The Dragonling
10 best books like The Dragonling (Jackie French Koller): A Book Dragon, The Princess in the Pigpen, Full, Full, Full of Love, Marven of the Great North Woods, Erandi's Braids, Chato and the Party Animals, Help! I'm Trapped In My Teacher's Body, The Bear That Heard Crying, Micawber, The Silver Pony
| Author | Donn Kushner |
| ISBN | 0380707691 |
How have I not reviewed this delightful book before? A tragedy!
This charming, charming tale is the story of a dragon who becomes obsessed with watching a monk illuminate beautiful book. Dragons, you see, can make themselves larger or smaller, depending on what they eat. A steady diet of humans...
| Author | Jane Resh Thomas |
| ISBN | 0395515874 |
I'm not eight. But I liked this book anyway.
This is one of those books that is short enough and easy enough for younger children, but still has some meat on it and some history thrown in, without being preachy. I'm starting to detest all those little fairy books and unicorn books, so this books came...
| Author | Trish Cooke |
| ISBN | 0763618519 |
Warm, welcoming illustrations spice up this rhythmical ode to the joys of family and food -- full, full, full of pleasures for all.
For the youngest member of an exuberant extended family, Sunday dinner at Grannie’s can be full indeed -- full of hugs and kisses, full of tasty dishes, full to...
This is a wonderful picture book. It is a bit long, so I'd recommend for ages 5 and up. But it succeeds in a tough genre for children's books - period non-fiction.
It's a story of a 10-year-old, Marven, who is sent away from his family during the flu epidemic of 1918. He leaves Duluth and goes to a logging...
| Author | Antonio Hernandez Madrigal |
| ISBN | 0698118855 |
The yellow dress Erandi wants for her birthday will look beautiful with her long, thick braids. But Mama's fishing net is full of holes, and there isn't enough money to buy both a new net and a birthday dress. The only solution lies with the hair buyers from the city. But Mama's hair isn't nearly as beautiful...
Chato and the Party Animals
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0399231595 |
Chato, the coolest cat in el barrio, loves to party--but not his best buddy, Novio Boy. Birthday parties always make him blue. "I'm from the pound," he tells Chato. "I don't know when I was born. I never knew my mami. I never even had a birthday party, or nothing."So Chato plans the coolest surprise party...
Help! I'm Trapped In My Teacher's Body
| Author | Todd Strasser |
| ISBN | 0590477374 |
Jake Sherman is sitting in his sixth grade science class with his friends Josh Hopka and Andy Kent. The class is taught by the boring teacher Mr. Dirksen, who does nothing but lecture the students, and never does anything fun. As he lectures them, Jake and his friends load spitball shooters and shoot them...
| Author | Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
| ISBN | 0140558543 |
This is a true story set in New Hampshire. The author is a distant relative of Sarah Whitcher, the little girl whom the story is about.
Sarah is just three years old when she wanders off by herself and becomes lost in the woods. A rescue team was sent out to look for her to no avail. A man comes to town and...
| Author | John Lithgow |
| ISBN | 0689835426 |
Perhaps better known to adults for his stage and screen work, actor John Lithgow has an amazing body of work for children. His picture books are some of my (and my children’s) absolute favorites!
Topping the list for me is The Remarkable Farkle McBride. The story centers around a young boy...
| Author | Lynd Ward |
| ISBN | 0395643775 |
A wordless children's graphic novel and/or picture book about a farm boy who sees a silver flying horse. Is it real? Well, he tells his Dad, who punishes him for lying. But we know differently. We have actually seen the horse, who carries the boy all across the country, giving him the opportunity to help...
| Author | Don Callander |
| ISBN | 0441001157 |
This is personally my most beloved book. in fact, it is easy for me to say that it is the best I have ever read. This novel is the one and only book from my collection that I would ensure to save in the event of emergency (fire, flood, evacuation) and I have read this novel (and the rest of the Dragon series) over...
| Author | Eleanor Coerr |
| ISBN | 0064441296 |
This story took place in 1850. A little girl and her family are leaving in covered wagon to go to California. She wants to take her chicken, Josefina, Dad says no, but he gives the chicken 1 chance. The chicken is Faiths' best and only friend on this journey across the county. Talks about trials and tribulations...
| Author | Jerdine Nolen |
| ISBN | 0152053921 |
Mortimer Henryson loves Plantzilla, the plant he's been taking care of all year in his third-grade classroom. He loves him so much, he takes him home for summer vacation. What could go wrong with a . . . plant? But life in the Henryson household soon takes a strange turn. A pot roast disappears, then steaks...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0395845181 |
Oh dear. So this book arrived by mistake from Amazon. I forget what I had ordered instead. Definitely not this. But Eve Bunting is amazing so I kept it. It's a complicated, kind of sad story told very simply. And it makes me think about all the heavy lifting we have our children do when they read. I look at high...
| Author | Sarah Stewart |
| ISBN | 0374324638 |
From the beloved husband-and-wife team of The Gardener, a Caldecott Honor Book
Annabelle Bernadette Clementine Dodd
Was a good little girl, though decidedly odd.
Belle lived every day as if she were grown --
She thought she could do everything all on her own.
Lucky for...
An enduring story of the magic to be found in books.
Young Lionel is very surprised to be made King, but he's delighted to discover the world full of books in the Palace library. When Lionel opens one called THE BOOK OF BEASTS, he's in for an even greater surprise--out of the pages fly a butterfly and...
| Author | Michael O. Tunnell |
| ISBN | 0688128785 |
Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a...
Baby Brains: The Smartest Baby in the Whole World
| Author | Simon James |
| ISBN | 0763625078 |
Simon James's story about the smartest baby in the world will have little ones howling with laughter and may have big ones smiling wryly with self-recognition.
It's never too early to start bringing up the smartest baby in the whole world. So thinks the expectant Mrs. Brains, who reads to the baby...
| Author | Bill Peet |
| ISBN | 0395313813 |
I am loving Bill Peet’s stories and I will look for more of them. He is so playful and he has that Disney flavor. He was an artist at the Disney studios for most of the big movies there and worked on them. He has a good ear for dialogue and his artwork is so playful and fun.
We see Zildy, a witch, as a character...
| Author | Steven Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0140546499 |
Shout it once! Shout it twice!
Friends forever! Skog and mice!
Since its publication in 1973, The Island of the Skog has been a favorite of children everywhere-and of the author himself! We're delighted to remind you of this beloved book on its thirtieth birthday.
Jenny and her...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0060092904 |
From Kate and Jim McMullan, the popular creators of I Stink! and I’m Dirty!—now a streaming animated series—comes a raucous tribute to a tireless harbor hero. This time a tugboat proves that even the smallest of us can be MIGHTY!
When big ships get to the harbor, they need me! 'Cause I'm...
Man on the Moon (A Day in the Life of Bob)
| Author | Simon Bartram |
| ISBN | 0763618977 |
Bob has a very important job on the Moon. But who's that in the
background making faces at him? Kids will laugh along at this strikingly illustrated tongue-in-cheek tale.
6:00 a.m. Wake up. Have two eggs for breakfast.
8:00 a.m. Arrive at launchpad. Change into special man-on-the-moon...
| Author | Marjorie B. Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0756400805 |
This is the lowest-reviewed book I've listed so far. From a series that started off really original and strong, it really kind of spiraled to strange places. Still original, yes, but things weren't explained very well and it felt hackneyed and rushed. The careful character constructions and cultural...
