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 love Elephant and Piggie, try The Watermelon Seed.

What happens when a hypochondriac crocodile with a wild imagination swallows a watermelon seed? This delightfully absurd picture book captures the same humor as the Elephant and Piggie books that kids just can’t get enough of.

Good for: ages 3-7

Available at barnesandnoble.com, $12.98.

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Which new book will you read to the family this summer? Share with us in a Comment!

—Emma Bland Smith

Feature photo: KOMUnews via flickr