Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus
10 best books like Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (James Otis): The Rabbits' Wedding, A Dog of Flanders, The Secret Language, The Story of a Bad Boy, Winter Poems, The Little Lame Prince, Mother Goose, All for Pie, Pie for All, The Wishing Horse of Oz, The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
| Author | Garth Williams |
| ISBN | 0060264950 |
Ah, once-controversial picture books! This sweet, gently-told and illustrated depiction of idyllic love and marriage was once attacked for its interracial pairing of a black rabbit and a white one. (For all I know, there are still people who object to it for this reason.)
Williams, when confronted...
| Author | Ouida |
| ISBN | 0486270874 |
Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908) wrote many popular novels of adventure and romance in the 1870s and 80s under the pen name of Ouida. She also produced a number of captivating stories for youngsters. One of the best, A Dog of Flanders,. First published in 1872, A Dog of Flanders tells the moving story...
| Author | Ursula Nordstrom |
| ISBN | 0064400220 |
At first, Victoria North is miserable at the Coburn Home School. Her housemother is very strict, she's terribly homesick and the other girls don't seem to have any time for a shy new girl.Then Vicky meets Martha Sherman, and everything changes. Martha introduces Vicky to pie-beds, midnight feasts...
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
I bought this for a friend who, in the midst of the We Need Diverse Books fundraising campaign in Nov/Dec 2014, complained about the lack of brown children in the picture books she was collecting for her adopted Ethioipan son. I also bought a copy for myself because Trina Schart Hyman is my favorite illustrator...
| Author | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik |
| ISBN | 1426407556 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Kate Greenaway |
| ISBN | 0873282167 |
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were even translated into German and French.
One...
| Author | David Martin |
| ISBN | 0763623938 |
In this merry, multi-species story cooked up with folksy warmth and humor, everybody gets a piece of the pie — and then some.
Grandma Cat makes a delicious apple pie, and there's plenty for everyone — and even a piece left over. Grandma Mouse finds a piece of apple pie, and there's plenty for...
| Author | Ruth Plumly Thompson |
| ISBN | 0345337069 |
Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy...
| Author | Jacob Grimm |
| ISBN | 0374339716 |
Back in Print!
Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement....
| Author | Carroll Watson Rankin |
| ISBN | 0938746006 |
A few years ago I bought this book for my sister, who has a thing for children's books in which the characters fix up houses and pull weeds -- whatever else may be said about it, Dandelion Cottage is an ideal exemplar of that genre. At the time, I tried to read it myself, but found it overly twee. Just a couple...
This gorgeous, resonant tale is a beautiful recollection from Holly Hobbie's own childhood about her love affair with horses.When Holly's family moves from the city to the countryside, she's scared of this new world at first, but gradually comes to love the animals she encounters. Soon she is drawing...
| Author | Malvina G. Vogel |
| ISBN | 0866119914 |
This book was on a suggested reading list for my 3rd grader in the adventure genre; I checked it out to read to my kids, but ran out of time so read it myself. I would recommend an "abridged" version for my kids. There are several intertwined plots that well-written with a focus on good values. One of the plots...
| Author | Janet Lambert |
| ISBN | 1930009267 |
I wasn't sure what to expect as this was a thrift store pick-up. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, giving a sample of the literary, older American slice of life, which is somewhat new and refreshing to me, as an immigrant. There was no deep-end dramatics and no crazy twists. It was simple but never...
| Author | Miroslav Sasek |
| ISBN | 0789310635 |
With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on London, New York, and San Francisco, here this famous Czech painter presents his impressions of Paris in This Is Paris, first published in 1959 and now updated for the 21st century. We see its famous buildings, its beautiful gardens,...
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
| Author | Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice |
| ISBN | 1417920319 |
Mrs. Wiggs' life has been anything but easy. Her husband died of alcohol, her farm burned to the ground and now she struggles in her everyday fight to "pull agin' a debt." Her five children, Jimmy, Billy and the geographically named Asia, Australia and Europena, rely on her for encouragement and love...
| Author | Margaret Wise Brown |
| ISBN | 0307960374 |
I know... I know...
This book may seem "a little" under my reading level. And, it is. But, it's also a childhood favorite of mine. And it's one of the books that we've been reading to the kids. (Well, "kids-to-be," if you want to get technical.)
Something that I didn't really understand...
I love this book probably because I loved Pooh Bear so much as a kid. This book has 3 separate stories; one about a snowy day, one about a rainy day, and one about a game they played. I love how much personality each of the characters has even if they're not the main character of that specific story. I really...
My Very First Book of Shapes
My Very First Book of Shapes by Eric Carle is a wonderful children's picture concept book. The book offers great illustrations to go along with the corresponding shapes that are being taught. I think that the effectiveness of the illustrations is what offers the young readers a great understanding...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0192545175 |
Does NOT include A Christmas Carol
Table of Contents
Introduction by Margaret Lane v
A Christmas Tree 1
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older 19
The Poor Relation's Story 27
The Child's Story 41
The Schoolboy's Story 47
Nobody's Story 59
The Seven Poor Travellers...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723258058 |
This lavish, illustrated journal describes Beatrix Potter’s life as a young woman in Victorian England as she struggles to achieve independence and to find artistic success and romantic love.
Using witty, observant commentary taken from Beatrix’s own diaries, the journal features...
Where's Waldo: Ultimate Fun Book
| Author | Martin Handford |
| ISBN | 0316343447 |
Martin Handford, the man behind the mind-boggling Waldo books, began his career as a freelance illustrator specializing in drawing crowd scenes. The turning point came when he was asked to create a book showcasing his impressive talent, and the character Waldo was born—originally to provide a...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 0763664006 |
If an ice-pop stick can dream of being a horse, what magic might follow? A fanciful tale by Russell Hoban, mischievously illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Once its icy sweetness is gone, a discarded ice-pop stick is lonely until young Rosie comes by and lays it in a cigar box with others like it. But...
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064460851 |
This book was written in 1986, and since that time, the printing industry has undergone its own technological evolution. Many of the steps described here are now computerized. But, assuming I did want to know how a book was created in the '80s, I still have concerns.
1) The author, the editor,...
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 1584850809 |
Amelia's notebooks entertain readers with great stories about the ups and downs of growing up, told from the perspective of an inquisitive, insightful 10-year-old girl. What's more, her witty words and whimsical doodles encourage girls to express their creativity by drawing and writing about their...
