Our Family’s Fall Picture Book Collection

This blog post coincides with a video over on my YouTube channel. While it’s fun to have videos up about topics like these, sometimes it’s also nice to have all of the books pictured and listed in one place! I hope this list is helpful to you – do you have any of these books already? There are some great ones here!

I actually tuck these fall books away every year – well, kind of. I keep them together in a little stack in a corner of Sophie and Soren’s room for much of the year. The kids can still access and read the books, but I especially love it when it’s time to grab all of our fall books and display them downstairs in the living room! It’s September right now, so I recently pulled our fall books out again and it’s so cozy to see them all displayed in our book box downstairs.

We love books in our family. We have a lot of books! I’ve been able to curate our collection of fall books over time, though, and I’m actually quite picky about them. Even though we have a large amount of books, I’m not afraid to declutter and sift out the books that aren’t serving our family well or ones that aren’t our favorites. I only want good quality literature in our home! That being said, of course there may be some books in this list that are more your style or not your family’s style, but I hope these recommendations will give you some fresh ideas of fall-themed books to have out on your coffee table, or to read for bedtime, because it’s that time of year!

You can also watch my fall books video to see the cover of each of the books and hear a brief explanation as to why I chose each one for our family’s autumn collection.

Our Family’s Fall Picture Books

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Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn – this is perfect for the transition between these two seasons! It’s a Scholastic book. It doesn’t really have a story with a plot line, but it includes all of the different ways that the seasons change and it has beautiful illustrations.

How Do Apples Grow – perfect for reading before you go to the apple orchard every fall. It gets into a lot of details about parts of the plant, etc. It’s a good homeschool science one as well.

The Fox and the Falling Leaves – it is sometimes also called Fletcher and the Falling Leaves in different publications. It’s about a little fox named Fletcher who’s worried when he see leaves falling in autumn (he thinks the trees are sick). It’s a sweet story and the kids love this one every year.

Winter’s Coming – I wouldn’t say this is my favorite reminder, haha, but it’s definitely a well-made book. It has great illustrations. It’s about a little rabbit and all of the little signs to watch out for that show that winter is on its way.

Sophie’s Squash – another favorite! This one is probably my all-time favorite fall book. Our oldest child is called Sophie, which always makes it fun for her. And the story is totally something our Sophie would do, too! It’s about a little girl who takes a squash along for the ride in her everyday life! She takes it home from the farmer’s market and it goes everywhere with Sophie. She drew a smile on it, rocks it like a baby doll, and more! It’s darling.

We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt – it’s like the song/rhyme “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt,” and it’s a cute little adventure rhyme.

Leif and the Fall – this book is about a leaf who’s concerned about falling off of his tree. His name is Leif and he tries many strategies to help keep him on the tree until he realizes that it’s normal and okay to fall (and not as scary as he’d thought)!

In November – we love the author Cynthia Rylant. She writes about all the little signs in nature (and what animals do) during the month of November.

A Day at the Apple Orchard – this is another good one to look at before you go to the orchard!

Yellow Time – this one has beautiful illustrations and talks about seasonal color change. It’s very simple with not many words but it’s a good one for either beautiful coffee table book or for younger readers.

Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story – this is written by the author who wrote “Sophie’s Squash.” It’s a slow, peaceful rhyming book and shares what people used to do to prepare for a Thanksgiving meal.

Too Many Pumpkins – my other all-time favorite fall book for kids. It’s about an older woman who absolutely hates pumpkins (because money was short when she was young and she had had to eat too many pumpkins). In this book, a truck accidentally spills a bunch of pumpkins in her yard and she doesn’t know what to do with them. They start growing in her yard and she eventually decides not to waste them and to bake with them instead. She does tons of baking, signals to the neighbors to come by, and the whole town comes to enjoy pumpkin treats with her. She ends up liking pumpkins in the end, for the purposes of sharing special treats with others.

Ox-Cart Man – illustrated by Barbara Cooney, whom I love. It starts out in October, when a man loads up his ox and his cart with everything his family had grown or made that year, and he goes off on a journey to sell it.

Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm – such a good book! We got this as part of our Sonlight Preschool or Pre-K curriculum years ago, and we’ve all loved it since! It’s so witty and clever and hilarious in its descriptions of farm animals, and I love reading it in the fall.

The Year at Maple Hill Farm – it’s about the farm in the book listed above, but instead focuses on every month of the year as the seasons go by!

There you go! Those are the books in our fall picture book collection! I love bringing this special collection out every year, and it’s so fun that the kids are now old enough to start remembering and anticipating these favorites.

I also want to mention: there’s a whole section on my site where you can shop our family’s home library – books on my shelf, plus tons of other children’s books that we love. I only share what is tried and true for us!

What’s your favorite children’s book to read in the fall? I’d love to hear!