The Whisperer
10 best books like The Whisperer (Fiona McIntosh): Into the Wilderness, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham: For Soprano, Boy Soprano, and Orchestra, The Puzzle Ring, The Diamond Girls, Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children, Apartment 255, Kill the Possum, Heidi
| Author | Sara Donati |
| ISBN | 0553578529 |
Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place...and into the heart of a forbidden affair between an unconventional Englishwoman and an American frontiersman.
It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English...
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1844280136 |
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place—a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and decide his fate. In his hilarious picture...
Harold and the Purple Crayon
| Author | Crockett Johnson |
| ISBN | 0747532036 |
"One night, after thinking it over for some time, Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight." So begins this gentle story that shows just how far your imagination can take you. Armed only with an oversized purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of beauty and excitement. But this...
Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham: For Soprano, Boy Soprano, and Orchestra
| Author | Robert Kapilow |
| ISBN | 0793551617 |
I bought Dr. Suess when my kids were young and hated reading them. They seemed too silly to me in my twenties. What a pompous ass I was at twenty! I read GEWH to my grandson and discovered the whimsy and fun of the lyrical words. I was a concrete kind of reader. I wanted my characters to be more recognizable....
| Author | Kate Forsyth |
| ISBN | 1407102842 |
Hannah Rose was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. . . .
The arrival of a mysterious letter changes Hannah’s life forever. One day she is an ordinary teenage girl. The next day she discovers she is heir to a castle in the Scottish highlands—a castle that was cursed...
Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamorous Rochelle and tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mum's tried to teach them the value of sticking together. Now Mum's expecting yet another baby and she's convinced this one's...
| Author | Jen Storer |
| ISBN | 0670073393 |
Dumped in the River Charon, hunted by an accursed river creature and betrayed by the wicked Matron Pluckrose, Tensy Farlow is in mortal danger. She has no parents. Worse still, she has no guardian angel.
When she is thrown into the Home for Mislaid Children – a gloomy orphanage where ravens...
| Author | Bunty Avieson |
| ISBN | 0330363603 |
Someone is watching her… looks can kill. Sarah and Ginny have been best friends since school. Then Sarah meets Tom. Her career takes off. She and Tom move into a stunning inner-city apartment. But Ginny has not been so lucky. She wanted Tom, but she didn't get him. She wants... what Sarah has. Ginny moves...
| Author | James Moloney |
| ISBN | 0143004204 |
Dylan saw Cartwright do it with his own eyes when he blundered into Kirsty’s house on that first Sunday.
On the second Sunday he saw only the carnage the man had left behind, but that was enough.
By the third Sunday, he’d decided to kill him. What else can he do when the lives of the people...
I remember reading Heidi when I was a very young girl. I now have decided to read a new version in paperback by Alma Junior books. Heidi is orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by Aunt Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, however, Dete is forced to entrust her young charge...
