I'm back again with another library haul! About every month, I request about 25-30 picture books from our library to read with my kids. I read some at the start of the day with my 5 year old (and a mix of books we own as well). We often will read a couple over snack in the afternoons. And sometimes we read before bed.
This month, I gravitated toward books about winter (because we are in the dead of winter in Minnesota), biographies about interesting people (because we just find them fascinating), and books by Henry Cole (because we've loved the ones we've read in the past and I wanted to read more by him).
Here are all the books we checked out! I'm sharing them as Amazon affiliate links for ease of finding them, but I recommend you install this Amazon Library Extension to your browser so you can see right on the Amazon page if the book is in stock in your library or surrounding libraries. Our library is connected to a system of dozens of libraries in our region, and they share books with one another. This helps us have access to so many more books than we could find in our library closest to us.
BOOKS ABOUT WINTER
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Wintergarden by Janet Fox
- Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman
- The Snow Rabbit by Camille Garoche
- Snow by Sam Usher
- A Mischief of Mice by Christie Matheson
BIOGRAPHIES
- The Fabulous Fannie Farmer by Emma Bland Smith
- Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
- Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven
- Dorothea's Eyes by Barb Rosenstock
- Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk by Jane Sutcliffe
- Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton by Sherri Duskey Rinker
- The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies
- Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark
BOOKS BY HENRY COLE
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Mighty: The Story of an Oak Tree Ecosystem by Henry Cole
- The Littlest Evergreen by Henry Cole
- On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole
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Spot, the Cat by Henry Cole
- One Little Bag: An Amazing Journey by Henry Cole
OTHER
- Mama Seeton's Whistle by Jerry Spinelli
- The Monkey and the Crocodile: A Jakata Tale from India by Joanna C. Galdone
- Something Wild by Molly Ruttan
- Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match by Monica Brown
- The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith
- Amos McGee Misses the Bus by Philip C. Stead
- Once There Was a Story by Jane Yolen
If you are enjoying this library haul series and are wanting to find quality resources for finding good picture books, check out this post I posted on Instagram a couple months ago with my ten favorite accounts and websites for finding good book ideas.