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Books like Shine!

Explore 24 books like Shine! by Karen Langley — a handpicked selection united by Parents, Christmas & Advent, Holidays & Celebrations, and Science & Nature.

Parents Christmas & Advent Holidays & Celebrations Science & Nature Family Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Shine!

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Shine!.

Christmas at Long Pond — William T. George

Christmas at Long Pond

William T. George

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden — Karina Yan Glaser

The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

Karina Yan Glaser

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

You Are My Miracle — Maryann Cusimano Love

You Are My Miracle

Maryann Cusimano Love

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Jake — Audrey Couloumbis

Audrey Couloumbis

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Juniper’s Christmas — Eoin Colfer

Juniper’s Christmas

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Home for the Holidays — Heather Vogel Frederick

Home for the Holidays

Heather Vogel Frederick

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Tree of Cranes — Allen Say

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Last Stop on the Reindeer Express — Maudie Powell-Tuck

Last Stop on the Reindeer Express

Maudie Powell-Tuck

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree — Eileen Christelow

Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree

Eileen Christelow

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

I Loved You Before You Were Born Board Book — Anne Bowen

I Loved You Before You Were Born Board Book

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Llama Llama Holiday Drama — Anna Dewdney

Llama Llama Holiday Drama

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

I Love You Through and Through at Christmas, Too! — Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak

I Love You Through and Through at Christmas, Too!

Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Oh, Sal — Kevin Henkes

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Tonight You Are My Baby Mary’s Christmas Gift — Jeannine Q. Norris

Tonight You Are My Baby Mary’s Christmas Gift

Jeannine Q. Norris

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

You Are My Merry — Marianne Richmond

You Are My Merry

Marianne Richmond

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Cabin Fever (Special Disney+ Cover Edition) (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #6) — Jeff Kinney

Cabin Fever (Special Disney+ Cover Edition) (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #6)

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

A Pinecone! — Helen Yoon

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

The Boy Who Slept Through Christmas — Matt Lucas

The Boy Who Slept Through Christmas

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Christmas Time — Catherine Stock

Catherine Stock

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

My Baby Loves Christmas — Jabari Asim

My Baby Loves Christmas

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

The Christmas Blessing A One-Of-a-Kind Nativity Story about the Love That Brings Us Together — Erin Guendelsberger

The Christmas Blessing A One-Of-a-Kind Nativity Story about the Love That Brings Us Together

Erin Guendelsberger

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

Llama Llama Holiday Helper — Anna Dewdney

Llama Llama Holiday Helper

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

A World of Cookies for Santa Follow Santa’s Tasty Trip Around the World — M. E. Furman

A World of Cookies for Santa Follow Santa’s Tasty Trip Around the World

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street — Karina Yan Glaser

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

Karina Yan Glaser

Themes: Parents • Christmas & Advent • Holidays & Celebrations

If Shine! by Karen Langley is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Parents, Christmas & Advent, Holidays & Celebrations and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by William T. George, Karina Yan Glaser, Maryann Cusimano Love, Audrey Couloumbis, and others.

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