18 Best picture books books like A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story by Erin Gunti

Cover of A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story by Erin Gunti

A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story

By: Erin Gunti

4.04

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This simple, touching picture book shows readers a women’s shelter through the eyes of a young girl…

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1. Pizza at Sally's

By: Monica Wellington

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Sally the pizza maker makes pizza. She grows tomatoes in the community garden for the sauce. She ge… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda  Paul, Elizabeth Zunon

2. One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia

By: Miranda Paul , Elizabeth Zunon

4.35

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Plastic bags are cheap and easy to use. But what happens when a bag breaks or is no longer needed? … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of The Other Side by E.B. Lewis, Jacqueline Woodson

3. The Other Side

By: E.B. Lewis , Jacqueline Woodson

4.51

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of t… read more

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  • fiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
"Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down."

-E.B. Lewis, The Other Side

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4. The Name Jar

By: Yangsook Choi

4.14

Format: None pages,

The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she? Being the new kid in school is hard enough, bu… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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5. Tap the Magic Tree

By: Christie Matheson

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed interactive picture book about the changing seasons. "Like Herve Tullet's Press Here,… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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6. Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan

By: Jeanette Winter

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared. In despair, her grandm… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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7. The Book with No Pictures

By: B.J. Novak

4.34

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Warning! This book looks serious but it is actually completely ridiculous! A book with no pictur… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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8. The Man Who Planted Trees

By: Jean Giono

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Chocolate Touch by Margot Apple, Patrick Skene Catling

9. The Chocolate Touch

By: Margot Apple , Patrick Skene Catling

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

In this zany twist on the legend of King Midas and his golden touch, a boy acquires a magical gift … read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction

10. Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

By: None , Christine Baldacchino

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Morris has a great imagination. He paints amazing pictures and he loves his classroom's dress-up ce… read more

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11. Niko Draws a Feeling

By: Bob Raczka , Simone Shin

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Niko loves to draw his world: the ring-a-ling of the ice cream truck, the warm of sun on his face. … read more

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12. Watercress

By: Andrea Wang

4.53

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.… read more

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  • fiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
Cover of Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

13. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

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14. We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner)

By: Carole Lindstrom

4.51

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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15. Powwow Day

By: Traci Sorell

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Eight-year-old River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she e… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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16. 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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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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17. Poultrygeist

By: Eric Geron

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From a debut picture-book author and a #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator, a wry take on "W… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Cock-a-doodle-BOO!"

-Eric Geron, Poultrygeist

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18. Prom Mom

By: Laura Lippman

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get a… read more

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  • fiction
"How do you live with yourself? How does anyone live with themselves, in the end? The way I see it, you either admit to yourself exactly who you are - or you lie to yourself the way you lie to the res…"

-Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

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19. 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
  • fiction
"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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20. What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns

By: Katherine Locke

4.17

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Follow Ari through their neighborhood as they try to find their words in this sweet, accessible int… read more

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  • fiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
Cover of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice  Wong

21. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

By: Alice Wong

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more

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22. My Shadow is Pink (My Shadow, #1)

By: Scott Stuart

4.60

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

My Shadow is Pink is a beautifully written rhyming story that touches on the subjects of gender ide… read more

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  • fiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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23. Silly Lullaby

By: Sandra Boynton

3.91

Format: 16 pages, Board Book

What’s the best way to say good night? With a silly lullaby from the beloved and bestselling Sandra… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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24. Blanket: Journey to Extreme Coziness

By: Loryn Brantz

3.83

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to become one with your blanket in this quirky and hilarious picture book from Loryn Bran… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • emotion
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25. Here Comes Ocean

By: Meg Fleming

3.47

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Discover the wonder of a day at the beach in this exuberant, rhyming picture book from the author o… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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26. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story by Erin Gunti

27. A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story

By: Erin Gunti

4.04

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This simple, touching picture book shows readers a women’s shelter through the eyes of a young girl… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • family
  • poverty
  • social issues
  • emotion

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The Other Side

E.B. Lewis , Jacqueline Woodson

4.51

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Yangsook Choi

4.14

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The Book with No Pictures

B.J. Novak

4.34

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Mo Willems

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Eric Carle

4.22

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