The Gigantic Turnip
10 best books like The Gigantic Turnip (Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy): Sootface, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Ten Red Apples, What To Do If an Elephant Stands On Your Foot, Planting the Wild Garden, Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef, The Boy Who Grew Flowers, Who Hops?, Cinderella, Are You A Horse?
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
Once, an Ojibwa man whose wife had died raised three daughters alone. The two older girls were lazy and bad-tempered, and made their youngest sister do all the work. When the flames from the cooking fire singed her hair or burned her skin, they laughed and called her Sootface.
While...
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
| Author | Rachel Isadora |
| ISBN | 0399247440 |
A magic cloak. A hidden passage.
A secret underground world beyond imagining.
Night after night, the princesses mysteriously wear out their shoes. But how are they doing it? The baffled king promises a great reward to any man who can solve the mystery.
From the colorful flurry...
| Author | Pat Hutchins |
| ISBN | 0688167977 |
Ten Red Apples, is a picturebook that can be read to and enjoyed by the nursery age group. It is about a farmer and his wife that have an apple tree. All of the farm animals continue to eat his apples which leaves none for his wife to make an apple pie, but then they find another one and all is well. It is a very cute,...
What To Do If an Elephant Stands On Your Foot
| Author | Michelle Robinson |
| ISBN | 0803733984 |
A witty jungle romp for the adventurer in every kid
Safari etiquette can be tricky. Fortunately, our trusty narrator can help. Sort of. From what to do if an elephant stands on your foot ("Keep calm. Panicking will only startle it!") to how to escape the attentions of a crocodile ("Well? What...
| Author | Kathryn O. Galbraith |
| ISBN | 1561455636 |
Eloquent text and stunning illustrations combine to explore the many ways seeds are distributed.
A farmer and her son carefully plant seeds in their garden. In the wild garden, many seeds are planted too, but not by farmers' hands. Different kinds of animals transport seeds, often without knowing...
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
| Author | Marianne Berkes |
| ISBN | 1584690623 |
I put Over in the Ocean in my favorites tab because it is a great way to integrate poetry, rhyme, and song into the classroom. The illustrations are very colorful, intricate, and lively, which I think would really get the students engaged. It is a great way to teach counting and numbers as well because each...
| Author | Jen Wojtowicz |
| ISBN | 1841486868 |
Think about the title of this book, The Boy Who Grew Flowers. This book is about a boy who is different than other children. How do you think he is different? (children might respond that maybe he liked to grow flowers in his garden) Well actually this boy grew flowers all over his body at certain times! How...
This book is awesome for children who are learning about animals and simple forms of what they do. Each page has an animal that hops and then will have one page that has an animal that doesn't hop but on the next page explains why it doesn't hop and what it does. I also love this book because of its vibrant colors....
| Author | Barbara McClintock |
| ISBN | 0439561450 |
In her most charming book yet, three-time New York Times Best Illustrator Barbara McClintock has created the Cinderella that every little girl will want to savor -- over and over again.
Poor Cinderella, who is relegated to a dingy garret room by her duplicitous stepmother and beleaguered...
| Author | Andy Rash |
| ISBN | 0439724171 |
For young cowboys and little scientists, an ARE YOU MY MOTHER? for the 21st century!
For his birthday, Roy's freinds give him a saddle and some very specific instructions:
1. Find a horse.
2. Enjoy the ride!
But there's a problem; Roy doesn't know what a horse IS! So he sets off...
| Author | Carolyn Crimi |
| ISBN | 0763624497 |
Step aboard, buccaneers and book lovers! Comically dramatic illustrations set the tone for this humorous, hare-raising adventure on the high seas.
"BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!"
Aboard a ship called the Salty Carrot sails a wild, rowdy band of Buccaneer Bunnies. Their leader, Barnacle...
| Author | Deborah Bruss |
| ISBN | 0439135257 |
2/23/2001 BOOK! BOOK! BOOK! by Deborah Bruss, Illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke, Arthur A. Levine Books May 2001
In those years when I'd do daily circle times with preschoolers and kindergarteners, I used to love to have the children act out stories from picture books they knew from repeated readings....
| Author | John Butler |
| ISBN | 1561453447 |
Adorable animals make room in their den for sleepy friends.
Deep in the den, ten sleepy, cuddly animals snuggle up together for the night. But as the animal friends roll over to make more room, one animal after another gently tumbles out of the cozy den...until Little Mouse is left all alone. But Little...
| Author | Nancy Tafuri |
| ISBN | 0689873425 |
This little chick
went to the garden.
This little chick
found a worm.
This little chick
eyed a berry.
And this little chick
gave a squirm!
With counting, fun, and vibrant illustrations, acclaimed storyteller Nancy Tafuri brings the farmyard to life. Mamas...
The Very Lazy Ladybug Pop-Up
| Author | Isobel Finn |
| ISBN | 1589257146 |
A good book for early years and maybe year 3 too. I enjoyed the book due the exciting colourful images, assorted fonts and sizes and extremely interesting content. The story is based on a lazy ladybird who is looking for a place to sleep. She travels from one animal to another in order to find a suitable place...
I Took the Moon for a Walk
| Author | Carolyn Curtis |
| ISBN | 1841486116 |
Our summer school theme is NASA and space this year. So, I am teaching fiction and non-fiction about the moon, stars, and aliens. We have lots and lots of cool plans. For example, we are designing our own life-sized aliens, having spaceship races (decorated Frisbee), writing poems about what the moon...
| Author | Phillis Gershator |
| ISBN | 1846860849 |
I enjoyed this oversized board book. Kids love noises, and this book is full of them, from the noises the insects make in summer, to the silent sounds of winter. I can just hear young children mimicing the sounds that are read to them in this delightful book. Children love to learn about the differences...
Roar!: A Noisy Counting Book
| Author | Pamela Duncan Edwards |
One day, while great big lions lie basking in the sun, a little lion cub goes off to find some fun. Roars the little lion cub.
"Who will play with me?
1 red monkey rushes up a tree.
Poor little lion cub! All he wants is someone to play with, but he is simply too noisy. As the little lion...
| Author | Jane Cabrera |
| ISBN | 0823423506 |
"The wheels on the bus go round and round..." Yes, but what's on the bus? Lots of adorable animals! And they're not staying quiet. The lion roars; the monkeys chatter. The hyenas think the whole scene is ridiculous and are laughing hysterically. Watch out for the crocodile, whose jaws go snap, snap, snap!...
My Granny Went to Market: A Round-The-World Counting Rhyme
Granny travels all over the world gathering cultural treasures along the way. Her first purchase, a flying carpet from Istanbul, allows her to get from place to place easily. She also buys three masks from Mexico, seven nesting dolls from Russia, and eight boomerangs from Australia. Each purchase...
Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
| Author | Eric A. Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0823407985 |
A classic trickster folktale told with humor and charm, this is a perfect read along book both parents and children will love.
When Anansi the Spider finds a strange moss-covered rock in the forest, he uses it to trick all his animal friends. But Little Bush Deer is onto Anansi's scheme, and hatches...
| Author | Ed Vere |
| ISBN | 0723286698 |
Check out more picture book reviews @ Perspective of a Writer...
This is Max. Max the Brave who wants to prove himself by catching a mouse... only he doesn't know what a mouse looks like, so off he goes to find out. As he goes he asks if the animal is a mouse and each time is told no, until...
I...
