Here are my top 10 Valentine’s Day picture books. These are books about friendship, love, and kindness, which are all themes for Valentine’s Day. The one above is my absolutely favorite because it shows a whole family celebrating Valentine’s Day together in their cozy home. So far, it’s the only picture book I’ve found that features such a thing.

This one is super cute, but it doesn’t tell a story like the first one. Each page shows an image from a Little Golden Book with a pithy saying that goes with the image. If you especially love vintage art from old-fashioned LGBs you will love this! I found it thrifting, which made me giddy! It’s more for adults than young kiddos, since it’s not a story. If I read it to under 8s I will skip over some of the pages and words and focus on the more hilarious illustrations.

This book is such a delight! It shows the power of how one simple anonymous gift and note can change someone’s life. Read it then encourage your children to write kind anonymous notes to others.

Sugar Cookies is all about how to define some words relating to love in terms of cookies. So cute!!! Once I read this aloud to some of my friends at a couple’s Valentine’s game night, then we played the game I made based on it. See my game over here that I made to go with it. I originally made it go with the author’s Christmas cookies book, but you could play it with this book too.

This book is a story that links celebrating Valentine’s Day with forgiveness, set in a historical setting of 1960s Alabama. A beautiful story.

Here’s my favorite picture book about love between a mom and dad. The fact that the mom and dad are bears waking up from hibernation during winter makes it extra interesting for children. It can give you different themes to talk about after reading it aloud to your kiddos.

Sylvester is not a Valentine’s Day-theme book but I am putting it here because it’s all about being grateful for your family and the love you share. I feel happy every time I read it! It reminds me to appreciate my family, not take them for granted, and to cultivate the love and time we have together while we do.

This is the only one on the list from my childhood. It’s a sweet story about friendship between classmates and Valentine’s Day.

I love all the illustrations and graphics in this book that gives a basic history of Valentine’s Day.

I just love the Cranberry books. They take me back to my 70s childhood. The books just make me happy.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!