Swamp Angel
10 best books like Swamp Angel (Anne Isaacs): Alphabet City, Mirette on the High Wire, The Gardener, The Relatives Came, Viva Frida, Snow, The Paperboy, Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, Coming on Home Soon
| Author | Stephen T. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0670856312 |
The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A" — while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book,...
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
| ISBN | 0698114434 |
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother's boardinghouse. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird. When Mirette discovers that fear has kept him from performing for years, she knows she must...
| Author | Sarah Stewart |
| ISBN | 0374325170 |
By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library
Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0689717385 |
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.
When they finally...
| Author | Yuyi Morales |
| ISBN | 1596436034 |
A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2015 Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award
Frida Kahlo, one of the world's most famous and unusual artists is revered around the world. Her life was filled with laughter, love, and tragedy, all of which influenced what she painted on her canvases.
Distinguished...
| Author | Uri Shulevitz |
| ISBN | 0374370923 |
Snow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book.
"It's snowing, said boy with dog.
"It's only a snowflake," said grandfather with beard.
No one thinks one or two snowflakes will amount to anything. Not the man with the hat or the lady with...
| Author | Dav Pilkey |
| ISBN | 0531071391 |
This book encourages me to stay in bed. We see that early morning time it’s still dark and the paperboy gets up out of bed and starts work. It looks brutal. He gets home when the sun is coming up and goes back to bed for some ‘z’s.
Dav does a wonderful job at showing what it’s like in the early...
| 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...
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
| Author | Marla Frazee |
| ISBN | 0152060200 |
When James and Eamon go to a week of Nature Camp and stay at Eamon's grandparents' house, it turns out that their free time spent staying inside, eating waffles, and playing video games is way more interesting than nature. But sometimes things work out best when they don't go...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399237488 |
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily...
| Author | Marc Simont |
| ISBN | 0439442540 |
A sweet and simple story about a family who meets a friendly dog while picnicking and, after thinking about him all week, go back to find him. My only criticism would be that leaving the dog in the first place is not very responsible. Even if, as the parents tell the concerned children, the dog already has...
