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  • The Twelve Days of Kindergarten by Deborah Lee Rose
  • Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
  • Miss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry Allard
  • This Is the Way We Go to School by Edith Baer

Autumn Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur
  • Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky
  • Autumn Days by Ann Schweninger
  • Fall by Ron Hirschi
  • Snowsong Whistling by Karen E. Lotz
  • A Visit from Aunt Rose by Patsy Becvar*
  • When Autumn Comes by Robert Maass

Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur

  • Sound the Shofar! by Leslie Kimmelman

Johnny Appleseed Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg
  • Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh
  • Who Was John Chapman? by Patsy Becvar*

Christopher Columbus Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Across the Atlantic by Terry Nova*
  • Follow the Dream by Peter Sis
  • How We Learned the Earth is Round by Patricia Lauber
  • A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus by David A. Adler

Halloween Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White
  • This is the Pumpkin by Abby Levine
  • On Halloween Night by Ferida Wolff and Dolores Kozielski
  • Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
  • Scaredy Cat by Patsy Becvar*
  • Scary, Scary Halloween by Eve Bunting

Election Day

  • Vote! by Eileen Christelow
  • Election Day, by Patricia J. Murphy

Thanksgiving Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Thanksgiving is Here! by Diane Goods
  • An Outlaw Thanksgiving by Emily Arnold McCully
  • The Circle of Thanks: Native American Poems and Songs of Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac
  • Across the Wide Dark Sea by Jean Van Leeuwen
  • How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting (a modern-day Thanksgiving)
  • If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
  • Pilgrim Voices edited by Connie and Peter Roop
  • Samuel Eaton's Day by Kate Waters
  • Sarah Morton's Day by Kate Waters
  • Tapenum's Day by Kate Waters

Winter Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • When Will It Snow? by Bruce Hiscock
  • Winter Lullaby by Barbara Seuling
  • The Mitten by Jan Brett
  • The Seasons and Someone by Virginia Kroll
  • Snowsong Whistling by Karen E. Lotz
  • Winter by Ron Hirschi

Hanukkah Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Eight Days of Hanukkah by Harriet Ziefert
  • Celebrating Hanukkah by Shelly Nielsen
  • Celebrating Hanukkah by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith 
  • Latkes and Applesauce by Fran Manushkin 
  • One Yellow Daffodil by David A. Adler

Christmas Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • An Angel Just Like Me by Mary Hoffman
  • An Island Christmas by Lynn Joseph
  • This is the Star by Joyce Dunbar
  • December by Eve Bunting
  • An Amish Christmas by Richard Ammon 
  • The Farolitos of Christmas by Rudolfo Anaya  (New Mexico) 
  • Going Home by Eve Bunting  (Mexico) 
  • Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant  (Appalachia) 
  • Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto  (Hispanic-American)

Kwanzaa Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • It's Kwanzaa Time by Linda and Clay Goss 
  • Seven Candles for Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney

New Year's Day Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Dumpling Soup by Jama Kim Rattigan

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris
  • Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo 
  • The March by Jane Ann Thomas*

100th Day of School Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
  • The 100th Day of School by Angela Shelf Medearis

Groundhog Day Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • It's Groundhog Day by Steven Kroll 

Chinese New Year Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • This Next New Year by Janet S. Wong
  • Happy New Year! by Emery Bernhard
  • Happy New Year!/Kung-hsi fa-ts'ai! by Demi
  • The Golden Dragon by Carol Hamilton Cobb* 
  • Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year by Kate Waters

Mardi Gras Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story by Lynn Joseph

Abraham Lincoln Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Abe Lincoln Remembers by Ann Turner
  • Honest Abe by Edith Kunhardt 
  • The Train Home by Patsy Becvar*

George Washington Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra and Madeleine Comora
  • Happy Birthday, Mr. President! by Jane Ann Thomas* 
  • ...If You Grew Up with George Washington by Ruth Belov Gross 

President's Day Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George

St. Patrick's Day Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • St. Patrick by Ann Tompert
  • The Leprechaun's Treasure, an Irish tale*

Spring Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • At Grandpa's Sugar Bush by Margaret Carney
  • The Seasons and Someone by Virginia Kroll 
  • Spring by Ron Hirschi 
  • Welcome Back Sun by Michael Emberley 
  • When Spring Comes by Robert Maass

Passover Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • The Story of Passover by Bobbi Katz
  • Hooray! It's Passover! by Leslie Kimmelman
  • The Matzah That Papa Brought Home by Fran Manushkin 

Easter  Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco

Earth Day Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson by Amy Ehrlich
  • A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley
  • A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry 
  • Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker 
  • A Woman Who Cared by Patsy Becvar*

May Day Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Queen of the May by Steven Kroll 

Cinco de Mayo Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Cinco de Mayo by Mary Dodson Wade
  • Enrico's Project by Mary Jane Austensen*

Mothers Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
  • All the Mamas by Carol Gandee Shough
  • Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse 
  • My Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba Moore Gray 
  • My Working Mom by Peter Glassman 
  • On Mother's Lap by Ann Herbert Scott 

Memorial Day Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • The Wall by Eve Bunting

Fathers Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • A Special Kind of Love by Stephen Michael King 
  • Phoebe's Fabulous Father by Louisa Campbell 
  • Just My Dad and Me by Leah Komaiko

Juneteenth Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter 
  • Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson 
  • The Wagon by Tony Johnston 
  • Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco 
  • A Place Called Mother Hubbard Cupboard by Patsy Becvar* 
  • Addy Saves the Day by Connie Porter 
  • More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby (about young Booker T. Washington)

Summer Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Sunflower House by Eve Bunting 
  • Watermelon Day by Kathi Appelt 
  • Summer by Ron Hirschi 
  • When Summer Comes by Robert Maass 
  • Lucy's Summer by Donald Hall 
  • The Seasons and Someone by Virginia Kroll

Our Flag and Country Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Stars and Stripes by Sarah L. Thomson
  • Happy Birthday, America by Mary Pope Osborne
  • This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
  • The Flag We Love by Pam Muñoz Ryan 
  • American Too by Elisa Bartone

Ramadan Holiday activity Go to Celebrating Holidays

  • Ramadan by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi
  • Coming to America: A Muslim Family's Story by Bernard Wolf
 
 
 

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