Staff Faves 2025: Kids Picture 91p福利在线
Every year we ask our staff across the library system for their favorite books published in a given year. Enjoy this list of some of our favorite 2025 picture books for kids - with annotations by staff or adapted from review sources as noted. (Created November 2025)
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Everyday Bean
Meet?Bean, a very tiny hedgehog. She loves ghosts, swings and a stuffie called Clem. Meet?Bean’s grandma. She loves strawberries, sweaters and tiny?Bean?burritos. And they both love stories. [NoveList Plus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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For A Girl Becoming
A?baby?girl?is welcomed to the breathing world by generations of her family and set on the magnificent journey of?becoming. [NoveList Plus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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A Book of Maps for You
Before moving away, a child creates a hand-drawn guidebook to his neighborhood and home to leave behind for the child moving in after him. [NoveList Plus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Lily's Dream
A fairy struggling to fly finds friendship with a kindhearted girl. A quiet tale of magic and friendship. [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Prisons Must Fall
On a moonlit road, tucked away from prying eyes, a child sees a?prison?complex...[and] we come to see the?prison?as a child sees it. As dandelion stars float up in the air, this dreamscape becomes a hope-scape, where love transcends the?prison?walls. [NoveList Plus]
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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Our Lake
A brother takes his little brother to swim in the?lake?for the first time without their father, in a vulnerable exploration of love, loss, longing and connection as the boys hear Father's laugh and see his memory around them. [NoveList Plus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Everybelly
Take a dip in a pool where everyone is welcome. A unique, joyful celebration of bellies, bodies, and beauty. [Kirkus]?
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Who Ate Steve?
Meet Marcel and?Steve, a bird and worm?who?will help us learn about size. And how to resist our mischievous side when we need to focus.?[NoveList Plus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Astro
This Spanish import mixes meditations on mortality with an outer-space setting. An achingly beautiful testament to life, love, and death among the stars. [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Every Peach Is A Story
Little Midori discovers that?every?peach?on her Japanese American family's farm?is?a?sweet reminder of those who've come before, as Jiichan, her grandfather, teaches her about her heritage and her family's connection to the land. [NoveList Plus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available