Books for Animal Lovers: Kid's Version!

Updated April 24, 2025
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Some pets
DiTerlizzi, Angela
Paper Book
The duo that brought you the "bright" and "breezy" (Booklist) Some Bugs is back with a vibrant companion book that's packed with your favorite pets. Some pets sit. Some pets stay. Some pets fetch, And some pets play. Come one,...
Children make terrible pets
Brown, Peter, 1979-
Paper Book
Check out this bestselling, rollicking, and humorous twist on the classic "first pet" story about a young bear and her favorite pet boy, from #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Robot! When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy in the...
DC League of Super-pets
Lewman, David
Paper Book
The DC Super-Pets star in a Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader with over 30 stickers--just in time for the DC League of Super-Pets movie to hit theaters in Spring 2022! Whenever the people . . . and pets! . . . of Metropolis are in danger, Krypto the Super-Dog...
They call me no Sam
Daywalt, Drew
Paper Book
From Drew Daywalt, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit, and illustrator Mike Lowery comes a heavily illustrated, paper-over-board middle grade novel about Sam, a noble pug who will go to any lengths to protect his family from the bad guys! ...
125 pet rescues from pound to palace : homeless pets made happy
Paper Book
This is a collection of hilarious and heartwarming stories of dogs, cats, and all types of pets given a second chance, and the human animal lovers who rescued them.   From the dog who saved her owner from a fire, to the cat that plays the piano, to the cow that thinks it's a dog,...
The man who didn't like animals
Underwood, Deborah
Paper Book
Who was Old MacDonald before he had a farm A New York Times bestselling duo brings us this freshly imagined origin story about the storied farmer and his animal friends. Brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist LeUyen Pham.  There once was a man who loved his...
Spider-Man animals assemble
Maihack, Mike, author, artist.
Paper Book
Marvel Comics' friendly neighborhood superhero becomes a pet sitter in Spider-Man: Animals Assemble, an original graphic novel for early readers by award-winning author-illustrator Mike Maihack. When the Avengers are assembled to contain a super threat in New York City,...

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