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Reading Recommendations for Kids

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Find your next favorite book! These lists highlight stories meant to entertain and start conversations with children of all ages. If you still don’t find what you’re looking for, enter a Book Match request to have personalized books set aside just for you.

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Picture Book Favorites

Toddlers, preschoolers, and even young elementary aged kids can’t get enough of books about these topics. Share the fun!

Adventure
Pirates
Dinosaurs
Princesses & Fairies
Search & Find
Transportation & Construction

Early Learning

Use these picture books to build pre-reading skills and share concepts that support toddlers and preschoolers in their early learning.

Early Learning: Colors
Early Learning: Comparisons & Descriptions
Early Learning: Counting
Early Learning: Shapes
Ready to Read: ABCs
Ready to Read: Letter Sounds
Ready to Read: Singing
Ready to Read: Interactive Picture Books

Discover Our World

Picture books are a great way to expand your preschool and early elementary school aged children’s ideas about the world and how we all interact in it. Discover something amazing when you start with the illustrated books highlighted on these lists.

2023 Youth Media Awards
Discover: Enjoying Nature
Discover: Space & Astronomy
Our World: Cooking, Food Scarcity & Sharing
Our World: Disability Awareness
Our World: Hearing Loss & Deafness
Our World: Families
Our World: Gender Identity
Our World: Indigenous Stories

Milestones, Social Skills and Tender Topics

Are you seeking a story to help you start talking about emotional topics, or in response to a tough situation? Start with these recommendations.

Milestones: Expecting and Welcoming a New Baby
Milestones: Potty Training
Social Skills: Feelings
Social Skills: Mindfulness
Social Skills: Self Regulation
Tender Topics: Moving
Tender Topics: Divorce
Tender Topics: Grief

Beginning Readers

When children are beginning to read, these lists will help you find books with just the right amount of words to get them started. Take a stack for them to pore over! Alphabet letter levels are based on the Fountas and Pinnell Reading System.

Levels A & B
Levels C & D
Levels E & F
Levels G & H
Levels I & J

Beginning Chapter Books

These great titles feature short chapters, large readable text and lots of pictures to keep kids engaged. Emerging readers will be proud when they can say, “I read a WHOLE chapter book!”

Characters Who Make Great Friends
Fantasy
Just for Laughs
Series Starters

Books for Middle Graders and Junior High

Once kids get the reading bug, there’s no stopping them! Refer to these recommended titles whether you want to find something similar to what they already love, or encourage them to try something new.