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10 best books like We Were Tired of Living in a House (Liesel Moak Skorpen): Andrew Henry's Meadow, Journey Cake, Ho!, A Pair of Red Clogs, It's My Birthday, The Bee-Man of Orn, Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis, Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?, Footprints in the Snow, Pelle's New Suit, Apple Tree Christmas

Andrew Henry's Meadow
AuthorDoris Burn
ISBN0970739923
A classic reissued for a new generation

Andrew Henry has two younger brothers, who are always together, and two older sisters, who are always together. But Andrew Henry is in the middle--and he's always with himself. He doesn't mind this very much, because he's an inventor. But when Andrew...
Journey Cake, Ho!
AuthorRuth Sawyer
ISBN0140502750
This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.

It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...
A Pair of Red Clogs
AuthorMasako Matsuno
ISBN1930900201
A child's delight in a new pair of shoes is the same all over the world, whether the shoes are patent-leather sandals, straw alpargatas, deerskin moccasins or wooden clogs. For Mako, a little Japanese girl, the new shoeswere clogs painted with red lacquer that shone beautifully. This is the story of...
It's My Birthday
AuthorHelen Oxenbury
ISBN0763649708
What could be better than sharing a birthday cake with the friends who helped to bake it?

It's one lucky toddler's birthday, and of course there must be a cake. So the child asks some animal friends to gather ingredients, one by one: the chicken an egg, the bear some flour, the cat the butter and...
The Bee-Man of Orn
AuthorFrank R. Stockton
ISBN0763622397
Written at the turn of the 20th century, The Bee-Man of Orn shurgs off the didactic noose which threatened a lot of children's literature at the time and, instead, seems to honour the themes and ideas prevalent in the earlier traditional tales in which it feels like it has been based. Here we encounter...
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis
AuthorRobbin Gourley
ISBN0618158367
Long before the natural-food movement gained popularity, before greenmarkets sprouted across the United States, Edna Lewis championed purity of ingredients, regional cuisine, and the importance of bringing food directly from the farm to the table. She was a chef when female chefs—let alone...
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?
AuthorRita Gray
Woodpecker calls from a tree, "cuk-cuk-cuk." Starling sings, "whistle-ee-wee." But have you heard the nesting bird?

In this book, we hear all the different bird calls in counterpoint to the pervasive quiet of a mama bird waiting for her eggs to hatch. Fun and informative back matter takes...
Footprints in the Snow
AuthorCynthia Benjamin
ISBN0590466631
I forget where we picked this up but I've been collecting different beginner level books because Julia's starting to learn to read. So far I'm reading them to her with her reading the few words she knows. She enjoys them but still isn't so into them that she gets to excited. She'd much rather either sit and...
Pelle's New Suit
AuthorElsa Beskow
ISBN0863150926
I decided to read Elsa Beskow's delightful Pelle's New Suit in French, as Paul et son habit neuf because our public library system happens to have only the French version (and I am actively trying not to purchase so many picture books, mostly due to an ever-increasing lack of shelf space), and I absolutely...
Apple Tree Christmas
AuthorTrinka Hakes Noble
ISBN1585362700
A frontier family loves their sweet apple tree. They live in the barn with their animals. That’s living close to nature. There is a huge blizzard before Christmas that takes down their wonderful apple tree and the girls are very sad. They spend much time playing in the tree. The girls end up having a good...
Angelo
AuthorDavid Macaulay
ISBN0618168265
High above the rooftops of Rome, Angelo begins his work restoring the façade of a once glorious church. As with every project, he starts his final masterpiece by clearing away the years of debris left behind by the many pigeons who nest in the nooks and crannies of Rome’s great architecture. There,...
Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs
AuthorPatricia Lauber
ISBN0064451305
Informative and intriguing, this science book teaches children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival, no matter how big or how small. Lively drawings from Holly Keller illustrate...
Very Last First Time
AuthorJan Andrews
Eva Padlyat lived in an Inuit village on Ungava Vat in northern Canada. In winter, when people wanted mussels to eat, they searched along the bottom of the seabed. Eva had often walked on the bottom, helping her mother, but today – for the very first time – she was to go down below the thick sea ice herself....
A Pocketful of Cricket
AuthorRebecca Caudill
ISBN0805075240
" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...
Harry by the Sea
AuthorGene Zion
ISBN0064430103
A classic picture book featuring the beloved Harry the Dirty Dog!

When Harry goes on a visit to the beach, he is mistaken for a sea creature when a big wave covers him with seaweed. Harry also has to hunt for his family beneath all the similar beach umbrellas. Children will relate to Harry's funny...
The Racecar Alphabet
AuthorBrian Floca
ISBN0689850913
A is for Automobiles, machines on wheels.
B is for Belts turning, fuel burning, the buzz and bark of engines.
C is for Curves and crowds and cars, of course --
A century of racecars, from bare beginnings to present-day marvels, from stock cars to Formula 1, from Ford to Ferrari, caught in crackling...
Christina Katerina & the Box
AuthorPatricia Lee Gauch
ISBN0698116763
This was my all time, number one, absolute favorite book when I was a child. It's one of those things that has survived my many moves, and not on accident.


The illustrations are simple but absolutely beautiful and perfectly fitting with the theme of imagination. They're almost deceptively...
A Tree for Peter
AuthorKate Seredy
ISBN1930900260
No one had ever seen big Peter before, and no one ever saw him again, and no one ever saw him at all but small Peter who lived in dingy, squalid old Shantytown. Yet it was big Peter's gift to small Peter -- a shiny toy spade with a red handle, and a small green tree lighted with tiny candles -- that caused Shantytown...
Down Comes the Rain
AuthorFranklyn Mansfield Branley
ISBN0064451666
Starts with the idea of water vapor being something that is in the air but that you can't see, or smell or feel it. It then explains evaporation by suggesting putting a teaspoon of water in a saucer in the morning and that it will have evaporated by later in the day or a boiling tea kettle. It explains that sometimes...
Mailing May
AuthorMichael O. Tunnell
ISBN0688128785
Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a...
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea
AuthorThomas Locker
ISBN0140546138
Beautiful illustrations reminiscent of the Dutch masters. My only criticisms are that they never show the hole in the dike, meaning that children who are unfamiliar with the concept will have difficulty picturing it. Also, the text prefers to describe what characters said instead of having actual...
Penguin Chick
AuthorBetty Tatham
ISBN0064452069
Penguin Chick is a great book It is written very clearly, and explains the meaning of new words, like rookery, krill, crèche, and tobagganing. It is a very thorough look at a penguin's life cycle, but is short and simple enough that a child could follow along enthusiastically all the way through. It may...
Mop Top
AuthorDon Freeman
ISBN0140503269
The little adventures this boy goes on are adorable! I can personally relate to this book becuase I have a family member who absolutely hates getting his hair cut. He would rather deal with having a "mop top" than going to get his hair cut at the barber shop.
This book is a fun little text for children...
Hide and Seek Fog
AuthorAlvin Tresselt
ISBN0688511694
This books is so beautiful. A seaside town is going about it’s beautiful business when the fog rolls in and it shuts everything down. Boats race in and parents grumble about having to stay indoors with kids. This fog last for 3 days. The only people who are ok with it are the kids who play hide and seek on...
Gus Was a Friendly Ghost
AuthorJane Thayer
ISBN1930900740
Back in print from Purple House Press!

There was once a friendly ghost, by the name of Gus, who lived in an old house in the country. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their twins, Susie and Sammy, lived there too during the summer. Then autumn came and the Scott family left. Which meant Gus had nothing to do...
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