The Dark Frigate

10 best books like The Dark Frigate (Charles Boardman Hawes): Roller Skates, It's Like This, Cat, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, I, Juan de Pareja, The White Stag, A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, The Trumpeter of Krakow, Adam of the Road, The Matchlock Gun

AuthorRuth Sawyer
ISBN0140303588
A Newbery Medal Winner!

Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York...
AuthorEmily Cheney Neville
ISBN0064400735
The Newbery-winning classic novel about a young New Yorker who figures out the world on his own terms with the help of one prickly tomcat, for readers who enjoy such books as Al Capone Does My Shirts and Hoot.

Dave Mitchell and his father disagree on almost everything—and every time their...
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
AuthorRachel Field
ISBN0689822847
Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. It is indeed a privilege to publish her memoirs, which, besides being full of the most thrilling adventures on land and sea, also reveal her delightful personality. One glance at her portrait will show that she is no ordinary doll. Hitty, or Mehitable as she...
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
AuthorHugh Lofting
ISBN0060776005
The delightfully eccentric Doctor Dolittle, rendered immortal on screen by the gifted Rex Harrison, has remained a firm favorite with generations of children ever since he made his debut in an earlier novel, The Story of Doctor Dolittle.In his second outing titledThe Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, the...
I, Juan de Pareja
AuthorElizabeth Borton de Treviño
ISBN0374435251
**3.5 stars**

Juan de Pareja's portrait by Velázquez is my favorite painting (every time I see it, it makes me cry) so it was with trepidation and excitement that I started this audio.

The book follows the story of Juan de Pareja and his life as the slave of Diego de Velázquez, the leading...
AuthorKate Seredy
ISBN0140312587
Winner of the Newbery Medal

For generations the tribes of Huns and Magyars had moved relentlessly westward, obeying the voices of their pagan gods, which compelled them to follow the elusive white stag to their promised homeland. They swept Europe, all the while pursuing their vision of the...
AuthorNancy Willard
ISBN0152938222
Surrealism. This book is playful surrealism based on Nancy Willard's love of William Blake's poetry. This book mixes dreams and poetry to come up with a lovely experience to eating stardust with animals as guests at an inn.

It opens with the poem: Tyger, Tyger, burning bright in the forests...
The Trumpeter of Krakow
AuthorEric P. Kelly
ISBN0689715714
There is something about the Great Tarnov Crystal.... Wise men speak of it in hushed tones. Others are ready to kill for it. And now a murderous Tartar chief is bent on possessing it. But despite this, Joseph Charnetski is bound by an ancient oath to protect the jewel at all costs.

When Joseph and...
AuthorElizabeth Gray Vining
ISBN0142406597
Awarded the John Newbery Medal as "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" in the year of its publication.
"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good work to keep a road in repair, like giving alms to the poor or...
The Matchlock Gun
AuthorWalter D. Edmonds
ISBN0698116801
A Newbery Medal Winner

In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward was left to protect Mama and little Trudy. His father had shown...
AuthorHendrik Willem van Loon
ISBN1406838160
My journey through the Newbery winners begins here with the Story of Mankind. I’ve never been a great book review writer. It’s hard for me to talk about a book without giving too much away, so for these Newbery winners, I think I will stick to a format. I will answer the following questions. What did...
AuthorArthur Bowie Chrisman
ISBN0525392440
The first thing to understand is that this is probably not a book that could be written today, and it's certainly not a book that could be published today. In order to deal with it at all, we have to have that understanding up front.

Although Shen of the Sea is subtitled "Chinese Stories for Children,"...
AuthorDhan Gopal Mukerji
ISBN0525304002
This book is a milestone in anyone's life as a reader. Before it, you are one of a multitude. After it, you are one of a select few who have heard about it, sought it out, picked it up, and persisted with it well past the point of enjoyment.

What does this say about you? Obviously, you are attempting...
AuthorCharles J. Finger
ISBN0385048157
Tales from Silver Lands is a collection of nineteen folktales, which Finger collected during his travels in South America. In them an assortment of animals, magical creatures, witches, giants, and children struggle for a life in which good overcomes evil. These fast-moving and adventuresome fantasies...
AuthorJames Daugherty
ISBN0670255904
"Awarded the John Newbery Medal 'for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children' in 1940" James Daugherty has dipped his pen and his brush into our nation's most dynamic character whose life adventures are more exciting than the shadowy legend his name brings to mind....
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
AuthorElizabeth Coatsworth
ISBN0689714335
This delightful little fable has a compilation of several meaningful animal stories within its pages with the cream of the crop saved for Good Fortune the cat.First published in 1930 and winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal, this wonderful little classic brings together an intelligent and loving white...
Thimble Summer
AuthorElizabeth Enright
ISBN0440486815
Ten year old Garnet lives on a farm in the the 1930s. We loved the start of this book, instantly both wanting to live there in Garnet's house and go swimming in water that was too warm! That never happens in England! We enjoyed the characters and the tale of the coral bracelet and the library incident, the...
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