Johnsburg Public Library

 

1/21/2008 @ 2:56pm      Charlotte's Web Read-A-Like                   

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

J FIC ARMSTRONG              

           Armstrong, Alan W., 1939-.  Whittington.  lst ed.  New York :

                Random House, c2005.  Whittington, a feline descendant of

                Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears

                at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony

                while telling his ancestor's story.

 

J FIC ATW                    

           Atwater, Richard.  Mr. Popper's penguins.  Boston : Little, Brown

                and Co., 1988, c1938.  The unexpected delivery of a large

                crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and

                fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams

                of the Polar regions.

 

J FIC AVI                    

           Avi, 1937-.  Perloo the bold.  New York : Scholastic, [1999],

                c1998.  Perloo, a peaceful scholar who has been chosen to

                succeed Jolaine as leader of the furry underground people

                called the Montmers, finds himself in danger when Jolaine

                dies and her evil son seizes control of the burrow.

 

J FIC AVI                    

           Avi, 1937-.  Poppy and Rye.  New York : Avon Books, 1999, c1998.

                When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a

                large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse

                and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a

                relationship with the son he had abandoned.

 

J FIC CLE                     

           Cleary, Beverly.  Socks.  [1st ed.].  New York : Morrow, 1973.

                The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the

                addition of a new baby to the household.

 

J FIC CLE                     

           Cleary, Beverly.  The mouse and the motorcycle.  New York : Avon

                Books, 1990, c1965.  A reckless young mouse named Ralph

                makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View

                Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.

 

J FIC DAH                    

           Dahl, Roald.  James and the giant peach : a children's story.

                New York : Puffin Books, 1988, c1961.

 

J FIC DICAMILLO              

           DiCamillo, Kate.  Because of Winn-Dixie.  1st ed.  Cambridge,

                Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2000.  Ten-year-old India Opal

                Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi,

                Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because

                of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

 

J FIC DICAMILLO              

           DiCamillo, Kate.  The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane.  1st

                ed.  Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2006.  Edward

                Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only

                himself until he is separated from the little girl who

                adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new

                owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

 

J FIC GAN                    

 

 

           Gannett, Ruth Stiles.  My father's dragon.  New York :

                Scholastic, [199-?], c1948.  A young boy determines to

                rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of

                lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild

                Island.

 

J FIC GRAHA                  

           Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932.  The wind in the willows.  New York

                : Ariel Books : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1980.  The

                escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in

                the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

 

J FIC HOW                    

           Howe, Deborah.  Bunnicula : a rabbit tale of mystery.  1st ed.

                New York : Atheneum, 1979.  Though scoffed at by Harold the

                dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that

                their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.

 

J FIC KIP                    

           Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.  Just so stories.  1st ed.  New York

                : Parent's Institute, 1960, c1935.

 

J FIC LAW                    

           Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.  Rabbit Hill.  New York : Viking,

                1945, c1944.

 

J FIC LEGUIN                 

           Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-.  Catwings return.  New York : Orchard

                Books, c1988.  Wishing to visit their mother, two winged

                cats leave their new country home to return to the city,

                where they discover a winged kitten in a building imminently

                to be demolished.

 

J FIC LISLE                  

           Lisle, Janet Taylor.  Forest.  New York : Puffin Books, 2001.

                When twelve-year-old Amber accidentally triggers a war

                between humans and a community of squirrels, she finds out

                how similar the two species can be.

 

J FIC LOF                     

           Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947.  The story of Doctor Dolittle : being

                the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing

                adventures in foreign parts ; never before printed.

                Centenary ed.  New York : Dell Publishing, c1988.  The

                adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals

                and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with

                some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible

                sickness.

 

J FIC OBR                    

           O'Brien, Robert C.  Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH.  New York :

                Atheneum, c1971.  Having no one to help her with her

                problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former

                imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

 

J FIC SEL                    

           Selden, George, 1929-.  The cricket in Times Square.  New York :

                Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1960.

 

J FIC STE                    

           Steig, William, 1907-.  Abel's island.  New York : Troll

                Associates ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1976.  Castaway on

                an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds

                his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he

                struggles to survive and return to his home.

 

J FIC WHI                    

           White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-.  Stuart Little.  New York :

                Harper & Row, c1945.  The adventures of the debonair mouse

                Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his

                dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his

                family's garden.

 

J RYL                        

           Rylant, Cynthia.  Gooseberry Park.  1st ed.  San Diego : Harcourt

                Brace, c1995.  When a storm separates Stumpy the squirrel

                from her newborn babies, her animal friends come to the

                rescue.

 

J WIL                        

           Bianco, Margery Williams, 1880-1944.  The velveteen rabbit, or,

                How toys become real.  New York : Doubleday, 1991.  By the

                time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to

                be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the

                magic called Real.

 

YA FIC BUR                   

           Burnford, Sheila Every.  Incredible journey.  by Sheila Burnford;

                illustrations by Carl Burger New York : Bantam, 1967.