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10 best books like The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge (Hildegarde Hoyt Swift): Madlenka, Night Of The Moonjellies, A New Coat for Anna, Amber on the Mountain, The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, Avocado Baby, Peter in Blueberry Land, The Quangle Wangle's Hat, The Church Mouse, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes

Madlenka
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374399697
A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world!

Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the...
Night Of The Moonjellies
AuthorMark Shasha
ISBN1930900163
On his way to help grandmother and relatives at a seaside hot dog stand, seven-year-old Mark stops on the beach to pick up a small jellylike substance that he places in a bag of seawater. A moonlight ride with Gram on a fishing boat takes them out on the ocean where thousands of moonjellies shimmer, and the...
A New Coat for Anna
AuthorHarriet Ziefert
ISBN0394898613
Illus. in full color. "A fresh and moving story of a mother's dedication to
acquire a coat for her daughter in post-World War II hard times. Anna's mother
decides to trade the few valuables she has left for wool and for the services
of a spinner, a weaver, and a tailor. Lobel's pictures do a...
Amber on the Mountain
AuthorTony Johnston
Amber's mountain is beautiful, but it is a lonely place—until the day Anna arrives, bringing both her friendship and the will to teach Amber how to read. Suddenly, Amber's world is filled with a new magic—and new challenges. But when Anna returns to the city, will Amber be able to keep reading on her...
The Cow Who Fell in the Canal
AuthorPhyllis Krasilovsky
ISBN0749704977
This by far hasn't been the first time I've read The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, but I recently realised I hadn't added it to Goodreads and so it demanded a reread.

What a lovely children's book! The story of Henrietta and her adventure has always been a personal favourite, and now I get to share it...
Avocado Baby
AuthorJohn Burningham
ISBN0099200619
This is a cute tale of a puny baby who doesn't like to eat...UNTIL...it's discovered that it (the baby is always referred to as "it" or "the baby," so I guess the gender is left up to the reader. Clever, huh?) LOVES avocados.



Just one avocado a day seems to imbue the tot with Popeye-like...
Peter in Blueberry Land
AuthorElsa Beskow
ISBN0863154980
Like with the vast majority of Floris Books of Edinburgh's editions that feature so-called translations, that present English language renderings of classical continental Western European children's literature picture books, Elsa Beskow's Peter in Blueberry Land (the original 1901 Swedish...
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
AuthorEdward Lear
ISBN0744567947
The Quangle Wangle Quee sat on top of the Crumpetty Tree, but you could not see his face because of his hundred and two feet wide Beaver Hat.

The Quangle Wangle gets visited by an array of imaginary beasts such as a pobble who has not toes and loves to dance on the hat of the Quangle Wangle Quee.

This...
The Church Mouse
AuthorGraham Oakley
ISBN0333493370
Buying this book is a mix of whimsy and preparedness. I say that I have two other of the authors books that I adored as a child so it was inevitable that I tried his most famous books. Some may say I'm getting clucky and feathering the future eka-Brendon's nest. They may have a point...

I adored both...
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes
AuthorEve Sutton
ISBN0140502424
Don't mind me, this is for my cat.

So. This book told me that "the cat from France liked to sing and dance".

See? Here.



When I talked to you about this talent you're supposed to share with your fellow French cats -



Oh, yes. You did that. Just FLEE. Because...
Ernest and Celestine
AuthorGabrielle Vincent
ISBN0688008569
All of Gabrielle Vincent's books about Ernest and Celestine are adorable. Celestine is a young mouse, and Ernest is an adult bear, and they are the best of friends. There isn't any backstory as to why Ernest is caring for Celestine as he would his own daughter, but it doesn't really matter why ... what matters...
One Snowy Night
AuthorNick Butterworth
ISBN0007169736
Percy the park keeper always feeds the animals in the park where he lives. But one cold winter’s night Percy discovers that his little friends need more than food, and he must think of a way to help them find a warm place to sleep for the night. Percy’s hut is nice and warm, but he discovers that if you...
The Mousehole Cat
AuthorAntonia Barber
ISBN1844289109
*LOVE*

"At the far end of England, a land of rocks and moorland stretches itself out into a blue-green sea. ... One of these harbours is so small and the entrance between its great stone breakwaters is so narrow that fishermen called it 'the Mousehole'. The people who lived in the cottages around...
Clown
AuthorQuentin Blake
ISBN0805059334
One day, Clown is thrown into the trash, but he doesn't stay there long.

He tries to find someone to take care of his friends, but no one listens.

Then Clown finds someone he can take care of, and together, they make a home for everyone.

Follow the fortunes of Clown-- who starts...
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...
Max
AuthorBob Graham
ISBN0763618578
A success story for anyone who knows the highs—and lows—of learning to do something for the first time. Max will fly away with your heart!

As the son of legendary superheroes Captain Lightning and Madam Thunderbolt, Max is destined to join their ranks - once he learns to
fly, that is....
Mother Goose
AuthorKate Greenaway
ISBN0873282167
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were even translated into German and French.

One...
Barbapapa
AuthorAnnette Tison
ISBN2878812301
This is charming and weird but not as weird as the rest of the series. I like when the rest of the Barba family is in play, doing bizarre semi-human things together with their giant shapechanging bodies.

So, the early picture of Barbapapa growing in the earth as he's watered like a flower and then...
Uppo-Nalle
AuthorElina Karjalainen
ISBN9510082449
Kokonaisen vuoden ui Uppo-Nalle maailman meriä. Se toivoo löytävänsä rauhallisen sataman, jossa on valkeaa hiekkaa ja joku ystävällinen mikä tahansa odottamassa.
Reeta on pieni tyttö valkealla hiekkarannalla. Reetan kotona on Laulava Lintukoira, villi ja menevä otus, mutta...
Das kleine Ich-bin-ich
AuthorMira Lobe
I have read it over 100 times as a child. I grew up with this book. When my children were born I asked my family overseas to buy it and send it. Now, both my children are over the age of 20. Together, we read "Das Kleine Ich Bin Ich" another 100 times.

It is the rhyming that is so catching. It is fun, it is...
Martine à la ferme
AuthorGilbert Delahaye
ISBN2203101016
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Lotta's Bike
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN9129596009
Oh that Lotta. What a brave and determined little girl. Sure, now she expresses herself by crying and stealing (I'm sure it was justified in her mind that the bike wasn't getting used anyway). But she's just turned five, after all! And it is her birthday, and she does appreciate all her other presents....
Up in the Tree
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0888997299
This story about the adventures of two children who live up in a tree is vintage Atwood -- playful, whimsical and wry. The perfect integration of words and pictures creates a coherent and delightful whole.

When this charming book was first published in 1978, there was a widespread idea that...
Three Names
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
ISBN0064433609
No one writes like this anymore. I think I have said this before in my marathon Patrica MacLachlan picture books reading this week but, it is usually poor writing, stupid rhymes or just ridiculous themes. This is art!

Her books are great literature for kids. I saw a review on here that someone...
Little Toot
AuthorHardie Gramatky
Little Toot doesn't like to work. Frolicking along the harbor is way more pleasurable. But then something happens and he learns a valuable lesson about working hard and building a good reputation after messing up.

A good, solid classic to read with your children. It is long, 86 pages, so will...
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