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 they adore Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, try The Village Garage.

Pint-sized vehicle enthusiasts will ask for this one over and over. Follow the employees of a garage throughout an entire year as they do their important jobs—like plowing snow, patching potholes and sucking up leaves in the amazing Elephant Truck. The pleasant text and engaging illustrations paint a busy, cozy picture of small-town life as seen through the routines of its four-wheeled inhabitants.

Good for: ages 3-8

Available at indiebound.org, $16.99.