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 can recite Where the Sidewalk Ends by heart, try The New Kid on the Block.

Do your kids adore the absurdity and the utter readability of Shel’s Silverstein’s classic? Turn them on to Jack Prelutsky, America’s first children’s poet laureate and prolific author. Besides this recently re-released collection of poems, check out Scranimals, I’ve Lost My Hippopotomus, and the holiday-themed It’s Halloween and It’s Christmas.

Good for: ages 4-12

Available at harpercollins.com, $17.99.