I'm back with another library haul, and this one is doing double duty. About every month I request a stack of picture books from our library to read with my kids: some at the start of the day, some over snack in the afternoons, and a few before bed when we need a soft landing at the end of a long day.
This month's stack is split between two things: leaning hard into fall (because it is finally, blessedly sweater weather adjacent) and pulling books that tie into what we're covering in our homeschool this fall.
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 ever find at the branch closest to us.
BOOKS ABOUT FALL
- Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
- Evergreen by Matthew Cordell
- Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky
- Fall Walk by Virginia Brimhall Snow
- George Flies South by Simon James
- Hello, Harvest Moon by Ralph Fletcher
- The Leaf Thief by Alice Hemming
- Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian Scheer
- The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry
- Seasons by Brian Wildsmith
- The Squirrels' Busy Year by Martin Jenkins
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Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
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The Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel
BOOKS FOR SCHOOL
- Da Vinci by Mike Venezia
- Leonardo and the Flying Boy by Laurence Anholt
- Leonardo da Vinci by Alix Wood
- Exodus by Brian Wildsmith
- Joseph by Brian Wildsmith
- John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J.R.R. Tolkien by Caroline McAlister
- Beatrix and Her Friends by Anne Lambelet
- William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Georgia Ellinas
OTHER BOOKS
- Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story by Tomie DePaola
- The Digger and the Duckling by Joseph Kuefler
- Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson by Jen Bryant
- Grandma's House by Alice Melvin
- The Hundred-Year Barn by Patricia MacLachlan
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Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children by Jonah Winter
- Stand Straight, Ella Kate: The True Story of a Real Giant by Kate Klise
- Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home by Guojing
If you are enjoying this library haul series and want help finding quality picture books, check out this post I shared on Instagram a while back with my ten favorite accounts and websites for finding good book ideas.
Happy fall!