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The Book List: Valentine’s Day


Spread the Bookjoy love this Valentine’s Day with some of our latest 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.

How to Catch a Loveosaurus

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!

Cupicochon : Une drôle de Saint-Valentin

A comically mismatched Valentine’s Day picture book with a clever and hilarious take on Cupid. Introducing Cupicochon, the Valentine’s Day pig!

Cupicochon absolutely loves Valentine’s Day. Every year she enjoys spreading love and cheer to every creature, far and near. But when a storm blows through and sends her arrows off course, Cupicochon accidentally puts arrows in hearts that don’t need to be mended. Peanut Butter has stopped loving Jelly! Salt and Pepper have broken up! Needle and Thread are falling apart at the seams!

Will Cupicochon ever fix her mistakes and get these classic pairs back together again?

With clever rhyming text and comically expressive art, Cupicochon is sure to be a Valentine’s Day classic for years to come! The perfect Valentine’s Day gift and for fans of Little Blue Truck’s Valentine, Comment capturer un amourosaure, and Love from the Crayons!

Pig the Pug: Love Pug

Babies and toddlers will giggle along with this simple board book as they are introduced to what Pig the Pug loves best, from dancing and dress up, to friends, of course!

Featuring silly illustrations and favorite Pig quotes, this board book with die-cut cover makes a sweet Valentine’s Day gift for the youngest Pig the Pug fans.

L’amour selon les giraffes qui dansent

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!

I Love You More

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.

Au coeur des mots

Told through the eyes of a child and a cat, this book beautifully demonstrates the importance of what we choose to say.

Simple, direct, and emotive, the message conveyed is that words have extraordinary power ― to harm and to heal; to create and to destroy; and to spread love. A useful tool to discuss the concept of bullying and the negative impact it has on others.

Gabby’s Dollhouse: Gabby Loves

Celebrate Kitty-tine’s Day in Gabby’s Dollhouse!

Explore the dollhouse to discover what Gabby and the Gabby Cats love best! Will these a-meow-zing friends feel love? Find out in this adorable board book!

Bluey: How to be Romance with Bluey & Bingo

Learn all about love with Bluey and Bingo in this sturdy lift-the-flap board book, based on the wildly successful animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+.

Bluey and Bingo know all about love. Find out all the different ways the Heeler family love in this lift-the-flap board book that’s perfect for fans of Bluey!

Pout-Pout Fish: Special Valentine

Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna’s Pout-Pout Fish: Special Valentine features the star of the New York Times bestselling series celebrating Valentine’s Day.

It’s time for Valentine’s Day, and there’s no better way to enjoy it than with Mr. Fish and his friends! At an affordable price point, and with two pages of punch-out Valentine’s Day cards to share, this format is fun and accessible for Mr. Fish’s fans and newcomers alike.

A Crankenstein Valentine

Even the crankiest monsters have hearts in this monstrously funny Valentine tale from fan favorite author Samantha Berger and bestselling, award-winning illustrator Dan Santat.

An ordinary kid becomes Crankenstein on the most lovey-dovey, yuckiest day of the year: Valentine’s Day. Cheesy cards, allergy-inducing bouquets, and heart-shaped everything? YECHHHH! It’s enough to turn anyone into a monster!

In this third entry into the beloved Crankenstein series, see if our grumpy little hero can make a sour day sweet and find a little love in his heart!