2025 BOOK + GIFT Picture Book List
- Aimee Satterlee
- 28 minutes ago
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This year has been an exciting one for me in my publishing journey. New milestones reached with being agented, going on sub, having my first R&R, and more! (Subscribe to my author newsletter to hear all my personal book-related happenings and happiness.) Let's keep the good news rolling in . . . with the official end-of-year 2005 BOOK + GIFT Picture Book list!
But before revealing the list, let's travel down 2025's memory lane with ALL the perfect pairings you should add to your holiday shopping list!
Six debuts have been featured on BOOK + GIFT this year!
I Don't Wanna Hibernate + La Tea Dah Slumber Land Herbal Tea
Stuck! The Story of the LaBrea Tar Pits + Woolly Mammoth Building Blocks
It Started with a P + Life Size Play Castle
Elsa's Chessboard + Magnetic Folding Travel Chess Set
Sawyer's Big Idea + Cardboard Construction Tools Explore Kit
The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest + Bird Bingo Game
One special edition of BOOK + GIFT featuring funny female picture book creators.
And now, the year-end 2025 BOOK + GIFT Picture Book List! Which one is your favorite?!
The 2025 BOOK + GIFT Picture Book List
"Up and down the crooked spine of the Andes goes Alberto, playing an epic game of paka paka con la papa, potato hide-and-seek."
ALBERTO SALAS PLAYS PAKA PAKA CON LA PAPA by Sara Andrea Fajardo and Juana Martinez-Neal
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"The sea is mighty. The sea is shifting. The sea is boundless."
NUNU AND THE SEA by Isabella Kung
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"But, as every caterpillar knows, you can't become a butterfly without first becoming caterpillar soup. C'est la vie."
PAPILIO by Ben Clanton, Corey R. Tabor, and Andy Chou Musser
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"A comet streaking across the sky bursts into a flower of fire."
FIREWORKS by Matthew Burgess and Cátia Chien
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"The best thing in the world is finally here!"
EVERY MONDAY MABEL by Jashar Awan
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"Making mistakes made her feel like chile con KA-KA, and the WORST was when she made one at school."
MISTACO! A Tale of Tragedy y Tortillas by Eliza Kinkz
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"I wanted to eat my cake, but...Mimi stared at me."
BROKEN by X. Fang
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"Father's laugh leaps through my bones, making them bird-light."
OUR LAKE by Angie Kang
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"Far, far up you might spy Native American skywalkers as they balance on narrow steel beams among the clouds."
TO WALK THE SKY: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities by Patricia Morris Buckley and E.B. Lewis
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"When will I find you? Where could you be? What will it take? To see an owl."
TO SEE AN OWL by Matthew Cordell
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"And when we hear wind chimes at night, that's Wind singing us to sleep."
WIND WATCHERS by Micha Archer
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"With a tiny tug on his cloud and a drip, drop, drip, the Peddler created a puddle just right for a thirsty hummingbird."
THE PEDDLER OF PUDDLES by Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld
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"And Dad's words, as gracious as the dessert was delicious."
WHEN ALEXANDER GRACED THE TABLE by Alexander Smalls, Denene Millner and Frank Morrison
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"So tortoise dug. And Mouse sipped her tea."
SO TORTOISE DUG by Emmy Kastner
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One new change in 2026, I will not be running any giveaways associated with the BOOK + GIFT blog posts. The algorithms on social media have made it tricky for me to get enough participants that I feel is worthy of these awesome creators' books and gifts they have so generously donated. I fully encourage creators to still run their own giveaways on their social media accounts in conjunction with the posting of your BOOK + GIFT post. But, for now, I will just be a messenger shouting out these fabulous creators! It has been my joy to be a part of authors' and illustrators' debuts by showcasing them on BOOK + GIFT. If you are debuting in 2026, please consider allowing me the honor of promoting your book here! Just fill out the Google Form as soon as you are ready!
Thanks to everyone who subscribes to BOOK + GIFT and receives monthly/bi-monthly emails featuring all of these amazing creators. I am almost at an important milestone in subscribers to BOOK + GIFT. I treasure each one of you! Thank you for allowing me to share book and gift pairings with you!
YOU ARE A GIFT!
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