10 best-selling nonfiction books like How to Build an Insect by Roberta Gibson

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How to Build an Insect

By: Roberta Gibson

4.41

Format: 32 pages, ebook

See what the buzz is about in this fresh, fun look at insect anatomy. Let's build an insect! In t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in How to Build an Insect by Roberta Gibson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. Red: A Crayon's Story

By: Michael Hall

4.08

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as "red" suffers an identity crisis in the new picture book by the… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens

2. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition

By: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Ma… read more

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3. Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: Amy Sarig King

4.21

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more

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  • childrens
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

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4. Orris and Timble: The Beginning

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.37

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early-reader trilo… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Orris and Timble: The Beginning book and Roberta Gibson's How to Build an Insect

  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
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5. Something Like Home

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more

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  • animals
  • childrens
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6. Odder

By: Katherine Applegate

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, s… read more

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  • animals
  • childrens
  • nature
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7. 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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  • picture books
  • childrens
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8. Sun Flower Lion

By: Kevin Henkes

3.51

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A sun. A flower. And a lion. With three visual motifs, three colors, and fewer than 200 words, reno… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
Cover of We Don't Lose Our Class Goldfish (Penelope Rex, #3) by Ryan T.  Higgins

9. We Don't Lose Our Class Goldfish (Penelope Rex, #3)

By: Ryan T. Higgins

4.30

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Penelope Rex faces her biggest (and fishiest) fear in this companion to the #1 New York Times best-… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
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10. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

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  • childrens
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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11. Dreamers

By: Yuyi Morales

4.43

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative pow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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12. Luli and the Language of Tea

By: Andrea Wang

4.45

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Though they may speak different languages, kids from all over the world come together to enjoy the … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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13. 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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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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14. 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

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
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15. Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story

By: Danielle Greendeer

4.36

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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16. A Kind of Spark

By: Elle McNicoll

4.52

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more

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  • childrens
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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17. Outside, Inside

By: LeUyen Pham

4.47

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

From Caldecott honoree LeUyen Pham, Outside, Inside is a moving picture book celebrating essential … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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18. I Am the Storm

By: Jane Yolen

4.26

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A tornado, a blizzard, a forest fire, and a hurricane are met, in turn, with resilience and awe in … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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19. What's Inside A Flower?: And Other Questions About Science & Nature

By: Rachel Ignotofsky

4.47

Format: 48 pages, Library Binding

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science, comes a nonfiction picture book… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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20. Wishes

By: Mượn Thị Văn

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

A reflection on immigration, family, and home.Wishes tells the honest story about one Vietnamese fa… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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21. The Tree and the River

By: Aaron Becker

4.31

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate past—or possible future—a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, beari… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
Cover of The Mystery of the Monarchs by Barb Rosenstock

22. The Mystery of the Monarchs

By: Barb Rosenstock

4.30

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous picture book based on the true story of a scientist who solves the mysteries of monarch … read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Listen to the Language of the Trees: A Story of How Forests Communicate Underground by Tera Kelley

23. Listen to the Language of the Trees: A Story of How Forests Communicate Underground

By: Tera Kelley

4.20

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This fascinating picture book explores the underground communication system between trees and helps… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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24. Mornings with Monet

By: Barb Rosenstock

4.24

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A new picture book about the iconic artist Claude Monet, from the Caldecott-Award winning team that… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
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25. An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more

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"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

26. Blood: Not Just a Vampire Drink

By: Stacy McAnulty

3.98

Format: None pages, None

Julia Sooy at Holt/Godwin has bought Blood: Not Just a Vampire Drink by Stacy McAnulty (Earth! My F… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • science
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27. Walter Had a Best Friend

By: Deborah Underwood

4.24

Format: 40 pages, ebook

From the bestselling author of The Quiet Book comes an honest and touching new picture book about t… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day by Shaunna & John Stith

28. Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day

By: Shaunna & John Stith

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

This true story of the first Earth Day - told through the eyes of a fictional child - will inspire … read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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29. How to Build an Insect

By: Roberta Gibson

4.41

Format: 32 pages, ebook

See what the buzz is about in this fresh, fun look at insect anatomy. Let's build an insect! In t… read more

Similar categories in Roberta Gibson's How to Build an Insect book and Roberta Gibson's How to Build an Insect

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense by Jon Scieszka

30. The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense

By: Jon Scieszka

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The classic nursery rhymes we know and love—upside-down, backward, in gibberish, and fresh out of … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of The Last Plastic Straw: A Plastic Problem and Finding Ways to Fix It (Books for a Better Earth) by Dee Romito

31. The Last Plastic Straw: A Plastic Problem and Finding Ways to Fix It (Books for a Better Earth)

By: Dee Romito

4.20

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Learn how and why a useful, 5000-year-old invention has become a threat to our planet--and what you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • science

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4.21

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4.37

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