The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book
10 best books like The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book (Bill Cosby): Feast for 10, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Carl's Birthday, Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, Clara and the Bookwagon, Dolphins!, Fox On The Job, Small Pig, Mother of Pearl, A Girl Named Helen Keller
| Author | Cathryn Falwell |
| ISBN | 0395620376 |
One of my favorites to use with younger children for food/Thanksgiving time programs. Very simple counting story about a family going shopping and cooking together and creating a feast. 11/21/12
Used in Lap Time this year. 11/29/13
Used for a PreK class doing grocery shopping.
Used...
Acclaimed Playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American women's literature--with a debut novel that sings and crackles with life-affirming energy as it moves the reader to laughter and tears.
As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson...
| Author | Alexandra Day |
| ISBN | 0374311501 |
It is Carl's birthday and Madeleine's mother wants to give the family Rottweiler a surprise birthday party. Madeleine and Carl are sent to a neighbour's house, but instead of taking a nap, they (of course) sneak back into their house, checking out the presents, sampling the cake and so on. Again, almost...
| Author | Syd Hoff |
| ISBN | 0064442373 |
Readers first fell in love with Danny and his prehistoric pal in the I Can Read classic Danny and the Dinosaur, created by Syd Hoff in 1958. Now the popular pair are together again in an adventure sure to please beginning readers
What would happen if a dinosaur came to a birthday party? Come to Danny's...
| Author | Nancy Smiler Levinson |
| ISBN | 0064441342 |
I saw this in my library's bookstore and it sounded like such a cute story. The cover is adorable and I expected a cute tale about a girl who loved to read getting to read to her heart's content with the traveling library. I've never encountered a traveling library and I couldn't wait to hear about it.
Instead,...
| Author | Sharon Bokoske |
| ISBN | 0679844376 |
A and I picked this out to read at bedtime since she likes dolphins. We learned a lot of different information that we never knew before, heck I didn't know half the information in the book. So this was a really good learning book for the both of us. As you read in this book you learn how they help fishermen and...
"Fox On The Job" by James Marshall is playful and imaginative that children will enjoy. The chapters are broken down into book to increase difficulty throughout the reading. Fox's Mother tells Fox he must get a job to pay for his broken bike. Even his sister will not give him the money. He tries baking pizzas,...
| Author | Arnold Lobel |
| ISBN | 0060239328 |
Small Pig is about a pig who is small. He loves nothing more than to sink down in good, soft mud. But when the farmer's wife cleans up his mud puddle, the pig must go out into the world to find a place that is messy enough for him. Will he find his mud? What will the farmer and his wife do when they find that he's gone?
Small...
| Author | Melinda Haynes |
| ISBN | 0671774670 |
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. Mother of Pearl revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew...
| Author | Margo Lundell |
| ISBN | 0590479636 |
قصة حياة هيلين كيلر = قصة فى مديح الإعاقة
فى مديح الضعف و العجز و الفقد ....
ملحمة بطولية بين فتاتين مُعاقتين ....الاولى هيلين كيلر الطفلة ذات التسع عشر شهراً...
| Author | Breena Clarke |
| ISBN | 0316899984 |
The acclaimed bestseller--a selection of Oprah's Book Club--that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.
River, Cross My Heart marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller...
| Author | Sidney Poitier |
| ISBN | 0061357901 |
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Here, Sidney...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0307275329 |
I had read these books years ago and decided to read them again. I've been told by some, who have read Faulkner, that his style would never get him published today. I don't know about that, I only know that one must get thoroughly absorbed in his books if you want to understand them and thereby enjoy them--no...
| Author | David FitzSimmons |
| ISBN | 1936607697 |
Enjoy amazing close-up images of twenty-one common yet often overlooked North American animals. Photographed against white backgrounds, their colors, shapes, textures, and seeming personalities shine. Whimsical but educational narratives accompanying each animal highlight fascinating...
| Author | Katherine Ayres |
| ISBN | 0763623784 |
This garden is on the move! A good-time, rollicking celebration of things that grow.
PEPPERS GROW UP.
POTATOES GROW DOWN.
PUMPKINS VINE AROUND AND AROUND.
From seeds dropping into soil to corn bursting from its stalks, from children chasing butterflies to ants burrowing...
| Author | Edward Marshall |
| ISBN | 0140370072 |
Using their cache of already published easy-to-read books, Puffin launched their Easy-to-Read program. Favorite stories by such beloved authors as James Marshall, Jean Van Leeuwen, and Harriet Ziefert are certain to attract readers to this series. Though the quality of stories in this series is...
| Author | Lynn Roberts-Maloney |
| ISBN | 0810941686 |
Cinderella, An Art Deco Love Story, by Lynn Roberts is a retelling of the Cinderella story in the 1920-30 Art Deco time period. In this version of the fairytale, Cinderella’s father is a “quite forgetful and could not see anything at all without his glasses.” As a result, he returns home two weeks...
| Author | Karen Backstein |
| ISBN | 0590458132 |
Six blind men went on a journey to find out what an elephant feels like. The were lead to an elephant that resided in a prince's palace. Each one of the blind men felt a different part of the elephant and each had a different picture of what the elephant looked liked. This resulted in a huge argument, that the...
| Author | David L. Harrison |
| ISBN | 0394882563 |
This is a very very sweet level 2 storybook for readers... whether they are independent readers or like us a non reader looking at the illustrations as I read to them. Great farm animals and farm background story. The animals all wake up a bit to early, so they each try and wake the sun up...but oh no they wake...
Nate the Great and the Pillowcase
| Author | Marjorie Weinman Sharmat |
| ISBN | 0440410150 |
These chapter books introduce beginning readers to the detective mystery genre. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!
It's two o'clock in the morning when the telephone rings and Nate the Great learns that Rosamond's...
| Author | Ellen Stoll Walsh |
| ISBN | 1442407573 |
We've been reading Mouse Paint, a seemingly simple (sometimes I find it boring, sometimes elegantly simple) book about colors, regularly in this household since 2004, but only recently have we delved into the author/illustrator's slightly lesser-known, but also mouse-themed book about balancing....
One of my 6 year old students sat down and read this to me. She was able to ask me all sorts of questions, like "What do you think will happen next? Do you think he'll sneeze?" and "What animal do you think he'll meet next?" She was able to make her own predictions as we went along, so we both had great fun trying...
| Author | Nicola I. Campbell |
| ISBN | 0888998570 |
When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko reminds Shinchi, her six-year-old brother, that they can only use their English names and that they can't speak to each other. For Shinchi, life becomes an endless cycle of church mass, school, and work, punctuated by skimpy meals. He finds solace at the river,...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0590848380 |
The Poppleton books are designed to delight children while helping them learn to read, and each story is filled with details children will immediately recognize. This book finds Poppleton and his friends in a snowy winter wonderland. An icicle mishap brings Poppleton a new pal, and the cold weather...
