The Giants and the Joneses
10 best books like The Giants and the Joneses (Julia Donaldson): Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky, No Fighting, No Biting!, The Witch Family, Five Little Speckled Frogs, Old Mother West Wind, Uncle Wiggily's Story Book, "I Can't," Said the Ant, A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, The Bravest Squirrel in the Forest
| Author | Esther Averill |
| ISBN | 1590170474 |
In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni, and stately, plump Mr. President....
| Author | Else Holmelund Minarik |
Even though this is a beginning reader; young listeners may get bored with it. The storyline is a cute one that starts out with human children fighting with one another then they are separated and read to and they begin to listen to a couple of baby alligators and what they all go through and learn that they...
This book is sheer perfection. It has many of the same qualities as Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner -- young children who live out tremendous adventures in their imagination with characters who are typically treated by the author as though they are also real, though every once in a while perspective...
| Author | Nikki Smith |
| ISBN | 1427616450 |
"Five Little Speckled Frogs, sitting on a hollow log, eating some most delicious bugs. Yum, yum!" This picture book beautifully illustrates the familiar children's song through watercolor, collage and graphic design. Children and adults can easily read or sing the repetitive text while they count...
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0805072381 |
This is the kind of book I would check out from the library and which would normally be rejected at bedtime for a story with more pictures or something less "babyish" or of the character of--not my favorite--Diary of a Wimpy Kid. But both my 10-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter listened with great...
| Author | Howard R. Garis |
| ISBN | 0448400901 |
Uncle Wiggily is one of the most popular and enduring characters in American literature. A cheerful “bunny rabbit gentleman” with a wonderful knack for setting things right, he has been a reassuring friend to millions of children since early in the century. Uncle Wiggily’s amusing stories...
| Author | Polly Cameron |
| ISBN | 1590020499 |
A teapot falls off a shelf in the kitchen and the event is witnessed by an ant. The ant feels incapable of offering any assistance, sparking commentary from all of the appliances and the food.
I’ve used this book over and over again during my daughter’s first grade year to advance her reading...
Joan Aiken is at her best with this collection of gentle fairytales and fantasy stories, beautifully illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. The pictures are like little jewels themselves, or tiny "raindrops" that reflect the people and events in the stories. An excellent, cosy, curl-up-in-your-favourite-quilt...
| Author | Tasha Tudor |
| ISBN | 0448442000 |
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.
Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
Everyone thinks Max's sister is braver than he is, and he's sick of it. He's determined to prove he is the bravest squirrel ever. He devises a plan for the humans to trap him, so he can rescue his Uncle Louie.
But things don't go according to plan. First, he is forgotten in the cage and sprayed by a...
| Author | Richard Bach |
| ISBN | 0743227506 |
Not many humans know. On the edges of every sea, the Ferret Rescue Service stands alongside the Coast Guard and Coastal Patrol of any country that claims an ocean shore. Just as it is the job of humans to rescue human lives at risk in storm and shipboard disaster, so it is the job of ferrets to rescue seagoing...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0613023013 |
This book is so weird, and I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around the fact that it was written by the same woman who wrote The Outsiders.
OK, so the parents in this story get a dog instead of a brother or a sister for the only child in the family, a boy. Fair enough. The book is told through...
| Author | Jacqueline Jules |
| ISBN | 0807594806 |
One day Freddie Ramos comes home from school and finds a strange box just for him. What's inside? ZAPATO POWER-shoes that change Freddie's life by giving him super speed! But what will Freddie do with his fast new skills? Weird things are happening at the Starwood Park Apartments where he lives, and his...
| Author | Claudia Rueda |
| ISBN | 0439823234 |
Rising star Claudia Rueda makes a sparkling debut as author and artist in this winsome story based on a traditional French and Spanish play song for the very young.
"Let's play in the forest while the wolf is not around," sing the animals in the forest. "Wolf, are you there?"
"I am putting...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0590100416 |
The Great Gracie Chase is another one of Cynthia Rylant's best written. It tells the story of a little dog named Gracie who lives a pleasant life and loves the peace and quiet of her home. One day, that all changes when painters come to redo her owners house and they are so noisy. Not only does this upset Gracie...
| Author | Heather Amery |
| ISBN | 0746042078 |
My son and I read this book as a part of Sonlight's P4/5 curriculum. It is a wonderful book! A great way to introduce the concept of other cultures to preschool age children. I believe that it is very important to teach our children that there are all kinds of different peoples and beliefs in our world. Stories...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0060092939 |
Now a streaming animated series!
This construction vehicle with an attitude loves every second of his dirty job!
For fans of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train comes a noisy addition to the hilarious read-aloud series from Kate and Jim McMullan,...
| Author | Lisa Graff |
| ISBN | 0374371253 |
For a third-grader, Sophie Simon is one smart cookie. She enjoys teaching herself advanced calculus and has performed successful heart surgery on an earthworm. She's also very clever when it comes to dealing with her clueless parents. But Sophie is no genius when it comes to calculating the high value...
| Author | Atinuke |
| ISBN | 1610670515 |
When I discovered the amazing, remarkable, one-of-a-kind, never before seen Anna Hibiscus books by Atinuke last year I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It just didn't seem possible. A contemporary early chapter book set on the continent of Africa? To understand how rare this was visit your local...
| Author | Claudia Mills |
| ISBN | 0374306575 |
Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can’t afford to rent him a sax, and he’s sure he’ll never save up enough...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0060579218 |
Jimmy and Janet are twins, but that doesn't mean they are just alike.
When we first meet Jimmy, he wants to dig a real hole. He likes to use a real, grown-up shovel. While he's working, his sister, Janet, pretends to be a bird! She likes to use her imagination. But the twins both like silly jokes,...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0689857578 |
Edward is bored with life in the little town of Pigbone.
Then Moongobble the Magician and his faithful toad, Urk, move into the cottage on the hill.
Soon Edward has a job helping Moongobble. And Moongobble needs a lot of help, because it turns out he is not a very good magician. (His spells keep...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0765349612 |
Ali Warner is thirteen years old.
She's already saved one world.
Now she must try to save another.
Ali recently discovered that she is not an ordinary teenager but actually Queen of the Fairies. Reclaiming some of her magical abilities, she has taken possession of a mystical talisman...
