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Do you love Picture books too? Have you checked out our earlier list for Two year olds, Three Year olds and Four year old children?

Below is a list for Five year olds. Mind you, picture books are suitable for all ages. 🙂 I feel sometimes they teach us lessons of life too or give us a message which makes so much sense whether we are younger or older.

Hope you enjoy it. I would love it if you could share your favorite picture books with us.

1. Sharing a Shell

When the little hermit crab finds a shiny new shell he doesn’t want to share it – not with a blobby purple anemone and a tickly bristleworm. Join Crab, Blob and Brush in the rock pool for a sparkly story of sea, shells and friendship. Bright, bold pictures with glitter. A must read for highlighting Sharing is caring or Friendship.

2. The Singing Mermaid

This is the story of a mermaid who gets lured away from the ocean and her freedom. Will she find her way back? A story about knowing your true friends and about ingenuous ideas that could help you in a difficult situation. Amazing illustrations with glitter pages throughout the book make it all the more magical. If you would love to do a related activity, please follow the link on our blog.

3. How full is your bucket? For Children.

Felix begins to see how every interaction in a day either fills or empties his bucket. Felix then realizes that everything he says or does to other people fills or empties their buckets as well.
Follow along with Felix as he learns how easy it can be to fill the buckets of his classmates, teachers, and family members. This book has a great healing power and the metaphor with the bucket helps the reader understand positive and negative interactions. An absolute must for schools.

4. Snail & The Whale

This book won the 2004 Early Years award for the best pre-school book, the 2005 Blue Peter award for Best Book to Read Aloud, and the 2007 Giverny award for Best Science Picture Book. A joy to read. Beautiful pictures just help you travel along with the Snail on her adventures with the whale. The book has so many subtle messages.

5. The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat is a classic early reader book, originally published in 1957. Young readers will mostly side with the reckless, fun-crazed Cat and his sidekicks, Thing 1 and Thing 2, not the guilt-tripping goldfish who serves as the voice of reason. The book’s colorful illustrations capture the Cat’s exuberant spirit and match the rapid-fire rhyming text, which will encourage multiple readings. Dr.Seuss books are whacky and fun. Cat in the hat is a series of books with the same set of characters. Do check out the others too.

6. The Scarecrow’s wedding

Written in Julia Donaldson’s glorious rhyme and illustrated in glowing color by Axel Scheffler, THE SCARECROWS’ WEDDING is a fabulous love story, with drama, humour, originality – and a happy ending! Two scarecrows, Betty O’Barley and Harry O’Hay, are planning the perfect wedding. But wicked scarecrow, Reginald Rake, has other ideas and almost ruins their special day. Harry must become a hero before he and Betty can have the wedding of their dreams.

7. Aliens love Underpants

This hilarious story just out of the world. Excellent colorful illustrations & children’s love discussing Aliens. This humorous tale describes how aliens, rather than visiting Earth to take over the planet, really visit to steal your pants. There are other books of the same author which are equally good – Pirates love Underpants, Aliens in Underpants save the world etc.

8. The Princess & the Wizard

“The princess may try seven times to escape By changing her colour and changing her shape.” But each time Princess Eliza changes – into a blue fish, a yellow chick, a red fox or a black cat – the wicked wizard finds her and sets her another horrible task. Will this plucky princess be able to outwit him and escape back to the palace in time to cut her birthday cake? Lovely story to teach colors, shapes, Days of the week & how wit can save you in difficult situations.

9. Satrangi Ladkiyan

क्या सभी लड़कियाँ एक जैसी होती हैं? ज़रा सोचिए…A beautiful book with amazing pictures showing how each one of us is unique.

10. Christmas Wishes

A beautiful modern variation on a classic Christmas poem, further brightened on every page with delightful color illustrations that evoke children’s visions of Santa, sleigh bells, and Christmas trees. It’s Christmas Eve, and two little mice are much too excited to go to sleep. Do they stay up all night? What happens? The short, rhyming verses make it just right to bring forth the Christmas spirit.

11. The 7 Habits of Happy Kids

In this book, bestselling author Sean Covey introduces the characters of 7 Oaks. There’s never a dull moment In 7 Oaks! Whether playing soccer with Jumper Rabbit or planting a garden with Lily Skunk, all the friends are always having fun and learning something new, and these seven beautifully illustrated stories show how keeping the 7 Habits in mind makes this way of life possible. The stories teach with ease.

12. The large Family – Five Minutes Peace

Apart from being elephants, Mr and Mrs Large have a very normal family: four children full of enthusiasm and energy who make a dreadful racket helping with housework when Mum is not well, pester Dad to read stories when he comes home from work exhausted and generally create havoc. The whole series is delightful and there are many moments that parents & children can identify with.

In “Five minutes peace” – One morning Mrs Large, needing some peace and quiet away from her boisterous children, decides to take refuge in the bathroom. She fills herself a foamy bubble-bath and takes in a tray of her favourite breakfast…but finds her peace is to be very short-lived!

We hope you have enjoyed some of these books and have found some new ones in our lists.

Do take a moment to let us know your favorites.

Thanks and love,

Poornima