Kimber: “Are we ever gonna have fun with this week’s Top Ten Tuesday Topic! It’s Books with an adjective in the title. Mom, what’s an adjective?”

Mom: “It’s a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase. A describing word.”

Kimber: “As in, Grand, elegant, splendid? Extremely fine and impressive in size or beauty. You know. Like me?”  

Insert eye roll here.

In Unison: Anyway, this was harder than it sounds. But Mom and I joined hand to paw and came up with Ten-ish Books With An Adjective in the Title. Several were favorite read-alouds when the young’un’s were younger. Some are fiction. Some are non. All are “Kimber-tested, Mom approved.” (“Kimber the Magnificent” not included.)

How many do you recognize?

The Silver Brumby, Elyne Mitchell

Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viiorst

Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan

Canine Legends, Marco Magliolo

A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Charles Dickens

Hattie Big Sky, Kirby Larson

These High, Green Hills, Jan Karon

The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis

These Strange Ashes, Elisabeth Elliot

The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien

 

What would you add?