The Night Pirates

10 best books like The Night Pirates (Peter Harris): Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?, Owl Babies, Stick Man, How to Catch a Star, Giraffes Can't Dance, Elmer, Beegu, Peace At Last, Commotion in the Ocean (Picture Books), Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs

Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?
AuthorMartin Waddell
ISBN0744507960
4.5 STARS Awww, shucks. This is so darn cute! I really enjoyed this gentle tale (that is not without humor) about Little Bear who can't get to sleep because of his fear of the dark, and patient and resourceful Big Bear who helps him through his fears (even though Big Bear has a very exciting part of his book...
Owl Babies
AuthorMartin Waddell
ISBN0744592704
4 Cuteness ★'s


Awe, I love owls! So when I saw this book at the store I just had to buy it for my little niece just so I could read it to her lol :) This book is pretty simple with some repetition, it uses great rhyming patterns and it's poetic. It is easy to understand and has real-life situations...
Stick Man
AuthorJulia Donaldson
ISBN1407106171
Stick Man lives with his lady love and three stick children in the family tree. One day he's out for a jog and gets snatched by a dog, taken by a girl, found by a swan, and the adventures continue. What Stick Man really wants is to make it back home, but will he?

This is such an adventurous story and perfect...
How to Catch a Star
AuthorOliver Jeffers
ISBN0007228074
Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much so that he decided to catch one of his very own. But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree? No, not tall enough. The boy has a rocket ship . . . but it is made of paper...
Giraffes Can't Dance
AuthorGiles Andreae
ISBN0439287197
" We all can dance when we find music that we love." This is practically a life motto of mine. I feel dancing can fix the world. We should force our government to dance all the time and they would be better policy makers. Anyway.

I love Giraffes and I love dancing. So this was a match made in heaven....
Elmer
AuthorDavid McKee
ISBN0688091717
"McKee's gentle humor and love of irony are in full force in this celebration of individuality and laughter." — Publishers Weekly

Elmer the elephant is bright-colored patchwork all over. No wonder the other elephants laugh at him!

If he were ordinary elephant color, the others...
Beegu
AuthorAlexis Deacon
ISBN0374306672
The story of an alienated alien

Beegu's spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to understand her; windblown leaves won't stay still...
Peace At Last
AuthorJill Murphy
ISBN0333631986
The hour was late and Mr Bear was tired. But he could not sleep - however he tried and wherever he tried.

SNORE, SNORE went Mrs Bear.

TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK went the clock.

Would he never get to sleep?

The familiar noises, repetition and beautiful illustrations make...
Commotion in the Ocean (Picture Books)
AuthorGiles Andreae
I finished reading “Commotion in the Ocean” by Giles Andreae. This book is about many of the animals that live in the ocean, and that live around the ocean. It talks about all of the fish, the ones that live in shallow waters, all the way to the ones that live in deep sea at the bottom of the ocean. This book...
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
AuthorGiles Andreae
ISBN1416907130
Like most children, my daughter is fascinated by both dinosaurs and pirates so a book that has 'Pirate Dinosaurs' was certain to catch her eye! Along with, Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure and Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Magic Cutlass this book made up the Story Treasure...
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown
AuthorCressida Cowell
ISBN1423106458

Emily Brown's rabbit, Stanley, is NOT FOR SALE.

Not even to her Most Royal Highness Queen Gloriana the Third.

Not even for all the toys Emily Brown could ever desire.

So when naughty Queen Gloriana steals "Bunnywunny" away, Emily Brown sets out to get him back. Along the...
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