August 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!
- January Read Alouds
- February Read Alouds
- March Read Alouds
- April Read Alouds
- May Read Alouds
- June Read Alouds
- July Read Alouds
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August Read Alouds
- August 1 – Mountain Climbing Day – How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion by Ashima Shiraishi
- August 2 – Find a Fourth Leaf Clover Day – Lucky Tucker by Leslie McGuirk
- August 3 – Campfire Day – Maisy Goes Camping by Lucy Cousins
- August 4 – Sisters Day – Maple & Willow Together by Lori Nichols
- August 5 – Underwear Day – One Big Pair of Underwear by Laura Gehl
- August 6 – Wiggle Your Toes Day – Whose Toes Are Those? By Jabari Asim
- August 7 – National Lighthouse Day – Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
- August 8 – International Cat Day – Stack the Cats by Susie Ghahremani
- August 9 – Book Loverās Day – Miss Brooks Loves Books! (And I Don’t) by Barbara Bottner
- August 10 – National Sāmores Day – S is for Sāmores by Helen Foster James
- August 11 – Hip Hop Day – Hip-Hop Lollipop by Susan McElroy Montanari
- August 12 – World Elephant Day – A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes
- August 13 – Lefthanders Day – Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson
- August 14 – World Lizard Day – Like a Lizard by April Pulley Sayre
- August 15 – Tomatoes Galore Day – Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi
- August 16 – National Airborne Day – Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam MuƱoz Ryan
- August 17 – National Honeybee Awareness Day – Bee Dance by Rick ChrustowskiĀ
- August 18 – Never Give Up Day – The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do by Ashley Spires
- August 19 – National Photography Day – Puppy Pool Party! by Seth Casteel
- August 20 – National Bacon Loverās Day – Everyone Loves Bacon by Kelly DiPucchio
- August 21 – National Senior Citizens Day – Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
- August 22 – Folklore Day – Reading Beauty by Deborah Underwood
- August 23 – Hug Your Sweetheart Day – Snuggle Puppy! by Sandra Boynton
- August 24 – Pluto Demoted Day – Pluto!: Not a Planet? Not a Problem! By Stacy McAnulty
- August 25 – National Banana Split Day – Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas by Aaron Blabey
- August 26 – National Dog Day – This Is Gus by Chris ChattertonĀ
- August 27 – World Rock, Paper, Scissors Day – The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew Daywalt
- August 28 – National Bow Tie Day – No More Bows by Samantha CotterillĀ
- August 29 – National Sports Day – Olympig! by Victoria Jamieson
- August 30 – National Beach Day – Day at the Beach by Tom Booth
- August 31 – Eat Outside Day – Max and Marla Are Having a Picnic by Alexandra Boiger
