Thematic Picture Book Lists

The Girl and the Wolf by Katherena Vermette

Dear Girl, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal; Holly Hatam (Illustrator); Paris Rosenthal

Bully by Jennifer Sattler (Illustrator); Tamara Ryan (Narrated by)

I Walk with Vanessa: a Story about a Simple Act of Kindness by Kerascoët; Kerascoët

The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright; Jim Field (Illustrator)

Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai; Kerascoët (Illustrator)

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson; Rafael López (Illustrator); Rafael López (Illustrator)

Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator)

I'm Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas; Pauline Young (Illustrator)

Dear Boy, by Holly Hatam (Illustrator); Paris Rosenthal; Jason B. Rosenthal

What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses? by Richard Van Camp; George Littlechild (Illustrator)

The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin; Rosana Faría (Illustrator); Elisa Amado (Translator); Rosana Faria (Illustrator)

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Be the Change by Arun Gandhi; Bethany Hegedus; Evan Turk (Illustrator)

Many: the Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies; Emily Sutton (Illustrator)

Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea by Elizabeth Suneby; Rebecca Green (Illustrator)

Energy Island by Allan Drummond (Illustrator)

Tokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano; Kellen Hatanaka (Illustrator)

Heal the Earth by Julian Lennon; Bart Davis; Smiljana Coh (Illustrator)

Sam's Pet Temper by Sangeeta Bhadra; Marion Arbona (Illustrator)

I'm Not Cute! by Jonathan Allen

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt; Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)

The Promise by Nicola Davies; Laura Carlin (Illustrator)

The Bad Seed by Jory John; Pete Oswald (Illustrator)

I Can Be Anything! Don't Tell Me I Can't! by Diane Dillon (Illustrator)

Here we are : notes for living on planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers

Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson; Fumi Kosaka (Illustrator)

Bully by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Illustrator)

Greta and the giants : inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world by Zoë Tucker

The Artist and Me by Shane Peacock; Sophie Casson (Illustrator)

Razia's Ray of Hope by Suana Verelst (Illustrator); Liz Suneby

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker by Robbie Robertson; David Shannon (Illustrator)

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales