The Lion's Paw
10 best books like The Lion's Paw (Robb White): All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud, The Pink Motel, Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio, The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin, The Animal Family, Killing Mister Watson, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews, Thee, Hannah!, The Little Grey Men
Author | Armstrong Sperry |
ISBN | 0879235233 |
I found this title in an used bookstore in the little town of Columbia Falls, Montana, and paid $10 for it thinking it was a non-fiction account of the legendary sailing ship Flying Cloud. My copy is a 1935 edition and includes a very large number of superb woodcut illustrations. Instead of the factual...
The moment Kirby and Bitsy arrive with their parents at their newly inherited motel in Florida, they know it's an unusual place. First of all, it's pink. Not just regular pink, but pink, pink, PINK!
Then there's the roster of regular guests: an artist from Greenwich Village, a magician from...
Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio
Author | Marguerite Henry |
ISBN | 0026894165 |
I'll admit that, as an adult, this is one of my favorite Marguerite Henry books. There are others which are better known, but this shares with Misty of Chincoteague (and Born to Trot) the advantage of the author meeting the primary players themselves: the jockey/trainer Giorgio and his family, the contrada...
The play’s the thing . . .
To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
Author | Randall Jarrell |
ISBN | 0062059041 |
What an exquisite little gem this book is. I have been bemoaning the lack of great mermaid stories far and wide, and though I've tried a great many, none have ever even touched on the surface of the enchantment and mystery that I'd hoped for until the gracious Ceridwen whispered in my ear about The Animal...
Author | Peter Matthiessen |
ISBN | 0517086719 |
A fine example of Southern literature written by a guy from New York.
Matthiessen's historic fiction falls somewhere between James Agee and Harry Crews, a good read. I also noted influences or allusions to Flannery O'Connor, the obligatory nod to Faulkner, and more than a passing similarity...
Author | Norman Hunter |
ISBN | 0140367764 |
Still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers.
The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded...
Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
Author | Ted Geltner |
ISBN | 0820349232 |
In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell his stories one...
Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
ISBN | 0385075251 |
A quick read about a Quaker family living in Philadelphia just before the civil war. We look into the day to day life of this family and meet the people who come to sell door to door. I have heard of a muffin man but had not come across a pepper pot lady before and still can't quite imagine what she was selling,...
The last four gnomes in Britain live by a Warwickshire brook. But when one of them decides to go and explore and doesn't return, it's up to the remaining three to build a boat and set out to find him. This is the story of the gnomes' epic journey in search of Cloudberry and is set against the background of the...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
Author | Nora Burglon |
ISBN | 1892857138 |
I read this aloud to my daughter, and we all fell in love with it. This book is another example of a book I would have never picked up if it wasn't for being a part of the homeschool curriculum we use. It was delightful to step back in time to a different country and see what it was like to live as a child at the end...
Author | Cicely Mary Barker |
ISBN | 0723237565 |
Cicely did not finish this Fairy book on Winter. She did make drawings of the trees and flowers that make up the winter season. The editor took these drawings and used poems from other collections she had to make up the Winter book so all 4 seasons have a voice.
Winter is one of my favorite times of...
Author | Eleanor Clymer |
ISBN | 0590407325 |
Mr. Paterfamilias (oops, I mean Parker)'s job driving his beloved trolley has gone away with his company's transition to buses, and, in lieu of severance, he chooses to take his trolley. Now he needs a new job and a new place to live while finding one, so (with the help of a surly-but-with-heart-of-gold...
Author | Russell E. Erickson |
ISBN | 0688163254 |
A Toad for Tuesday is one of four books we picked up on our trip to Oregon back in February. As Sean is enamored with owls we both agreed this looked like a good book for him. I was immediately drawn to it for Lawrence di Fiori's illustrations. They are reminisicent of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series and...
Author | Rumer Godden |
ISBN | 0670413992 |
Today I read The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden. It is one of those books that has been languishing in my “to read” pile.
Initially, I picked up Shopaholic & Baby, which has been neglected while I finished my paper. However, within the first few pages, Becky Bloomwood was back to her...
Author | Michael Grunwald |
ISBN | 0743251075 |
The Swamp is the story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a journey from the...
Author | Betty Crocker |
ISBN | 0764526340 |
Betty Crocker's classic cookbook for children is back-in an authentic reproduction of the original 1957 edition
A whole generation of Baby Boomers grew up with Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls, and they have helped to make it the one of the most requested titles in the Betty Crocker...
Author | Phyllis A. Whitney |
ISBN | 0664321607 |
With its black eyes, the creature looks at the four children, mysteriously wise, mysteriously alive...."
What is the secret of the green cat? Why does it mean so much to the strange people who live next door?
Why is the old baroness kept a prisoner there in the gloomy old mansion?
Andy...
Author | Emily Bearn |
ISBN | 1405233869 |
I really loved the way this book started out, and enjoyed the author's use of language, but for some reason I felt let down when it came to the battle against Aunt Ivy, or the Charge of the Bright Brigade as it was known in the story. Too much military jargon for my liking, and it was an unfamiliar theme for my...
Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
ISBN | 0964380366 |
First published in 1946 with the d'Aulaires's beautiful lithographic prints, this tale of the first colony at Jamestown is told from the perspective of the princess daughter of the mighty chief Powhatan. When the Natives judge the white man's magic as evil, John Smith is condemned to death - only...
Author | Jean Conder Soule |
ISBN | 0375834206 |
A funny, finger-wagging rhyme with some very good advice: never tease a weasel, because teasing isn't nice! Rather, kids should do nice things for animals, such as bake a drake a cake, or give a mule a pool, and much more. Long out of print, this new edition of Never Tease a Weasel with art by the great New...
This is the sixth book in Lois Lenski's American Regional Series. I missed it when reading the list of books from 1949, so I am adding it now. I also missed posting The Family Read yesterday, but since today is a school holiday, I am getting away with it!
Joanda's family are white share croppers...
Author | Theodore Pratt |
ISBN | 0912451327 |
When the great Florida Boom was just a dream....
The time was the 1880's -when Miami was little more than a mangrove swamp, Palm Beach was still looking for a name, dangerous beachcombers threatened respectable folk, and whole communities could live off goods from storm-wrecked ships thrown...
Author | Bill Peet |
ISBN | 0395366119 |
Bill Peet was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked on The Jungle Book, Song of the South, Cinderella, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Goliath II, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo,...