The Wind Boy
10 best books like The Wind Boy (Ethel Cook Eliot): Gwinna, Libby on Wednesday, A Medieval Feast, Time at the Top, The Sun Egg, The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, Love, Amalia, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic, Heartsinger, Twig
| Author | Barbara Helen Berger |
A stunning book that has stayed with me ever since my 5th/6th grade teacher read it aloud to us. The story was so moving to me as a child, and after briefly forgetting about it as an adult, I suddenly had something tickle my memory and then became absolutely determined to find it to share with my then 5 year...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440803047 |
Libby is sent to public school to be "socialized" after years of being educated at home."An honest, forthright picture of these classmates-tumed-friends who come to accept their difficulties and to care about each other...an absorbing story, filled with real young people and genuine concerns."--...
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064460509 |
A beautifully illustrated, award-winning, and fascinating look at the Middle Ages by Aliki, the beloved creator of many popular books for children. The King is coming to visit! The lord and lady of Camdenton Manor must work quickly to prepare for his arrival. It will take weeks to ready rooms, set up...
| Author | Edward Ormondroyd |
| ISBN | 1930900198 |
It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it's strangest of all when she suddenly appears again,...
| Author | Elsa Beskow |
| ISBN | 0863151639 |
A lovely little red-haired elf - whose dancing welcomes the returning sun in Spring, the golden leaves in Autumn, and the falling snow in Winter; and who is beloved of all the birds in the forest, because she always returns their fallen eggs to their nests - stumbles upon an unusually larger and orange...
| Author | Joyce Lankester Brisley |
The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her family and friends have charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925. This collection of twenty-one classic tales about this resourceful and thoughtful little girl reflect with accuracy the dilemmas and challenges of a child's world....
| Author | Alma Flor Ada |
| ISBN | 1442424028 |
A young girl’s discovery of her cultural heritage helps her lovingly cope with loss in this tender tale from acclaimed authors Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel Zubizarreta.
Amalia’s best friend Martha is moving away, and Amalia is feeling sad and angry. And yet, even when life seems unfair, the...
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0439325471 |
Have been reading this set to little kids all year (2013/2014). They have loved them. Quite long chapters, we read approx. one chp. per day, and even the smallest one makes sure he stays within earshot.
Stars reflect how much my kids love love love them, not necessarily how wonderful I think they...
| Author | Karlijn Stoffels |
| ISBN | 0545069297 |
Mee was born with a great gift: the ability to sing other people's stories and heal their pain. But Mee also carries his own pain -- his failure to reach his deaf mother and heal her grief at his father's death. As he travels the country, he eases many people's sorrows, but he cannot connect with anyone himself....
| Author | Elizabeth Orton Jones |
| ISBN | 1930900058 |
Had you heard of Elizabeth Orton Jones before seeing this book? If so, your familiarity was probably with her lovely illustrations in Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, which won the 1945 Caldecott Medal as the year's most distinguished picture book. Elizabeth Orton Jones is an exceptional artist,...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0152842802 |
Tatsinda is considered an outsider by the people of the Tatrajanni kingdom. Her talent as a weaver has ensured that she can support herself--and perhaps win the love of the handsome Prince. But when an evil giant takes Tatsinda prisoner and plans to destroy the kingdom, it will take all the magic, skill,...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0340932635 |
A black cat that needs to rescue its brother from a witch's spell enlists the help of a lonely ten-year-old Mary Smith.
It is Tib the black cat who leads Mary to the strange flower in the woods. When she discovers a little broomstick shortly afterwards, she is astonished to feel it jump in to action....
| Author | Ruth Chew |
| ISBN | 0590103431 |
When Barbara and Rick Benton find a wizard named Harrison Peabody in an old bottle, they quickly discover that magic isn't as simple as it looks. But even tricky magic is better than no magic, and soon the Bentons are flying around Prospect Park with a large black umbrella and befriending a sea serpent...
| Author | Yvonne MacGrory |
| ISBN | 0915943921 |
Lucy, a rather spoiled almost-eleven-year-old, gets a very special birthday present from her grandmother. This gift, a star ruby ring, has been passed down for generations through Lucy's family. The evening before her birthday, Lucy accidently discovers the magical secret of the ring:The secret...
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0763600946 |
In an inspiring pairing, Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch create an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience.
Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America,...
The Borrowers Aloft: With the Short Tale Poor Stainless
| Author | Mary Norton |
| ISBN | 0152047344 |
Borrowers Pod and Homily enjoy miniature model village of Little Fordham built by quiet one-leg Abel Potts. Daughter Arriety 17 secretly confides in elderly chatterbox fairy believer Miss Menzies. Competitors big Mabel and small thin Sidney Platter kidnap Clocks for tourist attraction opening...
| Author | Alexandra Day |
| ISBN | 0374310947 |
Carl is the babysitter every Mother needs!
It just wouldn't be the Halloween season, without visiting Carl and Maddie and sharing in their adventures, at the Masquerade Party, on Halloween night!
This is primarily a picture book; so little ones who cannot read, can still read the...
First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts
| Author | Lari Don |
| ISBN | 0863156363 |
Helen has absolutely no interest in becoming a vet like her mother. So she isn't best pleased when asked to help an injured horse. Only this horse isn't entirely normal ... nor are his friends.
Without warning, Helen is thrust into an extraordinary world filled with magic rituals, fantastic...
| Author | Geraldine Richelson |
| ISBN | 0394837851 |
Adding this now because I've just been watching the movie with my son -- the first time for him (unfortunately, it turns out to be the updated version -- that scene with Jabba, oh dear).
I remember I won this book as a prize in 5th grade, and I read it avidly many times. This was before the dawn of the...
| Author | Rosamond du Jardin |
| ISBN | 0590023977 |
Tobey Heydon is "practically seventeen" and thinks she is old enough to make her own decisions. Whether it's saving her sister Alicia from last minute wedding disasters to keeping her sister Janet informed on her son's well-being to hiding her diary from her little sister Midge, Tobey handles it all...
Interim Errantry: Three Tales of The Young Wizards
What happens between book 9 of the Young Wizards series, "A Wizard of Mars," and the forthcoming book 10, "Games Wizards Play"? Diane Duane answers the question in this volume, collecting together the three canonical works that constitute a "transitional trilogy" between books 9 and 10 -- a 150,000-word...
| Author | Elizabeth Doyle Carey |
| ISBN | 0316736902 |
This is the first in a series of summertime adventures of four cousins, Neeve, Hillary, Phoebe, and Kate. Lovers of wholesome, family oriented series like the Betsy-Tacy stories are likely to be the best audience for this new series. Laid on the coastal community of Gull Island (Rhode Island?)they...
Jorie and the Magic Stones
| Author | A.H. Richardson |
| ISBN | 0692358927 |
When Marjorie went to live with her frosty maiden aunt, she couldn't imagine the adventures she would have with dragons - good and bad - and all the strange creatures that live in a mysterious land beneath the Tarn. The spunky 9-year-old redhead forges an unlikely friendship with an insecure young boy...
