The Chicken of the Family
10 best books like The Chicken of the Family (Mary Amato): Sparky!, The Napping House, Off Season, Let the Children March, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Children Make Terrible Pets, Smudge, The Little Lost Lamb, The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good, Bats at the Ballgame, Back to Front and Upside Down
| Author | Jenny Offill |
| ISBN | 0375870237 |
The ingenious author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore and a brilliant illustrator and production designer of the Coraline movie have created a hilarious, touching picture book perfect for young animal lovers. Like the Caldecott Medal-winning Officer Buckle and Gloria, Sparky stars a pet...
| Author | Audrey Wood |
| ISBN | 0152026320 |
Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (1984) is close on its heels in the race for posterity: “And on that granny / there is a child / a dreaming child / on a snoring granny / on a cozy bed / in a napping house, / where everyone is sleeping.” Included...
| Author | James Sturm |
| ISBN | 1770463313 |
Rage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see, taste, and feel.
How could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s...
| Author | Monica Clark-Robinson |
| ISBN | 0544704525 |
I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids.
I couldn't go to their schools.
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.
There were so many things I couldn't do.
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
| Author | Dana Thomas |
| ISBN | 0735224013 |
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it
What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something...
Children Make Terrible Pets
| Author | Peter Brown |
| ISBN | 0316015482 |
Lucy, young bear, finds a very adorable creature (a little boy) in the woods one day and promptly brings it home to be her pet. Her mother warns that "children make terrible pets." But, Lucy is convinced that she and her boy will be very happy together. And they are--for awhile. But, when the boy goes...
Smudge, The Little Lost Lamb
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312110677 |
Smudge is an adorable black-and-white lamb, who lives in Farmer Cobb's farmyard with his mother and many other animals. One fine spring day, though, Smudge decides to see the world outside Farmer Cobb's fence, and finds himself on a glorious adventure-until he discovers that he can't get back in .
Smudge,...
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
| Author | Elizabeth L. Cline |
| ISBN | 1524744301 |
The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth--fashion--into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion...
| Author | Brian Lies |
| ISBN | 0547249705 |
Hurry up! Come one—come all!
We’re off to watch the bats play ball!
You’ll never forget your first game: the green so green, the presence of heroes past, and togetherness with family and friends, rooting for the home team.
But you think humans are the only ones who...
| Author | Claire Alexander |
| ISBN | 0802854141 |
It's the principal Mr. Slipper's birthday, and while the rest of the class gets busy writing cards for the occasion, Stan becomes frustrated when his letters come out all in a muddle. Stan is afraid to ask for help, until a friend assures him that nobody's good at everything. And after lots and lots of practice,...
| Author | Rebecca E. Hirsch |
| ISBN | 1467780316 |
Plants Can’t Sit Still is a children's non fiction picturebook written by Rebecca E. Hirsch and illustrated by Mia Posada. Have you ever seen a plant move on its own? Plants might not walk, but they definitely don't sit still! Discover the many ways plants (and their seeds) move in this fascinating...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0152016988 |
In clear and eloquent language, Gary Paulsen pays tribute to a cycle of life--from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds. With Ruth Wright...
| Author | Brian Lies |
| ISBN | 0544105699 |
The look on our faces is easy to read:
a little night music is just what we need!
A late-spring night sky fills with bats flocking to a theater, already echoing and booming with delightful sounds of music. Bat music—plunky banjoes, bat-a-tat drums, improvised instruments, country...
Green Wilma, Frog in Space
| Author | Tedd Arnold |
| ISBN | 0803726988 |
Green Wilma is so determined to catch a tasty fly that she doesn't notice a family of galactic visitors to her pond. In a case of mistaken identity, the alien parents beam Wilma on board their spaceship while leaving their child, Blooger, behind. Poor Blooger, stuck on the bewildering planet Earth. Poor...
| Author | Matthew Forsythe |
| ISBN | 1481480391 |
The biggest mistake Pokko’s parents ever made was giving her the drum. When Pokko takes the drum deep into the forest it is so quiet, so very quiet that Pokko decides to play. And before she knows it she is joined by a band of animals —first the raccoon, then the rabbit, then the wolf—and soon the entire...
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0823436829 |
Equip the next generation of scientists with the physics facts they need to know from one of the most trusted names in STEM books for children.
David A. Adler's kid-friendly introduction to the physics of light covers the basics of solar energy, the electromagnetic spectrum, photon particles,...
