Favorite Fall Books
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For example every time I watch an episode of Gilmore Girls
The same is true for books. To this day, I can’t think about Anne of Green Gables
My sentiments exactly Anne!
A few weeks ago when I was unpacking our fall decor, I also came across my children’s seasonal book collection. I like to put away and store books that correspond to each season and bring them out at the appropriate time.
For example I have some books on Thanksgiving that I will pull out in November, Christmas books which I will pull out in December and books on snow and winter that I will pull out in January. Not to mention the other seasons and holidays that occur in late winter, spring and summer.
The beauty of being a former elementary school teacher is I have a lot of children’s books packed up that I am slowly able to bring out and rotate so my kids always have quality and a variety of literature to read.
While many of our beloved favorites stay out all year to be read over and over again, there is something so special about special seasonal books that only get brought out once a year for a few weeks.
Not only was I excited to rediscover them, but so where my kids!
My little bookworms love reading new books and it also helps me as other beloved favorites get put to a rest for a while. (Currently we have checked out Five Little Ducks
As I opened our small storage bin of fall decor and begun pulling out our pumpkins, leaves and other decorations (which I’ll share tomorrow in my fall home tour) I finally came to the stack of books that were nestled at the bottom of the box.
Oh how fun it is to find buried treasures!
And that’s what books, including beloved children’s books, are to me… treasures.
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Not only do I love reading them, but I love that my children love them as well, despite the fact that I read the same ones over and over again. Nothing melts my heart more than when my kids bring me a book and say, “Mommy, let’s read!” And read we do!
Today I wanted to share with you some of our beloved fall books that we are currently reading. Fall, leaves, apples and pumpkins… these are such sweet topics to read and explore about this time of year.
Some of our books also have Halloween related themes such as trick-or-treating and referencing Halloween night. I’m not a huge fan of Halloween but I’m also know that Halloween is a big part of our culture so many fall theme books include Halloween topics in them. I’m careful about what I expose my kids to, which means I’m sensitive to themes and images that may seem scary to them.
With all that being said, let me share with you our favorite fall books!
Favorite Fall Children’s Books to Treasure Again & Again
Fall Leaves Fall!
Dappled Apples
A Pumpkin Prayer (Time to Pray)
The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin
Apples and Pumpkins
Inside a House That is Haunted
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse!
What are your family’s favorite books to read together during the fall?
This post is part of the 31 Days of Savoring Fall Series. Click here to see all the posts in the series.
Love this line up. I remember reading to my kids when they were young and these books would have been a great choice!!
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These all look like books my kids would love!
I better start collecting fall books for my son. A Pumpkin Prayer (Time to Pray) seems like a great book. I’ll check it out. 🙂
It is such a sweet book Britni, I bet you and your son would love it 🙂
Cute, these would be great at elementary schools!
Yep, many of them I read to my students when I taught.
I remember reading a few of these both to my kids and to my preschool students, especially The Pumpkin Prayer. Thanks so much for the link-up!
A Pumpkin Prayer is new to us this season but it has quickly become on of my favorites!
Well, I’m going to the comment on the TV mention. 🙂 I’m thinking I’m going to binge watch Gilmore Girls when I’m folding laundry … I’m sort of surprised I haven’t watched it yet. Totally seems like my kind of show!
Get ready to lose several hours of your life Kristin! 🙂 I will say that the first three seasons where my favorite and I didn’t care for the last half of the series as much, even though it was still good. But the first season especially is my favorite.
Love this, it was fun to read about your favorites, I could almost feel the excitement of your kids as you pulled the books out of the box. 🙂 I am up to my eyeballs in books right now doing my 31 day series, thanks for sharing some of yours and the link up.
You’re welcome Tobi and they were super thrilled, and still are, to read some new books. That’s the best part of special seasonal books, seeing their excitement the first few days of reading something new. It’s almost like Christmas morning!
Great collection. We are going to visit my niece and nephew, maybe I’ll put together a little reading present….
They would love that I bet! What a great way to be a cool aunt 🙂
very cool!! I can’t wait to check out some of those books… We haven’t read all of them!!
They are fun books Emily! Hope you get a chance to enjoy some with your children 🙂
It looks like a great collection! We used to do the same thing…get out the fall books in the fall, Christmas at Christmas. I love children’s books. We saved most of them for when our kids have their own children, and I even have some of my favorites from when I was a child.
That’s so fun Michelle! I have several books from when I was a kid too and I hope to keep several for my kid’s kids if they aren’t too hard on them! 🙂
What a great way to introduce the idea of seasons to children and have favorite stories to look forward to! I had never thought of this idea!
It’s so fun and simple too. Since we read a lot of books, it just adds a special element to our daily reading time.
I remember as a child ordering books at school and the excitement of getting them and bringing them home. Love your lineup!
I loved the book orders too! I love them even more now that my son brings them home from his preschool 🙂
Great list of children’s books for fall. We have several of these books and my kids love them! You just reminded me that I need to pull some of them down from the attic. I have them in boxes by seasons so they get excited when they haven’t seen those books in a while. Thanks so much for the reminder. 🙂
You’re welcome! It gets so easy to get busy with the season to forget to pull out some of the great children’s books.
Thanks so much for this! I love to read my little one books that are perfect for the season, but I never know where to find them. We are definitely headed to the library to find some of these.
Hope you get a chance to read some of these Stephanie, they are so fun and cute. My kids love them!
We don’t have kids but my husband and I enjoy listening to audible on our ride to and from work! We’re currently reading The Night Circus!
I keep hearing about Audible and I think it’s time I join in too. I would get so much more reading down if I could listen while doing chores, driving or other tasks that don’t require complete attention from my part 🙂
I love the idea of doing a seasonal book collection. We have books for every season, but they are mixed in with the rest. I think I am going to have to change that! Thanks for the awesome idea, and great recommendations.
I love pulling out books for special days and so do my kids. Hope you get a chance to check out some of the books with your kids this season 🙂