The Best Children’s Books
Books are a huge part of our family’s life, and we read together every day. One of the best things about homeschooling is having time to read and share books we love, and piling up on the couch to read together. Having access to a themed book list makes planning a unit study super easy and book lists help make library trips efficient and productive.
It is a planning dream to have a list of themed ideas for unit studies or spontaneous light bulb moments!
We share our favorite books each week on What to Read Wednesday. They are listed by category below, along with a calendar of planned lists to share with you in the future. Each Wednesday, we’ll update the list with a new category and also invite you to link to your posts about favorite books, resources, and activities in our weekly series.
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What to Read Themed Book Lists
Book themes are listed alphabetically and include current and future What to Read Wednesday posts. Simply click on the theme name to visit the corresponding article. We are adding new themes weekly, so if you don’t find one you’re looking for, check back again. I also invite you to leave a comment with your suggestions for themes you’d like to see.
A
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
- Bunnies
- Butterflies
C
- Candy
- Cats
- Chickens
- Children’s Book Gift Ideas
- Children’s Classics
- Chinese New Year
- Chocolate
- Christmas
- Chores
- Circus
- Civil Rights
- Classics
- Colors
- Comics/Graphic Novels
- Computers/Technology
- Construction
- Cooking
- Crafts
- Choosing Books for Kids
D
- Detectives
- Dinosaurs
- Dr. Seuss (March 2 is Dr. Seuss Day)
- Dragons
- Ducks
E
- Ecology
- Easter
- Earth Science/ Earth Day
- Elections/Voting
- Elephants
- Explorers
F
- Facts of Life/Growing Up
- Fall/Autumn
- Family
- Fantasy/Sci-Fi
- Farm
- Father’s Day
- Feelings
- Finger Prints
- Fire Fighters/Fire Trucks
- First Books/Board Books
- Fish
- Flowers
- Folk Tales
- Food
- Forest
- France
- Friendship
G
- Garden
- Geography/Maps
- Gift Books for Christmas
- Girls’ Picture Books
- Giving
- Gorillas
- Grandparents
- Graphic Novels/Comics
- Gratefulness
- Growing Up/Facts of Life
H
- Halloween
- Hats
- Hiking
- Historical Biographies
- Historical Fiction
- Hobbies
- Homeschooling (for parents)
- Horses
- Hospital/Medical
I
J
- Japan
- John Newbery Medal winners
K
- Kindness
- Kings & Queens
L
M
- Manners
- Math
- Maps/Geography
- Medical/Hospital
- Mexico
- Mice
- Monkeys
- Mother’s Day
- Multicultural Books
- Music/Orchestra
- My Country-America
- Mythology
N
O
- Ocean
- Orchestra/Music
- Owls
P
- Penguins
- Photography
- Plants
- Poetry
- Polar Bears
- Pop-Up/Lift-the-Flap
- Public Servants/Community Helpers
- Pumpkins
- Puppies
- Princesses
Q
- Queens & Kings
R
S
- Scarecrows
- School/Teachers
- Science
- Scientists
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- Seasons
- Servant hearts/ serving others
- Shakespeare
- Snow/Snowmen
- Space
- Spiders
- Sports
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Summer
T
- Teachers/School
- Technology/Computers
- Thanksgiving
- Tigers
- Touch & Feel
- Trains
- Travel
- Trumpets
- Turkeys
- Truthfulness
U
- Umbrellas
- The USA
V
W
Z
- Zebras
- Zoo
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Here is our upcoming What to Read Wednesday topic calendar:
2017
July
5 — Elephants
12 — Boredom Busters/Road Trip Books
19 — Public Servants/Community Helpers
26 — Recycling
August
2 — Homeschooling/School Help
9 — Kindness
16 — Math
23 — Science
30 — Scientists
September
6 — Family
13 — Dinosaurs
20 — Shakespeare
27 — War
October
4 — Gorillas
11 — Fire Fighters/Fire Trucks
18 — Seasons
25 — Hobbies
November
1 — Nature/Nature Study
8 — Hospital/Medical
15 — Folk Tales
22 — Native Americans/Indigenous People
29 — Fantasy/Sci-Fi
December
6 — Manners
13 — Kings & Queens
20 — Owls
27 — Pop-Up/Lift-the-Flap
