40 elementary school library lessons with activities, extensions, and library centers are included with this helpful product! Great picture books, nonfiction picture books, and picture book biographies are featured, with plans to help you share these titles with your elementary school students! Included in this Printable PDF Product: List of 40 new picture books worth reading with your students Questions to ask before reading each book Questions to ask as you read each book Lesson Activities that can be completed together by a whole class Library Centers that small groups can participate in after they check out books Emphasis on collaboration, kindness and the fun of reading I created this product to make it easier for elementary school librarians to share amazing new picture books with students, with engaging, low-prep activities, makerspaces, and learning centers. Each lesson states the grade level range that it is designed for, typically either K-2 or 3-5. Each lesson can take from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on whether or not you include all possible activities. *Please check out the preview above to see exactly what is included for each of the 40 book titles.* You will need to own these books or borrow them from your school or local library. The books are not included with this TPT product. 20 Picture Book Titles: Snail Crossing Fussy Flamingo Roy Digs Dirt Unicorns Are the Worst Someone Builds the Dream A New Day A Small Kindness Too Crowded Line and Scribble Invent-a-Pet Paletero Man Rectangle Time Nobody Hugs a Cactus Rocket Says Look Up How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion The Ocean Calls The Old Truck Ducks on the Road Wolfboy Brick by Brick Green on Green Mr. Complain Takes the Train 10 Nonfiction Picture Book Titles: So You Want to Be an Owl Mars! Earthlings Welcome The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory Being Frog Clever Hans: The True Story of the Counting, Adding, and Time-Telling Horse Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals A Garden in Your Belly: Meet the Microbes in Your Gut The Nest that Wren Built On a Snow-Melting Day: Seeking Signs of Spring The Reason for the Seasons 10 Picture Book Biography Titles: Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Thurston Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks Digging for Words: Jose Alberto Gutierrez and The Library He Built Nacho's Nachos Try It!: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars Selena: Queen of Tejano Music Mornings with Monet June Almeida, Virus Detective!: The Woman Who Discovered the First Human Coronavirus Small Room, Big Dreams: The Journey of Julian and Joaquin Castro Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest *This product is a PDF for quick and easy printing. You will not be able to edit this product.* Here's what other customers have said about these helpful library lessons: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I love this resource!! I use it all the time when I need a quick and easy lesson, or need to leave a lesson for a sub." (Thank you, Jennifer W.!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "These were great easy to use lesson plans! I love that I had majority of these books in my library already so it was easy to print and go." (Thank you, Rachel S.!) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I loved the book selections for these lessons! I found some titles that I was not aware of. Lessons required very little prep, which is key because I have ZERO time to plan." (Thank you, Ashley M.!) Don't forget that leaving feedback earns you points toward FREE TPT purchases. I love that feedback! ⭐LET'S STAY CONNECTED! I hope you’ll click the green star ★ beside my picture to follow me for updates and first dibs on the latest school library goodies from me! As always, please contact me with any questions! Thank you so much, Cari White