18 must-read picture books books like Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the s…

If you liked the picture books plot in Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between by Lesa Cline-Ransome , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story

By: Cynthia Rylant , Chris K. Soentpiet

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Appalachia each Christmas, a boy named Frankie waits beside the tracks for the Christmas Train, … 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
  • juvenile
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3. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

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  • childrens
  • juvenile
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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

4. 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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  • 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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5. Farmhouse

By: Sophie Blackall

4.53

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to peek through windows that shine like… read more

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  • poetry
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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6. 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

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  • poetry
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nature
  • juvenile
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7. What's in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature's Treasures

By: Heather L. Montgomery

4.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Charles Darwin, George Washington Carver, and Jane Goodall were once curious kids with pockets full… read more

Similar categories in Heather L. Montgomery's What's in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature's Treasures book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • juvenile
Cover of Snow Horses: A First Night Story by Patricia MacLachlan

8. Snow Horses: A First Night Story

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.16

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From Newbery Medal–winning author Patricia MacLachlan comes a cozy picture book of love, light, and… read more

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  • poetry
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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9. Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the s… read more

Similar categories in Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • poetry
  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • india
  • nature
  • juvenile
Cover of Milloo's Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women's Education by Reem Faruqi

10. Milloo's Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women's Education

By: Reem Faruqi

4.32

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Lailah’s Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about M… read more

Similar categories in Reem Faruqi's Milloo's Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women's Education book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • india
Cover of The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure by Barb Rosenstock

11. The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure

By: Barb Rosenstock

4.28

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A stunning picture book about the five largest lakes in North America - how they formed, the import… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • juvenile
Cover of River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon by Jilanne Hoffmann

12. River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon

By: Jilanne Hoffmann

4.60

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

Over and Under the Rainforest meets This Is How We Do It in A River of Dust—a celebration of global… read more

Similar categories in Jilanne Hoffmann's River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • juvenile
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13. The Squish

By: Breanna Carzoo

3.94

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Meet Sandcastle. Sandcastle’s world was new and exciting until their very first... SQUISH! … read more

Similar categories in Breanna Carzoo's The Squish book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • picture books
  • childrens
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14. The Planet We Call Home

By: Aimee Isaac

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and loving ode to Planet Earth and the ways in which its many features are interconnected… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Isaac's The Planet We Call Home book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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15. The Perfect Place

By: Matt de la Peña

3.96

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Last Stop on Market Street comes this moving picture book … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows

16. Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin

By: Michelle Meadows

4.24

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate James Baldwin’s one-hundredth birthday anniversary with the first-ever illustrated biogra… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Meadows's Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • poetry
  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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17. A Star Shines Through

By: Anna Desnitskaya

4.18

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An poignant story about a displaced family making a home in the aftermath of war. ​We used to live… read more

Similar categories in Anna Desnitskaya's A Star Shines Through book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton by Nina Crews

18. Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton

By: Nina Crews

3.90

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This lyrical picture book biography tells the story of one of America’s most celebrated children’s … read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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19. Baby's Opposites

By: Nancy Raines Day

3.96

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Follow baby from day to night--around town and home again--and discover opposites aplenty! Baby … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Raines Day's Baby's Opposites book and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Hands-On Science: Geology by Lola M. Schaefer

20. Hands-On Science: Geology

By: Lola M. Schaefer

4.16

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

Press Here meets Bill Nye the Science Guy in this interactive STEM picture book about rocks, minera… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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21. It Is Okay

By: Ye Guo

3.88

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens

7 best-selling history books like Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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