8 Top picture books books like Star Boy by Paul Goble

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Star Boy

By: Paul Goble

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Star Boy was the son of Morning Star and an earthly bride. He was banished from the Sky World for t…

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1. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • fiction
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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2. Chicken Sunday

By: Patricia Polacco

4.43

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

After being initiated into a neighbor's family by a solemn backyard ceremony, a young Russian Ameri… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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3. Blue Hat, Green Hat (Boynton Board Books)

By: Sandra Boynton

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Board Book

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Errol Le Cain, Sara Corrin, Stephen Corrin

4. The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By: Errol Le Cain , Sara Corrin , Stephen Corrin

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Faithful to events immortalized in Browning's classic poem, this stunning new version recounts the … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction

5. Autumn Story

By: Jill Barklem

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bad weather is on the way and the autumn crops are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of … read more

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6. The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring

By: Ruth Sanderson

4.33

Format: 240 pages,

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7. Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella

By: Jan Brett

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Jan Brett sets her Cinderella story in a snowy Russian winter where one magical night, Cinders, the… read more

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8. The Mitten

By: Jan Brett

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. One… read more

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9. The Umbrella

By: Jan Brett

3.00

Format: None pages,

A walk through the Costa Rican cloud forest provides a wonderfully lush setting for Jan Brett's bel… read more

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10. The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors

By: Adam Rex , Drew Daywalt

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You've played the game. Now read the legend of how it all began . . . Long ago, in an ancient and d… read more

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11. Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

By: David Shannon , Robbie Robertson

4.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and … read more

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12. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

By: Jon Scieszka , Lane Smith

4.20

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

A revisionist storyteller provides his mad, hilarious versions of children's favorite tales in this… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End."

-Jon Scieszka, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

13. Encounter

By: Jane Yolen , David Shannon

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he discovered were the… read more

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14. Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell

3.27

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more

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  • fiction
"the gravity of wound to fist"

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."

-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

Cover of Noodle and the No Bones Day (Noodle and Jonathan) by Jonathan Graziano

15. Noodle and the No Bones Day (Noodle and Jonathan)

By: Jonathan Graziano

4.52

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of the viral “Bones or No Bones” TikTok videos comes a sweet and entertaining pict… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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16. The Last Cuentista

By: Donna Barba Higuera

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abu… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Suma's eyes are still closed, and I can't tell if she's trying to forget, or to remember. Maybe stories are there to help us do both. I know stories can't always have happy endings. But if there are …"

-Donna Barba Higuera, The Last Cuentista

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17. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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18. 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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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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19. A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India

By: Meera Sriram

4.22

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this book inspired by the author’s hometown of Chennai, India, a girl explores the vibrant rainb… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Green herbs - mint and coriander - sniff, sniff! I'm hungry for chutney."

-Meera Sriram, A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India

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20. Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

By: N. Scott Momaday

4.23

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illu… read more

Similar categories in N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land book and Paul Goble's Star Boy

  • native american
Cover of Star Boy by Paul Goble

21. Star Boy

By: Paul Goble

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Star Boy was the son of Morning Star and an earthly bride. He was banished from the Sky World for t… read more

Similar categories in Paul Goble's Star Boy book and Paul Goble's Star Boy

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • native american
  • fiction
  • folk tales

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Patricia Polacco

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3.87

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4.29

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