Collection

Classic

Browse classic picture books that have stayed on shelves for generations because they still work as read-alouds, gift books, and bedtime favorites. This collection includes beloved picture books with lasting illustration, memorable pacing, and strong family or classroom appeal.

19 books

Classic

Browse classic picture books that have stayed on shelves for generations because they still work as read-alouds, gift books, and bedtime favorites. This collection includes beloved picture books with lasting illustration, memorable pacing, and strong family or classroom appeal.

A peaceful bull would rather smell flowers than fight, even when everyone expects him to be fierce.

A girl and her grandmother imagine themselves flying over New York City while speaking English and Spanish together.

A duck family crosses busy Boston in search of the right place to raise their ducklings.

After a fire, a girl, her mother, and her grandmother save coins for one beautiful chair of their own.

Based on the childhood of Tomas Rivera, this story shows how books and one librarian can reshape a migrant summer.

At Christmas, a girl panics when she thinks she has lost her mother's ring in the tamale dough.

A teddy bear waits on a department-store shelf and longs for the child who will finally take him home.

Max sails into a wild kingdom of monsters and returns home changed, hungry, and loved.

Big Anthony learns the hard way that magical pasta is not something to experiment with lightly.

Three owlets wait in the dark for their mother and practice being brave together.