The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness
10 best books like The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness (Colin Thompson): Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven, Echo, Wonderstruck, Homeland and Other Stories, Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War, Who is the Beast?, Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, The Crows of Pearblossom
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 0689711735 |
The perennially popular tale of Alexander's worst day is a storybook that belongs on every child's bookshelf.
Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in this hair.
And it got worse...
His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch...
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0060921145 |
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach....
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0571171788 |
Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.
Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has...
| Author | Pam Muñoz Ryan |
| ISBN | 0439874025 |
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.
Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven...
| Author | Brian Selznick |
| ISBN | 0545027896 |
Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone...
Homeland and Other Stories
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0060917016 |
Leave it to my mother. Every time I get to the point where I've almost relegated her to the lands of the unenlightened, she pops out of the woodwork and shows off a surprising amount of taste; for a Baptist minister who proudly voted for George W. Bush and thinks Carrot Top is funny, my mom occasionally knows...
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War
| Author | Yukio Tsuchiya |
| ISBN | 0395861373 |
Although Yukio Tsuchiya's 1988 picture book Faithful Elephants (well actually, the author wrote the story in the immediate post WWII period, in 1951, but this here picture book was originally published in 1988) most definitely has a strong and also powerful anti-war (and thus also a pro peace) message,...
| Author | Keith Baker |
| ISBN | 0152000054 |
Well, I read this because it was listed as a good book for vegan kids. Well, okay, I guess, if we’re talking empathy in the sense of seeing the similarities of all animals, and then extrapolating to humans, and then following that line of thought to humans being just one other kind of animal. There is definitely...
Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
| Author | Keith Graves |
| ISBN | 0811821692 |
Frank was a monster who wanted to dance. So he put on his hat, and his shoes made in France...and opened a jar and put ants in his pants! So begins this monstrously funny, deliciously disgusting, horrifyingly hilarious story of a monster who follows his dream. Keith Graves' wacky illustrations and laugh-out-loud...
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0891901671 |
Written in 1944 by Aldous Huxley as a Christmas gift for his niece, The Crows of Pearblossom tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Crow, who live in a cottonwood tree. The hungry Rattlesnake that lives at the bottom of the tree has a nasty habit of stealing Mrs. Crow's eggs before they can hatch, so Mr. Crow and his...
