17 must-read picture books books like After Squidnight by Jonathan E. Fenske

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After Squidnight

By: Jonathan E. Fenske

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of the award-winning A Pig, a Fox, and a Box comes a sly, silly picture book about…

If you liked the picture books plot in After Squidnight by Jonathan E. Fenske , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Hello Ninja

By: N.D. Wilson , Forrest Dickison

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Board book

Global bedtime fun for ninjas! Whether they're dancing nimbly through the tropics or hobnobbing wit… read more

Similar categories in N.D. Wilson's Hello Ninja book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • humor
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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2. Islandborn

By: Junot Díaz , Leo Espinosa

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz comes a debut picture book abou… read more

Similar categories in Junot Díaz's Islandborn book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction

3. Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1)

By: James Howe , Alan Daniel , Deborah Howe

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

BEWARE THE HARE! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the … read more

Similar categories in James Howe's Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1) book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

4. The Runaway Bunny

By: Margaret Wise Brown , Clement Hurd

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal hi… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

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5. 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

Similar categories in Vashti Harrison's Big book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Big Cheese (The Food Group, #7) by Jory John

6. The Big Cheese (The Food Group, #7)

By: Jory John

4.17

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon c… read more

Similar categories in Jory John's The Big Cheese (The Food Group, #7) book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • childrens
  • humor
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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7. 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

Similar categories in Michaela Goade's Berry Song book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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8. Where Butterflies Fill the Sky

By: Zahra Marwan

3.86

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait t… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Marwan's Where Butterflies Fill the Sky book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • picture books
  • childrens
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9. Creepy Crayon!

By: Aaron Reynolds

4.32

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Times bestseller! From the team behind the New York Times bestselling Creepy Carro… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Reynolds's Creepy Crayon! book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • childrens
  • humor
  • picture books
  • animals
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Good Egg (The Food Group #2) by Jory John

10. The Good Egg (The Food Group #2)

By: Jory John

4.35

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to Jory John and Pete Oswald’s popular picture book The Bad Seed, meet the next b… read more

Similar categories in Jory John's The Good Egg (The Food Group #2) book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

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

11. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Partridge's Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • art
  • childrens
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12. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Barnhill's The Ogress and the Orphans book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • fantasy
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

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13. Opposites Abstract

By: Mo Willems

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Mo Willems delivers an inquisitive look at opposites. Is this dark? Is this light? Is this soft?… read more

Similar categories in Mo Willems's Opposites Abstract book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • art
  • picture books
  • childrens
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14. The Loud Librarian

By: Jenna Beatrice

4.06

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

A little librarian with a larger-than-life voice finds her place in this sweet and uproarious pictu… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Beatrice's The Loud Librarian book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • humor
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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15. Over and Under the Waves

By: Kate Messner

4.17

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Explore the wonders and beauties of the ocean's kelp forests in this latest addition to the acclaim… read more

Similar categories in Kate Messner's Over and Under the Waves book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Sisters in Science: Marie Curie, Bronia Dluska, and the Atomic Power of Sisterhood by Linda Elovitz Marshall

16. Sisters in Science: Marie Curie, Bronia Dluska, and the Atomic Power of Sisterhood

By: Linda Elovitz Marshall

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Discover the fascinating true story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two tr… read more

Similar categories in Linda Elovitz Marshall's Sisters in Science: Marie Curie, Bronia Dluska, and the Atomic Power of Sisterhood book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • picture books
  • childrens
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17. Three

By: Stephen Michael King

4.29

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A heartwarming story of a three-legged dog who follows his nose all over the city, out to the count… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Michael King's Three book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

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

18. 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

Similar categories in Meghan Mccarthy's Action!: How Movies Began book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • art
  • picture books
  • childrens
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19. While Everyone Is Sleeping

By: Sarah Mackenzie

4.29

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

I tiptoe through the garden gate . . . Is everyone still sleeping? Moths flutter, wings beating Bee… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Mackenzie's While Everyone Is Sleeping book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • picture books
  • animals
  • childrens
Cover of Millie Fleur's Poison Garden by Christy Mandin

20. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

By: Christy Mandin

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in … read more

Similar categories in Christy Mandin's Millie Fleur's Poison Garden book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • childrens
  • picture books
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of After Squidnight by Jonathan E. Fenske

21. After Squidnight

By: Jonathan E. Fenske

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of the award-winning A Pig, a Fox, and a Box comes a sly, silly picture book about… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight book and Jonathan E. Fenske's After Squidnight

  • art
  • drawing
  • childrens
  • humor
  • picture books
  • animals
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

12 Best fiction books like After Squidnight by Jonathan E. Fenske

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Hello Ninja

N.D. Wilson , Forrest Dickison

4.11

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Islandborn

Junot Díaz , Leo Espinosa

3.77

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Big

Vashti Harrison

4.66

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The Big Cheese (The Food Group, #7)

Jory John

4.17

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

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

Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

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How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee

Carole Boston Weatherford

4.44

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Elisa Boxer

4.47

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