Best Picture Books

Staff Recommendations for Kids
On a Summer Night / Deborah Hopkinson

On a Summer Night

This Book Will Not Be Fun / Cirocco Dunlap

This Book Will Not Be Fun

Lovely / Jess Hong

Lovely

A Good Day for a Hat / T. Nat Fuller

A Good Day for a Hat

The Lumberjack's Beard / Duncan Beedie

The Lumberjack's Beard

Rude Cakes / Rowboat Watkins

Rude Cakes

The Sheep Who Hatched an Egg / Gemma Merino

The Sheep Who Hatched an Egg

Now / Antoinette Portis

Now

Puppy, Puppy, Puppy / Julie Sternberg

Puppy, Puppy, Puppy

Natsumi / Susan Lendroth

Natsumi

The Big Umbrella / Amy June Bates

The Big Umbrella

Just In Case You Want to Fly / Julie Fogliano

Just In Case You Want to Fly

Lottie and Walter / Anna Walker

Lottie and Walter

Diana Dances / Luciano Lozano

Diana Dances

Rot the Cutest / Ben Clanton

Rot the Cutest

Swim Swim Sink / Jenn Harney

Swim Swim Sink

Rescuing Mrs. Birdley / Aaron Reynolds

Rescuing Mrs. Birdley

Lift / Minh Le

Lift

Unstoppable / Adam Rex

Unstoppable

The Perfectly Perfect Wish / Lisa Mantchev

The Perfectly Perfect Wish

Warts and All / Lori Haskins Houran

Warts and All

A Tiger Called Tomás / Charlotte Zolotow

A Tiger Called Tomás

Nobody Hugs a Cactus / Carter Goodrich

Nobody Hugs a Cactus

Because / Mo Willems

Because

Not Quite Narwhal / Jessie Sima

Not Quite Narwhal

The Undefeated / Kwame Alexander

The Undefeated

When the Babies Came to Stay / Christine McDonnell

When the Babies Came to Stay

There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor / Wade Bradford

There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor

The Wall in the Middle of the Book / Jon Agee

The Wall in the Middle of the Book

Thank You, Omu! / Oge Mora

Thank You, Omu!

Sophie's Squash / Pat Zietlow Miller

Sophie's Squash

Queenie Farmer Had Fifteen Daughters / Ann Campbell

Queenie Farmer Had Fifteen Daughters

Please Don't Eat Me / Liz Climo

Please Don't Eat Me

Once Upon a Goat / Dan Richards

Once Upon a Goat

Why? / Adam Rex

Why?

My Blue is Happy / Jessica Young

My Blue is Happy

The Little Guys / Vera Brosgol

The Little Guys

Ivy Loves to Give / Freya Blackwood

Ivy Loves to Give

Kevin the Unicorn: It's Not All Rainbows / Jessika von Innerebner

Kevin the Unicorn: It's Not All Rainbows

If You Want to See a Whale / Julie Fogliano

If You Want to See a Whale

I Don't Like Koala / Sean Ferrell

I Don't Like Koala

How To Find a Fox / Nilah Magruder

How To Find a Fox

Have You Seen Elephant? / David Barrow

Have You Seen Elephant?

Great, Now We've Got Barbarians! / Jason Carter Eaton

Great, Now We've Got Barbarians!

Ghosts in the House / Kazuno Kohara

Ghosts in the House

Flap Your Wings / P.D. Eastman

Flap Your Wings

Dandy / Ame Dyckman

Dandy

Dad By My Side / Soosh

Dad By My Side

Crazy Hair / Neil Gaiman

Crazy Hair

Can I Keep It? / Lisa Jobe

Can I Keep It?

Call Me Gorgeous! / Giles Milton

Call Me Gorgeous!

Bunnies!!! / Kevan Atteberry

Bunnies!!!

The Big Bed / Bunmi Laditan

The Big Bed

Bedtime for Mommy / Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Bedtime for Mommy

Explorers of the Wild / Cale Atkinson

Explorers of the Wild

We Don't Eat Our Classmates / Ryan T. Higgins

We Don't Eat Our Classmates