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Crossing Niagara: The Death-Defying Tightrope Adventures of the Great Blondin

10 best books like Crossing Niagara: The Death-Defying Tightrope Adventures of the Great Blondin (Matt Tavares): Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine, Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals, Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention, The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams, Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions, Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books (Nonfiction Books for Kids, Early Elementary History Books), The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game, Glow: Animals with Their Own Night-Lights, The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea, Soar

Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
AuthorHeather Lang
ISBN1620916509
On November 19, 1916, at 8:25 a.m., Ruth Law took off on a flight that aviation experts thought was doomed. She set off to fly nonstop from Chicago to New York City. Sitting at the controls of her small bi-plane, exposed to the elements, Law battled fierce winds and numbing cold. When her engine ran out of...
Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals
AuthorJess Keating
ISBN0553512285
Pinkalicious meets National Geographic in this nonfiction picture book introducing the weirdest, wildest, pinkest critters in the animal kingdom!
Some people think pink is a pretty color. A fluffy, sparkly, princess-y color. But it's so much more.
Sure, pink is the color of princesses...
Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
AuthorBarb Rosenstock
ISBN1620914468
Every inventor has to start somewhere, and one of the greatest innovators in our history was no exception. Ben Franklin developed his first invention while doing what he loved best: swimming! Ben's Big Splash is the story of Franklin's first invention, his journey through the scientific method, and...
The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0805090495
I really admire Jane Addams. For a semester in college (in-between majoring in English literature and psychology) I took classes in sociology and studied her in depth. I either learned more from this book, or more likely relearned some of what I learned back then. She was a remarkable woman.

This...
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
AuthorChris Barton
ISBN1580892973
A cool idea with a big splash.

You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the...
Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books (Nonfiction Books for Kids, Early Elementary History Books)
AuthorMichelle Markel
ISBN0811879224
This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children's books—John Newbery himself. While most children's books in the 18th century contained lessons and rules, John Newbery imagined them overflowing with entertaining stories, science,...
The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
AuthorNancy Churnin
ISBN0807591920
Winner - 2017 Storytelling World Resource Award Honor BookFinalist - 2017 North Texas Book Festival Best Children's Books All William Ellsworth Hoy wanted to do was play baseball. After losing out on a spot on the local deaf team, William practiced even harder—eventually earning a position on...
Glow: Animals with Their Own Night-Lights
AuthorW.H. Beck
Why be afraid of the dark when there is so much to see? Whether it’s used to hunt, hide, find a friend, or escape an enemy, bioluminescence—the ability to glow—is a unique adaptation in nature. In this fun and fascinating nonfiction picture book, join world-renowned photographers and biologists...
The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea
AuthorBrenda Z. Guiberson
ISBN0805099611
No doubt about it, this book contains a lot of amazing sea creatures! Guiberson did an excellent job of selecting animals with unique properties and abilities. I was thinking " wow! " at every one. My vote for the most amazing, I think, goes to the box jellyfish, because I'm still trying to wrap my head around...
Soar
AuthorJoan Bauer
Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!

Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport....
The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
AuthorJudd Winick
Dog Man meets Big Nate in HILO-the hilarious New York Times Bestselling GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES kids love! “A Total BLAST,” says the Miami Herald!

BOOM! CLANG! CRASH! D.J. and Gina are totally ordinary kids. But Hilo isn’t! Hilo just fell out of the sky and doesn’t know where he came from,...
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