The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book: World Folk Tales Especially for Reading Aloud

10 best books like The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book: World Folk Tales Especially for Reading Aloud (Bob Hartman): Little Bear, Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?, One Morning in Maine, Eric Carle's Animals Animals, Waiting for Winter, Uncle Wiggily's Story Book, Maybelle the Cable Car, The Caterpillar and the Polliwog, What's Under The Sea?, Things People Do

Little Bear

Author	Else Holmelund Minarik
ISBN	0590319671

Enter the world of Little Bear. Children will be entranced by Little Bear's trip to the moon, his birthday party, and his wishes and adventures.This is the first of the five classic books about Little Bear, introducing the funny and strikingly childlike bear cub and his friends. The combination of Else...

Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?

Author	Robert E. Wells
ISBN	0807536555

This is a book for all ages, to illustrate and explain the relative sizes of large from a blue whale all the way to the whole universe. The opening picture shows an elephant, horse, and lion standing on a pier watching the tale of a blue whale that is larger than all of them combined. Then he
shows the same...

One Morning in Maine

Author	Robert McCloskey
ISBN	0140501746

OMG. I love the artwork and the nature drawings in this story. The drawings are black and white with exquisite details. I also like the story. Sal, who I assume is the same Sal in the Sal and the Blueberries, wakes up excited to go to town. She discovers a tooth is loose and the excitement is vibrating in the...

Eric Carle's Animals Animals

Author	Eric Carle
ISBN	0698118553

From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses,...

Waiting for Winter

Author	Sebastian Meschenmoser
ISBN	1935279041

What can I say about Sebastian Meschenmoser’s Waiting for Winter except for wow, what a sweet and simply wonderful little story, with equally enchanting illustrations (although I do wish that my local library also had this book in the original German, as Herr Eichhorn und der erste Schnee but that...

Uncle Wiggily's Story Book

Author	Howard R. Garis
ISBN	0448400901

Uncle Wiggily is one of the most popular and enduring characters in American literature. A cheerful “bunny rabbit gentleman” with a wonderful knack for setting things right, he has been a reassuring friend to millions of children since early in the century. Uncle Wiggily’s amusing stories...

Maybelle the Cable Car

Author	Virginia Lee Burton
ISBN	0395828473

I have ridden in Maybelle the cable car before. I'm so glad the city voted to keep her as that was still a fun experience. This book is about the history of the cable cars of San Francisco. They almost got rid of them, but a historic vote kept them for everyone to experience. They are a symbol of San Francisco....

The Caterpillar and the Polliwog

Author	Jack Kent
ISBN	0671662813

A proud caterpillar and a curious polliwog become unlikely friends in this delightful picture book by beloved author, illustrator, and cartoonist Jack Kent!

Told with Jack Kent’s signature bright, bold, and expressive illustrations, little ones are sure to love this transformative...

What's Under The Sea?

Author	Sophy Tahta
ISBN	0746009682

This was a decent and informative book about all kinds of things that go on under the sea.

It covers world ocean geography, types of animals that live under the sea (as well as the food chain), polar seas, coral reefs, oil rigs, divers, a little bit on plate tectonics, and more. In typical Usborne...

Things People Do

Author	Anne Civardi
ISBN	0860208648

This entertaining book is all about the work people do in different sorts of jobs. Set on an imaginary island called Banilla, it introduces a crowd of interesting people and shows some of the events that happen in their daily lives. There is Mayor Naze, the mayor of Banilla; Ivor Hose, the fire chief and...

Eloise Wilkin Stories

Author	Eloise Wilkin
ISBN	0375829288

Little Golden Books illustrated by Eloise Wilkin are among the most remembered, beloved, and requested by consumers. This collection, which contains nine of her best-loved books, will be cherished by collectors, parents, and children for years to come. It contains Wilkin’s most famous Little...

The Baby Sister

Author	Tomie dePaola
ISBN	0698117735

This is one of the few, if not only, books I found that introduced the topic of a new sibling in a favorable way. and ya, ya Of course Tomi DePaola is a genius story teller with his use of dialogue and folksy art work..but we already knew that. His anticipation of his baby sister is tangible but not syrupy and...