Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library. These Christmas Books were released in 2025.
Browsing: ages 4 & up
Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your home library. The following picture books were published in 2025.
Agatha Christie’s The Mystery of the Blue Train is adapted for young readers in Marci Kay Monson and Greg Paprocki’s new book by the same title.
Discover the story of a pioneering geologist in Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites, by Sandra Neil Wallace and Nancy Carpenter.
Dive into design and architecture in What’s That Building?: An Architectural Guessing Game, by Rebecca Donnelly and Jocelyn Cho.
Meet and get to know aliens in To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here, an interactive picture book by Antoinette Portis.
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Follow the comings and goings of an apartment building’s residents through the eyes of its elevator in The Elevator on 74th Street, by Laura Gehl and Yas Imamura.
A little mouse discovers that brave isn’t something you are ― it’s something you do — in Just Keep Going by Lynn Smith and Lauren Gallegos.
A boy learns that we are better when we shine together in All the Stars in the Sky, written by Art Coulson and illustrated by Winona Nelson.