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10 best books like I (Don't) Like Snakes (Nicola Davies): Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, The Night Gardener, I Want My Hat Back, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Giant Squid, If You Find a Rock, Michael Rosen's Sad Book, The Heart and the Bottle, If I Ran the Zoo, Silly Billy

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN0763662291
With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.

Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....
The Night Gardener
AuthorTerry Fan
ISBN1481439782

The Night Gardener is about the impression and long lasting effects magic and art can make on a soul and a community. Long after the “ooohs” and “aaahh”s fade away—the hope and energy of a creation or magical moment remain. Magic is out there for all to see, feel, find, and change us!

A...
I Want My Hat Back
AuthorJon Klassen
ISBN0763655988
A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.

The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others....
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
AuthorMargot Lee Shetterly
ISBN0062742469
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.

They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
Giant Squid
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN1596435992
The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind.

An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid....
If You Find a Rock
AuthorPeggy Christian
ISBN0152393390
Think of all the rocks there are: the skipping rocks, the splashing rocks, and the chalk rocks. Whether the found treasures are climbing rocks or wishing rocks, children can't help collecting them. With joyful text and luminous photographs, If You Find a Rock celebrates rocks everywhere--as well...
Michael Rosen's Sad Book
AuthorMichael Rosen
ISBN0763625973
With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all.

Sometimes I'm sad and I don’t know why.
It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up.

Sad things...
The Heart and the Bottle
AuthorOliver Jeffers
ISBN0399254528
A picture book about grief. A little girl likes to read with her grandfather as he sits in his rocking chair, and then one day she faces an empty chair. Yes, it's that subtle, the chair is just empty, no explanation, really. Her grandpa is gone, and since she feels like she can't risk too much strain on her...
If I Ran the Zoo
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0007169949
It’s nice to have a zany sense of humour - most of the time!

Dr. Seuss, of course, was a master of zaniness. And If I Ran the Zoo takes Zany to new limits.

In it, a little kid named McGrew dreams of turning the town zoo into a home for mythical, magical beasts - who become more and more weird...
Silly Billy
AuthorAnthony Browne
ISBN0763631248
A funny, sympathetic antidote to worry from a Hans Christian Andersen Medalist

Billy worries about everything, from shoes that might march out the window to giant birds that might carry him away. One night on a visit to Grandma's, Billy is so anxious that he can't sleep. But Grandma has just...
Rules of Summer
AuthorShaun Tan
ISBN1444908898
I believe it is more difficult to describe a Shaun Tan book than it is to feel a Shaun Tan book. They are a mood conveyed through otherworldly pictures and contrasting ideas. This Shaun Tan book is a book for children.

I boy describes the rules he learns over a summer with his brother. The artwork...
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