Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World
10 best books like Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World (Cynthia Chin-Lee): The Snowy Day, If You Lived Here: Houses of the World, The Midwife's Apprentice, A Big Mooncake for Little Star, The Day You Begin, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, The Mushroom Fan Club, Ish, Dicey's Song, M.C. Higgins, the Great
| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
| ISBN | 0140501827 |
Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal!
No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping...
| Author | Giles Laroche |
| ISBN | 0547238924 |
Step into unique homes from around the world and discover the many fascinating ways in which people live and have lived.If you lived in the mountains of southern Spain, your bedroom might be carved out of a mountain. If you lived in a village in South Africa, the outside of your house might tell the story...
From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England. The girl known only as Brat has no family, no home, and no future until she meets Jane the Midwife and becomes her apprentice. As she helps the sharp-tempered Jane deliver babies, Brat--who renames...
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
| Author | Grace Lin |
| ISBN | 0316404489 |
A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin
Pat, pat, pat...
Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake.
Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399246533 |
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.
There will be times when you walk into a room
and...
A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo.
When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees...
| Author | Elise Gravel |
| ISBN | 1770463224 |
Join Elise Gravel as she explores the science of some of nature’s weirdest and wildest characters—mushrooms!
Elise Gravel is back with a whimsical look at one of her family’s most beloved pastimes: mushroom hunting! Combining her love of exploring nature with her talent for anthropomorphizing...
A creative spirit learns that thinking "ish-ly" is far more wonderful than "getting it right" in this gentle new fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book THE DOT.
Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere.
Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy....
| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
| ISBN | 0689863624 |
"I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore."
3.5 ⭐️
This was a wonderful second installment to the Tillerman Cycle.
When we last left Dicey, James, Maybeth and Sammy - they were beginning new lives, living on their grandmothers farm.
This novel has...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1416914072 |
Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M.C. dreams...
| Author | Bruce Degen |
| ISBN | 0694006513 |
This bestselling classic features a berry-loving boy and an endearing rhyme-spouting bear. The fun wordplay and bright paintings with lots of details for young readers to explore make Jamberry a perennial favorite, and this board book edition is a great stocking stuffer.
A small boy and...
Once upon a time, American children couldn’t borrow library books. Reading wasn’t all that important for children, many thought. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll Moore thought otherwise! This is the true story of how Miss Moore created the first children’s room at the New York Public Library, a bright,...
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
| Author | Lindsay Mattick |
| ISBN | 0316324906 |
Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...
| Author | Marlee Grace |
| ISBN | 0062803697 |
This book is a quiet revolution, a guide filled with practical advice to help you curb your obsessions and build boundaries between your work, your job, and your life. From business anecdotes about fulfilling orders to more personal stories about Marlee Grace’s recovery from divorce and addiction,...
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness
| Author | Anastasia Higginbotham |
| ISBN | 1948340003 |
Not My Idea, the latest in the critically-acclaimed Ordinary Terrible Things series, is a book about whiteness.
A white child sees TV news coverage of a white police officer shooting a brown person whose hands were up. Upset, he asks his mother why; she deflects, assuring him that he is safe....
Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World
“A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children’s creativity, learning, and fun.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N
Access to technology has created a generation...
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World
| Author | Vashti Harrison |
| ISBN | 0241346878 |
Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're bold. They changed the world.
Did you know that WIFI was invented by a glamorous Hollywood star?
Or that the first computer programmer was a woman born in 1816?
These amazing little leaders have changed the world, all because they...
