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10 best books like The Bear That Heard Crying (Natalie Kinsey-Warnock): Corgiville Fair, Marven of the Great North Woods, Erandi's Braids, Chato and the Party Animals, Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, Rocks in His Head, From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World, Island Boy

Corgiville Fair
AuthorTasha Tudor
ISBN0316853127
A charming, classic animal tale with plenty of heart--and plenty of corgis!

In Corgiville, as in many small towns all over America, the biggest event of the year is the fair. And the most exciting thing at the Corgiville Fair is the goat race! Caleb Corgi has spent months training his goat, Josephine,...
Marven of the Great North Woods
AuthorKathryn Lasky
This is a wonderful picture book. It is a bit long, so I'd recommend for ages 5 and up. But it succeeds in a tough genre for children's books - period non-fiction.

It's a story of a 10-year-old, Marven, who is sent away from his family during the flu epidemic of 1918. He leaves Duluth and goes to a logging...
Erandi's Braids
AuthorAntonio Hernandez Madrigal
ISBN0698118855
The yellow dress Erandi wants for her birthday will look beautiful with her long, thick braids. But Mama's fishing net is full of holes, and there isn't enough money to buy both a new net and a birthday dress. The only solution lies with the hair buyers from the city. But Mama's hair isn't nearly as beautiful...
Chato and the Party Animals
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0399231595
Chato, the coolest cat in el barrio, loves to party--but not his best buddy, Novio Boy. Birthday parties always make him blue. "I'm from the pound," he tells Chato. "I don't know when I was born. I never knew my mami. I never even had a birthday party, or nothing."So Chato plans the coolest surprise party...
Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm
AuthorJerdine Nolen
ISBN0688158455
Narrated by a young African-American girl living in the rural American South, this original tall tale relates the story of Harvey Potter, an unassuming farmer who raises crop after crop of brightly-colored balloons. The girl befriends Harvey, who is the kind of man who lets "a person be," and the two...
Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo
AuthorWilliam Joyce
ISBN0060210745
William Joyce (born 1957) is an American author, illustrator, and filmmaker. Newsweek has called him one of the top 100 people to watch in the current millennium. His paintings are displayed at several national museums and art galleries. He worked in several films in various roles such as conceptual...
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
AuthorM.T. Anderson
ISBN0763625620
George Frideric Handel was not your everyday eighteenth-century composer. And in a manner befitting its subject, this witty, rigorously researched, and accessible biography captures Handel's essential spirit — from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to make music against his father's...
Rocks in His Head
AuthorCarol Otis Hurst
ISBN0060294035
Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying,...
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN1596435429
What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make?
For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century—to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type.
Written as a series of riddles and illustrated...
Island Boy
AuthorBarbara Cooney
ISBN0140507566
The acclaimed author of Miss Rumphius recounts the lives of four generations living on a New England coastal island and the importance of family ties.

The youngest and quietest of 12 children, Matthias grew closest to Tibbets Island, learning its secrets through the years. And though in later...
Woody, Hazel and Little Pip
AuthorElsa Beskow
ISBN0863151094
Originally published in 1939, as Ocke, Nutta, och Pillerill, this charming Swedish picture-book follows the adventures of two Acorn boys - Woody and Little Pip - and a young Hazelnut girl named (what else?) Hazel, who all find themselves far from home one sunny Autumn day. Climbing aboard a large oak...
The Big Alfie and Annie Rose Storybook
AuthorShirley Hughes
ISBN0688076726
A favorite in our house.
No magic, no imaginary friend, no gross habits or vocabulary, Alfie is a normal little boy. Shirley Hughes' books are wonderful because they show a family living day to day with each other. The words are well chosen and beautifully descriptive. The pictures are gorgeous!...
The Dragonling
AuthorJackie French Koller
ISBN0671867903
Dragonquest! Darek can't wait for his first Dragonquest. Then he can be just like his older brother, Clep, the hero who brought down a Great Blue, the largest and fiercest dragon of all. Darek goes to admire the kill -- and finds a dragonling peeking out of the giant dragon's pouch. Scared but curious,...
The Silver Pony
AuthorLynd Ward
ISBN0395643775
A wordless children's graphic novel and/or picture book about a farm boy who sees a silver flying horse. Is it real? Well, he tells his Dad, who punishes him for lying. But we know differently. We have actually seen the horse, who carries the boy all across the country, giving him the opportunity to help...
Saving Sweetness
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0698117670
"A rip-roaring tale featuring a big-hearted sheriff, a high-spirited heroine, and a happily ever after ending, all told in the tongue-rattling twang of the Old West."--School Library Journal

Sweetness is the littlest orphan at mean, old Mrs. Sump's orphanage. When she escapes, Mrs. Sump...
Cinderella
AuthorAmy Ehrlich
ISBN0525473459
Cinderella's transformation from poor girl to princess never fails to captivate young ones, and this stellar retelling, exquisitely illustrated by Susan Jeffers, is a must for every library. When the original version of this book was published in 1985, Publishers Weekly called it "a treasure for...
A Day's Work
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0395845181
Oh dear. So this book arrived by mistake from Amazon. I forget what I had ordered instead. Definitely not this. But Eve Bunting is amazing so I kept it. It's a complicated, kind of sad story told very simply. And it makes me think about all the heavy lifting we have our children do when they read. I look at high...
The Friend
AuthorSarah Stewart
ISBN0374324638
From the beloved husband-and-wife team of The Gardener, a Caldecott Honor Book

Annabelle Bernadette Clementine Dodd
Was a good little girl, though decidedly odd.
Belle lived every day as if she were grown --
She thought she could do everything all on her own.

Lucky for...
The Book of Beasts
AuthorE. Nesbit
An enduring story of the magic to be found in books.
Young Lionel is very surprised to be made King, but he's delighted to discover the world full of books in the Palace library. When Lionel opens one called THE BOOK OF BEASTS, he's in for an even greater surprise--out of the pages fly a butterfly and...
Kamishibai Man
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0618479546
The Kamishibai man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to the children and sell them candy, but gradually, fewer and fewer children came running at the sound of his clappers. They were all watching their new televisions instead. Finally, only one boy remained, and he had no money...
Mailing May
AuthorMichael O. Tunnell
ISBN0688128785
Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a...
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN1416912355
One wintry day, a postman delivers a mysterious package with a big pink bow to a lonely man named Mr. Hatch. "Somebody loves you" the note says.

"Somebody loves me!" Mr. Hatch sings as he dusts his living room. "Somebody loves me!" Mr. Hatch whistles as he does his errands in town. "But who, " Mr....
Baby Brains: The Smartest Baby in the Whole World
AuthorSimon James
ISBN0763625078
Simon James's story about the smartest baby in the world will have little ones howling with laughter and may have big ones smiling wryly with self-recognition.
It's never too early to start bringing up the smartest baby in the whole world. So thinks the expectant Mrs. Brains, who reads to the baby...
The Whingdingdilly
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395313813
I am loving Bill Peet’s stories and I will look for more of them. He is so playful and he has that Disney flavor. He was an artist at the Disney studios for most of the big movies there and worked on them. He has a good ear for dialogue and his artwork is so playful and fun.

We see Zildy, a witch, as a character...
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