Picture Book Month

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.

• 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.

• 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.