20 Preschool Books about Family

ByBeth Gorden

Help kids celebrate the important role families play in our lives with these super cute and fun-to-read preschool books about family. These preschool family books are fun for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to read.

Help kids celebrate the important role families play in our lives with these super cute and fun-to-read preschool books about family. These preschool family books are fun for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to read. 

Preschool Books about Family

Family is such an important home base for little ones. There are so many types of families, and there are lots of family books for preschoolers that celebrate the love that makes us one. This list is full of family books preschool that celebrate the different people that make up our families, and the love that we share. REad these family books for kids to toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students.

Preschool family books

Whether you are a parent, teachers, homeschooler, or daycare – you will love this carefully selected list of family books for preschoolers. Use them at home snuggled up on the couch, as part of a family theme, in your classroom or as a supplement to your homeschool preschool curriculum.

Family Pack 
This is a real life story about a family of wolves and how they adapt to survive together. So although not about people, the life lessons about sticking together and working together apply beautifully. I love the illustrations!

Family Reunion
Beautiful water color illustrations fill this book telling of a family reunion with extended family using poems. I love that it introduces children to poetry. Again, while this is not about your nuclear family, I love that it helps kids realizes that grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are part of our family too!

One Big Family
Another fun-to-read book about extended family getting together. This is perfect to read before a family reunion. It helps kids prepare for the noisy, exciting, but loving moments they will experience when everyone gets together.

The Worm Family
This book is fun, silly, and has great topics to talk about together. The worm family is tall, skinny, and like to sing worm songs. They are different from their neighbors. This is great for discussing how your family may look or act differently from those around you, but that’s okay.

My Wild Family
This book helps introduce metaphors by using animals to illustrate how each member of the family is different and unique. Great for helping kids realize each family member is unique.

Ninety-Three in My Family
A delightful book with whimsical pictures, rhythmic verse, and lots of fun counting inside. Kids will giggle through the outlandish premise that this boy’s family is made up of  27 owls, 11 dogs, cats, lions, gerbils, and more.

The Frazzle Family Finds a Way
This cute story follows a forgetful family through their day. They ultimately use silly rhyming songs to help them remember.

A Perfect Home for a Family
The sweet story follows a family of raccoons as they look for a bigger home to accomidate their growing family.

The Chicken of the Family
This story follows a girl named Henrietta who her siblings keep saying is actually a chicken. This book is sure to become a favorite in your family and great for helping kids learn to cope with teasing from a sibling.

Duck, Duck, Dinosaur
A cute, fun-to-read story kids will enjoy that touches on sibling rivalry and how the mother loves all her children equally.

Is Your Mama a Llama?
Humorous rhymes accompany this story where a baby llama guesses along with the listener at what kind of animal everyone’s mama is. This story builds phonemic awareness and rhyme too!

Love you Forever
A classic, favorite book of families everywhere! This book shows the enduring love of a parent as their child goes through stages of childhood.

A Chair for My Mother
An award winning book about a family whose home is destroyed and how they save to buy a comfortable chair for the whole family to enjoy.

Copy Me, Copycub
This is a cute story with great illustrations. Follow the mother and her cub through all the four seasons and watch how some animals hibernate. This book will be reminiscent of  how kids like to copy behaviors and a great reminder that they are always watching, learning, and imitating what we do.

Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

This is such a sweet story with beautiful drawings that help kids understand that when they sleep, everything else sleeps too . . . and it will all be waiting for them in the morning.

If Animals Kissed Good Night
Such a sweet story with lovely illustrations of how animals would say good night.

Llama Llama Misses Mama
I love the way the text flows and the beautiful hand drawn illustrations in all of Anna Dewdney’s original books. This book is great to help kids process what it feels like when parents have to leave to go to work or an outing without them, but knowing that they will be back!

On the Night You Were Born
This is such a sweet way to help kids  know about the very special day they came into the world, how much they were loved, and how momentous that day is. I love reliving that moment and emotion with my little ones. Beautiful text and gorgeous illustrations.

Welcome Little One
This is a sweet, simple story perfect for telling kids how much they were loved from the day they were born.

God Found us You
If your little one is adopted, this is a great story about how you loved your little one from even before you met them and how special your bond is.

Silly Wonderful YOU
I love that this book normalizes that kids all make messes, and are loud, and that it’s okay. we love them anyway!

You’re All My Favorites
If you have more than one child like we do (we have six) it is so wonderful to verbally tell them that they are all loved equally. They all are unique and special and we parents wouldn’t trade any of them for anything.

My Two Grannies
I love that this book shows how families can be made up of various different cultures or looks and how beautiful that is and how rich a heritage kids have.

Prehistoric dinos are fascinating to kids of all ages! So we picked some of our favorite Dinosaur Books for Preschoolers so you'd have a quick, go-to list of dinosaur children's book suggestions for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders. So whether you use these dinosaur books for kids along with a dinosaur theme or as bedtime stories, these lovely illustrations and delightful tales are sure to be a hit! Kids of all ages are fascinated by big trucks and construction vehicles! These construction books for preschoolers are a great way to learn about a variety of diggers, plows, concrete mixers, lifts, and more while expanding vocabulary and literacy skills too. So pick up some of these fun children's books about construction vehicles and you are ready to cuddle up and read! Children's books about colors are a fun way to introduce young readers to the concepts of colors and color mixing. This list of color books for preschoolers includes all kinds of stories featuring fun characters, creative stories, and brightly colored illustrations. These color picture books are perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too.

Preschool Book Lists

If you are looking for more fun-to-read preschool book lists with picture books picked out for your preschoolers, don’t miss these great picks:

Plus don’t miss our MANY preschool worksheets, fun alphabet printables, hands-on preschool math, clever ideas to learn colors, complete preschool themes, lots of playdoh mats, cute preschool crafts, and fantastic preschool books on our Preschool Play and Learn website.

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of Preschool Play and Learn. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! Beth is also the creator of 123Homeschool4Me.com and kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com where she shares more than 100,000 pages of FREE worksheets,& educational ideas for PreK-8th grade.

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