The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

6 best books like The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Julius Lester): The Little House, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

The Little House

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...

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

Author	Laura Amy Schlitz
ISBN	0763615781

Step back to medieval 1255 England and meet 22 villagers, illustrated in pen and ink, inspired by the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript, an illuminated poem from thirteenth-century Germany.

Hugo, the lord’s nephew, proves his manhood by hunting a wild boar. Sharp-tongued Nelly supports...

The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

Author	Astrid Lindgren
ISBN	0670876127

An enticing, newly illustrated collection of the enduringly popular Pippi stories. Since Pippi Longstocking was first published in 1950, the escapades of the incomparable Pippi,the girl with upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do, have delighted boys and girls alike. Now, for the...

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

Author	Maria Tatar
ISBN	0691114692

Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing...

In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

Author	Virginia Hamilton
ISBN	0152387420

I read this book of creation stories and cosmogonies from around the world out-loud to my 8-year-old daughter to try and balance out the Christian stories that she is deluged by in American culture. Many children have no idea that predominant western religions did not develop in a vacuum, but are threads...

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0394800028

The Cat in the Hat returns for more out-of-control fun in this wintry Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss.

It’s a snowy day and Dick and Sally are stuck shovelling . . . until the Cat in the Hat arrives to liven things up (to say the least!). Featuring the Cat’s helpers Little Cat A, Little Cat B, and so...