This year’s list includes multicultural stories, picture book biographies, poems, graphic novels, a bit of fantasy and mystery, and books about science and nature, pets, family, and friends.
Our gift guide list is arranged by age, with books for the youngest readers (0-3 years old) at the top, followed by books for 3-6, 6-9, and 9-12 year olds. At the very end, we’ve included five extra titles that are too good to miss. These books don’t easily fit into an age category but have broad appeal and are just too interesting and well-crafted not to share.
Happy Holidays from Reading Rockets!

Alma and Her Family / Alma y su familia

By Myself!

Colors of the National Parks

Copy That, Copy Cat! Inventions Inspired by Animals

Croc-a-Doodle Doo!

George & Tao

Global Baby Grandparents

I Love You, Baby Burrito

Leo on a Hike

Look: A Tummy Time Book

Read to Your Baby Every Night

Roll, Roll, Little Pea

All About the Heart

Big Babies

Boogie in the Bronx

Caterpillars: What Will I Be When I Get to Be Me?

Dancing the Tinikling

Doris

Gift & Box

Have You Seen Dinosaur?

How to Count to 1

Invader from Mars: The Truth About Babies

Marta! Big and Small

Mine!

Nesting Dolls

Shapes and Shapes

Snowflakes on Our Tongues

Time to Move South for Winter

The Truth About Dragons

Walter Finds His Voice: The Story of a Shy Crocodile

The Woman and Her Bear Cub

Along Came a Radioactive Spider

All in a Day

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

Building a Dream: How the Boys of Koh Panyee Became Champions

Everything You Know About Dinosaurs Is Wrong!

The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom

Hands-On Science: Motion

Harlem at Four

How to Chat Chicken, Gossip Gorilla, Babble Bee, Gab Gecko, and Talk in 66 Other Animal Languages

InvestiGators: All Tide Up

Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year

One Smart Cookie

Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson

Plants to the Rescue!

The Rescues Finding Home

Secrets of the Forest

There Was a Party for Langston

The World’s Most Atrocious Animals

Eagle Drums

Frogs: Awesome Amphibians

The Last Unexplored Place on Earth

The Lost Library

The Mona Lisa Vanishes

Once in a Blue Moon

Picture Day

Plague-Busters: Medicine’s Battles with History’s Deadliest Diseases

The Puppets of Spelhorst

Saving Sunshine

Something Like Home

Things in the Basement

A Whole World of Art

Wrecker

Absolutely Everything! A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots, and Other Things too Numerous to Mention

Britannica’s Encyclopedia Infographica

History FACTopia!

Wishes of the World
