Books like Tootle
By Gertrude Crampton
For the kid who wanders off mid-task chasing whatever catches their eye, Tootle is a gentle nudge toward staying the course. Old-fashioned, cheerful, and reassuring, with a steady chug-along rhythm.
A Frenchman named Louis Bleriot falls in love with flying machines and, after a string of failed contraptions, builds the plane that will attempt something no one has ever done: fly across the English Channel.
Pilot Small takes his little red airplane up over the countryside, loops through the sky, makes an emergency landing, and flies safely home to the hangar.
On the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain, a herdsman named Ki-pat sets out to bring the rain back, told in a cumulative rhyme that builds line by line like The House That Jack Built.
A knight known as the Red Cross Knight sets out with a princess to face a dragon that has terrorized the countryside for years, in a battle that will decide the land's fate.
When a seagull drops a can of orange paint on Mr. Plumbean's house, he repaints it into a wild reflection of his dreams — and his tidy, identical street may never be the same.
A nonfiction picture book that explains how scientists uncover dinosaur fossils bone by fragile bone, then piece giant skeletons back together inside museums for us to see today.
A Victorian artist named Waterhouse Hawkins sets out to show the world what dinosaurs looked like by building the first life-size dinosaur models, first in England, then in New York City.
A clever spider man sets out to buy all the world's stories from the Sky God, who demands an impossible price: a fierce leopard, a fire-stinging hornet, and a fairy no one can see.
A precocious girl wakes early every Monday, drags her chair down the hallway past her sleepy family, and waits outside for the one honking arrival she's been looking forward to all week.
Six blind mice each investigate a mysterious Something by the pond, one by one, and each returns with a different, contradictory guess about what it is.
A small black fish is the lone survivor of his school after a larger fish attacks — until he finds a new school of little red fish and teaches them to swim together as one giant shape to scare off enemies.
A time-traveling guide skydives into Sequoia National Park, leading young explorers through groves of giant trees to uncover the park's history, wildlife, and a hidden danger threatening its ancient giants.
