22 best-selling picture books books like Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey by Katie Yamasaki

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Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey

By: Katie Yamasaki

4.25

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Katie Yamasaki’s newest picture book celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese…

If you liked the picture books plot in Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey by Katie Yamasaki , here is a list of 22 books like this:

1. Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines

By: Dow Phumiruk , Jeanne Walker Harvey

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

As a child, Maya Lin loved to study the spaces around her. She explored the forest in her backyard,… read more

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2. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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3. Hot Dog

By: Doug Salati

4.29

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From a critically acclaimed creator comes this summery picture book featuring an overheated--and ov… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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4. Berry Song

By: Michaela Goade

4.43

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a celebration of the land s… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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5. Finding My Dance

By: Ria Thundercloud

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of … read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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6. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

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  • childrens
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

7. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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8. There Was a Party for Langston

By: Jason Reynolds

4.48

Format: 56 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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9. Love in the Library

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

4.47

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Set in an internment camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII a… read more

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  • asian literature
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge

10. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
Cover of We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner) by Carole Lindstrom

11. We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner)

By: Carole Lindstrom

4.51

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage by Helen Ellis

12. Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

By: Helen Ellis

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey

By: Katie Yamasaki

4.25

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Katie Yamasaki’s newest picture book celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Katie Yamasaki's Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey book and Katie Yamasaki's Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey

  • architecture
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • japan
  • asian literature
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14. Gibberish

By: Young Vo

4.40

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

It's Dat's first day of school in a new country! Dat and his Mah made a long journey to get here, a… read more

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  • asian literature
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett

15. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza

By: Mac Barnett

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As seen on The TODAY Show! New York Times bestselling Mac Barnett and Caldecott Honor award-winning… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell

16. Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

By: Traci Sorell

4.12

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's fir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

17. Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

By: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

4.42

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Discover a world of creativity and tradition in this fascinating picture book that explores the his… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
Cover of What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

18. What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more

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  • childrens
Cover of This Story Is Not About a Kitten by Carson Ellis

19. This Story Is Not About a Kitten

By: Carson Ellis

4.21

Format: 40 pages, Library Binding

A heartwarming picture book about a neighborhood coming together to help a kitten find a home, from… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
Cover of Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust by Elisa Boxer

20. Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust

By: Elisa Boxer

4.47

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable true story of how a toy duck smuggled forged identity papers for Jewish refugees dur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
Cover of Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie

21. Still This Love Goes On

By: Buffy Sainte-Marie

4.31

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to Indigenous communities everywhere, this picture book gorgeously illustrated by Jul… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
Cover of Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book) by Angela Joy

22. Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)

By: Angela Joy

4.66

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's d… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

23. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really g… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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24. The Capybaras

By: Alfredo Soderguit

4.23

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire (The World of Gustavo, #3) by Flavia Z. Drago

25. Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire (The World of Gustavo, #3)

By: Flavia Z. Drago

4.30

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author-illustrator of Gustavo, the Shy Ghost comes a charmingly spooky celebrati… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of When You Can Swim by Jack  Wong

26. When You Can Swim

By: Jack Wong

4.15

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award A reverent celebration of learning to s… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
Cover of The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman by Mari Lowe

27. The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman

By: Mari Lowe

3.86

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

SHAINDY is a twelve-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who struggles in school and has no good friends. … read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Threads: Zlata’s Ukrainian Shirt by Lina Maslo

28. Threads: Zlata’s Ukrainian Shirt

By: Lina Maslo

4.21

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Threads is an inspiring picture book about a girl’s survival of the 1930s Ukrainian Famine-Genocide… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
Cover of Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music by Amy Ignatow

29. Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music

By: Amy Ignatow

3.77

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

What happens when musical instruments can’t make the sounds we expect them to make? Is music still … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube by Kerry Aradhya

30. Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube

By: Kerry Aradhya

4.53

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This first picture book biography of Erno Rubik, creator of the Rubik’s Cube, reveals the obsession… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • biography
  • childrens
Cover of Nell & the Netherbeast by Adi Rule

31. Nell & the Netherbeast

By: Adi Rule

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Netherbeast, a slinking creature with an overwhelming stench, impossibly charms young Nell. Bef… read more

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  • childrens

9 Top history books like Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey by Katie Yamasaki

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

There Was a Party for Langston

Jason Reynolds

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

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Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey

Katie Yamasaki

4.25

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7 best-selling history books like Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell

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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Kevin Noble Maillard

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Carole Boston Weatherford

4.48

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Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story

Danielle Greendeer

4.36

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Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

Traci Sorell

4.12

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