15 must-read fantasy books like Music for Mister Moon by Philip C. Stead

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Music for Mister Moon

By: Philip C. Stead

3.76

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

What if you threw your teacup out your window...and what if it accidentally knocked the moon out of…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Music for Mister Moon by Philip C. Stead , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Strega Nona

By: Tomie dePaola , Castellanos Prada Ruth de

4.26

Format: 44 pages, Hardcover

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch"."

-Tomie dePaola, Strega Nona

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2. Flora and the Flamingo

By: Molly Idle

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and her graceful flamingo fr… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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3. Lost and Found (The Boy, #2)

By: Oliver Jeffers

4.34

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day The Crayons Quit comes a humorously warm tale of f… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
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4. The Napping House

By: Audrey Wood , None

4.27

Format: 16 pages, Board Book

Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (198… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • family
  • fiction
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5. Duck, Death and the Tulip

By: Wolf Erlbruch

4.47

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author and illustrator, Wolf Erlbruch, comes one of the world’s best children’s … read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Ibland kunde döden läsa tankar. – När du är död är också dammen borta – åtminstone för dig. – Är du alldeles säker på det, frågade Anden förvånat. – Så säker som på någonting annat, sa Döden. – Det ä…"

-Wolf Erlbruch, Duck, Death and the Tulip

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6. Home

By: Carson Ellis

3.10

Format: 271 pages,

Home might be a house in the country, an apartment in the city, or even a shoe. Home may be on the … read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • family
  • fantasy
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7. Gravity

By: Jason Chin

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • space
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8. Journey (Journey Trilogy #1)

By: Aaron Becker

4.37

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book ab… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, #1) by Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett

9. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, #1)

By: Judi Barrett , Ron Barrett

4.18

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

An imaginative story of amazing food weather that inspired the hit movie, Cloudy with a Chance of M… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
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10. No, David!

By: David Shannon

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

When author and artist David Shannon was five years old, he wrote a semi-autobiographical story of … read more

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  • family
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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11. The Way Back Home (The Boy, #3)

By: Oliver Jeffers

3.92

Format: None pages,

One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up, up, up and away he flies, high into the sky. … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • space
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12. Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

By: Esphyr Slobodkina

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Caps for Saleis a timeless classic beloved by millions...one of the most popular picture books ever… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction

13. If You Take a Mouse to School

By: Laura Joffe Numeroff , Felicia Bond

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Barnes & Noble Review Bringing a plucky mouse to school isn't the wisest idea, no matter how mu… read more

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14. Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

By: Mo Willems

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, there were three hungry Dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur . . . and a Dinos… read more

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15. I Want My Hat Back

By: Jon Klassen

4.35

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. The … read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"What if I never see it again? What if nobody ever finds it? My poor hat. I miss it so much."

-Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back

16. The Paper Bag Princess

By: Robert Munsch , Michael Martchenko

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnap… read more

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17. The Most Magnificent Thing

By: Ashley Spires

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unn… read more

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18. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

By: William Joyce , Joe Bluhm

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Ever… read more

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19. Pretty Ugly

By: David Sedaris

3.55

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris and Ian Falconer make a spectacular splash with this tale of a monster turned ugly—st… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of It Fell from the Sky by Terry Fan

20. It Fell from the Sky

By: Terry Fan

4.20

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A picture book about community, art, the importance of giving back—and the wonder that fell from th… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
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21. The Barnabus Project

By: Eric Fan

4.38

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept ou… read more

Similar categories in Eric Fan's The Barnabus Project book and Philip C. Stead's Music for Mister Moon

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen

22. The Rock from the Sky

By: Jon Klassen

4.19

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Look up! Turtle really likes standing in his favorite spot. He likes it so much that he asks his… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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23. Two Dogs

By: Ian Falconer

3.65

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From Ian Falconer, Caldecott Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the Olivia s… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell

24. Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

By: Katherine Rundell

4.10

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning… read more

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  • childrens
"Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place."

-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

"But the writing we call children’s fiction is not a childish thing: childish things include picking your nose and eating the contents, and tantruming at the failure to get your own way. The 45th Pres…"

-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

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25. Saturday

By: Oge Mora

4.50

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In this warm and tender story by the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Thank You, Omu!, join a mot… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • family
  • fiction
  • emotion
Cover of I Lived Inside a Whale by Xin  Li

26. I Lived Inside a Whale

By: Xin Li

4.35

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Olive Jeffers and the Fan Brothers, this stunningly illustrated, whimsical picture book… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • emotion
Cover of Stickler Loves the World (A Stickler Story) by Lane Smith

27. Stickler Loves the World (A Stickler Story)

By: Lane Smith

4.18

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author/illustrator Lane Smith comes Stickler, a woodland creature who reminds us… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Music for Mister Moon by Philip C. Stead

28. Music for Mister Moon

By: Philip C. Stead

3.76

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

What if you threw your teacup out your window...and what if it accidentally knocked the moon out of… read more

Similar categories in Philip C. Stead's Music for Mister Moon book and Philip C. Stead's Music for Mister Moon

  • music
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • family
  • space
  • fantasy
  • emotion
  • juvenile
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29. Kafka and the Doll

By: Larissa Theule

4.52

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story about Franz Kafka Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"Todo aquello que amas es muy probable que lo pierdas, pero al final, el amor volverá de una forma diferente"

-Larissa Theule, Kafka and the Doll

Cover of Little Bear's Big House (Bear's Song, 4) by Benjamin Chaud

30. Little Bear's Big House (Bear's Song, 4)

By: Benjamin Chaud

3.72

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This follow-up to Benjamin Chaud's critically acclaimed The Bear's Song and its sequels is graced w… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • family
  • fiction
Cover of Solid, Liquid, Gassy by Ashley Spires

31. Solid, Liquid, Gassy

By: Ashley Spires

3.76

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Esther the fairy is back, to investigate the water cycle! From the award-winning author of The Most… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens

23 best-selling fiction books like Music for Mister Moon by Philip C. Stead

Transform Your Habits

Strega Nona

Tomie dePaola , Castellanos Prada Ruth de

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Flora and the Flamingo

Molly Idle

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Lost and Found (The Boy, #2)

Oliver Jeffers

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Napping House

Audrey Wood , None

4.27

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Not Quite Narwhal (Not Quite Narwhal and Friends)

Jessie Sima

4.46

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Bear Has a Story to Tell

Philip C. Stead , Erin E. Stead

4.20

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The Monsters' Monster

Patrick McDonnell

3.82

Transform Your Habits

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Christopher Denise

4.51

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