Living Books About Family

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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