The Bear That Wasn't
10 best books like The Bear That Wasn't (Frank Tashlin): Shi-shi-etko, The Story of a Bad Boy, Jazz Age Josephine, D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, The Wonderful O, Open Me...I'm a Dog!, The Little Bookroom, The Wind on the Moon, Uncle, The School for Cats
| Author | Nicola I. Campbell |
| ISBN | 0888996594 |
In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend...
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 1416961232 |
Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 1590172175 |
| Author | James Thurber |
| ISBN | 0440405793 |
| Author | Art Spiegelman |
| ISBN | 0060273208 |
(Would it be so bad to be a book? This dog wants to be your dog. He's a book, though. Either way when the alarm goes off every am I'm envious.)
(Then again the conceit is bittersweet like don't forget about me Winnie and Velveteen Rabbit and rubber ring. Or that annoying...
| Author | Eleanor Farjeon |
| ISBN | 1590170482 |
| Author | Eric Linklater |
| ISBN | 1590171004 |
In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves while he is off at war. Sighs Dinah, "I think that we are quite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be," and her sister Dorinda adds helpfully, "Very often, when...
| Author | J.P. Martin |
| ISBN | 1590172396 |
| Author | Esther Averill |
| Author | Lucretia P. Hale |
| ISBN | 1590172124 |
The Peterkin Papers record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. Confronted...
| Author | Alastair Reid |
| ISBN | 1590173201 |
| Author | William McCleery |
| ISBN | 0208021914 |
| Author | Palmer Brown |
| Author | Taeeun Yoo |
| ISBN | 0803731450 |
| Author | Florence Parry Heide |
| ISBN | 0810959941 |
| Author | Remy Charlip |
| ISBN | 0689716605 |
Fortunately, Ned was invited to a surprise party. Unfortunately, the party was a thousand miles away. Fortunately, a friend loaned Ned an airplane. Unfortunately, the motor exploded. Fortunately, there was a parachute in the airplane. Unfortunately, there was a hole in the parachute. What...
| Author | Leonore Klein |
| ISBN | 0789322633 |
“Like many of us Henri wants to see Paris.
In Paris, there are thousands of buses....
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0763642177 |
There are some strange ideas floating around in Paul’s apartment block. There’s Mabel, who now calls herself Molly...
| Author | Jutta Bauer |
| ISBN | 1929132506 |
Selma is asked: What is happiness? She says: Happiness is eating a little grass at sunrise, playing with the children until lunchtime, a little exercise after lunch, a little more grass, a chat with her neighbour Mrs Miller in the evening and then a lovely...
| Author | Matthea Harvey |
| ISBN | 0375967737 |
Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team...
| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
| ISBN | 0689711603 |
| Author | Dallas Clayton |
It`s All About Dreams .. Big Big Dreams :)
So please my child, do keep in mind before you go to bed;
To Dream a dream as BIG as BIG could ever DREAM to be;
Then dream a DREAM ten times as big as that dream you see;
Then once you have got that dream in mind,...
| Author | Gilbert Seldes |
| ISBN | 1590175808 |