The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children
10 best books like The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children (Keith McGowan): The Sneetches and Other Stories, Birthmarked, The Cricket in Times Square, Horton Hears a Who!, Bunnicula, Rumpelstiltskin, The Lion and the Mouse, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, Fourth Grade Rats
The Sneetches and Other Stories
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0007158505 |
Illus. in full color. "Four funny easy-to-read stories all with subtly planted moral lessons."--Publishers Weekly.
THE SNEETCHES
"Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / The Plain-Belly Sneetches / Had none upon thars." This collection of four of Dr. Seuss's...
| Author | Caragh M. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1596435690 |
In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Following in her mother's footsteps Gaia has become a midwife, delivering babies in the world outside the wall and handing a quota over...
The Cricket in Times Square
| Author | George Selden |
| ISBN | 0440228891 |
One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Mario, the son of Mama...
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0679800034 |
In the fifties, my Mom was head librarian for our small-town library (politically, we were termed a Police Village, whatever that meant).
So we kids got our literacy skills off and running when she used to catalogue books in our kitchen.
Especially since City View was in the middle...
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 1416928170 |
(This review is from 2004.)
Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d talk about something frightening: Bunnies. Vampire bunnies. Ninja vampire bunnies. Okay, so, maybe not that ninja part. But definitely vampire bunnies—one in particular.
So, my roommate (Mr. “I’m not...
| Author | Paul O. Zelinsky |
| ISBN | 0140558640 |
Richly hued oil paintings complement a story simply and gracefully told."Children...love the story for its mystery, and its familiarity. Adults will find that, like most classic fairy tales, this one rewards periodic rethinking." --New York Times Book Review"Zelinsky's smooth retelling and...
| Author | Jerry Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0316013560 |
In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's...
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| ISBN | 0062491490 |
Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason’s learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason’s best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family’s orchard. An investigation drags on,...
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
| Author | Eric A. Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0823411311 |
Hershel and the Chanukah Goblins by Eric Kimmel is my family's favorite Chanukah book. It holds a special place in our home, to the point where I actually purchased it last year as opposed to borrowing it from the library. We start reading this on the first day of the Jewish month of Kislev- 3 1/2 weeks before...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0590442449 |
A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee.
Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off the swings. And they never, ever cry.
Suds knows that now that he's in fourth grade, he's supposed...
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
| Author | Laura Joffe Numeroff |
| ISBN | 0060244054 |
If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix. In this hilarious sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the young host...
| Author | Caragh M. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1596435704 |
Striking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives, only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime....
Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys in his family, he isn't a shapeshifter. He's taking classes with his grandmother and helping to keep an eye on his great-uncle whose corrupted magic wreaked havoc on the family.
Meanwhile,...
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399237321 |
The real-life, classic story of a dyslexic girl and the teacher who would not let her fail. A perfect gift for teachers and for reading students of any age.
Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book creators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting...
| Author | Adam Gidwitz |
| ISBN | 0525423346 |
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses,...
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0007169949 |
It’s nice to have a zany sense of humour - most of the time!
Dr. Seuss, of course, was a master of zaniness. And If I Ran the Zoo takes Zany to new limits.
In it, a little kid named McGrew dreams of turning the town zoo into a home for mythical, magical beasts - who become more and more weird...
Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers
| Author | Margaret Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0310354862 |
God is a foodie who wants to transform your supper into sacrament.
One of America's most beloved teachers and writers, Margaret Feinberg, goes on a remarkable journey to unearth God's perspective on food.
She writes that since the opening of creation, God, the Master Chef, seeds...
Far Out Fairy Tales: Five Full-Color Graphic Novels
| Author | Louise Simonson |
| ISBN | 1496525116 |
What do you get when classic fairy tales are twisted about, turned inside out, and reworked for the graphic novel format? Far Out Fairy Tales! Discover what Snow White would be like if she were raised by robots. Find out how Cinderella's story plays out when she walks the path of the ninja. Play along when...
