26 must-read childrens books like Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie by Fiona Robinson

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Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie

By: Fiona Robinson

4.23

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Out of the Shadows is an innovative picture book biography about an unsung hero of early animation.…

If you liked the childrens plot in Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie by Fiona Robinson , here is a list of 26 books like this:

1. Mango, Abuela, and Me

By: Angela Dominguez , Meg Medina

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

When a little girl's far-away grandmother comes to stay, love and patience transcend language in a … read more

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2. Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us

By: Paul Koudounaris

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Death is universal, but the human response to death varies widely. In Western society, death is usu… read more

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3. What Can You Do with a Paleta?

By: Carmen Tafolla , None

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Where the paleta wagon rings its tinkly belland carries a treasure of icy paletasin every color of … read more

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4. Berry Song

By: Michaela Goade

4.43

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a celebration of the land s… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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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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  • childrens
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6. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

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  • childrens
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7. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • childrens
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8. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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  • art
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9. Dark Waters (Small Spaces, #3)

By: Katherine Arden

3.79

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adven… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge

10. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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11. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

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  • childrens
  • juvenile
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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12. 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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  • art
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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13. The Three Billy Goats Gruff

By: Mac Barnett

4.34

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Bi… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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14. Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories

By: Elise Gravel

4.46

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and timely tool to help kids learn how to tell what news is true and what isn't Can … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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15. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more

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  • childrens
  • juvenile
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17. Hair Love

By: Matthew A. Cherry

4.59

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When mommy is away, it’s up to daddy to do his daughter’s hair in this ode to self-confidence and t… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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18. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

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  • childrens
  • juvenile
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19. 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
  • history
  • childrens
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20. 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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21. Pizza!: A Slice of History

By: Greg Pizzoli

4.24

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

From Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli comes a hilarious and mouth-watering history of pizza… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

22. Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

By: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

4.42

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Discover a world of creativity and tradition in this fascinating picture book that explores the his… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist by Linda Skeers

23. Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist

By: Linda Skeers

4.52

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of a woman who dared to dig, explore, and discover. This is the story of Dinosaur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy, #2) by Molly Knox Ostertag

24. The Hidden Witch (The Witch Boy, #2)

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.29

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys… read more

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  • childrens
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25. The Tryout (The Tryout #1)

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

STAND TALL. BE LOUD. GAME FACE ON. When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • childrens
Cover of Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book by Tonya Bolden

26. Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book

By: Tonya Bolden

4.27

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green Book, a travel guide… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey by Jason Chin

27. The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey

By: Jason Chin

4.28

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin's companion book to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe expl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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28. The Paper Kingdom

By: Helena Ku Rhee

4.15

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An office at night is reimagined as a fantastical kingdom of paper complete with friendly dragons i… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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29. Polar Bear

By: Candace Fleming

4.33

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

April in the Arctic . . . Cold winds send snow clouds scuttling across the sky. Temperatures bare… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Action!: How Movies Began by Meghan Mccarthy

30. Action!: How Movies Began

By: Meghan Mccarthy

3.83

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning nonfiction picture book creator Meghan McCarthy tells the story of how motion picture… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie by Fiona Robinson

31. Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie

By: Fiona Robinson

4.23

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Out of the Shadows is an innovative picture book biography about an unsung hero of early animation.… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • film
  • picture books
  • germany
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile

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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

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4.46

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4.36

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4.24

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4.29

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