Sophie Blackall
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Physical Desc
74 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.
2) Farmhouse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
43 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--
5) Ahoy!
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Raise the mainsail! Batten the hatches! It's time to set sail...on the couch! There's a storm coming, and a child is ready to captain the ship. "Make haste and climb aboard," they call out to their parent, "before you're swept out to sea!" Sea? What sea? The parent is only trying to vacuum the rug. But the child is adamant. It's not a rug--it's the ocean. And that broom? It's the ship's mast. Soon enough, child and parent are both off on an imaginary...
6) Negative cat
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Max isn't a typical cat, but his loving owner still sees the best in him"-- Provided by publisher.
7) Ivy and Bean
Author
Series
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
119 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone needs things to look forward to--big things and small things, on good days and on bad days; things that will buoy our spirits and make us laugh and help us feel alive. In these pages, beloved author and illustrator Sophie Blackall has gathered a collection of joyful things for all of us: things that are always there if we look for them, like the sun coming up; things we can do if the sun is behind a cloud, like baking for other people or...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
After learning that his parents are expecting a baby, a young boy asks several people where babies come from and gets a different answer from each before his parents have a chance to give the right answer. Includes advice on answering questions about reproduction.
11) Are you awake?
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
280L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Persistent young Edward has many questions for his sleepy mother, many of which are answered, "Because it's night time."
Author
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 9
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Bean is too young to go to the camp her sister Nancy is attending, so she and her best friend Ivy decide to create their own camp.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 11
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
When classmate Vanessa insists that all single children are spoiled, Ivy wonders whether she can become "unspoiled" by giving away all her clothes at school (which does not go over well with her teacher or parents)--but ultimately decides that all she needs to accomplish her goal is a little sister.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 10
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator--and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.
18) Ivy + Bean
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When all the second grade students must enter the science fair, which has global warming as its theme, best friends Ivy and Bean team up to create an unusual project.