Valentine’s Day is a time to share the things we love with those we love. It’s a perfect time of year to share some special read-alouds about love with your students. You and your students are guaranteed to love these 10 Valentine’s Day Picture books.
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Valentine’s Day Picture Books
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek beautifully describes the many different feelings our hearts can feel. Some days it may feel heavy and sad while other days it feels silly or hopeful. This provides a perfect opportunity to create a class book by having students write their own page describing how their heart feels.
Love Monster
Your students will fall in love with Love Monster by Rachel Bright. We meet a funny-looking monster who doesn’t fit in with all the cute, fluffy things around him. He searches everywhere but struggles to find someone to love him as he is. Although sometimes, we find love when we least expect it!
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
So this isn’t a picture book, but it is the perfect read-aloud about love! The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane tells about a china Rabbit who encounters an extraordinary journey when gets lost from the little girl he loves. Kate DiCamillo masterfully wrote an extremely heartwarming tale about losing love and learning to love again.
Love, Z
What does “love” mean? In Love, Z by Jessie Sima a little robot named Z seeks to find the answer to this question. After finding a message in a bottle signed “Love, Beatrice” he is on a mission to find her to learn what love really is.
Hug Machine
Hug Machine by Scott Campbell describes all the ways a good hug can make us feel! We meet the Hug Machine who loves giving hugs to everyone and everything he sees. He even comes up with clever solutions for some animals who think they’re unhuggable.
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli is a heartwarming tale worth reading year after year. Mr Hatch’s normal, lonely routine is suddenly thrown off when he receives a mystery valentine. But when he finally realizes the identify of his secret admirer, it’s even better than he ever imagined.
Love is My Favorite Thing
Young readers learn the meaning of unconditional love in Love is My Favorite Thing by Emma Chichester Clark. Plum is a cheerful pup who loves everything. But when she makes some naughty choices, will her family still love her?
Olive My Love
Olive is on a mission to return a large heart that was dropped on her doorstep. She meets several characters who help her to return the heart, only to realize she overlooked a very important detail. Olive My Love by Vivian Walsh is a cute story young readers will enjoy!
LOVE
Matt De La Pena wrote a beautiful masterpiece with his book simply titled Love. Through eloquent descriptions, the reader experiences the many ways that we feel love from the day we’re born and throughout our lives.
Love Is
In Love Is by Diane Adams we learn that sometimes love means letting go and saying goodbye. A little girl finds a duckling at the park and brings it home. She takes the best care of the duck until the difficult day when she realizes it is time for the duck to return to the pond. Will the duck she loves so dearly still remember her?
What other Valentine’s Day picture books do you love using? Share in the comments!
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