June Read Alouds
It’s time for another month’s read alouds to celebrate wacky, silly, important, and historical holidays! This list combines not only great fictional read alouds, but some nonfiction and biographies as well to teach kids about fun and interesting facts and people.
I’m not taking all the credit, as the blog Growing Book by Book has a post just like this! I tried hard to either choose different holidays to highlight when I found something that could work or at the very least, provide some additional titles for you instead!
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June Read Alouds
- June 1 – National Trails Day – Hike by Pete Oswald
- June 2 – National I Love My Dentist Day – The Crocodile and the Dentist by Taro Gomi
- June 3 – World Bicycle Day – Elena Rides by Juana Medina
- June 4 – National Cheese Day – The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
- June 5 – Hot Air Balloon Day – Up and Away!: How Two Brothers Invented the Hot-Air Balloon by Jason Henry
- June 6 – National Yo-Yo Day – Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys by Rob Peñas
- June 7 – National Doughnut Day – Dozens of Doughnuts by Carrie Finison
- June 8 – World Ocean Day – Field Trip to the Ocean Deep by John Hare
- June 9 – National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day – My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco
- June 10 – Dragon Boat Festival – One Is a Drummer by Roseanne Thong
- June 11 – Say Hi Day – Say Hello by Rachel Isadora
- June 12 – National Loving Day – The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko
- June 13 – Pigeon Appreciation Day – Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
- June 14 – Flag Day – Why Are There Stripes on the American Flag? by Martha E. H. Rustad
- June 15 – Global Wind Day – Kate, Who Tamed The Wind by Liz Garton Scanlon
- June 16 – International WaterFall Day – Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris
- June 17 – Eat Your Veggies Day – Rah, Rah, Radishes!: A Vegetable Chant by April Pulley Sayre
- June 18 – International Picnic Day – The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
- June 19 – Juneteenth – Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
- June 20 – National Bald Eagle Day – Beauty and the Beak by Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp
- June 21 – International Yoga Day – You Are a Lion!: And Other Fun Yoga Poses by Taeeun Yoo
- June 22 – World Rainforest Day – Over in the Jungle by Marianne Collins Burkes
- June 23 – National Pink Day – Pink Is Not a Color by Lindsay Ward
- June 24 – International Fairy (or Faery) Day – Backyard Fairies by Phoebe Wahl
- June 25 – International Day of the Seafarer – Bunny Overboard by Claudia Rueda
- June 26 – National Canoe Day – River by Elisha Cooper
- June 27 – National Sunglasses Day – Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses by Kimberly & James Dean
- June 28 – National Paul Bunyan Day – The Bunyans by Audrey Wood
- June 29 – Camera Day – The Perfect School Picture by Deborah Diesen
- June 30 – Meteor Day – How the Meteorite Got to the Museum by Jessie Hartland
