12 best-selling realistic fiction books like In the Blue by Erin Hourigan

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In the Blue

By: Erin Hourigan

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An emotional and tender picture book that accessibly explores depression within a family, through t…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in In the Blue by Erin Hourigan , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Vashti Harrison's Big book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • emotion
  • juvenile
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2. 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

Similar categories in Doug Salati's Hot Dog book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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3. Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

By: Christopher Denise

4.51

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A Caldecott Honor Winner and  New York Times  Bestseller!  A determined Owl builds strength and … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Denise's Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1) book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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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

Similar categories in Michaela Goade's Berry Song book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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5. 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

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's There Was a Party for Langston book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
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6. The Truth About Dragons

By: Julie Leung

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable lyrical picture book that celebrates biracial identity from the award-winning auth… read more

Similar categories in Julie Leung's The Truth About Dragons book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • family
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. Bathe the Cat

By: Alice B. McGinty

4.36

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Bathe the floor? Sweep the dishes? This riotous romp of a picture book follows a frantic family as … read more

Similar categories in Alice B. McGinty's Bathe the Cat book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • family
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford

8. Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

4.46

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A picture book based on the popular spiritual. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle t… read more

Similar categories in Carole Boston Weatherford's Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
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9. An American Story (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)

By: Kwame Alexander

4.63

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author  of  The Undefeated , Kwame Alexander, pens … read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's An American Story (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
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10. From the Tops of the Trees

By: Kao Kalia Yang

4.25

Format: 40 pages, ebook

Father, is all of the world a refugee camp? Young Kalia has never known life beyond the fences o… read more

Similar categories in Kao Kalia Yang's From the Tops of the Trees book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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11. In Every Life

By: Marla Frazee

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A simple and profound meditation on the many wonders of life from two-time Caldecott Honor recipien… read more

Similar categories in Marla Frazee's In Every Life book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • emotion
  • juvenile
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12. Very Good Hats

By: Emma Straub

4.02

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The first picture book by bestselling novelist Emma Straub, this joyous and inventive read-aloud wi… read more

Similar categories in Emma Straub's Very Good Hats book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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13. Powwow Day

By: Traci Sorell

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Eight-year-old River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she e… read more

Similar categories in Traci Sorell's Powwow Day book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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14. Remember

By: Joy Harjo

4.42

Format: 40 pages, None

Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, … read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's Remember book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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15. Out of a Jar

By: Deborah Marcero

4.41

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed and bestselling picture book In a Jar… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Marcero's Out of a Jar book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • emotion
  • juvenile
Cover of Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker

16. Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion

By: Shannon Stocker

4.50

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This picture book tells the true story of world-famous deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. T… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Stocker's Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • disability
  • juvenile
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17. That Flag

By: Tameka Fryer Brown

4.63

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An affecting picture book from Tameka Fryer Brown and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Ni… read more

Similar categories in Tameka Fryer Brown's That Flag book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • family
  • juvenile
Cover of In the Blue by Erin Hourigan

18. In the Blue

By: Erin Hourigan

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An emotional and tender picture book that accessibly explores depression within a family, through t… read more

Similar categories in Erin Hourigan's In the Blue book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • disability
  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • family
  • emotion
  • juvenile
Cover of Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild

19. Love, Violet

By: Charlotte Sullivan Wild

4.28

Format: None pages, None

Perfect for Valentine's Day, a touching picture book about friendship and the courage it takes to s… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Sullivan Wild's Love, Violet book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

20. Iveliz Explains It All

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Library Binding

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Iveliz Explains It All book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • mental health
  • family
  • fiction
"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

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21. The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs

By: Chana Stiefel

4.63

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A picture book biography of the woman who created The Tower of Faces, an exhibit at the US Holocaus… read more

Similar categories in Chana Stiefel's The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
Cover of A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis

22. A Seed Grows

By: Antoinette Portis

4.12

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From tiny seed to a huge, fold-out bloom, the transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out. … read more

Similar categories in Antoinette Portis's A Seed Grows book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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23. The Talk

By: Alicia D. Williams

4.58

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, ready to take on the world, he first must have that very d… read more

Similar categories in Alicia D. Williams's The Talk book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

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

24. 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

Similar categories in Angela Joy's Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book) book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Nana, Nenek & Nina by Liza Ferneyhough

25. Nana, Nenek & Nina

By: Liza Ferneyhough

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Nina loves visiting her two faraway grandmas—one in Malaysia and one in England. Spot the differenc… read more

Similar categories in Liza Ferneyhough's Nana, Nenek & Nina book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Where Wonder Grows by Xelena González

26. Where Wonder Grows

By: Xelena González

4.00

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A children’s picture book about a grandmother bonding with her granddaughters as she teaches them h… read more

Similar categories in Xelena González's Where Wonder Grows book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending and Love by Michelle Edwards

27. Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending and Love

By: Michelle Edwards

3.96

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

All the highs and lows of having a bossy, protective, and loving older sibling are depicted in this… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Edwards's Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending and Love book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Mara Rockliff

28. Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

By: Mara Rockliff

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A picture book about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 195… read more

Similar categories in Mara Rockliff's Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • picture books
  • childrens
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29. Sitting Shiva

By: Erin Silver

4.42

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A little girl grieves the loss of her mother, but she can’t grieve alone. When her friends and f… read more

Similar categories in Erin Silver's Sitting Shiva book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border by Stephen Briseño

30. The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border

By: Stephen Briseño

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Based on true events, this inspiring story follows a mama and her daughter who are denied entry at … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Briseño's The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Still Dreaming / Seguimos Soñando by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

31. Still Dreaming / Seguimos Soñando

By: Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

4.05

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Faced with the prospect of being separated from each other, a young boy and his family make the dif… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Guadalupe Martinez's Still Dreaming / Seguimos Soñando book and Erin Hourigan's In the Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile

20 best-selling fiction books like In the Blue by Erin Hourigan

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Big

Vashti Harrison

4.66

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Hot Dog

Doug Salati

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

Christopher Denise

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Berry Song

Michaela Goade

4.43

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31 Best childrens books like A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis

Transform Your Habits

Big

Vashti Harrison

4.66

Transform Your Habits

Hot Dog

Doug Salati

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

Christopher Denise

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Berry Song

Michaela Goade

4.43

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