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!

Lists

• 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 Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children's Literature honors the most distinguished text for picture books.

Activties

• 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.

Video Book Readings

• Build fluency, improve listening skills, and consider art styles with these recently added complete video book readings

  • Someone Just Like You
  • Agnes and the Hen
  • Like So
  • Buffalo Fluffalo
  • Piper Chen Sings
  • Spaghetti Hunters: A Duck and Tiny Horse Adventure

• 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, Picture Books for Teens, and WOW Dozen: Global Picturebooks for the Secondary Classroom.

Lesson Ideas

• 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.

• Teaching sequential writing? Try the lesson activities from the story time kit for How Not to Make a Jelly Sandwich. Follow your story time with a behind-the-scenes booktalk with the author. Conclude your activities with a writing component—write your own how to make a sandwich. Ross Burach’s newest title is available on Sora.

• Build interest in history research with Treasure Thieves on the High Seas: Pirates, Privateers, and Plunder by Roxie Munro. Use the Listen & Respond printable to reflect on what was learned in the book trailer. Encourage students to check out the book, or read it together on Sora.