Grades
PreK - 5
A collection of the very best picture books, selected by teachers and adored by their students.
With cherished classics and contemporary award winners, written and illustrated by the superstars of children's literature, these popular picture books are sure to delight readers — young and old — for generations.
Picture books are a timeless way to engage your students with a multisensory experience that can help increase vocabulary, build an understanding of sentence structure, and encourage story analysis. Plus, the visual stimulation they offer young children can help them decode the narrative, which in turn increases comprehension.
No, David!, Creatrilogy: The Dot, and Clifford the Big Red Dog are just a few of the best-selling and beloved classic picture books featured in this list, along with popular new additions like The Very Impatient Caterpillar, Frog on a Log? and A Bad Case of Stripes.
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In the original story that has sparked the imaginations of young readers for generations, a little girl gets a tiny puppy who grows up to be the biggest dog in the whole world.
The bus driver is leaving for a little while and has one simple request: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! It won't be easy; this bird is pushy. And he can be very persuasive!
Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately, where there are tacos, there is also salsa. And if a dragon accidentally eats spicy salsa...oh, boy. You're in red-hot trouble!
Frog does not want to sit on a log! But Cat tells him that's where he belongs. Doing his best to find an alternative place to sit, Frog asks Cat a whole lot of questions. For every answer Cat has, Frog has another question, until he finds out what dogs sit on! A silly read-aloud story with funny rhymes and hilarious illustrations.
Universal in its appeal, this story reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.
Is it time yet? This STEM-focused romp about pupation will tickle little ones who know how hard it is to wait.
David's unabashed good humor, mischievous smile, and laughter-inducing antics underline the love parents have for their children—even when they misbehave.
Gerald the giraffe longs to dance, but his legs are too skinny and his neck is too long. His knees buckle whenever he tries to twirl. At the Jungle Dance, the warthogs waltz, the chimps cha-cha, and the lions tango. "Giraffes can't dance," they all jeer when it's Gerald's turn to prance. But there is one little creature who believes in Gerald. "Everything makes music," the cricket explains, "if you really want it to." So Gerald starts swaying to his own sweet tune.
Max is the hero of this beloved children's classic in which he makes mischief, sails away, tames the wild things, and returns home for supper.
On her walk home with her father, Trixie realizes her bunny is missing. Trixie's too little to speak, so how will she tell her daddy what's wrong?
In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room?
Two lonely boys meet on a city street, brought together by the bounce of a basketball and a simple "Yo!" answered by the other one's "Yes?"
A children's classic in which a bear leaves the safety of his department store shelf on a quest to be adopted by a little girl.
In this funny and light-hearted picture book, a fussy eraser tries to keep the pages clean by erasing the scribbles of a mischievous pencil. But before long, the eraser discovers what can happen when two opposing forces come together to have fun. With humor and a keen eye for play, Max Amato crafts a delightful story that reveals the joys of collaborative imagination.
Featuring Todd Parr's trademark bold, bright colors and silly scenes, this book embraces differences in a unique way.
Tanya's grandmother is making an heirloom quilt for her family, but when Grandma falls ill, Tanya decides to finish the masterpiece herself.
In the still before dawn, while the rest of the world is sleeping, a boy and his dog leave the comfort of their warm bed to deliver newspapers. As the boy pedals his bike along a route he knows by heart, his dog runs by his side, both enjoying a world that, before sunrise, belongs only to them.
As a boy and his grandmother ride the bus home, she helps him see the beauty and fun in their routine and the world around them.
In this contemporary classic, veteran children's author Viorst introduces us to Alexander, a kid with an unruly crop of hair, who gets out of bed to face a day that seems to grow increasingly worse with each passing minute.
With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark, and to follow where it takes us.
A creative spirit learns that thinking "ish-ly" is far more wonderful than "getting it right" in this gentle fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book The Dot.
Camilla Cream is very worried about what other people think about her, but at the very moment she most wants to fit in, she becomes completely covered in colorful stripes! Specialists are called but the situation goes from bad to worse. Isn't there anyone who can help Camilla remember what it means to be herself?
Bored and dissatisfied with his life, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape—over and over again.
With stunning watercolors and a text that resounds with universal truths, this timeless fable for young readers is based on a story by Leo Tolstoy.
All Jeremy wants is a pair of shoes like the ones everyone at school seems to be wearing, but his grandma says they don't have room for "want," only "need."
