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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Cam Jansen and the Spaghetti Max mystery
Adler, David A.
Paper Book
No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes... even to the airport. Cam and Eric go with her father to the airport to meet "Spaghetti" Max, her father's best friend from...
Pasta pasta lotsa pasta
Lucido, Aimee
Paper Book
A New York Public Library Book for Kids 2024 A Bank Street Book of the Year 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...
The spaghetti detectives
Steinhöfel, Andreas.
Paper Book
1 String of Spaghetti + 2 Friends = A Noodle-Cooking, Crime-Solving Adventure! Sometimes Rico acts a bit odd -- his mom calls him a "proddity" -- but he's GENIUS at noticing little things nobody else does. Like a string of spaghetti stuck to the sidewalk. Or the big buckteeth of...
Stick Dog slurps spaghetti
Watson, Tom
Paper Book
Perfect for fans of Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Timmy Failure, and the previous Stick Dog books, Tom Watson's hilarious Stick Dog Slurps Spaghetti will be gobbled up even by reluctant readers. It's slippery. It's slurpable. It's spaghetti! ...
Strega Nona
DePaola, Tomie
Paper Book
Now celebrating its 50th anniversary! 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...

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