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 5 & up
A boy travels back in time to fix his homework and chaos ensues in Brandon and the Totally Troublesome Time Machine, by Seth Fishman and Mark Fearing.
A boy forms a special bond with a panda bear in the forest near his village in The Panda’s Child, by Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher.
A displaced family sets out to make a home in a new country in A Star Shines Through, a picture book by Anna Desnitskaya.
Learn about detective novelist Agatha Christie in A Mind of Her Own: The Story of Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, by Robyn McGrath and Liz Wong.
Take a tour through the dwellings of 27 different animals in Home, a picture book by Isabelle Simler and translated by Vineet Lal.
This year, Earth Day fall on April 22. The following books celebrate the climates, plants and creatures, that make our planet so special.
March is Women’s History Month. You can learn more about some fascinating women by reading the following picture books.
You Are a Star, Malala Yousafzai, by Dean Robbins and Maithili Joshi, is the story of the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Learn about the first professional woman astronomer — Caroline Herschel — in Comet Chaser, written by Pamela S. Turner and illustrated by Vivien Mildenberger.