11 must-read science books like An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth by Cally Oldershaw

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An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth

By: Cally Oldershaw

4.61

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From molten-hot rock and smouldering volcanoes to icy glaciers and bubbling springs, this stunning …

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1. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • childrens
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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2. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • childrens
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

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3. Seabiscuit: An American Legend

By: Laura Hillenbrand

4.22

Format: 457 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's an alternate cover edition here Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The weather was clear, the track fast War Admiral broke first and finished last."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sport."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"He grasped for hope in Emerson's vision of natural polarities, in which all things are balanced by their opposites—darkness by light, cold by heat, loss by gain."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of f…"

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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4. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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  • childrens
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more

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  • childrens
"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"

-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

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6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more

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"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

7. Restart

By: Gordon Korman

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't re… read more

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8. The Phantom Tollbooth

By: Jules Feiffer , Norton Juster

4.20

Format: 24 pages,

Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click . Hailed as "a classic. .… read more

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9. How to Eat Fried Worms

By: Thomas Rockwell

3.76

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

People are always daring Billy to do zany things. But Billy may have bitten off more than he can ch… read more

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  • childrens

10. Superfudge (Fudge, #3)

By: Judy Blume

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

From Judy Blume, bestselling author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing! Fans young and old will lau… read more

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11. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

12. A Light in the Attic

By: Shel Silverstein

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all… read more

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13. Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous … read more

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14. The Giving Tree

By: Shel Silverstein

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception… read more

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15. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

By: L. Frank Baum , W.W. Denslow

4.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to … read more

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  • childrens
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

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16. The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.99

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural."

-Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

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17. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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18. The Unteachables

By: Gordon Korman

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and bestselling author Gordon Korman about what hap… read more

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  • childrens
"Kid, that was something!"

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

"Everybody hates something,"

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

"Only ten months until June."

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

"It’s not just for little kids,"

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

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19. The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)

By: Mai Mochizuki

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of c… read more

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20. When Women Were Dragons

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.85

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transfo… read more

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"The dragons did not go away."

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our l…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to contr…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of th…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

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21. The Mysteries of the Universe: Discover the best-kept secrets of space (DK Children's Anthologies)

By: Will Gater

4.59

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Travel to the furthest reaches of the Universe and visit 100 remarkable objects along the way with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • nature
  • science
Cover of An Anthology of Intriguing Animals (DK Children's Anthologies) by Ben Hoare

22. An Anthology of Intriguing Animals (DK Children's Anthologies)

By: Ben Hoare

4.57

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A book to treasure, filled with stunning photographs, beautiful illustrations, and fascinating info… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • nature
  • science
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23. Dragonslayer (Wings of Fire: Legends, #2)

By: Tui T. Sutherland

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

This special edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars back in time t… read more

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  • childrens
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24. The Secret World of Plants: Tales of More Than 100 Remarkable Flowers, Trees, and Seeds (DK Treasures)

By: Ben Hoare

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A timeless treasury of more than 100 stories from the incredible kingdom of plants, told by author … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • nature
  • science
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25. Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life (DK Children's Anthologies)

By: Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan

4.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From Tyrannosaurus and saber-toothed cats, to ferns and woolly mammoths, every page will captivate … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • science
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26. An Anthology of Aquatic Life

By: Sam Hume

4.57

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the deepest, widest ocean to the tiniest puddle, this beautiful compendium takes young readers… read more

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  • childrens
  • nature
  • science
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27. An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth

By: Cally Oldershaw

4.61

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From molten-hot rock and smouldering volcanoes to icy glaciers and bubbling springs, this stunning … read more

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  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • earth sciences
  • nature
  • science
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28. 100 Things To Know About Numbers, Computers & Coding

By: Minna Lacey

4.41

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Did you know there's a single spot on your brain that recognizes numbers? Or that the first compute… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • science
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29. Water Cycles (DK Life Cycles)

By: D.K. Publishing

4.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Dive into the lifecycle of water and discover how it supports all life forms, how humans harness it… read more

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  • childrens
  • nature
  • science
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30. Life Cycles: Everything from Start to Finish (DK Life Cycles)

By: D.K. Publishing

4.40

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Take a look into the circle of life through the life cycles of the planet and everything on it!Ever… read more

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  • childrens
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17 best-selling childrens books like An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth by Cally Oldershaw

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

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John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.08

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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Sunyi Dean

3.64

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