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50 More Picture Books Reading Challenge

If 101 books weren’t enough, or you want to start with a smaller challenge, this is for you! Complete the challenge by reading the books on this list to receive a book for your home library.

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  • The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a substitute.
    Picture BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. — jE
  • When Buzz captures a fly to enter in The Amazing Pet Show, his parents and the judges tell him that a fly cannot be a pet, but Fly Guy proves them wrong.
    ReaderNew York : Scholastic, [2005] — jE
  • With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
    Picture BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, [2012] — jE
  • Confusion abounds when a poorly spoken donkey says to a grammarian yam, I Yam a Donkey!
    Picture BookBoston : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2015. — jE
  • A girl, a flamingo, and a worried potato star in the third book in this series about feelings--and why they're good, even when they feel bad--by "New York Times"-bestselling author Black and illustrator Ohi.
    Picture BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019. — jE
  • Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper.
    Picture BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — fjE
  • Hair Love

    a Celebration of Daddies and Daughters Everywhere

    Cherry, Matthew A.
    It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hairstyle in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters.
    Picture BookNew York : Kokila, 2019. — jE
  • When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." In this imaginative take on that popular saying, a child is surprised to receive a lemon tree from Grandma for her birthday. After all, she DID ask for a new gadget!
    Picture BookNew York, N.Y. : Sterling Children's Books, 2019. — jE
  • With its spare, poignant text and irresistibly sweet illustrations, this is a universal, deeply moving exploration of grief and empathy sure to soothe heartache of all sizes.
    Picture BookNew York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018] — jE
  • When her parents find a baby wolf on their doorstep and decide to raise him as their own, Dot is certain he will eat them all up until a surprising encounter with a bear brings them closer together.
    Preloaded AudiobookSolon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2019] — jE
  • Follows many kinds of dogs in a variety of activities.
    ReaderNew York : Random House, [c1961] — jE
  • Young children will enjoy learning about colors and flowers with this new edition of one of Ehlert's most popular titles in a brand-new format.
    BookSan Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1988] — jE
  • A rhyming twist on a classic fairy tale in which a queen places a pea under a young lady's mattress to see if she is truly a princess.
    Picture BookNew York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2017] — jE
  • As kids turn the die-cut pages of this vibrantly illustrated book, they'll watch the Big Green Monster grow before their very eyes. Then, when they're ready to show him who's in charge, they'll turn the remaining pages and watch him…
    Picture BookBoston : Little, Brown, [1992] — jE
  • Kitten sees her first full moon, but she thinks it's a bowl of milk and tries to get at it.
    Picture BookNew York : Greenwillow Books, [2004] — jE
  • A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
    Picture BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 1999. — jE
  • A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother's, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in…
    Picture BookNew York : HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — jE
  • The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides that he wants to be happy.
    Picture BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — jE