Picture Book Month 2023

November is Picture Book Month, and picture books can be for everyone! Celebrate and incorporate picture books with these resources and more!

• Explore our entire Picture Book Collection. Use filters to narrow by genre, cultural experience, year published, and more!

• Find award-winning picture books:

  • The Charlotte Zolotow Award honors the best text in a picture book.
  • The Cook Prize honors the best science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) picture book.
  • The Randolph Caldecott Medal recognizes the most distinguished American picture book illustrations.
  • The Best Illustrated Children’s Books list recognizes illustrated children’s books with artistic merit.
  • The Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children's Literature honors the most distinguished text for picture books.

• Share these ready-to-use Picture Book Activity Kits with your students and families to encourage reading engagement at home.

• Extend lessons with engaging, printable ready-to-go Story Time Activity Kits.

• Incorporate picture books into your poetry lessons through titles and resources on these lists: Reading Picture Books, Writing Poetry) and Colorful Poetry: 22 Diverse Poetry Picture Books for Kids. Filter for “Book Guides, Activities and Lessons” to find specific lesson ideas for those titles.

• Try reading aloud or watching a book reading with your older students using titles from these lists: Never Too Old: Picture Books to Share with Older Children and Teens and Picture Books for Teens.

• Pair picture books on this list (Story Skeletons: Teaching Plot Structure with Picture Books) with our Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson to teach plot structure.

• Filter by Google Preview to take a look at titles on this list of Wordless (and Nearly Wordless) Books, and have students think critically about how to tell a story without words. Then ask them to draw a scene that tells a short story.

• Bring bilingual (English/Spanish) books into lessons using titles on these lists:
  

  • Bilingual Picture Books: Stories Featuring Spanish Vocabulary Words
  • Elementary Bilingual Spanish/English Books

• Consider color and contrast with these coloring sheets after listening to this Meet-the-Illustrator Recording with Bonnie Kelso about In a Cave.

• Build fluency and improve listening skills with these recently added complete video book readings

  • Ramen for Everyone
  • Weather Together
  • Loud Librarian
  • Plátanos Are Love
  • The Boy and His Mirror
  • Timeless
  • Gloria’s Promise: A Ballet Dancers First Step
  • A Bucket of Questions