6 Best animals books like The Rainforest Grew All Around by Connie McLennan, Susan K. Mitchell

Cover of The Rainforest Grew All Around by Connie McLennan, Susan K. Mitchell

The Rainforest Grew All Around

By: Connie McLennan , Susan K. Mitchell

2.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back down again, following …

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Cover of Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet

1. Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

By: Melissa Sweet

4.08

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet comes the perfect Thanksgiving Day picture book. Let's ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
"Every little movement has a meaning of its own. -Tony Sarg"

-Melissa Sweet, Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

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2. Christmas Trolls

By: Jan Brett

4.12

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Christmas is Treva's favorite time of year, especially the preparations -- finding the perfect tree… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
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3. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Newbery Medal Winner (1959) Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the col… read more

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  • childrens
"People are afraid of things they don’t understand."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet. A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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4. Treasures of the Snow

By: Patricia St. John

4.27

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

A story of vicious revenge and hard repentance Annette and Lucien are enemies. After Annette get… read more

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  • childrens
"He is love, and when love comes in, hatred and selfishness and unkindness will give way to it, just as the darkness gives way when you let in the sunshine. But try to chase it alone would be trying t…"

-Patricia St. John, Treasures of the Snow

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5. The Family Under the Bridge

By: Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his… read more

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  • childrens
"You're afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if they find out you have one."

-Garth Williams, The Family Under the Bridge

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6. 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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  • picture books
  • childrens
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7. These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim s… read more

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  • childrens
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8. Sparkle Box

By: Jill Hardie

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The moving story of an uncommon gift and how giving to others shows a little boy the true meaning o… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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9. Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia

By: Jeanette Winter

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books there's barely room for the … read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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10. The Midwife's Apprentice

By: Karen Cushman

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, Ruth Brown, Peter Barrett

11. James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot , Ruth Brown , Peter Barrett

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

James Herriot's Treasury for Children collects all of the beloved veterinarian's delightful tales f… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of The Rainforest Grew All Around by Connie McLennan, Susan K. Mitchell

12. The Rainforest Grew All Around

By: Connie McLennan , Susan K. Mitchell

2.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back down again, following … read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

13. The Mixed-Up Chameleon

By: Eric Carle

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Board Book

From Eric Carle, the New York Timesbestselling author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Grouch… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien

14. Letters from Father Christmas

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more

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  • childrens

15. Goodnight Moon

By: Margaret Wise Brown , Clement Hurd

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And… read more

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16. The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus

By: Melissa Sweet , Jen Bryant

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions -- and it wasn't long before Peter b… read more

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17. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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18. Wolf Island

By: Ian McAllister , Nicholas Read

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Great Bear Rainforest is a majestic place full of tall trees, huge bears and endless schools of… read more

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19. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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  • childrens
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

20. Anatole (Anatole, #1)

By: Paul Galdone , Eve Titus

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Anatole is a most honorable mouse. When he realizes that humans are upset by mice sampling their le… read more

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21. Silence

By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more

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22. The Light Between Oceans

By: M.L. Stedman

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - th… read more

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23. 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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24. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The long winter is finally over, and with spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more … read more

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25. The First Four Years (Little House, #9)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. La… read more

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Cover of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane C. Ortlund

26. Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

By: Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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27. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

Cover of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard

28. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

By: Kevin Noble Maillard

4.42

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

29. The Great Kapok Tree

By: Lynne Cherry

4.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The author and artist Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illu… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • nature
  • science

17 Top childrens books like The Rainforest Grew All Around by Connie McLennan, Susan K. Mitchell

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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

Melissa Sweet

4.08

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Christmas Trolls

Jan Brett

4.12

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

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Treasures of the Snow

Patricia St. John

4.27

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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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Virginia Lee Burton

5.00

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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Virginia Lee Burton

5.00

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