Gravity

10 best books like Gravity (Jason Chin): Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, A Rock Is Lively, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, Mr. Ferris and His Wheel, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands, Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller (Big Words), The Pirate of Kindergarten, Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer, Harold & Hog Pretend For Real!

Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

Author

Laurie Ann Thompson

Genre: Biography, picture book
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...

A Rock Is Lively

Author	Dianna Hutts Aston
ISBN	1452106452

From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, and A Butterfly Is Patient comes a gorgeous and informative introduction to the fascinating world of rocks. From dazzling blue lapis lazuli to volcanic snowflake obsidian, an incredible variety of rocks are showcased in all their...

Parrots Over Puerto Rico

Author	Susan L. Roth
ISBN	1620140047

Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots as green as their island home. . . . These are Puerto Rican parrots. They lived on this island for millions of years, and then they nearly vanished from the earth forever.

Puerto Rican parrots, once abundant, came perilously close to extinction...

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

Author	Jen Bryant
ISBN	0375867120

As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during WWI, Horace filled...

Mr. Ferris and His Wheel

Author	Kathryn Gibbs Davis
ISBN	0547959222

Capturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world’s most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
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Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

Author	Katherine Roy
ISBN	1596438746

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just thirty miles from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!

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...

Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller (Big Words)

Author

Doreen Rappaport

This picturebook biography is an excellent and accessible introduction for young readers to learn about one of the world's most influential luminaries. With her signature style of prose laced with stirring quotes, Doreen Rappaport brings to life Helen Keller's poignant narrative. Acclaimed illustrator...

The Pirate of Kindergarten

Author	George Ella Lyon
ISBN	1416950249

Doubles are good for lots of things—double scoops of ice cream, double features at the movies. But double vision is NOT a good kind of double. In fact, it can make kindergarten kind of hard. Ginny sees double chairs at reading circle and double words in her books. She knows that only half of what she sees...

Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer

Author

Heather Henson

Grab your lantern and follow the remarkable and world-famous Mammoth Cave explorer—and slave—Stephen Bishop as he guides you through the world’s largest cave system in this remarkable homage to the resilience of human nature.

Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name’s...

Harold & Hog Pretend For Real!

Author	Dan Santat
ISBN	1368027164

First sentence: Hey, Hog! Let's pretend to be Elephant and Piggie!



Premise/plot: Harold & Hog Pretend For Real! is one of the books in the series Elephant & Piggie Like Reading. The books in this series are introduced by...you guessed it...Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie....