PICTURE BOOKS

The 2024 Picture Book Recommended Reading List

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8 Little Planets: A Solar System Book for Kids with Unique Planet Cutouts  by Chris Ferrie

11 Experiments That Failed  by Jenny Offill

A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars  by Seth Fishman

A Life Electric  by Azadeh Westergaard

A Parrot in the Painting: The Story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito  by Thea Feldman

ARTificial Intelligence  by David Biedrzycki

¡A soñar con la ciencia!  by Michelle Schaub, Translated by Teresa Córdova Rodríguez

A STEMtastic Box  by Debbie Qiu

All the Rocks We Love  by Lisa Varchol Perron and Taylor Perron

Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars  by Jonathan Roth

Always Looking Up: Nancy Grace Roman, Astronomer  by Laura Gehl

An Astronaut’s Life (Series)  by Martha E. H. Rustad

Astronaut Training  by Aneta Cruz

Awesome Dawson  by Chris Gall

Baby Loves Automotive Engineering  by Ruth Spiro

Beto's Berry Treasure  by Jenny Lacika

Bounce! A Scientific History of Rubber  by Sarah Albee

Butterflies in Room 6: See How They Grow  by Caroline Arnold

Can I Recycle This?  by Jennie Romer

Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars  by Douglas Florian

Cookie & Milk A Scientifically Stunt-tastic Sisterhood  by Michelle McAvoy

Counting the Stars  by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Dark Was the Night  by Gary Golio

Dinosaurs Can Be Small  by Darrin Lunde

Do I Have to Wear a Coat?  by Rachel Isadora

Dogs in Space  by Nancy Coffelt

¿Dónde están los huevos? / Where Are the Eggs?  by Grace Lin, Translated by Carlos E. Calvo

Double the Dinosaurs A Math Reader  by Diana Murray

Drop  by Emily Kate Moon

Earn It!  by Cinders McLeod

Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years  by Stacy McAnulty

El gumbo más delicioso / Yumbo Gumbo  by Keila V. Dawson, Translated by Carlos E. Calvo

Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa  by Doreen Rappaport

Eye Guess: A Forest Animal Guessing Game by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes

Faces of the Moon  by Bob Crelin

Fatima's Great Outdoors  by Ambreen Tariq

Follow the Moon Home  by Philippe Cousteau and Deborah Hopkinson

Fraidyzoo  by Thyra Heder

Future Astronaut (Future Baby)  by Lori Alexander

Girl on a Motorcycle  by Amy Novesky

Give It!  by Cinders McLeod

Give Me Some Space  by Philip Bunting

Grandma's Gardens  by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

Hatching Chicks in Room 6  by Caroline Arnold

Hello, I'm a Pangolin  by Hayley Rocco

Hello, I'm a Quokka  by Hayley Rocco

Hello, I'm a Sloth  by Hayley Rocco

How to Eat in Space  by Helen Taylor

How to Explain Robotics to a Grown-Up  by Ruth Spiro

How to Catch A Star  by Oliver Jeffers

How to Make a Friend  by Stephen W. Meyer

How to Say Hello to a Worm  by Kari Percival

How to Talk to Your Computer  by Seymour Simon

I am Benjamin Franklin  by Brad Meltzer

I am Leonardo da Vinci  by Brad Meltzer

If I Built a Car  by Chris Van Dusen

If I Built a House  by Chris Van Dusen

If Pluto Was a Pea  by Gabrielle Prendergast

Iggy Peck, Architect  by Andrea Beaty

I'm Trying to Love Garbage  by Bethany Barton

I'm Trying to Love Rocks  by Bethany Barton

Let's Fly  by Chana Stiefel and Barrington Irving

Life on Earth: Space  by Heather Alexander

Life on Mars  by Jon Agee

Lola Meets the Bees  by Anna McQuinn

Look I'm a Scientist  by Hélène Hilton

Mae Among the Stars  by Roda Ahmed

Mamas and Babies  by Christie Matheson

Mario and the Hole in the Sky  by Elizabeth Rusch

Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing  by Dean Robbins

Mazie's Amazing Machines  by Sheryl Haft

Meanwhile Back on Earth . . . Finding Our Place Through Time and Space  by Oliver Jeffers

Mechanimals  by Chris Tougas

Min Makes a Machine  by Emily Arnold McCully

Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem  by Chris Monroe

Moon’s First Friends  by Chris Ferrie

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11  by Brian Floca

Mother of Sharks  by Melissa Cristina Márquez

Mousetronaut Goes To Mars  by Mark Kelly

Mousetronaut Saves the World  by Mark Kelly

No es un frijol  by Claudia Guadalupe Martínez, Translated by Carlos E. Calvo

No es un monstruo  by Claudia Guadalupe Martínez, Translated by Carlos E. Calvo

Nuestras manzanas favoritas / Our Favorite Apples  by Grace Lin, Translated by Carlos E. Calvo

Older Than the Stars  by Karen C. Fox

Once Upon a Star  by James Carter

Parks for the People  by Elizabeth Partridge

Peppa in Space  by Lauren Holowaty

Pieces of Another World  by Mara Rockliff

Planting a Garden in Room 6: From Seeds to Salad  by Caroline Arnold

Pluto Gets the Call  by Adam Rex

Programmed to Paint  by Mauricio Abril

Puff  by Emily Kate Moon

¿Quién salta más? / Who Jumps More?  by Grace Lin, Translated by Carlos E. Calvo

Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA  by Tanya Lee Stone

Rocket Ship, Solo Trip  by Chiara Colombi

Rosie Revere, Engineer  by Andrea Beaty

Save It!  by Cinders McLeod

Saving American Beach  by Heidi Tyline King

Sea Lions in the Parking Lot: Animals on the Move in a Time of Pandemic  by Lenora Todaro

Seeking an Aurora  by Elizabeth Pulford

She Persisted in Science  by Chelsea Clinton

She Sells Seashells: Mary Anning, an Unlikely Paleontologist  by Heidi E. Y. Stemple

Shoot For The Moon, Snoopy!  by Charles M. Schulz

Simon and the Solar System  by Derek Taylor Kent

Spend It!  by Cinders McLeod

Stars  by Mary Lyn Ray

Ten Ways to Hear Snow  by Cathy Camper

The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon  by Dean Robbins

The Most Magnificent Thing  by Ashley Spires

The Nature Journal: A Backyard Adventure  by Savannah Allen

The Planet We Call Home  by Aimee Isaac

The Stars Beckoned: Edward White’s Amazing Walk in Space  by Candy Wellins

There Was a Black Hole that Swallowed the Universe  by Chris Ferrie

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: I Know Exactly What You Are  by Julia Kregenow

Una hermosa casa para pájaros / A Beautiful House for Birds  by Grace Lin, Translated by Carlos E. Calvo

Under My Tree  by Muriel Tallender

Violet the Pilot  by Steve Breen

What's in Your Pocket? Collecting Nature's Treasures  by Heather L. Montgomery

When Cloud Became a Cloud  by Rob Hodgson

When Moon Became the Moon  by Rob Hodgson

Where Do Ocean Creatures Sleep at Night?  by Steven J. Simmons, Clifford R. Simmons

Wild Brunch: Poems About How Creatures Eat  by David L. Harrison

Wild Places  by Hayley Rocco

You Are a Garter Snake!  by Laurie Ann Thompson

You Are a Honey Bee!  by Laurie Ann Thompson

You Are a Raccoon!  by Laurie Ann Thompson

You Are a Robin!  by Laurie Ann Thompson

You Are the First Kid on Mars  by Patrick O'Brien

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