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10 best books like The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone (Timothy Basil Ering): Sunflower House, To Every Thing There Is A Season, Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature, Weslandia, On Meadowview Street, Waiting for Winter, Seen Art?, Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, Uncle Vova's Tree, Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes II

Sunflower House
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0152019529
What a fun book about sunflowers. A family plant sunflower seeds in a circle and they grow all summer long. It makes a nice house for the boy of the house to play in with his friends. It’s the perfect house until the flowers start to fall over heavy with seeds.

I love the artwork here and I love that...
To Every Thing There Is A Season
AuthorLeo Dillon
ISBN0590478877
In this exquisite book -- the fortieth picture book the couple has worked on together -- Leo and Diane Dillon's breathtaking paintings accompany verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Simple yet profound, the inspiring words and pictures make this the perfect gift choice for birthdays, weddings,...
Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature
AuthorNicola Davies
This gorgeously illustrated volume of poetry — sprinkled with facts and fun things to do — sows an early love for nature in all its beauty and wonder.

The buzz of bees in summertime. The tracks of a bird in the winter snow. This beautiful book captures all the sights and sounds of a child’s...
Weslandia
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0763610526
WESLANDIA honors the misfits—and the creators—among us.

Enter the witty, intriguing world of Weslandia! Now that school is over, Wesley needs a summer project. He’s learned that each civilization needs a staple food crop, so he decides to sow a garden and start his own - civilization,...
On Meadowview Street
AuthorHenry Cole
ISBN0060564814
When Caroline and her family move into their new house on Meadowview Street - a typical suburban subdivision, where all the properties look alike - and set about putting everything in order, the young girl asks her father to mow around the pretty flower growing in the middle of their lawn. Setting up a...
Waiting for Winter
AuthorSebastian Meschenmoser
ISBN1935279041
What can I say about Sebastian Meschenmoser’s Waiting for Winter except for wow, what a sweet and simply wonderful little story, with equally enchanting illustrations (although I do wish that my local library also had this book in the original German, as Herr Eichhorn und der erste Schnee but that...
Seen Art?
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0670059862
It all started when I told my friend Art I would meet him on the corner of Fifth and Fifty-Third.
I didn't see him. So I asked a lady walking up the avenue, "Have you seen Art?"
"MoMA?" asked the lady.
"Uh . . . no, he's just a friend."
"Just down Fifty-Third Street here. In a beautiful new building....
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...
Uncle Vova's Tree
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399216170
A holiday favorite from Patricia Polacco is now available again, to her fans' delight. Based on Polacco's childhood memories, this is the story of her Great-uncle Vladimir, known as Vova, and his colorful and inventive celebrations of the Russian Orthodox holiday of Epiphany. Polacco's art warmly...
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...
The Little Bit Scary People
AuthorEmily Jenkins
ISBN1423100751
Jenkins, E. (2008). The little bit scary people. Boiger, A. New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Children.

Genre: Children’s Picture Storybook (Multicultural)

A young girl comes across some “scary” people throughout her day. A cranky bus driver, a teen kicking a trash can, and...
The Three Golden Keys
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374375259
World-renowned artist brings the magic of Prague and its legends to life

In this allegorical tale, a man in a hot-air ballon is thrown off course in a violent storm, landing him in the city of his youth. He finds the way to his old home, but the house is dark, with three rusty padlocks on the door....
The Bear That Heard Crying
AuthorNatalie Kinsey-Warnock
ISBN0140558543
This is a true story set in New Hampshire. The author is a distant relative of Sarah Whitcher, the little girl whom the story is about.
Sarah is just three years old when she wanders off by herself and becomes lost in the woods. A rescue team was sent out to look for her to no avail. A man comes to town and...
Two Old Potatoes and Me
AuthorJohn Coy
ISBN0375821805
One day at her dad’s house, a young girl finds two old potatoes in the cupboard. “Gross.” But before she can throw them away, her dad suggests they try to grow new potatoes from the old ones, which have sprouted eyes. Told from May to September, the potato-growing season, the story includes all the...
Everybody Needs a Rock
AuthorByrd Baylor
ISBN0689710518
Well, this is a wonderful nostalgic book for adults who collected rocks when they were kids; I’m one of them. And, some kids who enjoy the natural world might appreciate it because it stresses their autonomy in the pursuit of choosing a rock of their very own. I also like how the girl stresses play with...
How Groundhog's Garden Grew
AuthorLynne Cherry
ISBN0439323711
Little Groundhog learns how to plant and tend to his own food garden through every season in this beautifully-illustrated, thoroughly researched picture book by naturalist Lynne Cherry.Little Groundhog, in trouble for stealing from his friends' gardens, is taught by Squirrel to grow his very own....
Roberto: The Insect Architect
AuthorNina Laden
ISBN0811824659
Ever since he was a wee mite (a termite, that is), Roberto has wanted to be an architect. Discouraged by his wood-eating family and friends, he decides to follow his dream to the big, bug city. There he meets a slew of not-so-creepy, crawly characters who spark in him the courage to build a community for...
Max Makes a Million
AuthorMaira Kalman
ISBN0670835455
Max Stravinsky, an aspiring poet and a New York City dog, longs to hit it big and move to Paris in this charmingly offbeat picture-book from author/artist Maira Kalman. From his home life with Morris and Ida - a shoe salesman and tango dancer, respectively - to his studio experiences with Bruno, who paints...
Dangerously Ever After
AuthorDashka Slater
ISBN0803733747
Not all princesses are made of sugar and spice--some are made of funnier, fiercer stuff

Princess Amanita laughs in the face of danger. Brakeless bicycles, pet scorpions, spiky plants--that's her thing. So when quiet Prince Florian gives her roses, Amanita is unimpressed . . . until she sees...
Daisy Comes Home
AuthorJan Brett
The Barnes & Noble Review
Legendary author and illustrator Jan Brett transforms Scandinavian illustrations and stories to explore the beauty and color of China. Inspired by a favorite childhood story, The Story of Ping, Brett writes of six hens in China. Cared for by the young Mei Mei, the...
Otis and the Tornado
AuthorLoren Long
ISBN0399254773
Otis has the fun and games down pat on the farm, though the temperamental bull is less than interested in playing along. Instead, he tries to charge and stir up trouble for Otis and the other animals. When the skies turn a shade of green and all goes silent, the farmer realizes that a tornado is on its way....
Monster Mama
AuthorLiz Rosenberg
ISBN0698114299
Even though she's a real monster, Patrick Edward loves his morn -- especially when she uses her powers to tame a trio of young bullies -- in this exuberantly illustrated picture book about the universal love between a mother and child."One person's monster is another's mom. Young readers know that already,...
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