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 8 & up
The start of the 2024 Summer Olympics are less than two weeks away, and what better way to get excited for Paris than with Record Breakers at the Olympic Games.
Poetry Comics, a new offering by Grant Snider, is a book that combines poetry and comics in a whole new way.
Discover the history of airborne adventures — from birds to planes and everything in between — in Sky High: A Soaring History of Aviation, by Jacek Ambrozewski.
Explore the human body through interactive paper cut-outs in Paper World: Human Body, by Templar Company and illustrated by Gail Armstrong.
Three Tasks for a Dragon, by Eoin Colfer and P.J. Lynch is a story of knights, quests, dark magic and a dragon.
Spin to Survive: Pirate Peril, by Emily Hawkins, is a choose-your-own adventure that transports readers into the past and onto the high seas.
Travel to southernmost continent in Around Antarctica: Exploring the Frozen South, by Tania Medvedeva and illustrated by Maria Vyshinskaya.
Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin explores the smallest building blocks of life in The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey.
These holiday books range from Christmas to Hanukkah to the celebrating the new year and would make a great addition to your library.