Best Picture Books

Staff Recommendations for Kids
Rude Cakes / Rowboat Watkins

Rude Cakes

This Book Will Not Be Fun / Cirocco Dunlap

This Book Will Not Be Fun

Bedtime for Mommy / Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Bedtime for Mommy

Why? / Adam Rex

Why?

A Good Day for a Hat / T. Nat Fuller

A Good Day for a Hat

The Big Bed / Bunmi Laditan

The Big Bed

The Big Umbrella / Amy June Bates

The Big Umbrella

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

We Don't Eat Our Classmates

Call Me Gorgeous! / Giles Milton

Call Me Gorgeous!

Crazy Hair / Neil Gaiman

Crazy Hair

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

Kevin the Unicorn: It's Not All Rainbows

The Wall in the Middle of the Book / Jon Agee

The Wall in the Middle of the Book

Dad By My Side / Soosh

Dad By My Side

Queenie Farmer Had Fifteen Daughters / Ann Campbell

Queenie Farmer Had Fifteen Daughters

When the Babies Came to Stay / Christine McDonnell

When the Babies Came to Stay

A Tiger Called Tomás / Charlotte Zolotow

A Tiger Called Tomás

Swim Swim Sink / Jenn Harney

Swim Swim Sink

Lovely / Jess Hong

Lovely

Explorers of the Wild / Cale Atkinson

Explorers of the Wild

Bunnies!!! / Kevan Atteberry

Bunnies!!!

Cats Are Cats / Valeri Gorbachev

Cats Are Cats

Can I Keep It? / Lisa Jobe

Can I Keep It?

Dandy / Ame Dyckman

Dandy

Flap Your Wings / P.D. Eastman

Flap Your Wings

Ghosts in the House / Kazuno Kohara

Ghosts in the House

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

Great, Now We've Got Barbarians!

Have You Seen Elephant? / David Barrow

Have You Seen Elephant?

How To Find a Fox / Nilah Magruder

How To Find a Fox

I Am Not a Chair! / Ross Burach

I Am Not a Chair!

I Don't Like Koala / Sean Ferrell

I Don't Like Koala

Ivy Loves to Give / Freya Blackwood

Ivy Loves to Give

The Little Guys / Vera Brosgol

The Little Guys

My Blue is Happy / Jessica Young

My Blue is Happy

Once Upon a Goat / Dan Richards

Once Upon a Goat

Sophie's Squash / Pat Zietlow Miller

Sophie's Squash

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

There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor

Not Quite Narwhal / Jessie Sima

Not Quite Narwhal

Because / Mo Willems

Because

Unstoppable / Adam Rex

Unstoppable

Lift / Minh Le

Lift

Rescuing Mrs. Birdley / Aaron Reynolds

Rescuing Mrs. Birdley

Diana Dances / Luciano Lozano

Diana Dances

Just In Case You Want to Fly / Julie Fogliano

Just In Case You Want to Fly

Now / Antoinette Portis

Now

The Lumberjack's Beard / Duncan Beedie

The Lumberjack's Beard

If You Want to See a Whale / Julie Fogliano

If You Want to See a Whale

Please Don't Eat Me / Liz Climo

Please Don't Eat Me

Quit Calling Me a Monster / Jory John

Quit Calling Me a Monster

Thank You, Omu! / Oge Mora

Thank You, Omu!

The Undefeated / Kwame Alexander

The Undefeated

Nobody Hugs a Cactus / Carter Goodrich

Nobody Hugs a Cactus

Warts and All / Lori Haskins Houran

Warts and All

The Perfectly Perfect Wish / Lisa Mantchev

The Perfectly Perfect Wish

Rot the Cutest / Ben Clanton

Rot the Cutest

Lottie and Walter / Anna Walker

Lottie and Walter

Natsumi / Susan Lendroth

Natsumi

Puppy, Puppy, Puppy / Julie Sternberg

Puppy, Puppy, Puppy

The Sheep Who Hatched an Egg / Gemma Merino

The Sheep Who Hatched an Egg