The Matchbox Diary
10 best books like The Matchbox Diary (Paul Fleischman): The First Strawberries, Locomotive, Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, Carnivores, A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, Crankee Doodle, Guji Guji, Back of the Bus, Sophie's Squash, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0140564098 |
From an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be. Long ago, the first man and woman quarreled. The woman left in anger, but the Sun sent tempting berries to Earth to slow the wife's retreat. Luminous...
| Author | Brian Floca |
| ISBN | 1416994157 |
I see why people love Floca's book. The illustrations of the trains are terrific. As far as train-technology goes, it is way-cool. However, in 2013, couldn't it have been made more inclusive?
The Chinese laborers, for example, are shown in illustrations twice, but never mentioned in the part...
| Author | Michelle Markel |
| ISBN | 0061804428 |
When Clara Lemlich arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast.
But that did not stop Clara.
She went to night school, spent hours studying...
| Author | Aaron Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0811866904 |
The lion is king of the jungle!
The great white shark is sovereign of the seas!
The timber wolf is emperor of the forests!
But...it's lonely at the top of the food chain. It's difficult to fit in when plant eaters can be so cruel--just because you ate a relative of theirs that one time! What's...
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0375867120 |
As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during WWI, Horace filled...
| Author | Tom Angleberger |
| ISBN | 0547818548 |
“Yankee Doodle went to town / a-riding on a pony / stuck a feather in his hat / and called it macaroni.” Many know the song “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” but few understand it. This unapologetically silly picture book reveals that the legendary ride to town (and the whole macaroni thing) was all suggested...
| Author | Chih-Yuan Chen |
| ISBN | 1929132670 |
Originally published in Chih-Yuan Chen's native Taiwan, and inspired by the life-story of one of the author/artist's American friends, who was ethnically Korean, but adopted by a non-Korean family, Guji Guji follows the adventures of a young "crocoduck," as he finds his rightful place in the world,...
| Author | Aaron Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0399250913 |
It seems like any other winter day in Montgomery, Alabama. Mama and child are riding where they?re supposed to?way in the back of the bus. The boy passes the time by watching his marble roll up and down the aisle with the motion of the bus, until from way up front a big commotion breaks out. He can?t see what?s...
| Author | Pat Zietlow Miller |
| ISBN | 0307978966 |
This is a beautiful children’s book about a little girl, Sophie, who chooses a squash from a farmer’s market. This squash is the perfect size to hold, to bounce on her knee, to put a face on with marker, to fall in love with. The squash begins to become freckled and less bouncy, and in an effort to heal...
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0823407705 |
The biography of Martin Luther King, Jr is one of the stories that people need to read and know at least once in their life. He is a great civil rights activist, and the reason I want my students read this book and the similar story which is about Rosa Parks is because the two people are related during the era...
