4 Picture Books for the First Day of School!

🍎 What grade is your little one going into?

A whole new year of learning, growing, and reading is here and we couldn’t be more excited! 🌈 📖 The first day of school is full of fun activities and memorable moments, but it can also be a bit scary. Check out a few of our favorite reads below to get your kids pumped for the new school year!

🎒”Even Monsters Go to School” is a rhyming picture book filled with bright illustrations of all sorts of monsters who attend school. It’s the perfect story for little ones who feel a bit reluctant about their first day and need extra reassurance. Best of all, it’s from our most-kept author-illustrator, Chris Van Dusen!

🍪 “The Smart Cookie” by best-selling duo Jory John and Pete Oswald tells the story of a cookie who has never felt like a smart cookie, no matter how hard she tries—especially compared to all the clever kids in her class! But with a bit of encouragement from her teacher, she learns that we are all smart in our own special ways!

🐉 “Just Be Yourself, Dragon!” is the third book in the beloved Dragon series from Bianca Schulze and Samara Hardy . In this story, Dragon is headed off to her first day of school but is worried that she won’t be able to make any new friends. However, by the end of the day, she learns that she can make friends just by being herself!

🦄 “First Day of Unicorn School” by Jess Hernandez and Mariano Epelbaum tells the story of Millie, who is incredibly excited for her first day of Unicorn School. There’s just one problem: she isn’t a unicorn; she’s a donkey in a party hat! She’s worried that she won’t fit in with her new classmates but soon learns she has more in common with them than she first thought!