13 best-selling childrens books like Nicholas: God’s Courageous Gift-Giver by Cheryl Odden

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Nicholas: God’s Courageous Gift-Giver

By: Cheryl Odden

4.42

Format: 45 pages, Hardcover

Look behind the legends and tales of Santa Claus to learn the true story of a steadfast, godly man …

If you liked the childrens plot in Nicholas: God’s Courageous Gift-Giver by Cheryl Odden , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

Cover of Roxaboxen by Barbara Cooney, Alice McLerran

2. Roxaboxen

By: Barbara Cooney , Alice McLerran

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children's book aut… read more

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Cover of Poppleton Everyday by Cynthia Rylant, Mark Teague

3. Poppleton Everyday

By: Cynthia Rylant , Mark Teague

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this easy-to-read chapter book, Poppleton the pig charms young readers with his quirky adventure… read more

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4. The Little House

By: Virginia Lee Burton

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House… read more

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5. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

By: Jim DeFede

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of the hit Broadway musical Come from Away When 38 jetliners bound for the United … read more

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6. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.27

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more

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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

7. Poppleton And Friends

By: Cynthia Rylant , Mark Teague

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

Fresh, delightfully funny, and beautifully illustrated, this storybook contains three tales about P… read more

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8. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

By: Linda Sue Park

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Long Walk to Waterbegins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2… read more

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Cover of The Princess and the Goblin  (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1) by George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes

9. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes

4.02

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more

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"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

10. Toot & Puddle

By: Holly Hobbie

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

When Puddle wakes up one morning, Toot is missing! Although Puddle usually prefers to stay home in … read more

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11. Christmas Day in the Morning

By: Pearl S. Buck , Mark Buehner

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck and acclaimed artist Mark Buehner comes … read more

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12. Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern

By: James E. Talmage

4.62

Format: 747 pages, Paperback

A rich and insightful overview of the Christian belief in Jesus, his life, his teaching and the mea… read more

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"The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ."

-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern

"Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroy…"

-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern

"probation. Jesus Christ was and is Jehovah, the God of Adam and of Noah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God at whose instance the prophets of the ages have spoken, the G…"

-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern

"Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was a passing from sunshine into shadow, from the effulge…"

-James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern

13. Mr. Ferris and His Wheel

By: Gilbert Ford , None

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book bi… read more

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14. Snowshoe Thompson

By: Joan Sandin , None

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny wishes his dad would come home from Nevada for Christmas and writes him a letter to tell him … read more

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15. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

16. Henry Huggins (Henry Huggins, #1)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the first novel from Newbery Award-winning author Beverly Cleary, boys and girls alike will inst… read more

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17. Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

By: Sophie Blackall , Lindsay Mattick

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, during World War I, … read more

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18. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more

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19. Poppleton

By: Cynthia Rylant , Mark Teague

2.83

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Poppleton the pig makes a friend, reads a library book about adventure, and helps a sick friend get… read more

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20. When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading rainbow book)

By: Cynthia Rylant , Diane Goode

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

For twenty years, Cynthia Rylant's story of childhood in the Appalachian Mountains has been an endu… read more

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21. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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22. Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me

By: Russell M. Nelson

4.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“The laws or truths I will share in this book are not merely ideas I have studied and examined; the… read more

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"Jesus Christ frequently expressed gratitude. Before raising Lazarus from the dead, before miraculously multiplying loaves and fishes, and before passing the cup to His disciples at the Last Supper, t…"

-Russell M. Nelson, Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me

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23. The Dragon and the Stone (The Dream Keeper Saga, #1)

By: Kathryn Butler

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Even though she’s only 12 years old, Lily McKinley already feels the weight of the world’s brokenne… read more

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Cover of Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church by Holly Pivec

24. Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church

By: Holly Pivec

4.50

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Is there a new reformation happening in the church? It depends on who you ask. The New Apostolic Re… read more

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25. Becoming Mrs. Lewis

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.05

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found he… read more

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"I'm trying because I must."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"Desperation fuels one to believe idiocy is insight"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"You tolerate what you must when it becomes your reality."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"If you knew all the answers, there'd be no need for trust, little one."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

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26. A Night Divided

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.34

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her… read more

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"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . ."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

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27. A Midnight Dance

By: Joanna Davidson Politano

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

All theater romances are tragedies. Ella Blythe knows this. Still, she cannot help but hope her own… read more

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28. Nicholas: God’s Courageous Gift-Giver

By: Cheryl Odden

4.42

Format: 45 pages, Hardcover

Look behind the legends and tales of Santa Claus to learn the true story of a steadfast, godly man … read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Corrie Ten Boom: Are all of the watches safe? (Little Lights) by Catherine MacKenzie

29. Corrie Ten Boom: Are all of the watches safe? (Little Lights)

By: Catherine MacKenzie

4.36

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Tells the true story of Corrie Ten Boom and little Dutch watch shop. While she mends watches she is… read more

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Cover of George Müller: Does money grow on trees? (Little Lights) by Catherine MacKenzie

30. George Müller: Does money grow on trees? (Little Lights)

By: Catherine MacKenzie

4.11

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

George Muller - Does Money grow on trees? What would you do if you needed some money? Would you pi… read more

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31. Helen Roseveare: What's in the Parcel?

By: Catherine MacKenzie

4.32

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

The true story of Helen Roseveare and the hotwater bottle. In the Jungle an orphan baby needs a hot… read more

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6 Best biography books like Nicholas: God’s Courageous Gift-Giver by Cheryl Odden

Transform Your Habits

Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern

James E. Talmage

4.62

Transform Your Habits

Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me

Russell M. Nelson

4.87

Transform Your Habits

Nicholas: God’s Courageous Gift-Giver

Cheryl Odden

4.42

Transform Your Habits

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Catherine MacKenzie

4.36

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The Relatives Came

Cynthia Rylant , Stephen Gammell

3.82

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Roxaboxen

Barbara Cooney , Alice McLerran

3.97

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The Little House

Virginia Lee Burton

5.00

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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Virginia Lee Burton

5.00

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