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 5 & 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.
The most decorated gymnast of all time, joins the ranks of the Ordinary People Change the World picture book biography series in I Am Simone Biles, by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Dive into design and architecture in What’s That Building?: An Architectural Guessing Game, by Rebecca Donnelly and Jocelyn Cho.
THE SACRED STONE CAMP, by Rae Rose, Aly McKnight, Dial Books, Oct. 7, 2025, Hardcover, $18.99 (ages 5-9) The Sacred…
Help a detective follow the clues and solve mysteries in The Agatha Case Files: Welcome to Kittyville! by Paul Martin and Camille Roy.
A young girl is weighed down by grief as her family sets out to celebrate Día de Muertos in The Invisible Parade, by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio.
From transformative summer vacations and creating a home to discovering artists and celebrating individuality, the following picture books are great summer reading options,
The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing after World War II, by Debbie Levy and Boris Kulikov, celebrates the kindness of strangers.
Explore all the different kinds of In-Between Places with author Alex Killian and illustrator Grady McFerrin.