The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game

10 best books like The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game (Nancy Churnin): Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Trombone Shorty, Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals, Fabulous Frogs, Don't Throw It to Mo!, Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention, The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams, Take Away the A, One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree

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....

Trombone Shorty

Author	Troy Andrews
ISBN	1419714651

Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay

Author	Susan Hood
ISBN	1481430955

From award-winning author Susan Hood and illustrator Sally Wern Comport comes the extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.

Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on...

Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals

Author	Jess Keating
ISBN	0553512285

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...

Fabulous Frogs

Author	Martin Jenkins
ISBN	0763681008

There are so many kinds of frogs in the world — more than 5,000! — and all of them are fabulous.

Huge frogs, tiny frogs, hairy frogs, and flying frogs hop through the pages of this colorful nonfiction book. Discover the Goliath frog, biggest in the world, and the Darwin’s frog, which has...

Don't Throw It to Mo!

Author	David A. Adler
ISBN	0670016314

Winner of the 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

Mo Jackson is a little boy with a big passion for sports. He may not be the biggest, the strongest, or the fastest player, but he won't let that stop him from playing!Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins, his football team. His classmates don’t mind,...

Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention

Author	Barb Rosenstock
ISBN	1620914468

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

Author	Tanya Lee Stone
ISBN	0805090495

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...

Take Away the A

Author	Michaël Escoffier
ISBN	1592701566

Take Away the A is a fun, imaginative romp through the alphabet. The idea behind the book is that within every language there are words that change and become a different word through the simple subtraction of a single letter. In other words, without the "A," the Beast is Best. Or, without the "M," a chomp...

One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree

Author

Daniel Bernstrom

“A hungry snake. A beautiful brown boy. What more can a young reader ask for?”—National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson

A sneaky snake has no idea that the captives in his belly are planning their escape! In the spirit of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback,...

Glow: Animals with Their Own Night-Lights

Author

W.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...