Books like Frog Went A-Courtin'
By John Langstaff
For families who love singing at bedtime as much as reading, this is a book that turns an old folk song into a story you can act out together, verse by verse. Musical, old-fashioned, warm, and a little theatrical, like a barn dance caught mid-verse.
A small boy is invited to tea at the palace and always asks the same question — may he bring a friend? — and each time, a surprising animal guest shows up beautifully behaved.
A tiny snail longing to see the world hitches a ride on a humpback whale's tail, and together they sail to icebergs and volcanoes — until the whale gets stranded and needs the smallest friend to save her.
A little girl waits eagerly for a new hat from her favorite aunt, but when it arrives plain and ordinary, she sets out to make it beautiful herself.
A girl who loves gorillas longs for her too-busy father to take her to see one, until the night before her birthday brings an extraordinary, moonlit visitor.
A rhyming picture book that considers love in all its moods — sentimental, silly, soulful — through a parade of animal characters and playful verse rather than a single storyline.
A bear musician hears a mysterious buzz coming from his double bass but has no time to check it out before his orchestra's bandwagon gets stuck in a hole on the way to the village gala.
A little fish paddles through the underwater world, meeting all kinds of fish along the way — spotty, stripy, happy, grumpy, hairy, scary, even curly whirly and twisty twirly.
When every girl at the Paris boarding school falls sick on Christmas Eve, the smallest and bravest one stays well enough to take charge — and finds unexpected help from a magical rug-selling merchant.
A fish and his best friend, a tadpole, grow up together in a pond until the tadpole becomes a frog and hops off to explore dry land, leaving the fish desperate to follow.
A chameleon changes color wherever he goes and longs to keep one color of his own, so he settles on the greenest leaf — until autumn turns it yellow, then red, right along with him.
A girl named Sally travels to town walking backward and upside down, picking up a silly pig, a silly dog, and other funny friends who join her topsy-turvy parade.
A lonely old man sets out to find one pretty cat but can't choose among the millions, billions, and trillions he finds on a hillside — so he brings them all home.
