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10 best books like The Seeing Stick (Jane Yolen): White Water, The Cow That Went OINK, Knots on a Counting Rope, The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague, Eleanor, Quiet No More, Bee-bim Bop!, Petunia Goes Wild, Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, The Magic Nesting Doll, Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure

White Water
AuthorMichael S. Bandy
ISBN0763636789
For a young boy growing up in the segregated south, a town drinking fountain becomes the source of an epiphany.

It's a scorching hot day, and going into town with Grandma is one of Michael's favorite things. When the bus pulls up, they climb in and pay their fare, get out, walk to the back door, and...
The Cow That Went OINK
AuthorBernard Most
ISBN0152047638
For Valentine's Day one year, I painted a big shipping box to look like a barn and put in it a plush cow and a pig and this book, and gave it to my then two-year-old son. Weird -- yeah, maybe. Smart -- yeah, definitely. He likes the toys and the book, and all of his farm animals are now housed in the barn box.

I...
Knots on a Counting Rope
AuthorBill Martin Jr.
ISBN0805054790
This is a difficult book to review because on the one hand it is a moving and poetic account of a little boy's (formally named "By-Strength-of-Blue Horses") eagerly asking and prompting his grandfather to tell the story of the boy's own life, a story that, when it is completed, is marked by a knot on a counting...
The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
AuthorJulia Finley Mosca
ISBN1943147426
Meet Raye Montague--the hidden mastermind who made waves in the U.S. Navy!

After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping...
Eleanor, Quiet No More
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
ISBN0786851414
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent...
Bee-bim Bop!
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0618265112
Bee-bim bop (the name translates as “mix-mix rice”) is a traditional Korean dish of rice topped, and then mixed, with meat and vegetables. In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and finally sitting...
Petunia Goes Wild
AuthorPaul Schmid
ISBN0061963348
Petunia has had just about enough of being human. All those baths, good manners, clean clothes, even combed hair!

So our clever Petunia hatches a shocking and audacious plan to get away from all the haftas and instead live wild and free.

It is only when Petunia is about to leave it all...
Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN0786849584
Fed up with his continued refusal to clean his room and finish his baked peas, Billy Twitter's parents make good on their threat to buy him a blue whale. And so begins a hilariously surreal adventure, as Billy struggles to care for his new 100-foot pet, towing him around town on a skateboard, and disrupting...
The Magic Nesting Doll
AuthorJacqueline K. Ogburn
ISBN0803724144
Katya's grandmother took a little matryoshka, a nesting doll, out of a small box. "If your need is great, open the doll and help will come. But you may only do so three times. After that the magic will be gone." A wicked spell has changed a handsome young prince to a pale glassy figure made of "living ice,"...
Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0689810725
Margaret has a brave heart. She dreams of adventure and longs to travel to distant lands, so when a tall ship appears in the harbor, headed north to the Kingdoms of the Cold, Margaret won't be left behind.
But adventures are perilous things. Soon Margaret must face a ferocious sea serpent and even...
The Apple-Pip Princess
AuthorJane Ray
ISBN0763637475
With sumptuous artwork, Jane Ray tells an original fairy tale of a humble princess whose love for nature’s beauty restores a kingdom.

Once there was a kingdom full of laughter, happiness, trees, and birdsong. But when the queen dies, the land becomes quiet and barren, and everyone is filled...
Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes II
AuthorGris Grimly
ISBN0972938834
This entertaining collection unveils eight allnew, fiendishly illustrated cautionary tales exploring the dark underbelly of childhood. Childhood standards, including Little Jack Horner, Solomon Grundy and Three Blind Mice, are retold as dark and sinister rhymes about atrociouslymannered...
Frankenstein Takes the Cake
AuthorAdam Rex
ISBN0152062351
No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes everyone would stop drooling over his delicious pumpkin...
Don't Slam the Door!
AuthorDori Chaconas
ISBN0763637092
Slamming the screen door sets off a comical chain of cause-and-effect in this rollicking tale of a rambunctious family.

A slamming door may not seem like a big deal, but in this escalating tale, it can have far-reaching (and very funny) consequences — including a limping, yelping Pa; a scared,...
Sparrow Girl
AuthorSara Pennypacker
ISBN1423111877

Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country's leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers--they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great "Sparrow War" to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase...
Fiona's Luck
AuthorTeresa Bateman
ISBN1570916519
Great book. Fiona is so confident she thinks she can outwit the Leprechaun that took all the luck from Ireland. Now cows can't milk and chickens don't lay eggs and there are no potatoes. Not just anyone wants to square off against King of the Leprechauns. This is one of the spiritual laws of the universe....
Big Momma Makes the World
AuthorPhyllis Root
ISBN0763626007
"Among the many creation retellings and variations, this one takes the cake." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review)

When Big Momma makes the world, she doesn’t mess around. With a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, she demands light and dark, earth and sky, creepers and crawlers, and lots...
My Brother Charlie
AuthorHolly Robinson Peete
ISBN0545094666
Callie is very proud of her brother Charlie. He's good at so many things — swimming, playing the piano, running fast. And Charlie has a special way with animals, especially their dog, Harriett. But sometimes Charlie gets very quiet. His words get locked inside him, and he seems far away. Then, when...
The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination
AuthorJimmy Liao
ISBN0316939927
I loved this book from my first stumbling across it while hunting for a birthday present - I bought the child something else (not a book sort), but I bought this book for myself. I wasn't sure my son would like it - age 7 at the time of first reading - this story of a woman who no longer has sight and how she starts...
We're Different, We're the Same
AuthorBobbi Jane Kates
ISBN0679832270
As someone who grew up watching Sesame Street, I really appreciated this book. For starters, it included all of the Sesame street characters throughout the book, as well as a diverse group of humans. There is no main character. The book is poetic and informational. The book takes on a comparing and contrasting...
Traction Man Is Here!
AuthorMini Grey
ISBN0375831916
Traction Man—wearing combat boots, battle pants, and his warfare shirt—comes in a box, but very quickly finds the way into the imagination of his lucky boy owner. This superhero searches for the Lost Wreck of the Sieve as the boy makes a game of doing the dishes, and later in the bathtub, he conquers...
Please, Puppy, Please
AuthorSpike Lee
ISBN0689868049
Away from the gate, puppy puppy, please, puppy. Oh wait, puppy, wait, please, please, please, please.... In page after page of tail-wagging fun, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Beacon Award-winning producer Tonya Lewis Lee, take a close-up look at what happens when a couple...
La Princesa and the Pea
AuthorSusan Middleton Elya
ISBN0399251561
The Princess and the Pea gets a fresh twist in this charming bilingual retelling.

El principe knows this girl is the one for him, but, as usual, his mother doesn't agree.
The queen has a secret test in mind to see if this girl is really a princesa.
But the prince might just have a sneaky plan,...
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