Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library. The following were published in 2024.
Browsing: ages 4 & up
Enjoy the wonderful things that are associated with snow in Snow Is…, written by Laura Gehl and illustrated by Sonia Sánchez.
Dive into the Arctic Ocean and learn about some of its coolest inhabitants in Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic, by Candace Fleming and Deena So’Oteh.
A boy learns to identify and face his emotions in If You Ever Need a Friend: An Alebrije Story, by Nadine Fonseca and Lourdes Villagómez.
Fourth-graders take the journey of a lifetime as they follow the flightpath of a small bird in The Class with Wings, by Paul Fleischman and Hannah Salyer.
The following picture books are great options for celebrating the season in a not-so-scary way.
The weather is cooling and the leaves are changing. What better way to celebrate autumn than with picture books?
Three mice are tasked with saving Earth from an asteroid in Mousetronaut Saves the World, by US Senator and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly and illustrator C.F. Payne.
Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles is adapted for young readers in Marci Kay Monson and Greg Paprocki’s new book by the same title.
Learn about creative genius Edward Gorey in As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey in Three Acts, by Matthew Burgess and Marc Majewski.