Too Purpley!
10 best books like Too Purpley! (Jean Reidy): Color Farm Board Book, Man Gave Names to All the Animals, Say Hello!, Blue Goose, Brother Sun, Sister Moon: Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures, One Pup's Up, Bears on Chairs, Dogs Don't Do Ballet, Raindrop, Plop!, Duckie's Rainbow
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0694010669 |
Title: Color Farm
Author/Illustrator: Lois Ehlert
Genre: Toy Book
Theme: Farm Animals
Opening Line:
“On this farm you can view, animals ears and whiskers too.”
Brief Summary:
Color farm is a toy book that uses shapes to create images of animals. The overlapping...
| Author | Bob Dylan |
| ISBN | 1402768583 |
Whimsical and witty, “Man Gave Names to All the Animals” first appeared on Bob Dylan's album Slow Train Coming in 1979. Illustrator Jim Arnosky has now crafted a stunning picture book adaptation of Dylan's song that's a treat for both children and adults, with breathtaking images of more than 170...
| Author | Rachel Isadora |
| ISBN | 0399252304 |
Carmelita loves to greet everyone in her colorful neighborhood. There are people from so many different cultures! They all like to say hello too, so now Carmelita can say hello in Spanish, English, French, Japanese, and many other languages. And her dog, Manny? Well, he seems to understand everyone,...
| Author | Nancy Tafuri |
| ISBN | 1416928340 |
When Farmer Gray takes a trip, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick and White Duck decide to paint their black-and-white farm. Red Hen paints the barn red and White Duck paints the fence white. Then Blue Goose and Yellow Chick pour their paint together to make green for the grass and trees. By the time Farmer...
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0811877345 |
While I can indeed much appreciate Katherine Paterson's Brother Sun, Sister Moon: Saint Francis' Canticle of the Creatures, her lyrical adaptation of Saint Francis of Assisi's famous 1224 A.D. Canticle of the Creatures, I still do rather wish she had kept closer to the original, I do wish she had actually...
| Author | Marsha Wilson Chall |
| ISBN | 1416979603 |
When one pup’s up, the other nine are sure to follow! Young readers will love counting along as ten pups gradually wake up to nuzzle, wiggle, dine, and play. Count back down as the puppies fall asleep again, all in a fuzzy doggy jumble. This fun and simple counting book combines Marsha Wilson Chall’s...
Can five bears share four chairs? The infectious rhymes and easy charm of this winsome read-aloud will make young listeners sit up and take notice.
Four happy bears
on four small chairs.
Four chairs. Four adorable bears. All is well until Big Brown Bear shows up -- what a stare!...
Meet Biff, an adorable little puppy who will stop at nothing to become a ballet dancer.
My dog is not like other dogs. He doesn't do dog stuff like weeing on lampposts or scratching his fleas, or drinking out of the toilet. No, my dog likes moonlight and music and walking on his tiptoes. You see,...
| Author | Wendy Cheyette Lewison |
One little raindrop,dark, dark sky.
Two little raindrops,
clouds go by...
How many ways can you have fun on a rainy day? From one little raindrop to ten toes soaking in a warm bubble bath, there are lots of things to see and count until the sun comes out again. In between,...
| Author | Frances Barry |
| ISBN | 0763620661 |
Turn the graduated pages of this unique shaped book to help Duckie find her way home — and you’ll marvel at the dazzling rainbow that appears when she gets there.
Duckie is in a hurry to get home. She walks through a red poppy field, hops under an orange bridge, waddles around a yellow cornfield,...
| Author | Ursula Dubosarsky |
| ISBN | 0374374287 |
In this uproarious update of a favorite story, an unexplained noise leads to pandemonium among the animals. The fox, the elephant, even the big brown bear prove no match for the Terrible Plop. Only the littlest bunny learns not to panic when the sky—or something else up there—is falling.
Bright,...
| Author | Barbara Jean Hicks |
| ISBN | 0375856862 |
What do monsters eat?
The waitress in this restaurant just doesn’t have a clue.
Monsters don’t eat broccoli!
How could she think we do?
In this rollicking picture book written by Barbara Jean Hicks and illustrated by Sue Hendra, monsters insist they don’t like broccoli....
| Author | Doreen Cronin |
| ISBN | 0061128716 |
Newbie is a Rescue Bunny trainee.
She has passed the Physical Fitness Test. She has passed the Emergency Rescue Roping Test. She has even passed the Blind Taste Test. Now it's time for the toughest Rescue Bunny test of all . . . the Field Test!
It involves a scared giraffe in a sinking mudhole,...
| Author | Alethea Kontis |
| ISBN | 0763639664 |
H gets top billing — but a stubborn B has something scary to say — as the inside-out alphabet gives a howl-arious Halloween performance.
Ack! It’s time for the show, and A isn’t ready. But then again, Halloween can only start with one letter, no matter how the A-B-Cs normally go! The misbehaving...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0061229741 |
From Kate and Jim McMullan, the popular creators of I Stink! and I’m Dirty!—now a streaming animated series—comes a hilarious new picture book about one BIG dino who’s just trying to find his herd again.
He’s BIG, a whole lotta lizard-thunder comin’ at you! But he’s also…lost....
| Author | Betsy Lewin |
| ISBN | 1416938087 |
Tippy Toes is a tricky cat—sneaking, hiding, creeping, slinking. Over here. Over there. His house is the perfect place to tiptoe the day away, lurking behind unsuspecting birds and mice, crouching behind garden posies, and surprising a little boy with his unusual hiding spots. Die-cut pages let...
It's Ida's first day of school. She carries her new lunch box and a long, blue string with her special friend Dotty attached to it. A big, colorfully spotted pal with horns, Dotty just happens to be invisible. On that first day of school, Ida and Dotty find out there are plenty of other imaginary friends...
| Author | Jamie Lee Curtis |
| ISBN | 0060290161 |
My mommy hung the moon.
She tied it with string.
My mommy's good at EVERYTHING.
The ninth children's book by the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell is a celebration of unconditional love between mother and child. Mommy is the best at everything:...
| Author | Leslie McGuirk |
| ISBN | 1582463700 |
Amazing rocks, found on a stretch of beach near the author's home, comprise this unique alphabet book. A is for Addition, and there are rocks in the shape of real numbers, too. B is for Bird, and there is a bird rock on a nest with an egg. G is for Ghosts, and there is a host of rocks that look like ghosts! Children...
What Does Bunny See?: A Book of Colors and Flowers
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0618234853 |
The book What Does Bunny See? Is a great book for young students. I feel like this book keeps the attention of young children because they are able to most likely predict what will be coming next. The book is about a bunny who traveling through a garden path and discovers different things each time. In this...
Under My Hood I Have a Hat
| Author | Karla Kuskin |
| ISBN | 0060572426 |
I thought that this was a very simple and cute book. The short sentences and small words are great for beginning readers. I love how the story progresses and the little girl describes how she gets ready to go play in the snow.
In the classroom I think that this would be a good read aloud to discuss...
| Author | Michelle Meadows |
| ISBN | 1416937889 |
Everybody at the station! It’s time for winter hibernation! The sweet rhyming text of this book will calm even the most rambunctious kids and have them dreaming about what it’s like to hibernate. Young readers will be soothed and delighted as this story introduces them to different types of...
| Author | Karen Katz |
| ISBN | 1416935460 |
One might call the structure of this book facile, but I believe there is something deliberate, nay subversive in this seemingly simply tale. Similar to Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde, the structure itself becomes the story, willfully obscuring the oddness of what unfolds. Why are there so many babies...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 1416986324 |
Meet Brownie, a little girl with a flair for the frou-frou, and Pearl, her feisty feline sidekick! They’re heading out on the town for a birthday party, and the celebration is certain to be filled with friends and presents and games and treats. But when Brownie feels shy about ringing the doorbell,...
| Author | Phillis Gershator |
| ISBN | 1846860849 |
I enjoyed this oversized board book. Kids love noises, and this book is full of them, from the noises the insects make in summer, to the silent sounds of winter. I can just hear young children mimicing the sounds that are read to them in this delightful book. Children love to learn about the differences...
