14 New Books That Feel Like Old Classics

During the summer, a great list of new reads is like a seventh-inning stretch for little minds. Get your budding literati amped up about reading with these 14 page-turning picture and chapter books. They may look and sound like the favorites your kids ask for night after night, but each one is a newfangled adventure waiting to be discovered. Scroll through the flip book below and we promise, the days of bugging them to fulfill summer reading requirements are over.

If Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is their fave, try Once Upon an Alphabet.

Oversized and illustrated in bold, graphic colors, the alphabet book to end all alphabet books is one of the year’s biggest hits. The author of The Day the Crayons Quit offers up a different short story for each letter—some eccentric, some gentle and some hilarious. Learning your ABCs has never so fun!

Good for: ages 2-6

Available at powells.com, $26.99.