Books like 'Earth'
Readers who enjoyed Earth by Chris Packham & Andrew Cohen also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
-
George and the Blue Moon by Lucy Hawking, Stephen W. Hawking
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGeorge and Annie are off on another cosmic adventure inspired by the Mars Expedition in the fifth book of the George’s Secret Key series from Stephen and Lucy Hawking.George and his best friend, Annie, have been selected as junior astronauts for a program that trains young people for a future trip to Mars...Categorized as:
evolution action-adventure book children children-books fiction middle-grade realistic -
![A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin]()
A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLittle Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake. Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she's not supposed to eat any yet! What happens when she can't resist a nibble? In this stunning, heartwarming original story that shines as bright as the stars in the sky, Newbery Honor author Grace Lin explains the phases of the moon... -
![How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers]()
How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOnce there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much so that he decided to catch one of his very own. But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree? No, not tall enough. The boy has a rocket ship . . . but it is made of paper and doesn't fly well at all... -
![It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw]()
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe white shape silhouetted against a blue background changes on every page. Is it a rabbit, a bird, or just spilt milk? In this childhood classic, kids are kept guessing until the surprise ending and they're encouraged to improvise similar games of their own. This beloved classic picture book teaches that, with a little imagination, something ordinary could become something extraordinary... -
-
![George and the Ship of Time by Lucy Hawking]()
George and the Ship of Time by Lucy Hawking
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeorge travels to the future in the epic conclusion of the George’s Secret Key series from Lucy Hawking.When George finds a way to escape the spacecraft Artemis, where he has been trapped, he is overjoyed. Surely now he can return to Earth. But when George touches down, he knows immediately that something is wrong... -
![Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch]()
Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBear travels to the highest mountaintop to find out what to give the Moon for its birthday and discovers a delightful surprise -- the Moon has the same birthday as Bear. Or so it seems... -
![You Matter by Christian Robinson]()
You Matter by Christian Robinson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey All Saw a Cat meets The Important Book in this sensitive and impactful picture book about seeing the world from different points of view by Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honoree Christian Robinson.In this full, bright, and beautiful picture book, many different perspectives around the world are deftly and empathetically explored—from a pair of bird-watchers to the pigeons they’re feeding... -
![Stars by Mary Lyn Ray]()
Stars by Mary Lyn Ray
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"A star is how you know it's almost night.""As soon as you see one, there's another, and another.""And the dark that comes doesn't feel so dark.""What if you could have a star?"From acclaimed author Mary Lyn Ray and two-time Caldecott Honor winner Marla Frazee comes this tender, evocative--and profound--exploration of stars both near and far... -
![Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith]()
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib... -
![Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle]()
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThis story literally unfolds as pages open dramatically, extending both outward and upward. Monica wants the moon to play with, so her Papa sets out to get it for her. It isn't easy to climb all the way to the moon, but he finally succeeds--only to find that the moon is too big to carry home! The way the problem is resolved is a joyful surprise. Illustrated... -
![Imani's Moon by JaNay Brown-Wood, Hazel Mitchell]()
Imani's Moon by JaNay Brown-Wood, Hazel Mitchell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImani is a young Maasai girl with a loving mother and a desire to do something great. When she decides she wants to touch the moon, she works hard to reach her goal, even in the face of teasing from the naysayers around her... -
![Whose Moon Is That? by Kim Krans]()
Whose Moon Is That? by Kim Krans
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA stunning picture book that addresses the question: do any of us "own" nature? When a curious cat asks the question, "Whose moon is that?," a panoply of animals try to stake their claim. The wolf, the owl, and the starry sky all have their reasons, but the moon ultimately answers for herself -- her light is meant to be shared by everyone... -
![June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner]()
June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe lively imagination of Caldecott medalist David Wiesner forecasts astounding goings-on for a Tuesday in the not too distant future -- an occurrence of gigantic vegetal proportions... -
![This Is a Moose by Richard T. Morris, Tom Lichtenheld]()
This Is a Moose by Richard T. Morris, Tom Lichtenheld
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLights! Camera! Moose! MOOSE? Yes, Moose! When a movie director tries to capture the life of a moose on film, he's in for a big surprise. It turns out the moose has a dream bigger then just being a moose—he wants to be an astronaut and go to the moon.His forest friends step in to help him, and action ensues. Lots of action...Categorized as:
outdoors action-adventure animals anthropomorphism book children children-books family -
-
![Green Rising by Lauren James]()
Green Rising by Lauren James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in a near-future world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, Lauren James’ novel is a gripping, witty and romantic call to arms.Gabrielle is a climate-change activist who shoots to fame when she becomes the first teenager to display a supernatural ability to grow plants from her skin. Hester is the millionaire daughter of an oil tycoon and the face of the family business...Categorized as:
outdoors body-horror book contemporary disability dystopia enemies-to-lovers fiction -
![Society of the Mind by Eric L. Harry]()
Society of the Mind by Eric L. Harry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA chilling cyberthriller about a brilliant--and beautiful-- psychologist trapped in a web of futuristic terror.When Dr. Laura Aldridge, a young Harvard psychology professor, is offered one million dollars by billionaire computer-genius and inventor Joseph Gray to assist on a mysterious project, she leaves her comfortable existence to live on his beautiful island in the South Pacific... -
![Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long]()
Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter angering a local gangster, seventeen-year-old Sena Korhosen must flee with her prize fighting wolf, Iska, in tow. A team of scientists offer to pay her way off her frozen planet on one condition: she gets them to the finish line of the planet’s infamous sled race. Though Sena always swore she’d never race after it claimed both her mothers’ lives, it’s now her only option... -
![The Thousand Emperors by Gary Gibson]()
The Thousand Emperors by Gary Gibson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second in a high octane space adventure series from a master storytellerArchivist Luc Gabion is dying, slowly, victim of a forced technology implant while on assignment. He brought down a powerful terrorist, but at great cost, and this new tech brings unexpected dangers. Luc must investigate the Thousand Emperors, rulers of the Tian Di's stellar empire... -
![Africa Zero by Neal Asher]()
Africa Zero by Neal Asher
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Collector rampages across a far future Africa populated with gene-spliced vampires, resurrected mammoth and nutters with APWs . . -
![Into the Rain by M.U. Riyadad]()
Into the Rain by M.U. Riyadad
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnter a world unlike any other. A world teeming with creatures the size of planets, parasites that can lay waste to entire civilizations, and mysterious energy sources that can decay the life force of stars. Across glacial swamps, cloud cities, and ages past – The Evil Eye continues to seek its possessor. What starts as only a whisper in the darkness, grows into a tale of epic proportions... -
![Iterations by Robert J. Sawyer, James Alan Gardner]()
-
![The Architect of Aeons by John C. Wright]()
The Architect of Aeons by John C. Wright
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe epic and mind-blowing finale to this visionary space opera series surpasses all expectation: Menelaus Montrose, having forged an uneasy alliance with his immortal adversary, Ximen del Azarchel, maps a future on a scale beyond anything previously imagined... -
![The Wellstone by Wil McCarthy]()
The Wellstone by Wil McCarthy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his Nebula Award nominated novel The Collapsium, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy introduced a richly imagined future of boundless possibility, where poverty, war, and even death are banished forever. Only now that world's exquisite perfection propels one restless young man toward the ultimate challenge.The WellstoneFor the children of immortal parents, growing up can be hard to do... -
![Little Cloud by Eric Carle]()
Little Cloud by Eric Carle
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAt last! Here's a brand-new board book edition of an Eric Carle picture book that's a favorite with littlest cloud gazers everywhere! Little Cloud likes to stand out from the crowd. When all the other clouds drift up, he goes his own way, changing shapes to become a sheep, an airplane, a shark and a funny clown. It's all lots of fun, but so is playing with friends... -
-
![Adiamante by L.E. Modesitt Jr.]()
Adiamante by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter ten thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth... -
![The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy]()
The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy imagines a wondrous future in which the secrets of matter have been unlocked and death itself is but a memory. But it is also a future imperiled by a bitter rivalry between two brilliant scientists--one perhaps the greatest genius in the history of humankind; the other, its greatest monster... -
![Princess Truly in My Magical, Sparkling Curls by Kelly Greenawalt]()
Princess Truly in My Magical, Sparkling Curls by Kelly Greenawalt
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her second adventure, Princess Truly's magical curls and belief in herself transport her back in time and help her reach for the stars!I love my fluffy, puffy curls.I'm so happy they are mine.When I believe in myself,They shimmer and they shine... -
![t zero by Italo Calvino]()
t zero by Italo Calvino
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. “Calvino does what very few other writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty” (Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books). Translated by William Weaver... -
![Spin Control by Chris Moriarty]()
Spin Control by Chris Moriarty
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCall Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel’s not buying it. They’re selling it–and Arkady–to the highest bidder. As the auction heats up, the Artificial Life Emancipation Front sends in Major Catherine Li... -
![The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven]()
The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, the descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remembered their Earth roots -- or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship. Until Kendy initiated contact once more.Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knew that Kendy was still watching -- and waiting...Categorized as:
evolution action-adventure adult anthologies audiobook colonization fiction hard-sci-fi -
![Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman]()
Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe discovery of a remarkable alien technology light years from Earth could have devastating consequences for humanity in this science fiction classic by the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel The Forever War In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known as the Levant-Meyer Translation changes everything...Categorized as:
evolution action-adventure aliens book children-books fiction first-contact hard-sci-fi -
![The Eternity Artifact by L.E. Modesitt Jr.]()
The Eternity Artifact by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFive thousand years in the future, humankind has spread across the galaxy and more than a dozen different planetary and system governments exist in an uneasy truce. Human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence. Until scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann... -
![Moonday by Adam Rex]()
Moonday by Adam Rex
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat do you do when the moon lowers itself into your backyard? When mornings are replaced by perpetual night, and people sigh-sleep in their eyes. What do you do when the tide comes in, and all the neighborhood dogs won't stop howling?You take the moon for a ride. Adam Rex creates a fantastic tale that is both imaginative and beautiful; one that blurs the line between dreams and reality... -
![Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter]()
Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 27 ratings"ONE OF THE BEST SF WRITERS IN THE BUSINESS . . . [Manifold: Origin is] filled with marvelous scientific speculations, strange events, novel concepts, and an awe-inspiring sense of the wonders of the universe."-Science Fiction ChronicleIn the year 2015, astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth's orbit... -
-
![Lovelock by Orson Scott Card, Kathryn H. Kidd]()
Lovelock by Orson Scott Card, Kathryn H. Kidd
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsBestselling author Orson Scott Card teams up with the talented Kathyrn H. Kidd to create a startling look at the ethics of bioengineering Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered to be the perfect servant--intelligent, agile, pliant, and devoted to his owner... -
![Ark by Veronica Roth]()
Ark by Veronica Roth
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsOn the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it’s Samantha’s job to catalog plant samples for the survivors’ unknowable journey beyond...Categorized as:
outdoors action-adventure anthologies apocalyptic audiobook dystopia female-author fiction
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.
