What Is the World Made Of?: All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases

10 best books like What Is the World Made Of?: All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld): Building Our House, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Owl Babies, The Napping House, I Want My Hat Back, The Gruffalo, The Rough Patch, How a Seed Grows, Everybody Needs a Rock, Get Out of My Bath!

Building Our House

Author	Jonathan Bean
ISBN	0374380236

In this unique construction book for kids who love tools and trucks, readers join a girl and her family as they pack up their old house in town and set out to build a new one in the country. Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up. From empty lot to finished home, every stage...

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

Author	Mac Barnett
ISBN	0763662291

With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.

Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....

Owl Babies

Author	Martin Waddell
ISBN	0744592704

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Awe, I love owls! So when I saw this book at the store I just had to buy it for my little niece just so I could read it to her lol :) This book is pretty simple with some repetition, it uses great rhyming patterns and it's poetic. It is easy to understand and has real-life situations...

The Napping House

Author	Audrey Wood
ISBN	0152026320

Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (1984) is close on its heels in the race for posterity: “And on that granny / there is a child / a dreaming child / on a snoring granny / on a cozy bed / in a napping house, / where everyone is sleeping.” Included...

I Want My Hat Back

Author	Jon Klassen
ISBN	0763655988

A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.

The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others....

The Gruffalo

Author	Julia Donaldson
ISBN	0333710932

My boy brought this to me a couple days ago, asking if I'd read it to him.

I did, and it's quickly become a new favorite.

It's not terribly complex, or long, or ethically enriching. But then again, not all books need to be.

What this book does have is a marvelously tight and deceptively...

The Rough Patch

Author	Brian Lies
ISBN	0062671278

Evan and his dog do everything together, from eating ice cream to caring for their award-winning garden, which grows big and beautiful. One day the unthinkable happens: Evan’s dog dies. Heartbroken, Evan destroys the garden and everything in it. The ground becomes overgrown with prickles and thorns,...

How a Seed Grows

Author	Helene J. Jordan
ISBN	0064451070

How does a tiny acorn grow into an enormous oak tree? With beautiful and accurate watercolor illustrations from Loretta Krupinski, this book by Helene Jordan traces the process of how a little seed grows into the plants and trees that surround us.

This is a Stage 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out,...

Everybody Needs a Rock

Author	Byrd Baylor
ISBN	0689710518

Well, this is a wonderful nostalgic book for adults who collected rocks when they were kids; I’m one of them. And, some kids who enjoy the natural world might appreciate it because it stresses their autonomy in the pursuit of choosing a rock of their very own. I also like how the girl stresses play with...

Get Out of My Bath!

Author	Britta Teckentrup
ISBN	0763680060

Ellie the elephant loves to have fun in the bath, but she’s not the only one. Her fun is interrupted when a crocodile decides to join her, followed by a flamingo, then a mouse and even a tiger! Poor Ellie’s bath is ruined. What can she do? She sucks all the water into her trunk, of course! Then she waits...

A Rock Can Be...

Author	Laura Purdie Salas
ISBN	1467721107

I'm glad to see Laura Purdie Salas continue with her series of "Can Be..." books. This time she explores the ways rocks are used or found in our world. The lovely illustrations show rocks as park fountains, stepping stones, winding paths, and other artistic or practical uses. The rhyming text carries...

Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn

Author	Kenard Pak
ISBN	1627794158

A young girl greets the world around her - the morning, the trees, the animals, the wind, and so on - in this lovely picture-book examination of the turning of the seasons. Each entity returns the girl's greeting, describing how they are changing or what they are doing in preparation for the coming of autumn....