month by month, the animals at Maple Hill Farm sense the changing...
Eric Carle's Animals Animals
AuthorEric Carle
ISBN0698118553
From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses,...
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook
AuthorJoyce Lankester Brisley
The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her family and friends have charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925. This collection of twenty-one classic tales about this resourceful and thoughtful little girl reflect with accuracy the dilemmas and challenges of a child's world....
The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature
AuthorStan Berenstain
ISBN0679886524
Here are three books bound together to make one awesome Bear Country collection! The Berenstain Bears' Almanac, The Berenstain Bears' Nature Guide, and The Berenstain Bears' Science Fair are filled with fascinating facts that cubs and kids want o know about the world they live in. Chock-full of information...
Children's Book of Virtues
AuthorWilliam J. Bennett
The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's number-one bestseller; The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together:

With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as...
A Child's Book of Art: Great Pictures First Words
AuthorLucy Micklethwait
ISBN1564582035
This is a superb art book for children. The idea here is simple but inspired.

The author has put together a collection of paintings in various categories, with words and concepts within the categories. For each of these a painting or paintings that depicts the featured word is shown.

There...
Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
AuthorDavid Borgenicht
ISBN0762417129
I love Brer Rabbit. Song of the South was re-released in theaters when I was 6 years old and I fell in love with him. We had a book of Joel Chandler Harris’ stories at home and my mother read for me with what I remember as great enthusiasm (although she was probably exhausted). I also had a book and record of...
Uncle Wiggily's Story Book
AuthorHoward R. Garis
ISBN0448400901
Uncle Wiggily is one of the most popular and enduring characters in American literature. A cheerful “bunny rabbit gentleman” with a wonderful knack for setting things right, he has been a reassuring friend to millions of children since early in the century. Uncle Wiggily’s amusing stories...
The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book: World Folk Tales Especially for Reading Aloud
AuthorBob Hartman
ISBN0745946542
A Featured Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month!
 
In this new collection of international folk tales, storyteller Bob Hartman blends familiar stories with little-known tales. Each story has been chosen for its integrity and for its ability to encourage and inspire children...
People
AuthorPeter Spier
We still own the battered beaten-up copy of this homage to humanity that our two daughters returned to so often that it needed patching up with a judicious amount of sticky tape. A wholehearted celebration of diversity, it devotes pages to appearance, homes, food, clothes, pastimes, jobs, pets, feasts...
The Landmark History of the American People, 2 Volumes
AuthorDaniel J. Boorstin
ISBN0394891201
This was used as a spine book in Sonlight's History program. A bit dense in information, and a slow read, but WELL worth the effort. It brought to life many of the otherwise dry events of our nation's history such as processes of the Add-A-State program, Associated Press, how and why we began using Standard...
The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN0152055711
The Llama Who Had No Pajama is an anthology of 100 favorite poems by Mary Ann Hoberman. This book of poems can be a great introduction to poems for young readers. It provides a variety of poems on different subjects like animals, people, childhood fun, and other concepts like time, opposites, and up comparisons....
What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?
AuthorRobert E. Wells
ISBN0807588377
My son and I read this book as a part of Sonlight's P4/5 curriculum. This is the third book we've read by Robert E. Wells and I am in love with his books. He has this wonderful way of taking complex science and mathematics concepts and making them accessible to preschoolers and young children. My son has also...
The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago (Explainers)
AuthorHelen Edom
ISBN0746011091
This is one of my favorite Usborne books from my childhood. Well, we actually had it as individual books, and only of the first three sections, so I was even more excited to see a version where they're all together. I don't know whether this was ever used in my schooling or not -- it probably was, but what I...
The Greek News
AuthorAnton Powell
ISBN0763603406
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly

Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
Tales of Robin Hood
AuthorTony Allan
ISBN0746020635
I absoluetly loved Tales of Robin Hood! I was laughing, crying and in the midst of this intense story! I now want to read the original book. I have been familiar with the story of Robin Hood, but reading it was completely different. I loved the intrigue, intense battles and the clear fight of good vs evil....
The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose: A Treasury of More Than 300 Classic Nursery Rhymes
AuthorArnold Lobel
ISBN0679887369
Knopf is proud to reissue the complete and unabridged Arnold Lobel-illustrated treasury of Mother Goose rhymes, originally published in 1986 as The Random House Book of Mother Goose and unavailable for several years. Reviewers were unanimous in their acclaim of a collection "brimming over with...
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
AuthorFaith McNulty
ISBN0064432181
‘[An] irresistible account of a child’s imaginary 8,000-mile journey through the earth to discover what’s inside. Facts about the composition of the earth are conveyed painlessly and memorably.’ —SLJ. ‘An exciting adventure. . . . Illustrations [by Caldecott Medal winner Marc Simont]...
What's Under The Sea?
AuthorSophy Tahta
ISBN0746009682
This was a decent and informative book about all kinds of things that go on under the sea.

It covers world ocean geography, types of animals that live under the sea (as well as the food chain), polar seas, coral reefs, oil rigs, divers, a little bit on plate tectonics, and more. In typical Usborne...
Why Do Tigers Have Stripes?
AuthorMike Unwin
ISBN1580869394
My 4-year-old and I both enjoyed learning from this informative book. There were lots of good-quality illustrations showing how animals' physical appearances help them survive. We learned about stripes and spots and other animal colorations and how they help animals blend in to their surroundings...
Things People Do
AuthorAnne Civardi
ISBN0860208648
This entertaining book is all about the work people do in different sorts of jobs. Set on an imaginary island called Banilla, it introduces a crowd of interesting people and shows some of the events that happen in their daily lives. There is Mayor Naze, the mayor of Banilla; Ivor Hose, the fire chief and...
The Zoo
AuthorSuzy Lee
ISBN1933605286
This is my fourth and fave Suzy Lee picture book, and the first with words, though these are happily few, narrated by a little girl whose experience of the trip to the zoo with her parents is very different than theirs. Spoiler alert: she gets lost, which for her parents is of course terrifying, but for her...
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