Summer Picture Book Reading List for Pre-Readers

A reader asked me to make a summer reading list of picture books for pre-readers that included good variety. I’ve compiled some of my favorites, and broken the list into categories: read aloud favorites, funny picture books, and picture books with lessons. I hope you and your kids like the list! 🙂

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Summer Picture Book Reading List

SUMMER READING: Read Aloud Favorites

• The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
• One-osaurus, Two-osaurus by Kim Norman
• Don’t Wake the Dragon by Bianca Schulze
• Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld
• The Bear’s Song by Benjamin Chaud
• It’s So Quiet: A Not-Quite-Going-to-Bed Book by Sherri Duskey Rinker
• Unstoppable by Adam Rex
• The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann
• Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
• Silly Sally by Audrey Woods

SUMMER READING: Funny Picture Books

• The Little Butterfly That Could by Ross Burach
• Unicorns Are the Worst by Alex Willan
• The Butt Book by  Artie Bennett
• Here Comes the Big Mean Dust Bunny by Jan Thomas
• This Is a Moose by Richard T. Morris, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld
• The Bear Who Wasn’t There by LeUyen Pham
• You Will Be My Friend by Peter Brown
• King Hugo’s Huge Ego by Chris Van Dusen
• I Can Only Draw Worms by Will Mabbitt
• Z for Moose by Kelly Bingham, illustrated by Paul O. Zeliinsky
• Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea
• The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
• Those Darn Squirrels by Adam Rubin, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri

SUMMER READING: Picture Books with Lessons