What is not to love about a book that celebrates the beauty of family life? This list of living books about family will bring you into the stories of beloved families.
Books About Family
Listed by book type, alphabetical by author’s last name within each section.
*Denotes a personal favorite of our family
Board Books
I Love My Daddy by Sebastien Braun
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
*We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Picture Books
*Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
*A Baby Sister for Frances by Russell Hoban
*The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman
*Flicka, Ricka, Dicka Series by Maj Lindman
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr Series by Maj Lindman
*One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
*Sharing the Bread: An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Story by Pat Zietlow Miller
Truman’s Aunt Farm by Jama Kim Rattigan
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
*A Little House Picture Book Treasury by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Saturday Walk by Ethel Wright
Easy Readers
*The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola
*The Pony Cart Adventure by Elva Hurst
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
Pathways Readers by Pathways Publishers
Cobble Street Cousins by Cynthia Rylant
The Lighthouse Family Series by Cynthia Rylant
*A Tree for Peter by Kate Seredy
Chapter Books
*A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
*Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
*The Trolley Car Family by Eleanor Clymer
Twelve Months Make a Year by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
*Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Golden Name Day by Jennie D. Lindquist
*Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody
*Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
*The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
*Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
*Grandma’s Attic Series by Arleta Richardson
*The Good Master by Kate Seredy
*Five Little Peppers and How they Grew by Margaret Sidney
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
*Heidi by Johanna Spyri
*The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
*Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Adult Books
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge
Pilgrim’s Inn by Elizabeth Goudge
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