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Summer 2025 Featured Reads: Kids Picks

Aug 18, 2025 - Waterloo Public Library
Featured Reads

Summertime means more time for reading! Find your next favourite book with our selection of picturebooks, kids fiction and kids non-fiction reads.

Picturebooks

The Great Dinosaur Sleepover
Linda Bailey; illustrated by Joe Bluhm
A Book of Maps for You
Lourdes Heuer; illustrated by Maxwell Eaton III
Put Your Shoes On
Polly Dunbar
Another Word for Neighbor
Angela Pham Krans; illustrated by Thai My Phuong
The Bear Out There
Jess Hannigan
Big Family Beach Day
Nina Crews
Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson; illustrated by Dan Santat
The Bigfoot Field Guide to Campers: And Other Mysterious Creatures
Jami Gigot
Wheetle: A Little Wagon with a Big Heart
Cindy Derby

Fiction

The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall
Charis Cotter
Creature Clinic
Gavin Aung Than
The Cartoonists Club
Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud
The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner
Night Light
Michael Emberley
Superpower Puppies (#1): Moose and Violet Knock Things Down
Corey Powell
Where There Be Monsters
Alby C. Williams
The Summer of the Fortune Tellers
Lisa Greenwald
Confessions of a Junior Spy
Rosaria Munda
J vs. K
Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft

Non-Fiction

The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle
Maddalena Bearzi; illustrated by Alex Boersma
The Big Book of Fantasy Kid Crafts: 60 Easy, Low-cost Projects to Create a World of Fairies, Dragons, Unicorns and More
Jennifer Buchheit
The Traveling Taco: The Amazing and Surprising Journey of Many of Your Favorite Foods
Mia Wenjen
What Fish Are Saying: Strange Sounds in the Ocean
Kirsten Pendreigh; illustrated by Katie Melrose
The True Story of Vanilla: How Edmond Albius Made History
Ann Richards; illustrated by Arden Taylor
Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!: The Inventive Rube Goldberg
Catherine Thimmesh
Ray: How Light Works
Emily Kate Moon
Get Dressed!: A Historical Guessing Game for Fashion Lovers
Katy Canales
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