2025 Round Up: Favourite Picture Books

Snuggle up and read! Here are our top picks from 2025 for reading aloud.

Updated January 9, 2026
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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Bear
Shaloshvili, Natalia
Bright lights and summer nights
Grant, Shauntay
Paper Book
THREE STARRED REVIEWS! . Take a luminous bedtime journey through the summery dreamworld of a restless baby in this enchanting picture book lullaby. In the tradition of bedtime classics like Goodnight Moon, this gorgeous book with a cloth-like spine is the perfect gift for new parents....
Don't trust fish
Sharpson, Neil
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An absurdly laugh-out-loud funny picture book about the villainy of fish, illustrated by National Book Award-winning creator Dan Santat"A ribald and uproarious warning to those unschooled in fishy goings-on." --Kirkus, starred reviewONE OF SLATE'S 25...
Frank's red hat
Avery, Sean E.
Paper Book
A story about never giving up on your talents, because even though what you do may not be appreciated right now, it may be in time. Possibly by someone you'd least expect. Frank is a penguin with ideas. Mostly terrible ones. That's why his fellow penguins are nervous when he...
Our pebbles
Jarvis
Paper Book

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