14 Best picture books books like When the Whales Walked: And Other Incredible Evolutionary Journeys (Volume 1) (Incredible Evolution, 1) by Dougal Dixon

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When the Whales Walked: And Other Incredible Evolutionary Journeys (Volume 1) (Incredible Evolution, 1)

By: Dougal Dixon

4.44

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for K–12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Chil…

If you liked the picture books plot in When the Whales Walked: And Other Incredible Evolutionary Journeys (Volume 1) (Incredible Evolution, 1) by Dougal Dixon , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Maroo of the Winter Caves

By: Ann Turnbull

3.41

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Maroo, a girl of the Ice Age, must take charge after her father is killed and lead the rest of the … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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2. The Midwife's Apprentice

By: Karen Cushman

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens

3. Baking with Kafka

By: Tom Gauld

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

A best-of collection of literary humour cartoons from the critically-acclaimed Guardian cartoonist … read more

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4. Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling aut… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • science
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5. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • middle grade
  • picture books
  • childrens
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6. The Reindeer Hunters (Hekne, #2)

By: Lars Mytting

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The second novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy, an epic, moving, and glor… read more

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7. There’s a Ghost in This House

By: Oliver Jeffers

4.43

Format: 44 pages, Hardcover

A captivating new picture book with interactive transparent pages, from world-renowned artist Olive… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Change Sings: a Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman

8. Change Sings: a Children's Anthem

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical picture book debut from Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and illustrator Loren Long … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
"I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don’t fear change coming, And so I sing along."

-Amanda Gorman, Change Sings: a Children's Anthem

"I hum with a hundred hearts, Each of us lifting a hand. I use my strengths and my smarts, Take a knee to make a stand."

-Amanda Gorman, Change Sings: a Children's Anthem

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9. Tiny T. Rex and the Very Dark Dark

By: Jonathan Stutzman

4.00

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Tiny T. Rex and his friend Pointy are having a campout in the backyard! It is what best friends do.… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • dinosaurs
  • nature
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10. The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

By: Lars Mytting

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing literary novel about a family mystery, revenge, and forgiveness by the bestselling au… read more

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11. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization

By: David Vandermeulen

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • evolution
  • science
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12. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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13. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

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14. Ruby Finds a Worry (Big Bright Feelings)

By: Tom Percival

4.52

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A sensitive and reassuring story about what to do when a worry won't leave you alone. Meet Ruby… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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15. Rain Before Rainbows

By: Smriti Prasadam-Halls

4.36

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

In this heartfelt story about courage, change, and moving on, a girl and her companion fox travel t… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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16. Pip & Egg

By: Alex Latimer

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pip is a seed from a glorious tree, and Egg is a bird’s egg from a nearby nest. When Pip and Egg fi… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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17. Sin Eater

By: Megan Campisi

3.61

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a … read more

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"It's always women who eat sins, since it was Eve who first ate a sin: the Forbidden Fruit."

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

"The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us."

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

"With how you came into the world and what you've seen lately you should know, the more you live, the more the sinner and the saint can't be pulled apart. All of us just getting by."

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

"Don’t I know by now that folk see their sins in the way they choose? There’s always a reason as to why selfishness is not really selfish and crimes are honest and waiting safely by while somefolk els…"

-Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

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18. Katie the Catsitter (Katie the Catsitter, #1)

By: Colleen A.F. Venable

4.19

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A new middle-grade graphic novel series about growing up, friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cat… read more

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  • animals
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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19. Botanica Drama

By: Thom

4.37

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Après s’être levé tous les jours depuis des milliards d’années, le Soleil – qui a pris une bonne cu… read more

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20. Amazing Evolution: The Journey of Life

By: Anna Claybourne

4.43

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Evolution can be a difficult idea to wrap our brains it deals with random, unlikely events, combin… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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21. Het hele soepzootje

By: Floor Bal

4.03

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Het ontstaan van onze planeet en het heelal is geen makkelijke materie. Toch is het iets waar ook j… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • science
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22. Margaret's Unicorn

By: Briony May Smith

4.37

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Margaret's whole world changes when her family moves to a cottage by the sea to be near her grandma… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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23. When the Whales Walked: And Other Incredible Evolutionary Journeys (Volume 1) (Incredible Evolution, 1)

By: Dougal Dixon

4.44

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for K–12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Chil… read more

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  • childrens
  • biology
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • picture books
  • evolution
  • dinosaurs
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Titanosaur: Discovering the World's Largest Dinosaur by José Luis Carballido

24. Titanosaur: Discovering the World's Largest Dinosaur

By: José Luis Carballido

4.15

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History join forces in a thrilling new picture book a… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • dinosaurs
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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25. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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Cover of Dragon Bones: The Fantastic Fossil Discoveries of Mary Anning by Sarah Glenn Marsh

26. Dragon Bones: The Fantastic Fossil Discoveries of Mary Anning

By: Sarah Glenn Marsh

4.14

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

At home in her seaside town in England, little Mary Anning stared out her window. Unlike other chil… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • dinosaurs
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Ocean Renegades!: Journey through the Paleozoic Era (Earth Before Us #2) by Abby Howard

27. Ocean Renegades!: Journey through the Paleozoic Era (Earth Before Us #2)

By: Abby Howard

4.44

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Travel back in time before the age of the dinosaurs in this installment of the hit nonfiction graph… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of When Plants Took Over the Planet: The Amazing Story of Plant Evolution (Volume 3) (Incredible Evolution, 3) by Chris Thorogood

28. When Plants Took Over the Planet: The Amazing Story of Plant Evolution (Volume 3) (Incredible Evolution, 3)

By: Chris Thorogood

4.21

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Discover the incredible story of how plant life grew to cover the surface of planet Earth, from lon… read more

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  • evolution
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Mammal Takeover!: Journey through the Cenozoic Era (Earth Before Us #3) by Abby Howard

29. Mammal Takeover!: Journey through the Cenozoic Era (Earth Before Us #3)

By: Abby Howard

4.41

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Travel back in time to the Ice Age in this installment of the hit nonfiction graphic novel series a… read more

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  • childrens
  • biology
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • science
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30. Atlas of Dogs

By: Ester Dobiášová

4.36

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

A unique collection of over 200 breeds of dogs, with fun facts and witty illustrations, accompanied… read more

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  • animals
Cover of When We Became Humans: The Story of Our Evolution (Volume 2) (Incredible Evolution, 2) by Michael Bright

31. When We Became Humans: The Story of Our Evolution (Volume 2) (Incredible Evolution, 2)

By: Michael Bright

4.38

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

What makes us human, and where did we come from? How did a clever ape climb down from the trees and… read more

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  • picture books
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • science

21 Top childrens books like When the Whales Walked: And Other Incredible Evolutionary Journeys (Volume 1) (Incredible Evolution, 1) by Dougal Dixon

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Maroo of the Winter Caves

Ann Turnbull

3.41

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Karen Cushman

5.00

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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World

Yuval Noah Harari

4.24

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The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

4.26

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Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Derrick Barnes , Gordon C. James

4.38

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Oh No, George!

Chris Haughton

4.48

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Andrea Wang

4.53

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Jacqueline Woodson

4.39

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