The Sunflower Sword
10 best books like The Sunflower Sword (Mark Sperring): A Particular Cow, Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa, And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, My Friend, the Starfinder, Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin, Cock-A-Doodle-Hooooooo!, Magic Box: A Magical Story, Good Thing You're Not an Octopus!, Goldie Socks: And the Three Libearians, Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks!: The Story of the Three Bears as Told by Baby Bear
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152002502 |
Cow’s Saturday morning stroll begins calmly enough. But when she suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of a particular pair of bloomers, all heck breaks loose--and soon she's also on the wrong side of the mailman, a group of kids, a wedding party, and, well, pretty much everyone else in town.
With...
| Author | Gerald McDermott |
| ISBN | 0152999671 |
Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? “The tale moves along with the swift concision of a good joke, right down to its satisfying punch...
| Author | Janet Stevens |
| ISBN | 0152022988 |
Every night the rhyme gets read. Every night Dish and Spoon run away. And every night they return--until tonight!
Where can Dish and Spoon be? The rhyme can't go on without them, so Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to search for their missing friends. But where to start? Should they go north? East? Northeast?...
| Author | George Ella Lyon |
| ISBN | 1416927387 |
"Though poetic, Lyon's words are spare, never florid, for an elegantly powerful effect with silence built in, allowing readers space to use their own imaginations. Gammell's art begins with exuberant shades, but when the story enters the past, the pictures are as gray as Dorothy's Kansas until the...
| Author | Pam Calvert |
| ISBN | 1570918902 |
This book is a continuation of the King and Queen's life 10 years later and their son Peter is the main character. Rumpelstiltskin seeks revenge and returns to the castle to steal Peter and cause mayhem among the castle and the village. Rumpelstiltskin multiplies the king's nose by 6 and 4 branches by...
| Author | Mick Manning |
| ISBN | 1561485683 |
Poor owl, lost, wet and cold he finds a hole in a shed, squeezes in and falls asleep. In the morning he discovers that he is in a hen house. The hens seem to be desperate for a male rooster so they give him a try out which he fails dismally. The speckled hen (different from all the others) takes him aside and tells...
| Author | Katie Cleminson |
| ISBN | 1423121090 |
For Eva, a young girl with a lively imagintation, a seemingly ordinary box becomes a portal to a magical, wonder-filled world. Eva wishes for a pet. She reaches into her magic box and pulls out Monty. But he's not quite what she had in mind. (He's a polar bear.) What else might be in the magic box? A colony...
| Author | Julie Markes |
| ISBN | 0064435865 |
What’s that you say? You don’t like to get dressed in the morning? Well, it’s a good thing you’re not an octopus because they have 8 legs which makes putting on pants much more difficult than the 2 legs you have. The round-faced boy in this book has a list of activities he doesn’t like, from riding...
| Author | Jackie Mims Hopkins |
| ISBN | 1932146989 |
I'm not sure why it's Goldie Socks instead of Goldie Locks? It's not like she was illustrated without blonde hair. I'm not sure why the bears had to comment about their missing books twice. Why did she go through six books instead of three, it's very confusing. And lastly, I'm not sure why these fairy tale...
Title: Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks!: The Story of the Three Bears as Told by Baby Bear (The Other Side of the Story)
Author: Nancy Loewen
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Publication Date: 2011
Number of Pages: 24
Summary: Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks is a great book to use...
| Author | Kate Banks |
| ISBN | 0374399212 |
Max is looking for words that rhyme. His dragon is in his wagon – or was, for now its tail has left a trail, which Max follows. He finds an umbrella on the ground— "Found, ground," he says, while his older brothers mock him for believing in dragons and sitting under an umbrella when it isn't even raining....
Madeline and the Cats of Rome
| Author | John Bemelmans Marciano |
| ISBN | 0670062979 |
Madeline visits Rome!
The Paris skies are gray, so Miss Clavel and the twelve little girls are leaving for brighter weather---spring in Rome. Rome has wonderful sights to see and delicious things to eat, but Madeline also finds an unexpected adventure, involving a thief, a chase, and many,...
| Author | Mark Ludy |
| ISBN | 0966427645 |
This beautiful, wordless story told visually from beginning to end features a small, meek man who transforms a small town through simple moral principles. The characters' stories are woven together to create a tale that spans borders and nationalities and will refresh the human spirit with principles...
The Ant and the Grasshopper
| Author | Rebecca Emberley |
| ISBN | 1596434937 |
While hard at work on her chores, an ant hears the wonderful clickety click chirrup of music coming from the distance. Although she knows she should focus on the task at hand, she can't help but explore the joyful noise!
Award-winning team Rebecca and Ed Emberley bring an entertaining new twist...
| Author | Pam Smallcomb |
| ISBN | 0803734395 |
What do you send your alien pen pal Clunk to make it clear you do not want an alien pen pal? You send him your big sister. That'll teach Clunk to have a pen pal from Earth-or so our intrepid narrator thinks. But then Clunk sends him a Zoid, an exasperating Zoid that follows him everywhere. After swapping dirty...
| Author | Maya Soetoro-Ng |
| ISBN | 0763645702 |
From Maya Soetoro-Ng, sister of President Obama, comes a lyrical story relaying the loving wisdom of their late mother to a young granddaughter she never met.
Little Suhaila wishes she could have known her grandma, who would wrap her arms around the whole world if she could, Mama says. And one...
Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter
| Author | Cindy Neuschwander |
| ISBN | 1570916810 |
When young Per visits her uncle Sir Cumference and his family, she learns how to play the game, "Inners and Edges." After she finds a clue linking the game to the mysterious castle on the island of Immeter, she must figure out how to find the perimeter and area of a circle to unlock the island's secret.
Math...
| Author | Bob Staake |
| ISBN | 0316204595 |
LOOK!
A boot!
A fruit!
A crossing guard newt!
Once AGAIN a seek-and-find,
MORE images of every kind!
From a music note to a teeny red boat, a blue kangaroo to a robot or two, there are endless things to discover in this zany follow-up to Look! A Book! from award-winning...
