Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
10 best books like Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss (Pat Schwiebert): A Normal Pig, Linus The Little Yellow Pencil, Cry, Heart, But Never Break, A Busy Creature's Day Eating!, The Invisible String, The King of Kindergarten, Lifetimes: A Beautiful Way to Explain Life and Death to Children, I Walk with Vanessa: A Story about a Simple Act of Kindness, I Miss You: a First Look at Death (First Look at Books), The Moon's First Friends: How the Moon Met the Astronauts from Apollo 11
A picture book about a spotted pig in a class full of pink pigs who learns to accept her differences.
Pip is a normal pig who does normal stuff: cooking, painting, and dreaming of what she’ll be when she grows up.
But one day a new pig comes to school and starts pointing out all the ways...
Linus The Little Yellow Pencil
| Author | Scott Magoon |
| ISBN | 1368006272 |
This is a rather strange little story, but I kind of like it. Here we have a pencil named Linus. He likes to draw. Unfortunately, his eraser, Ernie, has a bit of an attitude problem. He's always undermining Linus's confidence and erasing his work because it's not good enough. Dejected, Linus seeks a place...
Cry, Heart, But Never Break
| Author | Glenn Ringtved |
| ISBN | 1592701876 |
Even to the most-learned men and women, few things are as scary, swamping and tearing as death. Like an end, that ultimate exit, beyond which everything becomes void and nothing remains to return, it hovers over us like a spying cloud, always waiting for that one chance to seize our life and make it its...
First sentence:
A Apples!
B Berries!
C Cereal!
D Doughnuts
E Eggs
? !
F Furniture
Premise/plot: The 'creature' that stars in Mo Willem's newest book EATS just about anything and everything--whether it's good for him or not. Will there be consequences...
| Author | Patrice Karst |
| ISBN | 0875167349 |
Buying copies of this cute children's book for several Grandchildren that have recently or are just about ready to move out of State. The basic context is that of a string, a magic and invisible string , which connects us all to the ones we love. It's the very ticket (a comforting story) for someone who needs...
| Author | Derrick Barnes |
| ISBN | 1524740748 |
A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of kindergarten.
The morning sun blares through your window like a million brass trumpets.It sits and shines behind your head--like a crown. Mommy says that today, you are going to be the King of Kindergarten!
Starting kindergarten...
| Author | Bryan Mellonie |
| ISBN | 0553344021 |
When the death of a relative, a friend, or a pet happens or is about to happen . . . how can we help a child to understand?
Lifetimes is a moving book for children of all ages, even parents too. It lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. Lifetimes tells us about beginnings....
| Author | Kerascoët |
| ISBN | 1524769568 |
This simple yet powerful picture book tells the story of an elementary school girl named Vanessa who is bullied and a fellow student who witnesses the act and is at first unsure of how to help. I Walk with Vanessa explores the feelings of helplessness and anger that arise in the wake of seeing a classmate...
I Miss You: a First Look at Death (First Look at Books)
| Author | Pat Thomas |
| ISBN | 0764117645 |
When a close friend or family member dies, it can be difficult for children to express their feelings. This book helps boys and girls understand that death is a natural complement to life, and that grief and a sense of loss are normal feelings for them to have following a loved one's death. Titles in this...
The Moon's First Friends: How the Moon Met the Astronauts from Apollo 11
| Author | Susanna Leonard Hill |
| ISBN | 1492656801 |
This book teaches kids about history and science, framing the story as a wish for friendship by a lonely moon.
Starting billions of years ago, the story follows the Moon as she watches life on Earth evolve. But until humans come on the scene, she doesn't have much hope of getting to say hello to...
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth
| Author | Nicola Davies |
| ISBN | 0763694835 |
After magnifying the beauty of unseen organisms in Tiny Creatures, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton turn their talents to the vast variety of life on Earth.
The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds,...
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0062883380 |
In a hilarious picture book from bestselling author Ann Patchett and bestselling illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser, a pack of overly confident lambs set out to find a slide made just for them.
On the farm there was a flock of lambs who believed that everything was done especially for them....
So...
| Author | Julia Denos |
| ISBN | 1328465640 |
A stunning celebration of mindfulness and a meditation on slowing down and enjoying each moment, from the team behind the award-winning Windows
Explore identity and connection, inspire curiosity, and prompt engaging discussions about the here and now..
| Author | Amy Webb |
| ISBN | 1506448720 |
Delightful read for children and their caregivers about a little girl with special needs and how other children react.
I have always, always been a fan of children's picture books and find that they teach empathy in such simple, wholesome ways. WHEN CHARLEY MET EMMA is no exception. I love the...
| Author | Cale Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1984830376 |
Canadian picture-book author and artist Cale Atkinson, creator of such winsome titles as
Where Oliver Fits
and
Sir Simon: Super Scarer
, returns to the form in this tongue-in-cheek guide to all things unicorn. Guided by Professors Glitter Pants, Sprinkle Steed, Star Hoof and Sugar Beard, the...
Home From The Vinyl Cafe: A Year Of Stories
| Author | Stuart McLean |
| ISBN | 0140277439 |
Welcome to the world of the Vinyl Cafe. Meet Dave, the proud owner of the world's smallest record store. Meet his pal, Kenny Wong, who runs Wong's Scottish Meat Pies. Meet Dave's wife and their children. Watch while they all bump and stumble through a hilarious year of mistakes, miscues, misunderstandings,...
The Pigeon Has to Go to School
I can't believe that I was looking forward to a children's book! But it is about our favourite pigeon .
| Author | Jim Kelly |
| ISBN | 1780290330 |
Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by the police that his father has just been killed in a car accident, his body incinerated in a fireball of burning petrol. It's impossible - because Dryden's father drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, 35 years before.
At the same time,...
