Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs
10 best books like Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs (Betsy Hearne): King Stork, Libby on Wednesday, Swan Lake, The Monster Garden, Dance in the Desert, Rapunzel, The Bears' House, Canterbury Tales, The Mouse of Amherst: A Tale of Young Readers, When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up
| Author | Howard Pyle |
| ISBN | 0688158137 |
Minimal dragons and lions, despite what the blurb implies. No dragons, no lions, despite what the blurb says. I can't tell for sure, but I don't think the text is Pyle's original (despite no mention of an adaptation, when I find picture captions for Pyle's original art the language is much more archaic)....
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440803047 |
Libby is sent to public school to be "socialized" after years of being educated at home."An honest, forthright picture of these classmates-tumed-friends who come to accept their difficulties and to care about each other...an absorbing story, filled with real young people and genuine concerns."--...
| Author | Margot Fonteyn |
| ISBN | 0152006001 |
Ms. Fonteyn was one of the world’s most famous and gifted prima ballerinas. Such talents don’t necessarily translate to writing a children’s book.
While she keeps the story of the ballet simple, there are awkward moments as if she couldn’t find a way to keep a line interesting and informative....
| Author | Vivien Alcock |
| ISBN | 0618003371 |
Frankie isn't exactly sure what her scientist dad does in his top-secret laboratory, but her neighbors tease her that it must be something awful -- like developing germ warfare. So when Frankie's older brother steals a bit of mysterious goo from their father's lab, she makes sure she gets some to conduct...
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0374416842 |
To those wondering if this is an allegory about "a family" and "a little boy" in the "dessert".... I totally took this as an imaginative exploration of the journey the toddler-aged Jesus takes with Mary and Joseph as they flee Herod's wrath, traveling from Bethlehem to Egypt. Given L'Engle's religious...
| Author | Alix Berenzy |
| ISBN | 0805012834 |
When an expectant mother spies the rapunzel growing in her neighbor's garden, her longing for the herb is so strong, that she becomes ill. Finally, in desperation, her husband steals into the garden to fetch her some of the plant, only to be caught by the powerful fairy owner, who demands their unborn...
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0140383212 |
Everybody in Fran Ellen’s class knows her name. They know that she sucks her thumb and that she smells bad. But they don’t really know anything important about her.
They don’t know that she lives in two houses. One is with her brothers and sisters and sick mother. There is no father in that house,...
| Author | Barbara Cohen |
| ISBN | 0688062016 |
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid...
| Author | Elizabeth Spires |
| ISBN | 0374454116 |
A mouse's-eye-view of Emily Dickinson
When a mouse named Emmaline takes up residence behind the wainscoting of Emily Dickinson's bedroom, she wonders what it is that keeps Emily scribbling at her writing table throughout the day and into the night. Emmaline sneaks a look, and finds that it's...
| Author | Amy Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0763610348 |
Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages!
"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr,...
| Author | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| ISBN | 0698119703 |
1968 looks like it'll be a pretty good year for Jaynell Lambert. The town's going to pave the dirt road she lives on, her girly-girl sister, Racine, isn't driving her completely crazy, and Grandpap has just moved in with his new emerald green Cadillac convertible. Jaynell and Grandpap have something...
| Author | Ann Durell |
| ISBN | 0525446052 |
This very special volume was created by more than thirty of the best known and loved authors and illustrators of children's books.
Summary: The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz,...
| Author | DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan |
“An optimistic tale that manages to be both encouraging yet realistic about how to do some good in your very own backyard.” —Kirkus
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of City Green—the environmentally and community-conscious classic that shows the wonderful things kids can do when...
| Author | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| ISBN | 0440411823 |
It’s August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers. Brick listens to their games on the radio in Windy Hill, in upstate New York, where his family has an apple orchard; Mariel, once a polio patient in the hospital in Windy Hill, lives in Brooklyn near the Dodgers’ home, Ebbets Field....
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0698119096 |
This is Tomie dePaola's second "26 Fairmount Avenue" book, his autobiographical series about his childhood. I loved the first one, 26 Fairmount Avenue, and read it to all of my library classes last year. Since then, I've always planned to read more of the series. I found this second book in the series...
| Author | Patricia Lee Gauch |
| ISBN | 0698116763 |
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...
| Author | Chris Lynch |
| ISBN | 0545027934 |
From National Book Award nominee Chris Lynch, an action-and-humor-filled futuristic series about talking pets who are tired of being pets ... and the boy who must help them.
The premise: It’s the future. Zane lives in a completely wired world, with completely wired parents. Technology...
| Author | Barbara Nichol |
| ISBN | 0531071189 |
A fictitious little boy writes his uncle letters, at first complaining about the eccentric composer that lives upstairs. But as time passes, the letters show that Christoph has had a change of heart. Kids will learn some interesting facts about Beethoven through this correspondence tale.
Not...
| Author | Barbara O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374322589 |
Will a spelling bee be the answer to all of Bird’s problems?
All her life, all Bird has ever wanted is to be noticed in her small town and to get to Disney World. As it turns out, Bird just might have a chance to realize at least one of her goals because of a state spelling bee, and she might get to make...
| Author | Sally Warner |
| ISBN | 0142407119 |
Eight-year-old Emma McGraw is an only child who lives with her mom in their "cozy" condo. When four-year-old Anthony Scarpetto moves in for a week while his parents are away, Emma is not happy. He's loud, he smells, and he touches her stuff. And that's only half of it! Emma has started at a new school, and...
Screaming Mummies of the Pharaoh's Tomb II
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 0689839545 |
Dear possible reader of this book,
I wasn't sure I'd be able to write a book ever again after Canine Quarterly reviewed my series, Tales from the House of Bunnicula. They said I would never win the Newbony Award. Was I depressed! And I didn't even know what a Newbony was! Luckily Delilah's read...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0689832419 |
"Tess will sing a song. Lily will read a poem.
And Rosie will write fortunes."
What's the big event? The cousins' parents are coming home, and it looks like the girls have to leave Cobble Street. Everyone is sad, but Aunt Lucy says to focus on the future. So the cousins arrange a summer...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0439141346 |
1 Finn Maccoul - Boy eats magic salmon for Irish poetry, weds girl evil Druid transformed to doe.
2 Beowulf - He slays Grendel for besieged King Hothgar of Denmark but monster mother leaves marsh for revenge.
3 Sword in the Stone - Boy Merlin tells evil king, red dragon slain is his future, hides...
