Sophie Blackall
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of a boy who 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. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.
4) Farmhouse
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A farmhouse where twelve children grow up holds evidence of their stories long after they are gone"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 2
Language
English
Description
Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.
7) Ahoy!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Hardcover.
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 6
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend Ivy to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone in second grade seems set on breaking a world record and friends Ivy and Bean are no exception, deciding to become the youngest people ever to discover a dinosaur skeleton.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
12) Negative cat
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Max isn't a typical cat, but his loving owner still sees the best in him"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
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
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) Ivy + Bean
Author
Series
Language
English
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
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the Science Fair, and the second grade is all over it! Some kids are making man-eating robots. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. Some kids are doing interesting things with vacuum cleaners. The theme, obviously, is global warming. But what should Ivy and Bean do? Something involving explosions? Or ropes? Something with ice cubes? Or maybe...maybe something different.
17) A voyage in the clouds: the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a French man who rode in a balloon across the English Channel"--
18) Wombat walkabout
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text follows six little wombats on walkabout and a hungry dingo following, envisioning them as his lunch until the wombats turn the tables on him.
19) Meet wild boars
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It is hard be friends with wild boars because they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered, and rude.
20) Are you awake?
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Persistent young Edward has many questions for his sleepy mother, many of which are answered, "Because it's night time."
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