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10 best books like The Beginner's Guide to Running Away from Home (Jennifer LaRue Huget): Building Our House, The Bathing Costume: Or the Worst Vacation of My Life, The Mighty Lalouche, The Boy and the Airplane, Doug Unplugged, Please Bring Balloons, Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom, No Fits, Nilson!, Papa's Mechanical Fish, The Favorite Daughter

Building Our House
AuthorJonathan Bean
ISBN0374380236
In this unique construction book for kids who love tools and trucks, readers join a girl and her family as they pack up their old house in town and set out to build a new one in the country. Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up. From empty lot to finished home, every stage...
The Bathing Costume: Or the Worst Vacation of My Life
AuthorCharlotte Moundlic
ISBN1592701418
The book's protagonist is Michel, an eight-year-old Parisian boy. His brother Martin, who's twelve, detests him, and he detests Martin right back. This summer, Michel will go away alone, which really means without his mom, to stay with his grandparents while his parents move apartments. To add to...
The Mighty Lalouche
AuthorMatthew Olshan
ISBN0375962255
   In Paris, France, there lived a humble postman named Lalouche. He was small, but his hands were nimble, his legs were fast, and his arms were strong. When his job was replaced by an electric car, he turned to boxing to support himself and his pet finch, Genevieve. But--"You? A boxer?" the fighters...
The Boy and the Airplane
AuthorMark Pett
ISBN1442451238
On the surface, this is a really sweet book about a boy and his airplane--something that many of us can relate to if we ever had a favorite toy as a child. The drawings are fun and simple, yet still elicit emotion as you follow the boy and his plane.

As you read, it hits you on a much deeper level--the...
Doug Unplugged
AuthorDan Yaccarino
ISBN0375966439
Doug is a robot. His parents want him to be smart, so each morning they plug him in and start the information download. After a morning spent learning facts about the city, Doug suspects he could learn even more about the city by going outside and exploring it. And so Doug . . . unplugs. What follows is an exciting...
Please Bring Balloons
AuthorLindsay Ward
ISBN0803738781
Every day can be an adventure. Especially if you bring balloons.

Ever wondered what it would be like to ride a carousel right off its platform?  As Emma discovers, all it takes is a handful of balloons and a very kind polar bear to show you the way.  This soaring story of friendship, between a...
Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom
AuthorJohn Rocco
ISBN1423121899
Every super hero gets his powers from somewhere. The young hero of this book, Rocco, thinks his abilities come from his shock of red hair, and the longer it gets, the stronger he becomes. He even has a posse of super friends with wild hair of their own. Our hero is unstoppable--until the day he's dragged...
No Fits, Nilson!
AuthorZachariah OHora
ISBN0803738528
Nilson and Amelia do everything together. But if one little thing goes wrong, Nilson throws the biggest, most house shaking-est fit ever! Amelia helps Nilson control his gorilla-sized temper by promising him banana ice cream and letting him play with her froggy coin purse. But, sometimes, Amelia...
Papa's Mechanical Fish
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0374399085
Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr!  That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you...
The Favorite Daughter
AuthorAllen Say
Yuriko hates her name when the children make fun of it and call her "Eureka!" Though she is half Japanese, the teasing makes her want to hide, to retreat even from the art projects she used to love. Fortunately she has a patient, kind father who finds gentle ways of drawing her out and reminding Yuriko of...
Crankee Doodle
AuthorTom Angleberger
ISBN0547818548
“Yankee Doodle went to town / a-riding on a pony / stuck a feather in his hat / and called it macaroni.” Many know the song “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” but few understand it. This unapologetically silly picture book reveals that the legendary ride to town (and the whole macaroni thing) was all suggested...
What Floats in a Moat?
AuthorLynne Berry
ISBN1416997636
A goat and a hen turn a playful exploration of physics into scientific fun that rises to the top!

Archie the Goat has a delivery to make. He has several barrels of buttermilk that the queen needs, but in order to get them to her, he needs to cross the moat.

Testing several different theories...
Crankenstein
AuthorSamantha Berger
BEWARE OF CRANKENSTEIN!

Who is Crankenstein?

HE IS A MONSTER OF GRUMPINESS THAT NO ONE CAN DESTROY!MEHHRRRR!!! HE'S ALIVE!

He may look like any ordinary boy, but when faced with a rainy day, a melting popsicle, or an early bedtime, one little boy transforms into a mumbling,...
Flood
AuthorAlvaro F. Vila
ISBN1479515469
Outstanding Picture book. Gorgeous colors used in such a way that surely depict nature's rage in a way kids can understand and assimilate. The story presents the process any family could pass if there is an emergency in their home towns. The family on this story will try to save their home but at the end...
Ball
AuthorMary Sullivan
ISBN0547759363
A dog with a ball is one of the most relentlessly hopeful creatures on Earth. After his best little-girl pal leaves for school, this dog hits up yoga mom, baby, and even the angry cat for a quick throw. No luck. Forced to go solo, the dog begins a hilarious one-sided game of fetch until naptime’s wild, ball-centric...
Frankenstein
AuthorRick Walton
ISBN0312553668
A 'Madeline' parody done so well. I love the story of Madeline and I love Halloween so this is a mix perfect for me. I can't decide if this is meant more for adults and people who know the story of Madeline or if this is meant for kids too. It is very well done and funny.

Rick Walton captures the essence...
The OK Book
AuthorAmy Krouse Rosenthal
ISBN0061152552
In this clever and literal play on words, OK is turned on its side, upside down, and right side up to show that being OK can really be quite great. Whether OK personifies an OK skipper, an OK climber, an OK lightning bug catcher, or an OK whatever there is to experience, ok is an OK place to be. And being OK just...
Night Light
AuthorNicholas Blechman
ISBN0545462630
Count the nighttime lights on a train, a helicopter, a fire truck, and seven more vehicles in this bold picture book with die-cut surprises.

1 light, shining bright? A train!
7 lights, flashing red and white? A fire truck!

And so on all the way to ten lights. Part guessing game, part...
Maude: The Not-So-Noticeable Shrimpton
AuthorLauren Child
ISBN0141342773
Lauren Child teams up with a debut illustrator to tell a cautionary tale about the surprising perils of craving constant attention.

Meet the Shrimpton family — so talented, so eccentric, so larger than life, you couldn’t miss them if you wanted to. Mrs. Shrimpton wears flamboyant hats,...
My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
AuthorTameka Fryer Brown
ISBN0670012858
What color is your mood?

On a really good day, Jamie feels purple like the first bite of a juicy cold plum.

And with a crayon in his hand, Jamie eases into a green feeling--like a dragon dancing through a jungle made of green jello.

But when his brothers push him around and...
The Apple Orchard Riddle
AuthorMargaret McNamara
ISBN0375957448
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard!

In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how...
The Case of the Missing Donut
AuthorAlison McGhee
ISBN0803739257
The sheriff and his deputy dog have been charged with a mission: to bring a dozen donuts home safely. All seems to be going well until the young sheriff peeks inside the box to check on the tasty treats. They’re practically calling his name, and in the blink of an eye (and with just a few nibbles), a donut...
Princesses on the Run
AuthorSmiljana Coh
ISBN0762446129
Princesses on the Run - Smiljana Coh I don't have a strong feeling on the whole Princess thing. Probably because my own daughters went through it and out so quickly: it was a preschool-only phenomenon as I recall, and Natasha's Halloween take on it was a zombie princess (one of those things she still enjoys)...
Memoirs of a Hamster
AuthorDevin Scillian
ISBN1585368318
Night 1 / My life is perfect. / I have a bowl full of seeds, a cozy pile of wood shavings, and room to run. / I'm never leaving here. / Question: Who's the luckiest hamster in the world? / Answer: ME! Seymour the hamster has the perfect life. He has a spacious cage, a constant food supply, and a FuzzyBoy 360 exercise...
Mary Wrightly, So Politely
AuthorShirin Yim Bridges
ISBN0547342489
Mary Wrightly is the best-behaved little girl around. She always politely says please and thank you and even “I’m sorry” when something isn’t her fault. But when a shopper comes between Mary and the blue elephant toy she wants to buy for her beloved baby brother, will Mary just let the woman walk...
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