Back-to-School Picture Books 2019 #classroombookaday Recommendations

When considering picture books to recommend for #classroombookaday read alouds, one consideration I use is time of year or what may be happening in schools. Back-to-school time is when I think carefully about what those first read alouds of the year might be – those books that will help set the tone for the classroom community for the school year. The picture books below are some of the newer ones I am most looking forward to sharing with my students this year during the first month of school, and beyond.

Picture Books for Back-to-School 2019

My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith, illus. by Julie Flett

You Are Your Strong by Danielle Dufayet, illus. by Jennifer Zivoin

A Friend for Henry by Jenn Bailey, illus. by Mika Song

Butterflies on the First Day of School by Annie Silvestro, illus. by Dream Chen

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold, illus. by Suzanne Kaufman

Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin, illus. by Ebony Glenn

I Am Not a Fish by Peter Raymundo

Truman by Jean Reidy, illus. by Lucy Ruth Cummins

We Are (Not) Friends by Anna Kang, illus. by Christopher Weyant

Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers: Celebrating Animal Underdogs by Melissa Stewart, illus. by Stephanie Laberis

Meet My Family by Laura Purdie Salas, illus. by Stephanie Fizer Coleman

Raise Your Hand by Alice Paul Tapper, illus. by Marta Kissi

Say Something! by Peter H. Reynolds

Allie All Along by Sarah Lynne Reul

Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall

The Very Last Castle by Travis Jonker, illus. by Mark Pett

*The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
*Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
*The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illus. by Rafael López

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