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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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
Why, dear reader, must you NEVER EVER trust fish? 1) They spend all their time in the water where we can't see them. 2) Some are as big as a bus-that is not okay. 3) We don't know what they're teaching in their "schools." 4) They are likely plotting our doom.
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...
Scarecited on the first day of school
Agostini, Alliah L.
For fans of School's First Day of School, this is a picture book about a young girl who is feeling mixed emotions about her first day of school. Some feelings are so big, one word just doesn't cut it.     It's the first day of...

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