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50 Fabulous books to read with your kids this Fall! Fun favorites that kids and parent will both enjoy. 

50 Fabulous books to read with your kids this Fall! Fun favorites that kids and parent will both enjoy.

I love finding new books to enjoy with my kiddos and with Fall quickly approaching I went on the hunt for some fun fall titles to read with them.

Over the course of a few weeks we ordered all 50 of these books from our local library and have definitely found some new family favourites!

Here’s our list of 50 fabulous books to read this Fall and a short review of each of our very favourites! Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a printable list of all 50 titles. Enjoy!

50 Fabulous Children’s Books for Fall

  1. Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic
  2. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
  3. We’re Going On A Leaf Hunt
  4. When The Leaf Blew In
  5. Fletcher and the Falling Leaves
  6. It’s Fall (Celebrate the Seasons)
  7. There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves!
  8. The Littlest Pilgrim
  9. Apple Farmer Annie
  10. Yellow Time
  11. Pumpkins
  12. T is for Turkey: A True Thanksgiving Story
  13. Too Many Pumpkins
  14. Pumpkin Soup
  15. Room on the Broom
  16. Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
  17. The Little Scarecrow Boy
  18. The Scarecrow’s Hat
  19. In November
  20. The Little Yellow Leaf
  21. Hello, Harvest Moon
  22. Hocus Pocus It’s Fall
  23. Look What I Did with a Leaf!
  24. Fall Mixed Up
  25. In the Leaves
  26. South
  27. Run, Turkey, Run!
  28. Leaf Trouble
  29. 10 Trick-or-Treaters
  30. Stumpkin
  31. By the Light of the Harvest Moon
  32. One, Two…Boo!
  33. Leaves
  34. A Plump and Perky Turkey
  35. AlphaOops: H Is for Halloween: Midi Edition
  36. Fall Leaves Fall
  37. Ghosts in the House!
  38. Big Pumpkin
  39. The Little House
  40. Where Is Baby’s Pumpkin?
  41. Five Little Pumpkins (Harper Growing Tree
  42. The Busy Little Squirrel
  43. Hurry Hurry Mary Dear
  44. Shake Dem Halloween Bones
  45. The Apple Pie Tree
  46. Come Fall
  47. Bright Baby Touch and Feel Fall
  48. Awesome Autumn
  49. Autumnblings
  50. Fancy Nancy: Halloween…or Bust

The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger

This book was voted our #1 favourite book for Fall. I fell head over heals in love with its beautiful illustrations! Each page of this book truly is a work of art! This sweet story about finding the courage to face the unknown and the friends that are there to help us along the way will be one I’m purchasing to add to our family library as soon as possible.

Fall Mixed Up! by Bob Raczka

Fall Mixed Up! had all of us giggling each time we read it – and we’ve read it A LOT! It was a hit with my ten year old all the way down to my toddler. The silly rhymes and mixed up story line along with its beautiful illustrations make this book a Fall favourite for sure!


A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman

Another silly book for Fall, A Plump and Perky Turkey is such a fun read! The rhythmic poetry makes this the perfect read aloud story and the silly storyline is definitely a crowd pleaser. I found myself thoroughly entertained as I read this book with the kids!



South by Patrick McDonnell

Without a word, this sweet book tugs at the heartstrings sharing valuable lessons about change, friendship and goodbyes. I loved this book with all its the darling illustrations and the way it opened up  some really thought provoking dialogue among my children.


Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes

I’m a sucker for clever rhyming books and we all loved this book and it’s clever rhymes so much. The illustrations are gorgeous – the rich colours and detail truly capture the essence of Fall and Thanksgiving. I loved how reading this book with the kids opened up a whole conversation about the things each of us are thankful for. I can’t wait to read this with my kids again and again as Thanksgiving approaches.

You can download a printable list here of all 50 Fall books to tuck in your purse for the next time you’re at the library or local bookstore!

And there you have our list of favourite children’s books for Fall. I hope you have as much fun exploring this list as I had putting it together!

Do you have a favourite Fall book that’s missing from this list? 
Be sure to leave a comment and tell us what it is!

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Rebecca Cooper is a 42-year-old wife and mother of four from Alberta, Canada. As a photographer, crafter, author, and blogger, she finds joy and fulfillment in celebrating everyday moments. She loves to read and eat chocolate, and is a firm believer in afternoon naps. Rebecca shares her family’s adventures, photo tips, simple craft projects + more right here at Simple as That.
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  1. I really like ” the little old lady who was not afraid of anything” It is a fall/halloween book about a lady who goes for a walk in the woods, and finds she is being followed, she returns home and sets the shoes, hat, pants, shirt and pumpkin head that follow her home to work scaring crows in her garden.

    Another book that I love the illustrations in the story is “The Pumpkin Blanket”. It’s a story of a girl with a favorite blanket that over time gets cut down and ends up covering the pumpkins from frost, very sweet story of growing up.

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    • I rarely comment on blogs, and I don’t think I’ve ever replied to another person’s comment, ever. But yours made me smile, and I had to say something. I feel the same way about Christmas picture books. Granted, my kids are younger than yours are (6, 8 and 10), but I really don’t foresee myself ever stopping the Christmas picture book collecting. 🙂 Blessings to you!

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  12. Rebecca, thank you so much for taking the time to write this post! We enjoyed so many of the books from your last list. I’ve printed this new list and am ready to make the reservation list for library books. Super cute photos of your girls reading too!

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  13. I just love book posts … thank you for this, Rebecca! And I agree: The Little Yellow Leaf is one of our favorites, too. It was given to us as a gift and it’s a fall coffee table book for The Boy!

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  15. Which one is the book photographed in the 2nd photo? I love the numbers and illustration and it’d be great for my 2YO to learn more vocab! Tremendous list!

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  16. What a great list of books, accompanied by the sweetest pictures of your kids reading them. Sweet and inspiring the books and your photography.

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  18. Great list! Thanks for sharing. I love seeing what other families are reading. In fact, I just did a post about our favorite books, too. Not all fall related, but what my three girls have been reaching for time and again. It’s always nice to get some fresh ideas. Thanks for taking the time to put this list together!

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  19. I love the book… The Most Thankful Thing. Even though it’s not a real Thanksgiving book, it reminds us what we are thankful for 🙂

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  21. Thank you so much for the list. I take my girls to the library every week and now that we are (finally) about to get cooler here in CA we can look for this list of books!

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  22. I did a Fall booklist too – and The Little Yellow Leaf was our #1 too! I love a good surprise find. It was a beauty in every way! I’ve been dying to check out South, but so far it’s been checked out of our library — probably time for a hold. =)

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  26. I just want to say I love this post so much! I printed out your list and took it to the library and we’ve been working through all the books! I love that some are Halloween specific, which we’ve been getting recently, some are Thanksgiving and some are generic fall. I really hope you do a similar list for Winter and/or Christmas!

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  32. Great list! I’m out of the child-rearing years but still appreciate good picture books. Too Many Pumpkins was one of our favorites, and until my daughter went away to college, we still read it ever year around Halloween. The Biggest Pumpkin Ever is also cute.

    Last year, I posted a short list of Halloween reading for all ages, which has a few books for older children and young adults as well as adults.

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  33. Thanks so much for this list! I instantly requested a bunch of your selections from the library.

    These are a few others we really love:
    Thanksgiving Mice, Bethany Roberts
    Give Thanks to the Lord, Karma Wilson
    The First Thanksgiving: A Counting Story, Laura Krauss Melmed
    Autumn Walk (Small Seasons), Ann Burg
    Fall is Here!: I Love It!, Elaine W. Good
    Thanksgiving: A Harvest Celebration, Julie Stiegemeyer
    Thankful Together, Holly Davis

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  34. Oh my gosh! LOVE this list! I’m a kindergarten teacher and I LOVE fall, but for some reason don’t have enough books. I’m loving so many of these. I bought Ghosts in the House by Kohara last year and it’s one of my new faves-so cute and sweet. Leaves is another really really good one! Great post! Thanks for sharing.

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  39. Thanks for this list! I’ll be checking out the ones I’m not familiar with! We have a “Welcome Fall!” party every year, during which we get out all of our Fall books and read as many of them as we can at one sitting, followed by a simple Fall craft, a Fall-themed snack, and a trip to the park. I’ll use your list to add some new books to our fun! Also, I wanted to recommend our two family favorite Thanksgiving books: Cranberry Thanksgiving and A Turkey for Thanksgiving. It wouldn’t be Fall without them! 🙂

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  43. Thank you so much. Going to the library before my 8 grandkids come for Thanksgiving was on my to do list. I sat down this morning on our library’s website and reserved several. Reading together is our favorite activity.

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