Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning

8 best books like Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning (Laurence Anholt): Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Malala's Magic Pencil, Giraffes Can't Dance, Wolf in the Snow, Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, Town Is by the Sea, I Really Like Slop!, How to Read a Book

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

Author	Mac Barnett
ISBN	0763662291

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....

Malala's Magic Pencil

Author

Malala Yousafzai

Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood.

Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them.

As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for...

Giraffes Can't Dance

Author	Giles Andreae
ISBN	0439287197

" We all can dance when we find music that we love." This is practically a life motto of mine. I feel dancing can fix the world. We should force our government to dance all the time and they would be better policy makers. Anyway.

I love Giraffes and I love dancing. So this was a match made in heaven....

Wolf in the Snow

Author	Matthew Cordell
ISBN	1250076366

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A little girl is leaving school for the day and has to endure a really bad snowstorm on the way home. As she begins her journey, she stumbles upon a wolf pack and a little wolf cub that appears...

Fletcher and the Falling Leaves

Author	Julia Rawlinson
ISBN	0061134015

It's autumn, and Fletcher's favorite tree is slowly changing colors and losing its leaves.

Fletcher is very worried.

He tells the tree he'll help. But when the very last leaf falls to the ground, Fletcher feels as though he's let down his friend . . .

. . . until the first day of...

Town Is by the Sea

Author	Joanne Schwartz
ISBN	1554988713

A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator...

I Really Like Slop!

Author	Mo Willems
ISBN	1484722620

Mo Willems reminds his young readers that it is always nice to try new foods, even if you do not like them. When Piggie arrives with a huge pail of slop, Gerald is extremely disinterested. However, Piggie raves all about a pig's favourite food, slop! Hesitantly, Gerald inches it closer to his mouth, trunk...

How to Read a Book

Author

Kwame Alexander

A stunning new picture book from Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet! This New York Times bestselling duo has teamed up for the first time to bring you How to Read a Book, a poetic and beautiful journey about the experience of reading.

Find a tree—a

black...