What's Under The Sea?
10 best books like What's Under The Sea? (Sophy Tahta): "Stand Back," Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!", Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!, Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?, The Year At Maple Hill Farm, The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book: World Folk Tales Especially for Reading Aloud, People, How Do You Lift a Lion?, What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?, How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
"Stand Back," Said the Elephant, "I'm Going to Sneeze!"
| Author | Patricia Thomas |
| ISBN | 0688093388 |
Oh my goodness. So funny, I truly did laugh out loud. The pictures are funny enough for toddlers to enjoy, the rollicking rhyme will encourage an independent reader to read this over and over, the pictures of the animals reacting to the elephant's announcement are vividly both true to the animals and...
Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0385375166 |
I think that this is the most amazing alphabet book ever, word-wise. (Animalia wins for pictures, I think.)
We've been collecting Dr. Seuss books for quite some time, because we tend to like them. I never read this book as a child, and I'm almost glad, because I get to be so astounded now as an adult.
First...
Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
| Author | Robert E. Wells |
| ISBN | 0807536555 |
This is a book for all ages, to illustrate and explain the relative sizes of large from a blue whale all the way to the whole universe. The opening picture shows an elephant, horse, and lion standing on a pier watching the tale of a blue whale that is larger than all of them combined. Then he
shows the same...
| Author | Alice Provensen |
| ISBN | 0689845006 |
This is a book about farm animals, and what happens during one year on a farm.
In January, the cows stay in the barnyard, and the chickens don't lay many eggs. By March, you can tell spring is coming: the barn is filled with baby animals. Month by month, the animals at Maple Hill Farm sense the changing...
| Author | Joyce Lankester Brisley |
The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her family and friends have charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925. This collection of twenty-one classic tales about this resourceful and thoughtful little girl reflect with accuracy the dilemmas and challenges of a child's world....
| Author | Bob Hartman |
| ISBN | 0745946542 |
A Featured Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month!
In this new collection of international folk tales, storyteller Bob Hartman blends familiar stories with little-known tales. Each story has been chosen for its integrity and for its ability to encourage and inspire children...
We still own the battered beaten-up copy of this homage to humanity that our two daughters returned to so often that it needed patching up with a judicious amount of sticky tape. A wholehearted celebration of diversity, it devotes pages to appearance, homes, food, clothes, pastimes, jobs, pets, feasts...
| Author | Robert E. Wells |
| ISBN | 0807534218 |
Publishers of nonfiction for children please note: a lot more people would read nonfiction if it was. . . better! Take a look at this book, that manages to convey complex ideas about simple machines in a highly imaginative way, but does not talk down to the reader. For sure the dense language and concepts...
| Author | Robert E. Wells |
| ISBN | 0807588377 |
My son and I read this book as a part of Sonlight's P4/5 curriculum. This is the third book we've read by Robert E. Wells and I am in love with his books. He has this wonderful way of taking complex science and mathematics concepts and making them accessible to preschoolers and young children. My son has also...
| Author | Faith McNulty |
| ISBN | 0064432181 |
‘[An] irresistible account of a child’s imaginary 8,000-mile journey through the earth to discover what’s inside. Facts about the composition of the earth are conveyed painlessly and memorably.’ —SLJ. ‘An exciting adventure. . . . Illustrations [by Caldecott Medal winner Marc Simont]...
| Author | Anne Civardi |
| ISBN | 0860208648 |
This entertaining book is all about the work people do in different sorts of jobs. Set on an imaginary island called Banilla, it introduces a crowd of interesting people and shows some of the events that happen in their daily lives. There is Mayor Naze, the mayor of Banilla; Ivor Hose, the fire chief and...
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