Pasta Picture Books for National Pasta Day!

Did you know October 17th is National Pasta Day!? Celebrate with one of these silly books for kids!

Updated October 15, 2024
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ABC pasta : an entertaining alphabet
Medina, Juana
Paper Book
A is for angel hair acrobat M is for Macaroni the Magician and T is for tortellini trapeze artist. It's an ABC circus that's good enough to eat!
The girl's like spaghetti : why, you can't manage without apostrophes!
Truss, Lynne.
Paper Book
A comanion to the New York Times #1 best-seller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is punctuation play at its finest! Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie...
One hundred spaghetti strings
Nails, Jen
Paper Book
"One Hundred Spaghetti Strings is one hundred percent satisfying. A perfectly blended concoction." --Julie Sternberg, acclaimed author of Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie This brave and heartwarming middle grade novel will leave your belly rumbling and your heart full. Because when life hands...
Pasta pasta lotsa pasta
Lucido, Aimee
Paper Book
A family dinner gets out of hand as guest after guest arrives with a different pasta request in this "delectable" (Kirkus Reviews) and rambunctious rhyming picture book. How much pasta is too much pasta? Ring-a-ding, the doorbell rings, and oh! What...
Stick Dog slurps spaghetti
Watson, Tom
Paper Book
It's slippery. It's slurpable. It's spaghetti! Stick Dog and his gang of hungry hounds want to play tug-of-war. Their search for rope leads to something even better--spaghetti! Once they get a taste, they must get some more. ...
Strega Nona : an original tale
DePaola, Tomie
Paper Book
When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works in this classic Caldecott Honor book from Tomie dePaola. Strega Nona--"Grandma Witch"--is the source for potions, cures, magic, and comfort in her Calabrian...
Teddy Spaghetti
Frank, Dorothea Benton
Paper Book
**A New Atlantic INDIE BESTSELLER!** The beloved bestselling author of The Hurricane Sisters and Porch Lights, Dorothea Benton Frank, and her daughter, Victoria Benton Frank, join forces to bring young readers a powerful (and scrumptious) story about a standout kid who learns to stick up...

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