The Happy Day
10 best books like The Happy Day (Ruth Krauss): The Thanksgiving Story, Journey Cake, Ho!, The Most Wonderful Doll in the World, April's Kittens, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Dig!, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, 1 Is One, A Pocketful of Cricket
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689710534 |
In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages.
Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things...
| Author | Ruth Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0140502750 |
This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.
It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...
| Author | Phyllis McGinley |
| ISBN | 0590434772 |
This is more of a Middle grade chapter book than a children's picture book. There are pages of only words. The artwork was nice what little there was of it, but I think it's because the story is so tedious. The art by itself wouldn't be that exciting either.
This book felt moldy to me. It is very repetitious...
| Author | Clare Turlay Newberry |
| ISBN | 0060244003 |
Since it was first published over fifty years ago, April's Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition. Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strickly...
Dick Whittington and His Cat
| Author | Marcia Brown |
| ISBN | 0684189984 |
A rags-to-riches Cinderella story about a boy and his cat. The art is cut from linoleum which I don't know how that works, but it is interesting. This has a basis in old English folk tales.
Dick lives a depressing life for most of the book. It's like the misfortunate events series, things only get...
| Author | Andrea Zimmerman |
| ISBN | 0152167854 |
Dig up rock and dig up clay! Dig up dirt and dig all day!
Mr. Rally and his faithful dog, Lightning, have a busy day ahead of them, but they don't mind. What could be more fun than using a big yellow backhoe to build a pool at the school and a drain for the rain? Follow Mr. Rally through his day as he travels...
| Author | Peter Spier |
| ISBN | 0440408296 |
This is an old Folk song that Peter set to a story. It’s also a Nursery Rhyme. I remember just reading it in that huge volume previously. Peter Spier wrote this in ’61 when they would do every other page in black and white to save money. Peter went back in his later years and colored the rest of the book...
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
| Author | Becky Reyher |
| ISBN | 0688512518 |
"We do not love people because they are beautiful, but they seem beautiful to us because we love them."
This is one of the thoughts from this book. It is a wonderful thought taken one way and I can also see it as a way of saying, you're ugly, but because you are loved you're beautiful. I guess it has...
| Author | Tasha Tudor |
| ISBN | 0689828438 |
This is a sweet children’s rhyming story counting 1 to 20. Each page is a delicate work of art in my mind. Sadly, all the pages are not in color. It is only every other one. I love seeing the swallows flying in the sky or eggs in a nest. It is simple and I was moved by the beauty of the pages.
The children...
| Author | Rebecca Caudill |
| ISBN | 0805075240 |
" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...
Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice-President in charge of Cheese Tasting at Duvall's cheese factory. He works in secret at night--the people at Duvall have no idea their mysterious taster is really a mouse! So M'sieu Duvall thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat...
| Author | Fritz Eichenberg |
| ISBN | 0808585169 |
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
| Author | Janice May Udry |
| ISBN | 0060284609 |
Magic. This book is a delight and stunning. It conveys that magic feeling of how right the world can be as a child on a lovely evening with friends and a feeling of freedom.
Maurice Sendak is once again the illustrator. He must have illustrated every other book out at the time. He was one busy bee....
| Author | Abe Birnbaum |
| ISBN | 0307202038 |
Caldecott Honor winning illustrator, A. Birnbaum has captured the childlike wonder of each season in this 1953 picture book. Green Eyes, the curious kitten, ventures beyond his familiar big red box and greets spring, summer, fall, and winter—each with their unique colors, scents, and feelings....
| Author | Charlotte Zolotow |
| ISBN | 0064431940 |
A Caldecott Honor book about a little boy’s curiosity during a summer storm, poetically written by celebrated author Charlotte Zolotow and with stunning illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham.
This beautifully crafted story is perfect to pull out and enjoy on rainy days and for classroom...
| Author | Alvin Tresselt |
| ISBN | 0688511694 |
This books is so beautiful. A seaside town is going about it’s beautiful business when the fog rolls in and it shuts everything down. Boats race in and parents grumble about having to stay indoors with kids. This fog last for 3 days. The only people who are ok with it are the kids who play hide and seek on...
It’s a gentle story with a sweet song to sing.
This is like a poem told. It reminds me so much of little kids. They want so bad to love and play with animals they see and they go wildly chasing after them. The animals always run away from them. This book, a little girl asks animal after animal to play...
| Author | Taro Yashima |
| ISBN | 0140502408 |
I love Taro Yashima’s work. I need to know more about Taro; are they a boy or girl? How do they come up with these ideas. They are incredible. This is the most details I have seen Taro give in their work. It looks like they use crayons with regular materials to create the art.
This is about a girl who...
The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles
| Author | Maud Petersham |
| ISBN | 0027731006 |
Here is part of America's heritage -- gay verses beautifully illustrated by famous artists. "The rooster crows and away he goes", pictured on the jacket, is only one of these well-known nursery rhymes, counting-out games, skipping-rope songs, finger games, and other jingles beloved by American...
| Author | Sorche Nic Leodhas |
| ISBN | 0805003304 |
Lachie MacLachlan, the generous hero of this enchanting tale, is the exception to the rule that the Scots are a thrifty lot. In his "wee house in the heather," where he lives with his family of twelve, he welcomes to his hearth every weary traveler who passes by on a stormy night. "There's always room for...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
| Author | Wanda Gág |
| ISBN | 0571064965 |
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands...
