The Best Children’s Book Lists
Books are a huge part of family life, and it is important to read together every day. One of the best things about homeschooling is having time to read and share books you love, and piling up on the couch to read together. Having access to a themed list of the best children’s books makes planning a unit study super easy. Most importantly, book lists help make library trips efficient and productive.
How to Use These Lists
It is a planning dream to have a list of themed ideas for unit studies for spontaneous light bulb moments!
The themes are listed below, along with a calendar of planned lists to share with you in the future. Each Wednesday, the list updates with a new category in the weekly series.
Be sure to check out the Learning Table shop for free printables and activities to go along with many of the themes. Click here to see what’s available!
Themed Lists of the Best Children’s Books
Book themes are listed alphabetically and include current and future articles. Therefore, simply click on the theme name to visit the corresponding article. New themes are added weekly, so if you don’t find one you’re looking for, check back again. Leave a comment with your suggestions for themes you’d like to see!
A
- Africa
- Airplanes
- Alphabet
- America/USA
- Anatomy
- Apples
- Architecture
- Art
- Artists
- Australia
B
- Babies
- Back to School/Homeschool
- Baseball
- Beach
- Bears
- Biographies–Historical
- Birds
- Board Books/First Books
- Books About Books
- Boredom Busters/Road Trip Books
- Botany/Plants
- Bunnies
- Butterflies
C
- Calendar/Days of the Year
- Candy
- Cats
- Chickens
- Children’s Book Gift Ideas
- Children’s Classics
- China
- Chinese New Year
- Chocolate
- Choosing Books for Kids
- Chores
- Christmas
- Circus
- Civil Rights
- Colors
- Community Helpers/Public Servants
- Construction
- Cooking
- Cowboys
- Crafts
D
- Days of the Year/Calendar
- Detectives
- Dinosaurs
- Dr. Seuss (March 2 is Dr. Seuss Day)
- Dragons
- Ducks
E
- Ecology
- Easter
- Earth Science/ Earth Day
- Elections/Voting
- Elephants
- Emotions/Feelings
- Etiquette
- Explorers
F
- Facts of Life/Growing Up
- Fall/Autumn
- Family
- Family Read Aloud Resources
- Fantasy/Sci-Fi
- Farm
- Fathers
- Feelings/Emotions
- Finger Prints
- Fire Fighters/Fire Trucks
- First Books/Board Books
- Fish
- Flowers
- Folktales
- Food
- Forest
- France
- Friendship
G
- Games
- Garden
- Geography/Maps
- Gift Books for Christmas
- Giving
- Gorillas
- Grandparents
- Gratefulness
- Growing Up/Facts of Life
H
- Halloween
- Hats
- Hiking
- Historical Biographies
- Historical Fiction
- Hobbies
- Homeschooling (for parents)
- Horses
- Hospital/Medical
I
J
K
L
- Ladybugs
- Leaves
- Library/Books About Books
- Lift-the-Flap/Pop-Up
- Lincoln
- Lions
- Little Golden Books
- Love
M
- Manners
- Math
- Maps/Geography
- Medical/Hospital
- Medieval
- Mexico
- Mice
- Monkeys
- Monsters
- Mothers
- Multicultural Books
- Music/Orchestra
- My Country-America
- Mythology
N
O
P
- Pandas
- Patriotic
- Penguins
- Pioneers
- Plants/Botany
- Poetry
- Polar Bears
- Pop-Up/Lift-the-Flap
- Public Servants/Community Helpers
- Pumpkins
- Puppies
- Princesses
Q
R
S
- Scarecrows
- Science
- Scientists
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- Seasons
- Servant hearts/ serving others
- Shakespeare
- Sharks
- Snow/Snowmen
- Space
- Spiders
- Sports
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Summer
T
- Teddy Bears
- Thanksgiving
- Tigers
- Touch & Feel
- Trains
- Travel
- Trees
- Trumpets
- Turkeys
- Truthfulness
U
V
W
- War
- Washington
- Weather
- Whales
- Who Was?® What Was?® Where Is?® series
- Winter Reading
- Wordless Picture Books
