The Racecar Alphabet
10 best books like The Racecar Alphabet (Brian Floca): Make Way for Ducklings, Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Curious George, The Little House, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?, April's Kittens, Another, The Gardener, The Relatives Came, Eating the Alphabet
Author | Robert McCloskey |
ISBN | 0670035386 |
The Big Chill Except With The Ducklings From Make Way For Ducklings, Now All Grown Up is what I originally was going to post for this review but then I was like you know who likes ridiculous things with extremely long titles is McSweeney's, I should see if they want this, and they did. Here are the...
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Author | Mo Willems |
ISBN | 1423102991 |
Trixie can't wait to bring her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off to everyone. But when she gets there, she sees something awful: Sonja has the same bunny. Suddenly, Knuffle Bunny doesn't seem so one-of-a-kind anymore. Chaos ensues until the bunnies are taken away by Ms. Greengrove....
The first adventure in this highly popular series tells how the little monkey Curious George, caught in the jungle and brought back to the city by a man in a yellow hat, can't help being interested in all the new things around him. Though well meaning, George's curiosity always gets him into trouble. Young...
Author | Virginia Lee Burton |
ISBN | 0395181569 |
Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad...
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
Author | Mo Willems |
ISBN | 1423151283 |
Much to the chagrin of Pigeon, little Duckling uses very polite manners to request a cookie, and actually gets one. Filled with righteous fury, Pigeon loses his temper and complains bitterly about this terrible state of affairs. However, things aren't what they seem, and Duckling has a secret plan!...
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...
A 2019 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book!
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019!
In his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful, imaginative...
Author | Sarah Stewart |
ISBN | 0374325170 |
By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library
Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing...
Author | Cynthia Rylant |
ISBN | 0689717385 |
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.
When they finally...
Just as the sub-title indicates, this is an A to Z listing of fruits and vegetables paired with water color illustrations.
The best part? Using it as a tool. For younger children: letter identification (by sight or by sound). Each food is labeled in upper as well as lower case letters. The book...
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
Author | Don Wood |
ISBN | 0859536599 |
5 Superbly Cute ★'s
I loved this book so much, it was definitely one of my most favorites as a child :) I wanted it read to me over and over again. Being an adult now, I love that I can read all my favorites to my little niece and still appreciate them just as much as I did back then. I just loved the...
Author | Anna Dewdney |
ISBN | 0670059838 |
Llama, Llama red pajama waiting, waiting for his mama. Mama isn’t coming yet. Baby Llama starts to fret. In this infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby Llama turns bedtime into an all-out llama drama! Tucked into bed by his mama, Baby Llama immediately starts worrying when she goes downstairs, and...
Author | Andrew Clements |
ISBN | 0689858248 |
It's a long way to
a million, right?
Of course it is.
But do you really know
what a million looks like?
If you'd like to see -- actually see, right now, with your own eyes -- what a million looks like, just open this book.
Be prepared to learn some interesting things along...
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
Author | Barry Wittenstein |
ISBN | 0823443310 |
Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his legendary speech and how he came to write it. Find out more in this gripping book with illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Jerry Pinkney.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if...
Author | Sydney Smith |
ISBN | 0823442616 |
It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need.
When you're small in the city, people don't see you, and loud sounds can scare you, and knowing what to do is sometimes hard. But this little kid knows what it's like, and knows...
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
Author | Steve Jenkins |
ISBN | 0439703840 |
This is a nice little fact book for beginners. Each page reveals a group of animal parts and asks a question. The next page shows each animal and what is special about that tail or ear or nose, etc.
I think the artwork was interesting and they chose some fun animals. Children that love animals will...
The Boy Who Ran to the Woods
Author | Jim Harrison |
ISBN | 0871138220 |
Jim Harrison is best known for his novels that speak wisdom and illuminate the soul. He now turns his hand to a child's tale, The Boy Who Ran to the Woods. Exquisitely illustrated by Tom Pohrt, The Boy Who Ran to the Woods recounts a childhood tragedy that ends in redemption. Harrison tells a personal story...
Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping
Author | Mélanie Watt |
ISBN | 1894786866 |
Scaredy Squirrel is not too comfortable with the idea of camping ? unless it's on his couch! There will be no mosquitoes, skunks or zippers to worry about when he watches a show about the joys of camping on his brand-new TV. But first Scaredy must find an electrical outlet, and that means going into the woods!...