The Land of the Dead
10 best books like The Land of the Dead (Mary Pope Osborne): Half Magic, A Bad Case of Stripes, Giggle, Giggle, Quack, Snowmen at Night, Turtle in Paradise, The Nixie's Song, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, Fake Mustache
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152020683 |
Would you believe I grew up in Toledo, Ohio and never noticed while reading and re-reading this that it was set in my hometown? It's true. I don't know if I just figured ALL books were set there, and that's why the street names were so familiar or if I was just extraordinarily clueless. I figured it out finally...
| Author | David Shannon |
| ISBN | 0439598389 |
My daughter is in 1st grade (age 6) and is TERRIFIED of this book. I realize it is very, very popular but my daughter has a great imagination and now she is very scared of eating orange, green, and blue foods. She pretty much only eats pink/red and white foods now.
We got this book as a gift from my father...
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0743490096 |
Farmer Brown is going on holiday and so he asks his brother, Bob, to take care of the animals. 'But keep an eye on Duck. He's trouble.' Bob follows the instructions in Farmer Brown's notes exactly to the letter. He orders pizza with anchovies for the hens, bathes the pigs with bubble bath, and lets the cows...
| Author | Caralyn Buehner |
| ISBN | 0803725507 |
Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you've wondered . . . what do snowmen do at night? This delightful wintertime tale reveals all! Caralyn Buehner's witty, imaginative verse offers many amusing details...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0375836888 |
Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.
She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...
| Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| ISBN | 0689871317 |
The Spiderwick Chronicles leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter...
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
| Author | Laura Joffe Numeroff |
| ISBN | 0060244054 |
If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix. In this hilarious sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the young host...
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 0786818697 |
When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. But . . . then a very sly and hungry duckling enters the scene and wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird?
In this hilarious follow-up to the acclaimed Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Mo Willems...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
| Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 0310350328 |
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
| Author | Tom Angleberger |
| ISBN | 1419701940 |
Award-winning author Tom Angleberger flexes his comic muscle in this hairy adventure story with twists at every turn.
Regular kid Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend—Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis—and world domination. It all begins...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399237321 |
The real-life, classic story of a dyslexic girl and the teacher who would not let her fail. A perfect gift for teachers and for reading students of any age.
Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book creators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting...
