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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Greater Victoria Public Library
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Bannock in a Hammock
Kelly, Masiana
Paper Book
Big or small, sweet or savoury, with stew or with sprinkles, there are tons of ways to enjoy bannock! This sweet and simple rhyming book explores a food that is a popular tradition with Inuit and other Indigenous people, and has some fun along the way. What's your favourite way to eat...
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 Vox Audio
Tran, Phuc
Paper Book
Let's Go
Flett, Julie
Paper Book
A 2025 Notable Social Studies Trade Book! A 2025 Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title! A Kirkus Reviews and Horn Book Magazine Best Book of 2024! A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2024! "Gives the viewer the sense that...
The pie reports
Lowe, Hayley
Paper Book
★"Discusses illness and depression with gentleness that helps make the big feelings that can go with them less overwhelming. Touching and playful illustrations complement a story that handles themes of illness, depression, and aging with empathy and understanding."--School Library Journal...

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