Woodpecker Wham!

8 best books like Woodpecker Wham! (April Pulley Sayre): Beverly, Right Here, Another, The Great Brain, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, A Big Bed for Little Snow, Lions and Liars, What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?, Most People

Beverly, Right Here

Author	Kate DiCamillo
ISBN	0763694649

Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.

Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted....

Another

Author

Christian Robinson

A 2019 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book!
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019!

In his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful, imaginative...

The Great Brain

Author	John D. Fitzgerald
ISBN	0142400580

The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the...

My Papi Has a Motorcycle

Author

Isabel Quintero

A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo.

When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees...

A Big Bed for Little Snow

Author	Grace Lin
ISBN	0316478369

A companion to the Caldecott Honor book A Big Mooncake for Little Star!

A heartwarming and tender picture book introducing readers to their first snow, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin.

When it was quiet, Little Snow grinned and then jumped, jumped,...

Lions and Liars

Author	Kate Beasley
ISBN	0374302634

Frederick Frederickson has a food-chain theory about life. There are lions, like the school bully. Gazelles, like the bullied kids. There are meerkats, and the fleas that live on the butts of meerkats. Frederick's a flea.

Fifth grade is off to a terrible start when Frederick is sent to a disciplinary...

What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

Author	Steve Jenkins
ISBN	0618152431

Steve Jenkins details the many interesting and unique defense mechanisms animals use to escape from danger in this nonfiction/informational picture book. The cut out paper collages as the illustrations are interesting and beautifully done. It was one of the first things that caught my eye about...

Most People

Author	Michael Leannah
ISBN	0884485544

Michael Leannah wrote Most People as an antidote to the scary words and images kids hear and see every day. Jennifer Morris’s emotive, diverting characters provide the perfect complement to Leannah’s words, leading us through the crowded streets of an urban day in the company of two pairs of...