Feathers: Not Just for Flying
10 best books like Feathers: Not Just for Flying (Melissa Stewart): Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, The Water Princess, An Egg Is Quiet: (Nature Books for Kids, Children's Books Ages 3-5, Award Winning Children's Books), Island: A Story of the Galápagos, Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, The Three Ninja Pigs, A Rock Is Lively, Gravity, Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
| Author | Laurie Ann Thompson |
Recommended Grade Levels: K-3
Themes: Perseverance, empowerment, disabilities
Summary:
This is a true story about a boy named Emmanuel, who was born in a small village in Ghana, West Africa. Emmanuel was born with one healthy leg and one leg that...
The Water Princess
| Author | Susan Verde |
| ISBN | 0399172580 |
With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might,...
| Author | Dianna Hutts Aston |
| ISBN | 0811844285 |
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596437162 |
Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate...
| Author | Susan Hood |
| ISBN | 1481430955 |
Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on...
The Three Ninja Pigs
| Author | Corey Rosen Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0399255141 |
Why does this wolf think he can come to town and blow all the houses down? These three little pigs just aren't going to take it from that bully anymore! The first starts aikido lessons---he'll make mincemeat out of that wolf! His...
A Rock Is Lively
| Author | Dianna Hutts Aston |
| ISBN | 1452106452 |
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596437170 |
What if your feet drifted away from the ground?
What stops everything from floating into space?
Gravity.
As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly...
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
| Author | Stephanie Roth Sisson |
| ISBN | 1596439602 |
When Carl Sagan was a young boy he went to the 1939 World's Fair and his life was changed forever. From that day on he never stopped marveling at...
| Author | Katherine Roy |
| ISBN | 1596438746 |
A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants...
| Author | Dianna Hutts Aston |
| ISBN | 1452127131 |
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596439505 |
Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
| Author | Jess Keating |
| ISBN | 0553512285 |
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...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 1596435992 |
An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid....
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 1499801033 |
Mondays,...
Raindrops Roll
| Author | April Pulley Sayre |
Raindrops drop. They plop. They patter. They spatter. And in the process, they make the whole world feel fresh...