Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
10 best books like Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky (Elphinstone Dayrell): Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, The Gardener, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, The Noisy Paint Box, Kitten's First Full Moon, Ox-Cart Man, Hello Lighthouse, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale, The Moon Jumpers
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
| Author | Verna Aardema |
| ISBN | 0140549056 |
-Booklist, starred review.
Winner of Caldecott Medal in...
The Gardener
| Author | Sarah Stewart |
| ISBN | 0374325170 |
Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing...
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0786801786 |
His name was Duke. Duke Ellington. As a child, he said piano made an umpy-dump sound that was headed nowhere worth following. But, years later, he heard the piano played a whole new way. People called the music...
The Noisy Paint Box
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0307978486 |
Kitten's First Full Moon
| Author | Kevin Henkes |
| ISBN | 0060588284 |
From one of the most celebrated and beloved picture book creators working in the field today comes a memorable...
Ox-Cart Man
| Author | Donald Hall |
| ISBN | 0140504419 |
Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daughter knitted, and the...
Hello Lighthouse
| Author | Sophie Blackall |
| ISBN | 0316362387 |
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...
| Author | Peter Spier |
| ISBN | 0440408296 |
This is an old Folk song that Peter set to a story. It’s also a Nursery Rhyme. I remember just reading it in that huge volume previously. Peter Spier wrote this in ’61 when they would do every other page in black and white to save money. Peter went back in his later years and colored the rest of the book...
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
| Author | Verna Aardema |
| ISBN | 0140546162 |
| Author | Janice May Udry |
| ISBN | 0060284609 |
Maurice Sendak is once again the illustrator. He must have illustrated every other book out at the time. He was one busy bee....
| Author | Abe Birnbaum |
| ISBN | 0307202038 |
| Author | Uri Shulevitz |
| ISBN | 0374479550 |
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0698116445 |
"A familiar jewel polished to unaccustomed...
The Judge: An Untrue Tale
| Author | Harve Zemach |
| ISBN | 0374439621 |
Creeping closer day by day--
Its eyes are scary,
Its tail is hairy...
I tell you, Judge, we all better pray!
Anxious prisoner after anxious prisoner echoes and embellishes this cry, but always in vain. The fiery old Judge, impatient with...
Umbrella
| Author | Taro Yashima |
| ISBN | 0140502408 |
This is about a girl who...
The Desert Is Theirs
| Author | Byrd Baylor |
| ISBN | 0689711050 |
You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creatures together." Byrd Baylor's spare, poetic text and Peter...