2024 children’s picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian. Please note that this list is ACCUMULATING, meaning she will add more books over the year.
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- Beach Bummer
- Bear and Bird Winter Wonderland Adventure
- Bear Finds Eggs
- Behind My Doors: The Story of the World’s Oldest Library
- Best Worst Camp Out Ever, The
- Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World
- Birth of the Chosen One: A First Nations Retelling of the Christmas Story
- Bless Our Pets
- Bondi & Poppy Help Heal the Planet
- Buffalo Fluffalo
- Bumblebee Garden, The
- Butterfly on the Wind
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- Cat Way, The
- Cheeky Chick!
- Chicka Chicka Ho Ho Ho
- Christmas(History of Holidays and Festivals)
- Christmas Light That Didn’t Shine, The
- Christmas Snow Globe, The
- City Full of Santas, A
- City Sings Green & Other Poems About Welcoming Wildlife, The
- Clever Crow
- Climbing the Volcano
- Close Up and Far Out: Seeing the World Differently
- Counting on Mom
- Counting Winter
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- Dare to Be Daring
- Days After Christmas
- Dino-Earth Day
- Dolly Parton’s Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas
- Don’t Trust Cats: Life Lessons from Chip the Dog
- Duck, Duck, Goose!
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- Easter Books
- Earth and Earth Day Books
- Eight Sweet Nights
- Escargot and the Search for Spring
- Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah
- Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton
F
- Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook, The
- Fast Cheetah, Slow Tortoise: Poems of Animal Opposites
- Find Out About Animal Tools
- Fiona and the Easter Egg Hunt
- Firefly Galaxy
- Fine Little Bad Boy, A
- Fly: A Family Guide to Birds and How to Spot Them (In Our Nature)Â
- For You, I Will
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- Garmann’s Summer
- Gifts from Georgia’s Garden: How Georgia O’Keeffe Nourished Her Art
- Gingerbread House Jack’s Family Ate, The
- Girl Who Loves Bugs, The
- Girl with the Magic Ponytails: French Tales, The
- Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
- Goodnight School
- Grand Idea: How William J. Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal, A
- Grandma’s Roof Garden
- Gravity is Bringing Me Down
- Great Gusts: Winds of the World and the Science Behind Them
- Great Lakes, The
- Guts for Glory: A Story of Civil War Solder Rosetta Wakeman
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- Hare-Shaped Hole, The
- Hariett’s Reflections
- Have You Seen Mikki Olsen?
- Here and There
- Hike It
- Hiro, Winter, and Marshmallows
- Holi
- Home
- Homegrown
- Home in a Lunchbox
- How to Be Brave
- How Voting and Elections Work
I
- I am NOT the Easter Bunny!
- India on a Plate: Indian Food from A to Z
- Insect Books
- Inside the Compost Bin
- Is This…Easter?
- It Happened in Salem
- It Is Okay
- It’s Winter!
- It’s Winter (The Seasons in Mr. Green’s Garden)
- I Was: The Stories of Animal Skulls
J
- Jump for Joy
- Juneteenth books
- Juneteenth Cookbook: Recipes and Activities for Kids and Families to Celebrate, The
- Juneteenth Is
- Just Us
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- Leo’s First Vote
- Letters to Never Send Santa
- Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall
- Like No Other: Earth’s Coolest One-of-a-Kind Creatures
- Like You, Like Me
- Light from My Menorah, The
- Littlest Christmas Tree, The
- Little Red Fox and his Fluffy Ginger Locks
- Log Life
- Love and Hugs: Spring
- Love Grows
- Love, Lah Lah
- Lucky Duck
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- Mabel and the Mountain
- Mamas and Babies
- Mama’s Panza
- Milkweed for Monarchs
- Mommy’s New Friend
- Most Beautiful Winter, The
- Motorcycle Queen: The Life of Bessie Stringfield
- Mouse Family Christmas, A
- Museum on the Moon: The Curious Objects on the Lunar Surface,The
- Mothers Books
- My Block Looks Like
- My Kwanzaa Wish
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- Ocean Gardener, The
- One Day This Tree Will Fall
- One Foggy Christmas Eve
- One Sweet Song
- Only: The Bird Who Liked Being Alone
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- Patsy Cline’s Walkin’ After Midnight
- Pedal, Balance, Steer: Annie Londonderry, the First Woman to Cycle Around the World
- Penny Preaches
- Pepper and Me
- Place for Rain, A
- Poetry
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- Saint Valentine the Kindhearted
- Santa’s First Christmas
- Show Up and Vote
- Smarty the Brain Stories
- Socks
- Some Days are Yellow
- Spring
- Star Shines Through, A
- Stickler Christmas, A
- Summer Books
- Summer Is Here
- Summer’s Magic: An Indigenous Celebration of Nature
- Sustainable Structures: 15 Eco-Conscious Buildings Around the World
- Sydney’s Big Speech
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- Tamales for Christmas
- They Built me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park
- This is A Tiny Fragile Snake
- This is Not My Lunch Box!
- This Little Kitty in the Garden
- Three Little Tardigrades, The
- Time to Make Art
- Today
- Together
- Twelve Days of Christmas, The
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- The Very Young Person’s Guide to Christmas & Carols
- Vincent: Starry Starry Night
- Voting Books
- Voting Day
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- Water: Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us
- We Celebrate the Light
- What Makes Us Human
- When I Wrap My Hair
- When You Have to Wait
- Wildlife Crossings
- Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough
- Winter books
- Winter Solstice Wish
- With Dad
- Wolf Effect: A Wilderness Revival Story (A Voice of the Wilderness Picture Book), The
- Wonder and Awe
- Wonderful Wisdom of Ant, The
- World of Love, A