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10 best books like Why Fish Fart and Other Useless Or Gross Information About the World (Francesca Gould): Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry, Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language, Enigma: A Magical Mystery, The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond

Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons
AuthorRob D. Walker
ISBN0439932084
Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon bring to life these words of wisdom about living life with compassion and courage. Written in rhyming text, this is a "must have" for every family.

Gentle, but powerful life lessons spoken to a child, delivered with a mother's immutable love....
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
AuthorDave Barry
ISBN1423340868
I think Dave Barry retired at the right time. I grew up loving his humor, but it's become more and more formulaic as time goes on, and there's only so many times that the letters in someone's name rearranged, or a goofy suggested band name, or even, dare I say it, a fart joke, can be funny. This book is mostly...
A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry
AuthorMichael Driscoll
ISBN1579122825
This is a nice hardback book with an extremely diverse selection of poetry. Along with the explanations of the different forms of poetry; you will find little biographies of some famous Poets, and an accompanying CD of poetry that is read aloud.

Some forms of poetry you will find include; Nursery...
Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything
AuthorKathleen Krull
ISBN0670011142
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subject-a man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday...
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects
AuthorAndy Warner
ISBN1250078652
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates

In the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If?...
The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature
AuthorJacob Lentz
ISBN1608190250
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN1426311087
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.

When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language
AuthorAline Alexander Newman
ISBN1426318634
We know cats are beautiful, secretive, and independent ... but even the most loyal cat owners are often baffled by their own pet's behavior. With veterinarian expert Dr. Gary Weitzman as guide, this fun book helps kids understand what cats are trying to communicate by their body language and behavior....
Enigma: A Magical Mystery
AuthorGraeme Base
Bertie the Badger's Grandpa is a retired conjurer living in a retirement home for magicians and the like. One day Bertie comes to visit and see the magic show only to find that the residents have had their magic things stolen. Bertie's on the case, and goes to speak to each of them. Who stole the special magic...
The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond
AuthorPatrick Dillon
ISBN0763669903
Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.

We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start...
If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People
AuthorDavid J. Smith
ISBN1550747797
The 2nd Edition of the best-selling book which has sold over 400 000 copies in 17 languages -- updated with new content and insights about the world's people. First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's...
Marco Polo
AuthorDemi
ISBN0761454330
Many people say Marco Polo was the greatest explorer that ever lived, traveling 33, miles by land and sea from Venice, Italy, to modern-day Beijing, China. His famous book, The Travels of Marco Polo, indicates that he was a man of extraordinary bravery, brilliance, and strength. With his uncle and father,...
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People behind Everyday Words
AuthorJohn Bemelmans Marciano
ISBN1596916532
An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.

Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing.

Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.

Anonyponymous,...
Under a Pig Tree: A History of the Noble Fruit (A Mixed-Up Book)
AuthorMargie Palatini
ISBN1419714880
The publisher and author of Under a Pig Tree seem to be having communication issues. The author has written a clear, no-nonsense history of figs. But the publisher is sure she meant pigs. After all, what’s the difference between two measly letters? What results is a hilarious illustrated history...
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN1452101191
In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small....
True Stories
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0062316524
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning...
Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways That Animals Move
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0544630904
A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In...
A Cool Drink of Water
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0792267230
An Italian boy sips from a fountain in the town square. A hiker takes
a refreshing drink from a mountain stream. Black-robed women in India stride gracefully through a field with brass water jugs balanced on their heads. Whether they squeeze it out of a burlap bag, haul it home from a communal tap,...
Volcanoes!
AuthorAnne Schreiber
ISBN1426302851
NOW IN SPANISH! This fascinating reader provides a fascinating look inside volcanoes with a little science, a little history, and a lot of dramatic National Geographic photographs.

Hot melted rock from the middle of our planet is forced into a jagged journey through cracks in the earth's...
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
AuthorJoseph D'Agnese
ISBN0805063056
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.

When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in...
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