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
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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
- Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham
- Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
- Lulu the One and Only by Lynnette Mwhinney
- The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
- The Tale of the Valiant Ninja Frog by Alastair Chisholm
- When Charley Met Emma by Amy Webb
- Kaia and the Bees by Maribeth Boelts
- The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
- Hippos Can’t Swim and Other Fun Facts by Laura Lyn DiSiena and Hannah Eliot
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- Chopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- One of These Is Not Like the Others by Barney Saltzberg
- Pigeon Math by Asia Citro, illustrated by Richard Watson
- The Donkey Egg by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
- Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Do you have older children who need really awesome, totally engaging summer book ideas? Visit my summer reading book lists for kids ages 6 – 18.
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