The Sign of the Seahorse

10 best books like The Sign of the Seahorse (Graeme Base): In a People House, Alice The Fairy, June 29, 1999, Outside Over There, Wacky Wednesday, Snowflake Bentley, Happy Birthday, Moon, Jabberwocky, The Lost Thing, Twilight Comes Twice

In a People House
AuthorTheo LeSieg
ISBN0394823958
I am really reminiscing over these old books of mine. This story is about a mouse that introduces Mr Bird to the inside of a 'People House.' As an early reader goes, this one is super. It introduces items that one would find in a house, for example the ceiling and the floor. Super pictures bring the items pointed...
Alice The Fairy
AuthorDavid Shannon
ISBN0439490251
Caldecott Honor artist and bestselling author David Shannon's warm and funny new picture book introduces Alice, a mischievous little girl with a "No, David" nose for trouble and a magic wand.
Alice has a nose for trouble, but luckily she's a fairy--a Temporary Fairy. She has a magic wand, fairy...
June 29, 1999
AuthorDavid Wiesner
ISBN0395727677
Flotsam was the first David Wiesner book I read and so far it remains my favorite. I have enjoyed most of his books and this one was excellent. It’s an unusual Wiesner in that there’s significant text, but the illustrations are amazing and on their own are able to tell the bulk of this story.

I...
Outside Over There
AuthorMaurice Sendak
ISBN0064431851
this is the only thing my summer class was useful for: it tipped me off that this book existed. for future reference, if there are books that exist that were the source material for childhood favorite movies of mine, i need to be informed. in a timely manner. not twenty years later, thats just humiliating....
Wacky Wednesday
AuthorTheo LeSieg
ISBN0394829123
An ode to a really strange day
12 February 2012

This is probably my favourite Dr Seuss book, having I read it many a time when I was a kid. I guess the reason for that was because it was one of those books that you didn't just read, but actively participated in it as well. On every page there were...
Snowflake Bentley
AuthorJacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN0395861624
"Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." — Wilson Bentley (1865–1931)

From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera...
Happy Birthday, Moon
AuthorFrank Asch
ISBN0689835442
Bear loves the moon so much that he wants to give him a birthday present. But he doesn't know when his birthday is or what to get him. So Bear goes to have a little chat with the moon. A poetic fantasy, Happy Birthday, Moon has delighted fans for years as a simple yet reassuring celebration of love and friendship....
Jabberwocky
AuthorLewis Carroll
ISBN0810911507
The world’s best-loved nonsense poem inspires a fresh, enchantingly surreal treatment in this beautiful edition from an exciting new talent.


’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

So...
AuthorShaun Tan
ISBN1894965108
A kid finds a lost 'thing' on the beach where he's scavenging for his bottle-top collection. The thing is a large, freakish creature but no-one else really notices it--it's simply not a part of their familiar day-to-day reality. So the kid takes it upon himself to try to find where the lost thing belongs...

The...
AuthorRalph Fletcher
ISBN0395848261
Sunsets and sunrises have always been special to me especially when they involve bodies of water. In college, I was fortunate enough to live in a dorm next to the Elizabeth River where I was able to enjoy daily sunsets. The beauty of the sun reflecting on the water is very peaceful to me. Every night it seemed...
You're All My Favorites
AuthorSam McBratney
Mommy and Daddy Bear convince three worried cubs that there's plenty of love to go around in this comforting new tale from the incomparable team of Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram.

So that night the three baby bears asked their Daddy Bear,
"Which one of us do you like the most?
Who is your...
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
AuthorJerry Stanley
ISBN0517880946
I was surprised at how this book affected me. I thought it would just be a nice, quick lesson in the Dust Bowl migration. It turned out to be a lesson in humanity.

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp is very short. The first half gives the historic background and...
Through the Cracks
AuthorCarolyn Sollman
ISBN0871922932
Wow! What a book! This book contrasts what school could be vs. what it often is. Two children actually fall through the cracks at an unsatisfactory school, just to come back up through the floor at a more appropriate educational environment. The children equate their current school situation with a...
A Jar of Tiny Stars: Poems by NCTE Award-Winning Poets
AuthorBernice E. Cullinan
ISBN1563970872
In this lively, luminous anthology, Dr. Bernice Cullinan has gathered poems by winners of the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. All of the poems were classroom tested and handpicked by more than 2,500 children as their favorites. Beautifully complemented...
The Children We Remember
AuthorChana Byers Abells
ISBN0064437779
This powerful photographic essay of few words describes the lives and tragic deaths of Jewish children in the holocaust and those who survived.
It consists of photos from the archives at Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs and Rememrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel.
It shows pictures of...
Bullfrog Pops!
AuthorRick Walton
ISBN1586858408
Last seen hopping a stage . . . (coach) and finding his hop in Once There was a Bull . . . (frog), our hero is now on an eye-popping eating binge trying to cure his insatiable appetite. Woven through the western town of Ravenous Gulch, the story leaves a cast of many hopping mad. However, just as things look...
Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10
AuthorJudy Finchler
ISBN0802774989
I know my teacher, Miss Malarkey, lives in our classroom, Room 10. She's there all the time. In fact, all the teachers live at school. They eat dinner in the cafeteria and sleep in the teachers' lounge. I'm sure of it!

So why is Miss Malarkey moving into my apartment house?...

What could...
The Little Island
AuthorMargaret Wise Brown
ISBN0385746407
If I do simply approach The Little Island with regard to Leonard Weisgard's evocatively painterly, nature imbued illustrations, I can both easily and without any doubt understand the 1947 Caldecott Medal designation (for the illustrations are truly absolutely exquisite, presenting a delightful...
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