Instill a love of reading with your child this St. Patrick’s Day!
These St. Patrick’s Day books are a great way to celebrate Read Across America!
National Read Across America Day is in March, and what better way to celebrate than with a list of St. Patrick’s Day books! Reading with your child is a great way to spend quality time with your child, and it also instills a healthy love of reading!
Book enthusiast
If you’ve been following me for awhile, then you know that I no longer teach in a classroom, but I REFUSE to give up any of my books that I’ve collected over the years. With both my daughters being young adults, I will keep my book collection to (hopefully) share with my grandchildren!
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Building your child’s book collection
You could and should start building your child’s book collection before they are born! Soft book, board books, and story books are all great option to add some variety to your child’s library. Try choosing books that cover a range of topics, holidays and that have diverse characters in them. Remember, books are a great choice anytime of year, and obviously make AMAZING gifts, no matter the occasion!
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Try your luck with these fun St. Patrick’s Day books
1. The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day
It’s the night before St. Patrick’s Day, and Tim and Maureen are wide awake setting traps to catch a leprechaun! When they wake the next morning to the sound of their dad playing the bagpipes and the smell of their mom cooking green eggs, they’re shocked to find that they’ve actually caught a leprechaun. But will they be able to find his pot of gold?
2. Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and it’s also the grand opening of Pete the Cat’s leprechaun catching business. Pete gears up to trap a leprechaun for his friends! But catching a leprechaun is never easy—especially if it’s Clover, who’s full of tricks. Will luck be on Pete’s side? Or will Pete learn luck is actually something earned?
3. How to Catch a Leprechaun
You’ve been planning night and day, and finally you’ve created the perfect trap with shamrocks, pots of gold, and rainbows galore! Now all you need to do is wait. Is this the year you’ll finally catch the leprechaun?
4. Ten Lucky Leprechauns
Fiddle-de-fizz, ’tis magic, it is! When leprechauns find each other. Count from one to ten as one little leprechaun looking for treasure magically becomes ten silly leprechaun friends at the end of the rainbow! A humorous, rhyming celebration of St. Patrick’s Day!
5. There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Clover
She’s back! That lovely old lady has returned just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Now she’s swallowing items to make the perfect rainbow to hide a pot of gold.
6. The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun
The itsy bitsy leprechaun is ready for a St. Patrick’s Day adventure as he searches for a lucky four-leaf clover. Little ones will love this magical twist on the classic nursery rhyme “The Itsy Bitsy Spider!”
7. Five Little Leprechauns
A magical twist on “Five Little Monkeys,” little ones will love following five little leprechauns on a St. Patrick’s Day adventure as they hide in clovers and rainbows.
8. Leprechaun vs. Easter Bunny
It was only a matter of time. When two holidays are this close together, there are bound to be a few…disagreements. Now two sneaky rivals, Leprechaun and Easter Bunny, must battle over the perfect hill for hiding a pot of gold or an Easter egg, and no one is backing down. Whose holiday will reign supreme? Find out in this rowdy, rhyming celebration of Easter and St. Patrick’s Day!
9. This is the Way the Leprechauns Play
Little ones and grown-ups alike will enjoy singing along to the tune of “Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush” as the leprechauns make their shoes, dance and sing, hide their gold, and more on St. Patrick’s Day!
10. Three Ways to Trap a Leprechaun
Maker-girl Claire is determined to catch a leprechaun to prove that these magical, mischievous, miniature marvels are real. Will this leprechaun be caught once for all, or will he give her the slip?
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11. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Tiny!
Tiny and Elliott are going to a Saint Patrick’s Day party in the park with a parade, a costume contest, and a scavenger hunt. But during the scavenger hunt, they notice that their new friend, a girl in Irish wolfhound costume, has lost her shoe. Tiny knows it’s up to him to save the day, but can he find the shoe and the pot of gold in time?
12. The 12 Days of St. Patrick’s Day
Count the 12 days of St. Patrick’s Day! On the first day of St. Patrick’s, I was lucky to find… This festive story starts with a shamrock in a field of green, then adds TWO pots of gold, THREE top hats, and so on through twelve busy days leading up to St. Patrick’s Day.
13. I’m a Leprechaun
So begins this adorable Little Golden Book that introduces the magical, mischievous leprechaun. Famous for hiding pots of gold, did you know that leprechauns are also talented shoemakers?
14. Pout-Pout Fish: Lucky Leprechaun
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the Pout-Pout Fish in The Pout-Pout Fish: Lucky Leprechaun! Will Mr. Fish and his friends find their pot of gold?
15. Thing One, Thing Two and the Leprechaun
Follow Thing One and Thing Two as they chase a tricky leprechaun through a St. Patrick’s Day parade, where they encounter bag pipe and harp players, Irish step dancers, four-lead clovers, a rainbow, and even a pot of gold!
St. Patrick’s Day Activity Books
1. St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Book
St. Patrick’s day book lot’s of fun coloring and activity pages designed especially for ages 4-8.
2. St. Patrick’s Day Dot Markers
Dot Markers Book for Kids is designed for children of all ages, this book is filled with fun and engaging activities, such as coloring pages, dot-to-dot puzzles, and more.
3. I Spy St. Patrick’s Day
I Spy Guessing Game for Both Little Boys and Girls, Flip through the pages while you guess the Pictures, just like a real game of I spy.
4. St. Patrick’s Day Cut and Paste Workbook
A workbook to help children practice cutting, pasting, and coloring.
5. St. Patrick’s Day Activity Book
For Kids Ages 4 – 10: 60 Fun Activities – Dot to Dot, Color By Numbers, Mazes, Learn to Draw, Blank Comic Strip Pages, Secret Code Puzzles and more!
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In conclusion
I hope that you found some great books to add to your child’s book collection! Research has proven that children learn necessary language through literature and reading, so start reading to them and with them early on! Help your child develop a love of reading!
Do you have any other St. Patrick’s Day books that are your favorite? Share them in the comments!
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Happy Reading!
You have really good collection! Some of these are really good to add to my nephews little library!
I would have loved to have all of these books as a child, especially because of my Irish ancestry! I will get a couple of these books for my nephew!!! Thanks for sharing.
What a fun list of books! Have to pick up a few of these for next St. Patrick’s Day!