2024 Round Up: Favourite Picture Books

Snuggle up and read! Here are our top picks from 2024 for reading aloud.

Updated January 6, 2025
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The big squeeze
Harris, Molly
Paper Book
A hardworking sponge makes its debut in this delightful and relatable picture book perfect for fans of Lou by Breanna Carzoo and The Creature of Habit by Jennifer E. Smith! The little sponge has a BIG job. She washes and mops and scrubs away all the messes in the kitchen. ...
Cranky
Tran, Phuc
Paper Book
Honk honk, beep beep, putter putt!
Khan, Rukhsana
Paper Book
Ibraheem and his cat, Mitu, join Baba on a rickshaw trip through the big city, where vehicles of all sorts and sizes have their own language to help them navigate the busy streets. BEEP BEEP, says Baba. HONK HONK, says car. TOOT TOOT, says bus. RUMBLE RUMBLE, says mighty truck. MEOW MEOW, says...
How to Pee Your Pants : The Right Way
Wilson, Rachel Michelle
Paper Book
Don't miss this humorous and heartwarming picture book by debut creator Rachel Michelle Wilson about that embarrassing moment in life when you (gasp) pee your pants. Well, it happened. You peed your pants.You probably regret that second (okay, third) lemonade.We've all been there.This book has some...
The Little Witch Who Lost Her Broom!
Bickell, Elaine.
Paper Book
Lost
Staake, Bob
Paper Book
In this paneled picture book, join a small girl on her hilarious and surprising search for her lost cat--and watch as she helps her neighbors, who have also lost their pets, along the way! Where, oh where is Kitty? She's not upstairs... not in her litter box... not...
Luigi, the spider who wanted to be a kitten
Knudsen, Michelle
Paper Book
The man who didn't like animals
Underwood, Deborah
Paper Book
*A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year!* *An Amazon Top 20 Children's Book of the Year!* Who was Old MacDonald before he had a farm A New York Times bestselling duo brings us this freshly imagined origin story about the...
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn
Harris, Shawn
Paper Book
Meet this pint-sized unicorn in this funny, modern fairy tale about perception and self-confidence from a Caldecott-Honor winning creator. Once upon a time, in a land where horses were mythical beasts, there lived a unicorn--a Teeny-Weeny Unicorn. He lived with his family in a...

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