9 Best biography books like She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey by Andrea D’Aquino

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She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

By: Andrea D’Aquino

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Hardcover

Meet Florence Merriam Bailey, a pioneering birder and activist who changed the way we study birds f…

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1. The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever

By: Jill McElmurry , H. Joseph Hopkins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Unearth the true story of green-thumbed pioneer and activist Kate Sessions, who helped San Diego gr… read more

Similar categories in Jill McElmurry's The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever book and Andrea D’Aquino's She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

2. The Baby Tree

By: Sophie Blackall

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Cleverly revealing the basics of reproduction in an age-appropriate way, award-winning Sophie Black… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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3. The Noisy Paint Box

By: Mary GrandPré , Barb Rosenstock

3.58

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary Grandpre tell the fascinating… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • biography
  • childrens

4. This Is My Home, This Is My School

By: Jonathan Bean

3.43

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Drawing from his own childhood experiences, Jonathan Bean takes the autobiographically inspired fam… read more

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5. Paddle-to-the-Sea

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.28

Format: 64 pages, Library Binding

A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and na… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature

6. The Scar

By: Olivier Tallec , Charlotte Moundlic

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A little boy responds to his mother's death in a genuine, deeply moving story leavened by glimmers … read more

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7. Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood

By: F. Isabel Campoy , Rafael López , Theresa Howell

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more… read more

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8. After the Fall

By: Dan Santat

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of Beekle: The Unimagi… read more

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9. Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

By: Isabelle Arsenault , Amy Novesky

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A picture book biography of sculptor Louise Bourgeois focusing on how her childhood family life inf… read more

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10. Blueberries for Sal

By: Robert McCloskey

4.21

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Caldecott Honor Book What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A belo… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature

11. Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

By: Melissa Sweet , Catherine Thimmesh

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, w… read more

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12. My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)

By: Jean Craighead George

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the soli… read more

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13. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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14. The Golden Doves

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Naz… read more

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15. The Moth Keeper

By: Kay O'Neill

4.08

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Being a Moth Keeper is a huge responsibility and a great honor, but what happens when the new Moth … read more

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  • childrens
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16. 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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17. 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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18. When You Trap a Tiger

By: Tae Keller

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Newbery Medal Winner (2021) Some stories refuse to stay bottled up... When Lily and her famil… read more

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  • childrens
"I am a girl who sees invisible things, but I am not invisible."

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

"Does it get easier? Does the sadness go away? The sadness fades, yeah. Eventually. But the missing ... I don't know if that ever does."

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

"If you put things off for later, you'll never do them. They'll become harder and scarier, and one day you'll realize you've run out of time."

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

"It's hard to breathe. I know now: The moment when everything really falls apart--it's not during the big explosion. It's in the quiet after. And the feeling is not a shattering. Not quite"

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

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19. How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

By: Hazel Prior

4.10

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's… read more

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  • animals
"It's been a very long time since I've had an adventure."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

"I have no wish to talk about the manifold tragedies of my life."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

"Like her harshness was a kind of coat she wrapped tightly round herself so nobody could see what was underneath."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

"Because at this moment there is pain, intense and merciless. It seeps in and out of my body’s pores, claws at my lungs and sears into every pocket of my heart like burning acid."

-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)

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20. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

By: Malaka Gharib

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more

Similar categories in Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir book and Andrea D’Aquino's She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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21. Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost

By: Betina Birkjær

4.41

Format: 44 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful, candid picture book for children to understand what happens when a loved one begins su… read more

Similar categories in Betina Birkjær's Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost book and Andrea D’Aquino's She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker

22. Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion

By: Shannon Stocker

4.50

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This picture book tells the true story of world-famous deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • biography
  • childrens
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23. Everybody in the Red Brick Building

By: Anne Wynter

4.04

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, urban take on bedtime stories in the spirit of The House That Jack Built and Chicka Chicka… read more

Similar categories in Anne Wynter's Everybody in the Red Brick Building book and Andrea D’Aquino's She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

  • picture books
  • childrens
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24. Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott

By: Joyce Scott

4.54

Format: 48 pages, Library Binding

A moving and powerful introduction to the life and art of renowned artist, Judith Scott, as told by… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • biography
  • childrens
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25. The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of

By: Kirsten W. Larson

4.35

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A poetic picture book celebrating the life and scientific discoveries of the groundbreaking astrono… read more

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  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • science
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26. 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

Similar categories in Briony May Smith's Margaret's Unicorn book and Andrea D’Aquino's She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • nature
Cover of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

27. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really g… read more

Similar categories in Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race book and Andrea D’Aquino's She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • science
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28. The Tale of the Tiger Slippers

By: Jan Brett

3.97

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Jan Brett reimagines a powerful Middle Eastern folk tale that celebrates hard work and appreciating… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
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29. Ten Little Rabbits

By: Maurice Sendak

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A charming counting book printed on the occasion of the exhibition of original drawings and other m… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
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30. Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas

By: Jeanne Walker Harvey

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate the life-changing power of art in this inspiring and stunningly illustrated picture book … read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Walker Harvey's Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas book and Andrea D’Aquino's She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • biography
  • childrens
Cover of She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey by Andrea D’Aquino

31. She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey

By: Andrea D’Aquino

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Hardcover

Meet Florence Merriam Bailey, a pioneering birder and activist who changed the way we study birds f… read more

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  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

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