The Wainscott Weasel
10 best books like The Wainscott Weasel (Tor Seidler): The Book of Dragons, The Four Seasons of Brambly Hedge, The Iron Sceptre, Flossie and the Fox, Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores, The Animal Family, The Mousewife, Wolf Story, Vulpes, the Red Fox, Basil in Mexico
| Author | Michael Hague |
| ISBN | 0060759682 |
Michael Hague, one of America's most beloved painters of fantasy, boldy captures seventeen classic dragon tales, armed only with the magic of his paintbrush. Here beside the heroics of Perseus, St. George, and Sigurd are the adventures of the girl who slew a dragon and became queen of China, as well...
| Author | Jill Barklem |
| ISBN | 0001840266 |
The Brambly Hedge books are a modern publishing phenomenon. The first four little books, published in 1980, have now been reprinted more than twenty times, and sales are in the millions.
Jill Barklem chose the original small format herself: it seemed to suit her miniature community of self-sufficient...
| Author | John White |
| ISBN | 0877845891 |
Anthropos is in danger. So Wesley, Kurt and Lisa are once again magically transported from their home in Winnipeg to help save this threatened land. The Iron Sceptre, the source of King Kardia's power to rule, is in peril. The children, joined by their cousin Mary, are called on to stop Mirmah and her chief...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0803702507 |
Flossie and the Fox is an interesting take on Little Red Riding Hood. This is the tale of Flossie from Tennessee who is entrusted to take eggs to the McCutchin farm because a fox is scaring the hens. On her trip to the farm, Flossie meets the fox who introduces himself to Flossie as the fox...the only thing...
Will their friendship ever be the same? Horace, Morris, and Dolores have been best friends forever. They do everything together -- from sailing the seven sewers to climbing Mount Ever-Rust. But one day Horace and Morris join the Mega-Mice (no girls allowed), and Dolores joins the Cheese Puffs (no boys...
| Author | Randall Jarrell |
| ISBN | 0062059041 |
What an exquisite little gem this book is. I have been bemoaning the lack of great mermaid stories far and wide, and though I've tried a great many, none have ever even touched on the surface of the enchantment and mystery that I'd hoped for until the gracious Ceridwen whispered in my ear about The Animal...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0333344847 |
Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....
| Author | William McCleery |
| ISBN | 0208021914 |
This irresistible book is about: a father (intelligent, patient, an inventive storyteller); his five-year-old son Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); and a story.It is a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and is spun into soap opera proportions over subsequent bedtimes...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0140376232 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREG!!!
a review for greg!!!
this is a wonderful little book; part of jean craighead george's american woodland tale series, which are cute little illustrated chapter books about animals in the wild and the things that they do. while we are exposed to the inner...
| Author | Eve Titus |
| ISBN | 0070649006 |
The famous sleuth of Mousedom!
Basil of Baker Street continues his brilliant detective career as he solves three difficult cases, one right after the other:
"The Case of the Counterfeit Cheese"--in which mousedom is terrified as mice crack their teeth on phony cheese bits made of...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 0261664794 |
(From the back cover)
The fabulous Miss Bianca has resigned, perhaps prematurely, as Madam Chairwoman of the Mouse Prisoners' Aid Society. In her honor an enchanting water picnic is held at the lily moat beneath a ruined turret in the park outside the city. While the band plays Handel's Water Music,...
| Author | Rosemary Wells |
| ISBN | 0763637238 |
An intimate, moving portrait of Abraham Lincoln as rarely seen--through the eyes of his children--and captured in exquisite illustrations.
Historians claim him as one of America's most revered presidents. But to his rambunctious sons, Abraham Lincoln was above all a playful and loving...
| Author | Dick King-Smith |
| ISBN | 0786811560 |
I've sung King-Smith's praises in other reviews, but this time I marked a couple of passages so I could give you specific examples:
"Whether in fact Flora was more intelligent than her nine brothers and sisters we shall never know.... Whether she inherited this thirst for knowledge from her...
| Author | Angela Shelf Medearis |
| ISBN | 0590738860 |
Summary:
Two friends are talking to each other and one invites the other over for dinner. He tells his friend that his family eats dinner in the bathroom. He then explains how they cook in the bedroom, the dog sleeps in the garage, and so. What his family does is very different than what his friend's...
| Author | Bill Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671014153 |
I've started reading middle grade books to my toddler, a few chapters a night. This was the first one I picked up and I'm so glad I did. First of all, I have fond memories of this book. My third grade teacher made a habit of reading to our class, a little bit every day, throughout the year. This was one of the books...
| Author | John Bibee |
| ISBN | 0877843481 |
"Once there was a magic bicycle that found a boy," begins this tale of adventure and suspense. When John Kramer comes across an old, rusty Spirit Flyer bicycle, he finds it far from ordinary. First, the bike helps him save a neighbor's barn from burning. Then it brings him into conflict with the boys in...
| Author | Mauri Kunnas |
| ISBN | 9511181009 |
- Aa! vaakkui lukkari. - Aa! toistivat pojat yhteen ääneen.
Ei ota oppi mennäkseen Jukolan koiraveljesten paksuihin kalloihin. Vapaana luonnon helmassa vai ihmisten tavoille oppineena sivistyksen parissa? Siinäpä kysymys, jonka parissa Juhani, Tuomas, Aapo, Simeoni, Timo,...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0141301228 |
The grand master of storytelling excels himself in this collection of eight tales about cats who outwit, outmaneuver, and often outclass the human with whom they come in contact.
From Pescato, the town cat who deals so shrewdly with a petty tyrant, to little Wittling, the unlikely apprentice,...
Husker jeg rasket denne med meg fra biblioteket en dag jeg tilfeldigvis hadde plass til én bok til... Og jeg var solgt! Jeg var enda på stigende jubelbrus etter å ha lest Ringenes Herre for første gang året før og tenkte det va kult at det fantes norsk fantasy med karakterer litt nærmere min egen...
The Tale of Urso Brunov: Little Father of All Bears
| Author | Brian Jacques |
| ISBN | 0399237623 |
This tall tale from Redwall creator Brian Jacques features a brand new hero: Urso Brunov, the Little Father of All Bears. The strongest, wisest, bravest bear in the world, he is also the smallest, no bigger than the size of your thumb. Other animals of the forest stand in awe of him-except one: a mustached...
| Author | George Selden |
| ISBN | 0440456479 |
"Get that thing out of here!" Tucker shouted.Tucker Mouse was waiting impatiently in the drainpipe in the Times Square subway station where he and his friend, Harry Cat, made their home. And when Harry finally came home, he was dragging with him what looked like a dirty dish mop. It was a puppy."It's staying...
