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10 best books like The Jolly Pocket Postman (Janet Ahlberg): The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats, Little Bear's Trousers, Georgie, Jamela's Dress, Grandma and the Pirates, The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale, This is London, Chameleon, Chameleon, You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together, Anatole and the Cat

The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats
AuthorPatricia Relf
ISBN0590484133
My generic review of the Magic School Bus books -

We really love the series. This book doesn't have all the cartoony dialouge asides that the earlier books have. There are maybe a comment or two per page instead of full conversations. Some people hate that; I think I prefer it. The page is less busy.

These...
Little Bear's Trousers
AuthorJane Hissey
ISBN0099265435
Little Bear’s Trousers by Jane Hissey
One morning, Little Bear wakes to find his trousers missing, so he goes from one stuffed-animal friend to another in search of them. Each time, he's one step behind, finding that his trousers has been used and passed along to different toys. Sailor tried them...
Georgie
AuthorRobert Bright
ISBN1890008133
Full of old-fashioned, cozy, Halloween-y wonderfulness! The illustrations remind me so much of Shepherd's for "Whinnie the Pooh" (I think the kitty is a relative of Tigger!) This is a story of sweet ghosts who have a happy and gentle purpose in houses; and of one ghost in particular who is temporarily...
Jamela's Dress
AuthorNiki Daly
ISBN0374437203
Perfectly South African, and perfectly universal. Lively, funny, with a big crisis and a happy resolution, and an author's note that, unfortunately, is half-covered by my library's binding (still, I get the gist, and it is a good one to share with older children).

I honestly tried to talk myself...
Grandma and the Pirates
AuthorPhoebe Gilman
What can I tell you about myself? I like to make up stories and draw pictures. I like to go ice skating, to the movies and I love reading books.

I was born and grew up in the Bronx, New York. My Mother loved to read so it was only natural that my brothers and I got our own library cards as soon as we were able...
The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale
AuthorMargaret Mahy
ISBN0140557458
Back in the nineties I was privileged to hear Margaret Mahy read this. I bought a copy & I bought for the Play Centre I was involved with. Well, of course when I got to the front of the signing table I did my usual Can't Speak When It's Someone Famous thing & I only presented the book for Play Centre...
This is London
AuthorM. Sasek
ISBN0789310627
A vacation in Paris inspired Miroslav Sasek to create childrens [sic] travel guides to the big cities of the world. He brought me 'This is Paris' in 1958 when I when I was publishing in London, and we soon followed up with 'This is London'. Both books were enormously successful, and his simple vision grew...
Chameleon, Chameleon
AuthorJoy Cowley
ISBN0439666538
This companion to award-winning RED-EYED TREE FROG gives young readers an amazing close-up view of the colorful, quirky chameleon.

Experience close-up the many moods (and colors) of chameleons. One brave chameleon ventures from the safety of his tree in search of a new home. On his journey,...
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN0316146110
From New York Times best-selling author and Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman comes a new collection of fresh read-aloud takes on eight favorite fairy tales, including "The Three Bears," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Riding Hood."

Designed with emerging readers in mind, each...
Anatole and the Cat
AuthorEve Titus
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...
Piggybook
AuthorAnthony Browne
Illus. in full color. "Mr. Piggott and his sons are a male chauvinist lot who, outside of yelling for their dinner, don't exercise themselves much around the house. When Mrs. Piggott finally tires of the endless chores that sandwich her workday, she leaves the menfolk on their own, with a note saying,...
Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals
AuthorFritz Eichenberg
ISBN0808585169
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’,...
Spot's First Christmas
AuthorEric Hill
ISBN0399235973
This is a book based on Christmas where the character Spot gets ready for Christmas Day. Readers can learn and understand Christmas as on each double page Spot helps with a different aspect of Christmas eg wrapping the presents and decorating the tree. This is a fun and humerus interactive book with lift...
The Rabbit Problem
AuthorEmily Gravett
ISBN0230704239
While Emily Gravett's illustrations are indeed sweet and imaginative, full of fun and movement, I have simply found her The Rabbit Problem much much too busy for me (to the point of it becoming distracting, to the point of it becoming tedious and actually rather boring, as I simply shut down and was only...
One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book
AuthorApril Pulley Sayre
ISBN1844281647
One is a snail, two is a person, three is a snail and a person, four is a dog, five is a dog and a snail!

This is a really clever book which has strong cross curricular links with numeracy. The author is using feet/footprints as a counting tool. This is a great book which can be used across all primary...
There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake
AuthorHazel Edwards
ISBN0340286970
'My daddy says there's a hole in our roof. I know why there's a hole. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake.'

The cake-eating hippo is ageless. This classic story about one of the largest and most famous imaginary friends has been delighting children around the world for almost 40 years....
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
AuthorMervyn Peake
ISBN0763616257


A delightful children's book, handwritten and illustrated by Mervyn Peake, though like all really good children's books, it can also be enjoyed by adults.

This book reflects Peake's lifelong love of pirates and islands, though it's really a simple story of friendship, fun and adventure....
Previously
AuthorAllan Ahlberg
ISBN0763635421
The team behind THE RUNAWAY DINNER reverses direction in this clever pastiche of fairy tales in which everyone lives happily ever . . . before.

"Jack was running like mad in the dark woods with a hen under his arm.
Previously, he had stolen the hen and climbed down a beanstalk."

But...
The Cat's Quizzer
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0001716123
Are you smarter than Ziggy and Zizzy Zozzfozzel? Get quizzed by the Cat in the Hat in this classic Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss! Do fish sleep with one eye open? What do they call one-eyed eyeglasses? Are snails faster than turtles? How many will you get right? (The Zozzfozzels got them ALL wrong!) Featuring...
My Goodnight Book
AuthorEloise Wilkin
ISBN0307122581
When I was a wee girl, this was one of my FAVORITE books, and I requested it often (probably every day). For the first time in over 30 years, I found and read a copy. Even as an adult I can understand the appeal of this book, and I imagine it was no hardship for my parents to read it over and over and over and, well,...
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