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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAda Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
Laurie Wallmark · 38 pages
Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
Ten Little Ladybugs
Melanie Gerth
Young ones will love learning to count backwards as they watch ten touchable ladybugs disappear one by one.
Same, Same But Different
Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw · 40 pages
Pen pals Elliott and Kailash discover that even though they live in different countries--America and India--they both love to climb trees, own pets, and ride school buses.
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
Deborah Heiligman · 42 pages
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn to butter his own bread until he turned twenty. Instead, he traveled around the world, from one
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth
Sanjay Patel, Emily Haynes · 36 pages
An original story based on Hindu mythology, this book tells the story about how Ganeśa's love of sweets led to a broken tusk and the writing of the epic poem, the Mahābhārata. Includes author's note about the myth.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll · 273 pages
The Rough-Face Girl
Rafe Martin, David Shannon · 32 pages
In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being.
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
Masaichiro Anno, Mitsumasa Anno · 45 pages
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
Cindy Neuschwander · 32 pages
Assisted by his knight, Sir Cumference, and using ideas offered by his wife and son, King Arthur finds the perfect shape for his table.
Chrysanthemum
Kevin Henkes · 32 pages
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money
Amy Axelrod · 40 pages
The hungry Pig family learns about money and buying power as they turn the house upside down looking for enough money to buy dinner at the local restaurant.
Ladybug Girl
David Soman, Jacky Davis · 40 pages
After her brother tells her she is too little to play with him, Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, makes her own fun.
The Emperor and the Kite
Jane Yolen · 31 pages
Princess Djeow Seow, youngest and smallest daughter of the Emperor, is not thought very much by her family, though it is her that rescue her father when he is captured and imprisoned in high tower.
Cinnamon
Neil Gaiman · 40 pages
The parents of pearl-eyed princess Cinnamon offer a reward to anyone who can help their daughter speak, a plea answered by an exotic tiger who arrives at the palace, armed with knowledge of the world.
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Kathryn Lasky · 48 pages
A colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference.
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster · 256 pages
It has been fifty years—and millions of readers—since the world was first introduced to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond with Tock, the Humbug, and the captive princesses Rhyme and Reason. Now we have a remarkable 50th anniversary edition to honor this universally adored and deeply influential novel. This special edition will include: • Gorgeous packaging that features the classic
If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
David J. Smith · 40 pages
Compares large, complicated numerical concepts with smaller-scale facsimiles to examine such statistics as the size of the Milky Way, the history of human population, and the history of Earth.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling · 44 pages
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
Imogene's Last Stand
Candace Fleming
Enamored of history, young Imogene Tripp tries to save her town's historical society from being demolished in order to build a shoelace factory.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton · 48 pages
When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.
You Are Special
Max Lucado · 32 pages
Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator.