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2025 Picture Book Nominees
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100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle, 2023
Lex AD600L Interest level K-2
Teaching Resources:
Authors website with teaching materials
Teachers Pay Teachers Activity Packet ($)
Subjects: counting, dragons
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Monsters Play Counting by Flavia Drago
Too Many Pigs One Big Bad Wolf by Davide Cali
How to Count to 1 by Caspar Salmon
Are You a Cheeseburger? by Monica Arnaldo, 2021
Lex AD540L Interest level K-3
Teaching Resources:
Teachers Pay Teachers Activities (free)
Teaching Books Resources
Blue Spruce Award Resources (scroll down a bit for a great list of activities to go with the book)
Subjects: cheeseburgers, friendship, racoons, seeds
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I’m Sticking With You - - and the Chicken too! By Smitri Halls
Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo
Fluffy McWhiskers: Cuteness Explosion by Stephen W. Martin, 2021
Lex AD530L Interest level K-3
Teaching Resources:
Teachers Pay Teachers (one free one $)
Resources from the Washington Library Association
Subjects: animals cats friendship
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Itty-Bitty Kitty Corn by Shannon Hale
Toasty by Sarah Hwang
The Cat Wants Cuddles by P. Crumble
Awards: Kirkus Reviews starred
2025 Winner for Picture Books
Knight Owl by Christopher Denise, 2022
Reading Level 2.6 Interest Level K-3
Teaching Resources:
Teachers Pay Teachers ($)
Teaching with Jodi Durgin resources
Teaching Books Resources
JOYcabulary Lesson Plan
Subjects: Birds, Knights and Knighthood (fiction)
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The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
The Knight Who Might by Lou Treleaven
Attack of the Underwear Dragon by Scott Rothman
The Little Wood Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld
Lala's Words by Gracey Zhang, 2021
Lex AD520L interest level K-3
Teaching Resources:
Subjects: human-plant relationships, kindness
Similar books:
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Kraus
When We Are Kind by Monique Gray Smith
Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller
Publisher’s Weekly starred
Mr. Watson's Chickens by Jarrett Dapier, 2021
Lexile AD530L Interest level K-3
Teaching Resources:
Teachers Pay Teachers ($)
Activity Kit from Publisher
Subjects: farm stories, chickens, pets
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Bathe the Cat by Alice McGinty
Catch That Chicken by Atinuke
Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
Publisher’s Weekly starred
A New Day by Brad Meltzer, 2021
Lex AD550L Interest level K-2
Subjects: humor, kindness
Teaching Resources:
Educator Resources from Publisher
Teachers Pay Teachers (free and $)
Teaching Books Resources
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Llama Llama Loves to Read by Anna Dewdney
The Crayons Go Back to School by Drew Daywalt
Pete the Cat’s Not so Groovy Day by James Dean
Poo-Dunit?: a Forest Floor Mystery by Katelyn Aronson, 2022
Interest level K-2
Teaching Resources:
Teaching Books Resources
Learning About Animal Poop
Tracks, Scats, and Animal Facts
Subjects: forest animals
Similar books:
Whose Poop is That? By Darrin P. Lunde
Pigeon Poop by Elizabeth Baguley
What Do They Do With All That Poo? By Jane Kurtz
Bureau of the Center for Children’s Books starred review
We Will Rock Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins, 2020
Lex AD540L interest level K-3
Teaching Resources:
Novel Effect Activities ($)
Teachers Pay Teachers ($)
Lisa King Counselor.com Lessons
Staying Cool in the Library Lesson ($)
Author reading the book with drawing at the end (YouTube)
Subjects: dinosaurs, humor self-confidence
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The Chicken Who Couldn’t by Jan Thomas
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
The Cool Bean by Jory John
School Library Journal starred
Kirkus Reviews starred
Witch Hazel by Molly Idle, 2022
Interest level K-3
Subjects: fantasy, magic
Teaching Resources:
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All From a Walnut by Ammi-Joan Paquette
My Grandma’s Photos by Ozge Bahar
Memory Garden by Zohreh Ghahremani
The Treasure Box by David Keane
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