Birthday Parties

Birthday Parties

A Birthday For Frances, Hoban, Russell.
A Birthday Present for Mama by N. Lorian
A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
Alfie lends a Hand by Hughes, Shirley in which Alfie goes to the birthday party of one of his nursery school friends.
Beezus and Ramona. Doesn't Beezus have a birthday in Beezus and Ramona, in which Ramona ruins a cake or two? Doesn't Ramona also have a birthday party but doesn't tell her mother until the kids start arriving?
Berenstain Bears book entitled, I think, "Too Much Birthday"
Birth of a Forest by Millicent Selsam
Birthday Surprises. Johanna Hurwitz (I think...It could also be called Birthday Packages...).
Birthday Wishes by Ann Schweninger
BUNNY CAKES Wells, Rosemary. has Max and Ruby interpreting a cake for Grandma
George Washington's Breakfast by Jean Fritz
Happy Birthday Moon by Frank Asch
Happy Birthday Poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter's momentous 11th birthday when he is summoned to Hogwarts.
I Can Read About July 4, 1776 by Ellen Schultz
in two very different manners!
Little Bear. Minarik, Else Holmelund. The chapter entitled "birthday soup"
Moira's Birthday by Robert Munsch
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow
My Puppy is Born by Joanna Cole
Nancy by Karen Barbour
Paddington's Birthday Party by Michael Bond
Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty's birthday, when she is 15 or whatever in different versions, brings the predicted curse when she pricks her finger and goes to sleep. In some versions I believe she wanders off alone while her parents are preparing her birthday party.
Some Birthday. Polacco, Patricia When I read it at storytime, the kids are mesmerized.
Something Special Just for Me, Vera William's book, has the character using change the family collected to buy herself a birthday present.
The 4th of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
The Biggest Birthday Cake in the World by E. Spurr
The Birthday Thing by SuAnn & Kevin Kiser
The High Rise Glorious Skittle-something something Cake. Nancy Willard. I think the girl in the story is trying to make a birthday cake for her mother at night and some angels get involved.
The High Rise Glorious...Angel Food Cake by Nancy Willard
The Little Princess. Sarah has a birthday, but I'm afraid the Shirley Temple version of that lavish event disrupted by grief, bankruptcy, and cruelty is more vivid in my memory than the Burnett book.
The Littles Give a Party by John Peterson
The Party, by Barbara Reid, illustrated with Reid's incredibly detailed plasticine art? It is a riotous celebration of grandma's 90th birthday party, so also fits into someone's earlier request for books dealing with grandparents.
The Thirteenth Clue by Ann Jonas
Wednesday's Surprise by Bunting about the child teaching her grandmother to read as a present for her dad's birthday?
Winnie the Pooh. There's a wonderful birthday chapter in Pooh, in which the presents of a burst balloon and an empty honey jar end up being wonderfully satisfactory after all. (Don't miss Owl's spelling of Happy Birthday!).

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