Picture Books for 5- and 6-Year Olds
You can find more titles for this age group on the Classic Picture Book list, in the JE/ER section for Early readers, or among the Fairy and Folk Tales in nonfiction 398.2. Click here for a print-friendly version of this list.
| Eaton | Great, Now We've Got Barbarians! (Why fuss about tidiness? Because Barbarians love messes!) |
| Barnett | Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Sam and Dave dig to discover something spectacular.) |
| Beaty | Iggy peck, Architect (Iggy saves the day with his architectural knowledge.) |
| Bee | Beware of the Frog (Sweet old Mrs. Collywobbles lives near the wood with her guard frog. ) |
| Bingham | Z Is for Moose (Moose misses his turn in an alphabet game, but Zebra finds a spot for him.) |
| Bruel | Bad Kitty (She used to be a good kitty, until--) |
| Cannon | Stellaluna (After she falls into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised there until she is reunited with her mother.) |
| Cole | The Winter Wren (When his village suffers from a hard winter, Simon goes in search of spring.) |
| Daywalt | The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors (Chronicles the legendary battle behind the game.) |
| Feiffer | Meanwhile . . . (Raymond discovers a way to skip from one adventure to another.) |
| Graham | How to Heal a Broken Wing (Will finds a bird with a broken wing, so he takes it home and cares for it.) |
| Hatke | Julia's House for Lost Creatures (Julia invites all kinds of lost creatures into her house--and then she has to make it work.) |
| Henkes | Chrysanthemus (Chrysanthemum hates her name until she meets a teacher named Delphinium.) |
| Huget | How to Clean Your Room in 10 Easy Steps (A young girl provides unique advice on how to tidy a bedroom. ) |
| Johnson | Palazzo Inverso (An apprentice to a master builder causes trouble. Inspired by the work of M.C. Escher.) |
| Klassen | This Is Not My Hat (The big fish wants his hat back from a little fish who took it.) |
| LaMarche | Lost and Found: Three Dog Stories (Three dog stories about being lost, being found, and finding home.) |
| Long | How I Became a Pirate (Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew.) |
| Lucas | The Robot and the Bluebird (A broken robot makes a home for a bluebird trying to fly south for the winter.) |
| Mollel | Kele's Secret (A young African boy follows the family's hen to find out where she is hiding her eggs.) |
| Namioka | The Hungriest Boy in the World (After swallowing a Hunger Monster, Jiro starts eating everything in sight.) |
| Novak | The Book with No Pictures (In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every single silly word.) |
| O'Connor | Peanut Butter and Jellyfish (Join Fancy Nancy on an exciting trip to the aquarium!) |
| Ray | The Apple-Pip Princess (A king challenges his daughters to make his barren kingdom bloom again. ) |
| Reibstein | Wabi Sabi (Wabi Sabi, a cat in Kyoto, learns the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity.) |
| Santat | Adventures of Beekle (An imaginary friend sets out on a quest to find a boy to imagine him.) |
| Scott | Brave As a Mountain Lion (Spider has stage fright, but he decides to be as brave as his Shoshoni ancestors.) |
| Seuss | Yertle the Turtle, and Other Stories (Includes three humorous stories in verse: Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag.) |
| Stevenson | Don't Make Me Laugh (Readers are requested not to influence the behavior of animal characters in this book.) |
| Vagin | Peter and the Wolf (Retells the story behind Prokofiev's classical piece.) |
Last Updated: 11/18
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