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Scholastic Book Clubs • February 2, 2024 TopicsBook Clubs families February teachers Valentine's Day

The Book List: Valentine’s Day


Spread the Bookjoy love this Valentine’s Day with some of our newest picks! Featuring kid-favourite characters and heartfelt stories, what better way to spend time with your little ones than by reading together?

Celebrate love, while also teaching kids valuable social-emotional lessons about love with this year’s featured Valentine’s Day titles and so much more at our Valentine’s Day Shop.

Love From Giraffes Can’t Dance

Discover a lyrical ode to love from bestselling Giraffes Can’t Dance!

Listen to the swaying grass, and listen to the trees. To me, the sweetest music is the branches in the breeze.

Celebrate love with Giraffes Can’t Dance! Featuring modified art and text from the bestselling picture book, and a fresh trim size, Love from Giraffes Can’t Dance is sure to delight readers of all ages.

The perfect purchase for Valentine’s Day, bedtime, and all throughout the year, this lyrical book reminds readers to celebrate love, music, and dance!

Gabby’s Dollhouse: I Love Pandy Paws

Dive into the Dollhouse for a Valentine’s Day adventure with this sticker storybook based on the hit show DreamWorks Gabby’s Dollhouse.

Gabby and Pandy Paws are best friends. They do everything together! Join in their fun by placing the included stickers in the story.

This paw-dorable sticker storybook comes with two sheets of stickers and a set of valentines to share with friends!

Not a Heart!

This is NOT a heart… but can you guess what it is? Lift the flaps to discover adorable winter animals!

Can YOU guess what’s hiding under the flap?

Little ones will love lifting the heart-shaped flaps in this sweet Valentine’s Day-themed board book, revealing adorable animals like polar bears and red pandas hiding underneath. Promoting curiosity and creativity, and told with bright patterns, colourful artwork, and sturdy lift-the-flaps that encourage fine motor skills, Not a Heart! from author and illustrator Susie Lee Jin is sure to be a hit with your baby or toddler this Valentine’s Day season!

Keep your little one guessing throughout the year with companion titles Not an Egg! and Not a Pumpkin!

I Love You More / Je t’aime plus

How much do I love you? I love you more than cones love ice cream

This gorgeous, playful book opens up infinite possibilities for saying I love you that carry on long after closing the book. Follow along as young Des’s day winds him through his busy, diverse neighbourhood, highlighting different relationships across age, gender and race, and moments bound together by love.

Through Emil Sher’s delightful word play and acclaimed illustrator Barbara Reid’s vibrant modelling clay art, I Love You More creates a rich experience for young readers and brings a wonderful affirming feeling to storytime.

This story was inspired by a favourite game the author played with his now-grown daughters ― one readers can carry on in their own way, with their own loved ones and in their own hearts.

How to Catch a Loveasaurus / Comment capturer un amourosaure

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes an exciting picture book about a rare new creature!

Can you catch the magical Loveosaurus? The How to Catch Kids are on the chase again, this time to trap a dinosaur that escaped from the museum and wants to spread love and kindness. Blending exciting traps and STEAM concepts with hilarity and chaos to encourage reading, learning, and imagination, this charming adventure will delight young readers, families, and educators alike―and maybe inspire spreading some kindness too! This funny children’s picture book makes the perfect bedtime read-aloud and Valentine’s Day gift for kids ages 4-10!