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 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/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
- Christmas
- Chores
- Circus
- Civil Rights
- Colors
- Community Helpers/Public Servants
- Construction
- Cooking
- Crafts
- Choosing Books for Kids
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
- Vacation
- Valentine’s Day
- Voting/Elections
W
Z
More coming next Wednesday!
Here is our upcoming What to Read Wednesday topic calendar:
