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Children's Literature: More Book Themes

Where the Wild Things Are
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Giving Tree
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Corduroy
In the Tall, Tall Grass
Stone Soup
Knuffle Bunny Too
Ten, Nine, Eight
Bad Kitty
Elizabeti's Doll
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Pete the Cat book cover
The Empty Pot
Goodnight Moon
Rainbow Fish book
Is Your Momma a Llama book cover
Stellaluna
Rosie's Walk
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie book cover
Mouse Paint
Make Way for Ducklings
Tumble Bumble
Strega Nona
Five Little Monkeys book cover
Click, Clack, Moo : Cows that Type
Press Here
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Carl's Halloween
The Runaway Bunny
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
To Market, to Market

shelf with books imageExplore the slideshow above for many children's favorites, and below are a number of popular picture book themes that have been requested by our readers in the past. You can also find some other picture book selections from several of our other research guides:

👉 Hint: when you click on a book below and are taken to its record in the catalog, take note of the hyperlinked subjects assigned to the item. Clicking on a subject will take you to a search result which should list even more books on that subject from our collections. It is also important to select a subject that contains the word "juvenile" so that your results will be books for children.

If you need help searching for picture books in other subjects, you can always get help from a librarian.

Feelings & Friendship

Wordless Books

Pets

Tough Conversations

Funny!

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