The Most Wonderful Doll in the World
10 best books like The Most Wonderful Doll in the World (Phyllis McGinley): The Thanksgiving Story, A Very Special House, Journey Cake, Ho!, Wee Gillis, April's Kittens, Dick Whittington and His Cat, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, Fly High, Fly Low, My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, A Pocketful of Cricket
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689710534 |
In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages.
Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things...
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| ISBN | 0060286385 |
Continuing a two-year program to bring back twenty-two Maurice Sendak treasures long out of print, our second season of publication highlights one of the most successful author-illustrator pairings of all time. A pioneer of great children's literature, Ruth Krausspublished more than thirty books...
| Author | Ruth Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0140502750 |
This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.
It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...
A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand.
Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the Lowlands, while the other half finds him in the Highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family...
| Author | Clare Turlay Newberry |
| ISBN | 0060244003 |
Since it was first published over fifty years ago, April's Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition. Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strickly...
Dick Whittington and His Cat
| Author | Marcia Brown |
| ISBN | 0684189984 |
A rags-to-riches Cinderella story about a boy and his cat. The art is cut from linoleum which I don't know how that works, but it is interesting. This has a basis in old English folk tales.
Dick lives a depressing life for most of the book. It's like the misfortunate events series, things only get...
| Author | Peter Spier |
| ISBN | 0440408296 |
This is an old Folk song that Peter set to a story. It’s also a Nursery Rhyme. I remember just reading it in that huge volume previously. Peter Spier wrote this in ’61 when they would do every other page in black and white to save money. Peter went back in his later years and colored the rest of the book...
| Author | Don Freeman |
| ISBN | 0142408174 |
Fly High, Fly Low, a Caldecott Honor book, tells the story of two San Francisco birds who hatch some eggs in a very unconventional place--the letter "B" in the sign on top of the Bay Hotel. But what happens when the sign is taken down? Told with Freeman's typical humor and simplicity, the book features breathtaking...
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
| Author | Becky Reyher |
| ISBN | 0688512518 |
"We do not love people because they are beautiful, but they seem beautiful to us because we love them."
This is one of the thoughts from this book. It is a wonderful thought taken one way and I can also see it as a way of saying, you're ugly, but because you are loved you're beautiful. I guess it has...
| Author | Rebecca Caudill |
| ISBN | 0805075240 |
" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...
Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice-President in charge of Cheese Tasting at Duvall's cheese factory. He works in secret at night--the people at Duvall have no idea their mysterious taster is really a mouse! So M'sieu Duvall thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat...
| Author | Fritz Eichenberg |
| ISBN | 0808585169 |
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
| Author | Marie Hall Ets |
| ISBN | 0140503250 |
A repetitive story in the fact that this is the same thing over and over with different animals. It bored me. The artwork was lovely, but nothing really special either. I think it was a kind of woodcut printed out. Basically, a young boy finds a different animal each page and tries to imitate how it walks...
| Author | Margaret Hodges |
| ISBN | 0153075317 |
This book had the kids gripped. They weren’t sure what was going to happen, but they knew the old man had something serious to say. They could tell something dangerous was in the works. This was suspenseful for the children. The nephew kept asking what’s going to happen and the niece would tell him,...
| Author | Janice May Udry |
| ISBN | 0060284609 |
Magic. This book is a delight and stunning. It conveys that magic feeling of how right the world can be as a child on a lovely evening with friends and a feeling of freedom.
Maurice Sendak is once again the illustrator. He must have illustrated every other book out at the time. He was one busy bee....
| Author | Wanda Gág |
| ISBN | 0816644187 |
"Nothing at All" is the name of an orphaned puppy living with his two brothers until two children come to adopt them. Unfortunately, Nothing at All gets inadvertently left behind-not out of cruelty, but because he is invisible! He is horribly lonely until he meets a bird, a Jackdaw, who says that he knows...
| Author | Abe Birnbaum |
| ISBN | 0307202038 |
Caldecott Honor winning illustrator, A. Birnbaum has captured the childlike wonder of each season in this 1953 picture book. Green Eyes, the curious kitten, ventures beyond his familiar big red box and greets spring, summer, fall, and winter—each with their unique colors, scents, and feelings....
| Author | Cheli Duran Ryan |
| ISBN | 0689805381 |
Lovely Pencil drawings!
A beautiful picture book of pencil drawings for beginning readers and above.
Hildilid does not like the night. She is trying to get rid of the night all night long in various and silly ways. The sun comes up and she is so tired she misses it and goes to bed.
The...
The Judge: An Untrue Tale
| Author | Harve Zemach |
| ISBN | 0374439621 |
A horrible thing is coming this way
Creeping closer day by day--
Its eyes are scary,
Its tail is hairy...
I tell you, Judge, we all better pray!
Anxious prisoner after anxious prisoner echoes and embellishes this cry, but always in vain. The fiery old Judge, impatient with...
| Author | Charlotte Zolotow |
| ISBN | 0064431940 |
A Caldecott Honor book about a little boy’s curiosity during a summer storm, poetically written by celebrated author Charlotte Zolotow and with stunning illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham.
This beautifully crafted story is perfect to pull out and enjoy on rainy days and for classroom...
Where the Buffaloes Begin
| Author | Olaf Baker |
| ISBN | 0140505601 |
This book is full of amazing pencil drawings of the prairie and buffalo. They are stunning. I think it would be nice to have added some color, but they are still beautiful. The story is long. It’s much too long for a bed-time story. It took two nights to read this to the kids.
Little Wolf is a boy...
A Child's Good Night Book
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0694008397 |
Celebrated children's author Margaret Wise Brown, creator of such childhood classics as
Goodnight Moon
and
The Runaway Bunny
, here delivers a sweet little bedtime tale, one which will lull little children to sleep with its gentle text and charming artwork. As night comes on, the book presents...
