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
From the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Food Group series, Pete Oswald, and debut picture book author Phuc Tran, this is a hilarious picture book about big trucks, big feelings, and even bigger friendships! It's the last day at the...
Dog vs. Strawberry
Buchet, Nelly
Paper Book
A dog and a strawberry find themselves nose to stem in this hilarious picture book that's perfect for dog lovers. An epic battle ensues-who will come out on top? A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Welcome to the Greatest Race of All Time! ...
Here are the seeds
Brown-Wood, JaNay
Paper Book
Author and poet JaNay Brown-Wood's cumulative tale, similar to 'The House That Jack Built,' starts promisingly: 'Here are the seeds that we will sow to help our garden grow.' But as time passes, the children quickly learn that things rarely go as planned in the garden. Plants will droop without...
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...
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 Little Witch who lost her broom!
Bickell, Elaine
Paper Book
The perfect Halloween read-aloud! From the New York Times bestselling duo who brought you The Little Ghost Who Lost Her Boo! comes another not-so-spooky Halloween romp about a little witch who goes on a ghostly hunt to find her lost broom!  Perfect for fans of...
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 storied farmer...
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...
This baby. That baby
Best, Cari
Paper Book
In this bouncy, playful picture book for very young listeners, follow two baby friends who live in facing buildings through their day--playing, singing, and napping--till they meet in the park! Somewhere in the big, big city two happy babies look out their morning...
We are definitely human
Fang, X.
Paper Book
An American Library Association Notable Children's Book A hilarious alien invasion story with a feel-good message about what it means to be human. Perfect for earthlings of all ages. When three mysterious visitors from "Europe" crash-land in Mr. Li's field, he does...

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