The Mouse of Amherst: A Tale of Young Readers
10 best books like The Mouse of Amherst: A Tale of Young Readers (Elizabeth Spires): The Story of a Bad Boy, The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant), The Squirrel's Birthday and Other Parties, Rapunzel, Among the Dolls, Clara and Davie, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, Belling the Tiger, Basil in Mexico, Cloud Country
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)
Avon the snail has never had an adventure. And adventure, he has heard, is the key to a happy life. So with his new friend Edward the ant, Avon sets out on a journey to find the excitement his life has been missing.
The travelers meet all manner of wise, weird, and intriguing creatures--including a dragon!--and...
The Squirrel's Birthday and Other Parties
| Author | Toon Tellegen |
| ISBN | 1906250936 |
This charming little book is as delicious as a piece of cake—which just happens to be Squirrel’s favorite food! Young readers are invited to Squirrel’s birthday party—and into a magical world of the imagination. Brief, evocative, thought-provoking, and unlike anything else ever written,...
| Author | Alix Berenzy |
| ISBN | 0805012834 |
When an expectant mother spies the rapunzel growing in her neighbor's garden, her longing for the herb is so strong, that she becomes ill. Finally, in desperation, her husband steals into the garden to fetch her some of the plant, only to be caught by the powerful fairy owner, who demands their unborn...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0765352397 |
A dark awakening . . .
When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike she's expecting, Vicky is disappointed. But she soon becomes fascinated by the small shadowy world and its inhabitants. The hours she spends playing with the dolls is a good way to escape...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0545354773 |
Animals and flowers were Clara's best friends. She had a special way with critters and found joy in the beauty that sprang from the soil. But whenever Clara talked, her words didn't come out right. As hard as she tried, she could not get over her lisp.
Clara's older brother Davie understood that...
| Author | Betsy Hearne |
| ISBN | 0689863470 |
Eleven-year-old Louise Tolliver lives with her mother and her brother, Willie, in Tollivers' Hollow. Like any brother, Willie gives Louise a hard time, but the trouble really starts when Louise calls him a pig -- and he becomes one.
And that's not all. Louise's father has been missing for seven...
| Author | Mary Stolz |
| ISBN | 0762418893 |
At last, Mary Stolz's 1962 Newbery Honor-winning book is back. And now, for the first time, the classic story is brought to life with colorful illustrations in a picture book format. Award-winning illustrator Pierre Pratt adds whimsical new art to this charming tale about two little mice assigned...
| Author | Eve Titus |
| ISBN | 0070649006 |
The famous sleuth of Mousedom!
Basil of Baker Street continues his brilliant detective career as he solves three difficult cases, one right after the other:
"The Case of the Counterfeit Cheese"--in which mousedom is terrified as mice crack their teeth on phony cheese bits made of...
I was in a hurry a few weeks back and one glimpse of the cover stayed with me, I kept thinking about the book because I LOVE the sky and the clouds, always had since childhood. I returned and bought the book and read it before bed. It's lovely. I might not be the intended audience but what can I say? I love children...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 1590789326 |
As soon as Thomas Jefferson learned to read, he found his passion: books, books, and more books! Before, during, and after the American Revolution, Jefferson collected thousands of books on hundreds of subjects. In fact, his massive collection eventually helped rebuild the Library of Congress—now...
Now in many ways Bruce Robertson's Marguerite Makes a Book does a truly wonderful job with both meticulous detail and engagement showing and demonstrating how a hand-painted (illuminated) Mediaeval book is (or more to the point how such a tome generally was) created, was made (and indeed also why these...
| Author | Barbara Cohen |
| ISBN | 0688062016 |
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid...
| Author | Amy Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0763610348 |
Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages!
"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr,...
| Author | Scott Corbett |
| ISBN | 0590321978 |
Kerby helps Mrs. Graymalkin when her heel gets stuck in a grate at the park, and she gives him an old chemistry set that used to belong to her son. Kerby mixes up a batch, and finds himself compelled to drink the wonderful smelling stuff, and then is equally compelled to be the best behaved boy possible for...
| Author | Ann Durell |
| ISBN | 0525446052 |
This very special volume was created by more than thirty of the best known and loved authors and illustrators of children's books.
Summary: The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz,...
| Author | DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan |
“An optimistic tale that manages to be both encouraging yet realistic about how to do some good in your very own backyard.” —Kirkus
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of City Green—the environmentally and community-conscious classic that shows the wonderful things kids can do when...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0698119096 |
This is Tomie dePaola's second "26 Fairmount Avenue" book, his autobiographical series about his childhood. I loved the first one, 26 Fairmount Avenue, and read it to all of my library classes last year. Since then, I've always planned to read more of the series. I found this second book in the series...
| Author | Patricia Lee Gauch |
| ISBN | 0698116763 |
This was my all time, number one, absolute favorite book when I was a child. It's one of those things that has survived my many moves, and not on accident.
The illustrations are simple but absolutely beautiful and perfectly fitting with the theme of imagination. They're almost deceptively...
| Author | Bill Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671014153 |
I've started reading middle grade books to my toddler, a few chapters a night. This was the first one I picked up and I'm so glad I did. First of all, I have fond memories of this book. My third grade teacher made a habit of reading to our class, a little bit every day, throughout the year. This was one of the books...
| Author | Peggy Christian |
| ISBN | 0152002030 |
Caudill Nominee: 1999
An odd little book with a adventurous story, The Bookstore Mouse is the tale of Cervantes the mouse and Sigfried, the scribe. As they journey through the words in books in a bookstore on Ninth and Market Streets, the save the dragon-captured troubadours who still have...
| Author | Michael Bedard |
| ISBN | 0385306970 |
This is a fictionalized account of a family who moves in near Emily Dickinson and the child's interactions with her. It's cute and sweet, but I'd rather have had an actual picture book biography. There are some beautiful descriptions of poetry, though. "Listen to mother play. She practices and practices...
| Author | Catherine F. Vos |
| ISBN | 0802850111 |
I'm pretty sensitive to the "voice" of a story when I'm reading to my kids. From several years of experience presenting children's storytimes at the public library, I developed a keen awareness of when my audience was engaged and when I was "losing them."
So, when I read Bible story books to my...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0613301404 |
Looking for a holiday read in children's books I came across this sweet solstice story for early chapter book readers. The Cobble Street Cousins are three nine-year-old girls, Lily, Rosie, and Tess who are living in their Aunt Lucy's attic while their parents are traveling the world with their ballet...
The Private Notebook of Katie Roberts, Age 11
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 1564024741 |
Katie's father died in World War II, and four years later her mother has married Sam Gold and taken her away from New York City to a ranch in Texas. Amy Hest, author of the acclaimed novel LOVE YOU, SOLDIER that featured Katie at age seven, has written a new story in the intimate form of Katie's diary, letters,...
