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10 best books like Twilight Comes Twice (Ralph Fletcher): Blueberries for Sal, The Sign of the Seahorse, Roxaboxen, Snowflake Bentley, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Last Stop on Market Street, Hello Lighthouse, Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books, The Seashore Book, Through the Cracks

Blueberries for Sal
AuthorRobert McCloskey
ISBN0670175919
Caldecott Honor Book

What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A beloved classic is born!

Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama...
The Sign of the Seahorse
AuthorGraeme Base
ISBN0810981548
Graeme Base is without a doubt one of my favorite author/illustrators. His book Animalia is one of my favorite picture books of all time. I love that he (like John Lithgow and his illustrating partner C.F Payne in particular) treats his audience of young readers with respect in both his lavish illustrations...
Roxaboxen
AuthorAlice McLerran
ISBN0060526335
From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination.

Marian called it Roxboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing...
Snowflake Bentley
AuthorJacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN0395861624
"Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." — Wilson Bentley (1865–1931)

From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera...
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
AuthorDan Santat
ISBN0316199982
This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey to the bustling city, where he finally meets his perfect match and-at long last-is given...
Last Stop on Market Street
AuthorMatt de la Pena
ISBN0399257748
Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...
Hello Lighthouse
AuthorSophie Blackall
ISBN0316362387
On the highest rock of a tiny island
at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse.
It is built to last forever. Sending its light out to sea.
The fog rolls in, and the fog rolls out.
The waves rise and crash. The wind blows and blows...
This beautiful picture book caught my eye on the Goodreads...
Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books
AuthorKay Winters
ISBN1416912681
Learn about the early life of Abraham Lincoln in this picture book biography that Kirkus Reviews calls “a moving tribute to the power of books and words.”

In a tiny log cabin a boy listened with delight to the storytelling of his ma and pa. He traced letters in sand, snow, and dust. He borrowed...
The Seashore Book
AuthorCharlotte Zolotow
ISBN0064433641
"A young boy, who has never seen the sea, asks his mother to describe it. From there, Zolotow carefully chooses her words to create a poem full of the colors, sounds, and sights of a day at the beach. Minor's softly detailed renderings reinforce the gentle mood." 'SLJ. "[Zolotow's] words have a special...
Through the Cracks
AuthorCarolyn Sollman
ISBN0871922932
Wow! What a book! This book contrasts what school could be vs. what it often is. Two children actually fall through the cracks at an unsatisfactory school, just to come back up through the floor at a more appropriate educational environment. The children equate their current school situation with a...
A Jar of Tiny Stars: Poems by NCTE Award-Winning Poets
AuthorBernice E. Cullinan
ISBN1563970872
In this lively, luminous anthology, Dr. Bernice Cullinan has gathered poems by winners of the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. All of the poems were classroom tested and handpicked by more than 2,500 children as their favorites. Beautifully complemented...
The Children We Remember
AuthorChana Byers Abells
ISBN0064437779
This powerful photographic essay of few words describes the lives and tragic deaths of Jewish children in the holocaust and those who survived.
It consists of photos from the archives at Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs and Rememrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel.
It shows pictures of...
Bullfrog Pops!
AuthorRick Walton
ISBN1586858408
Last seen hopping a stage . . . (coach) and finding his hop in Once There was a Bull . . . (frog), our hero is now on an eye-popping eating binge trying to cure his insatiable appetite. Woven through the western town of Ravenous Gulch, the story leaves a cast of many hopping mad. However, just as things look...
Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10
AuthorJudy Finchler
ISBN0802774989
I know my teacher, Miss Malarkey, lives in our classroom, Room 10. She's there all the time. In fact, all the teachers live at school. They eat dinner in the cafeteria and sleep in the teachers' lounge. I'm sure of it!

So why is Miss Malarkey moving into my apartment house?...

What could...
The Little Island
AuthorMargaret Wise Brown
ISBN0385746407
If I do simply approach The Little Island with regard to Leonard Weisgard's evocatively painterly, nature imbued illustrations, I can both easily and without any doubt understand the 1947 Caldecott Medal designation (for the illustrations are truly absolutely exquisite, presenting a delightful...
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