Make Summer Reading Fun by celebrating National Days with books and activities!

This Summer Reading guide includes  books for all ages and stages of reading PLUS easy and exciting activities to go along with the books that you can do at home or in a classroom, both inside and out! We have older readers covered with lots of chapter book recommendations! And we have even snuck in some daily doses of history throughout!

With all of the books included in this guide there is no room for Summer Slide!

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June 1: Celebrate National Trails Day, National Go Barefoot Day & National Nail Polish Day!

Books for National Trails Day:

• T is for Trails: A Hiking Alphabet (Judy Young & Sharisse Steber) Picture Book
• Where’s Rodney? (Carmen Bogan & Floyd Cooper) Picture Book
• Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters (Lenore Look & LeUyen Pham) Chapter Book Series

Books for National Go Barefoot Day:

• What If You Had Animal Feet? (Sandra Markle & Howard McWilliam) Picture Book Series
• Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All (Chanel Miller) Chapter Book

Book for National Nail Polish Day:

• Nail Polish is Too for Boys! (Emma-Claire Sunday & Caitlin O’Dwyer) Picture Book

Today in History Book:

• Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (Carol Boston Weatherford & Floyd Cooper) Picture Book

June 2: Celebrate National Gardening Week! (June 2-8)

Books for National Gardening Week:

• The Plant Rescuer (Matthew Rivera) Picture Book
• What the Garden Tells Me (Monica Mikai) Picture Book
• Jaydens’s Impossible Garden (Mélina Mangal & Ken Daley) Picture Book
• Just a Worm (Marie Boyd) Picture Book
• The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (Karina Yan Glaser) Chapter Book Series
• Lola Plants a Garden (Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw) Picture Book
• Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt (Kate Messner & Christopher Silas Neal) Picture Book

Today in History Book:

• Charlie Takes His Shot: How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf (Nancy Churnin & John Joven)

June 3: Celebrate National Egg Day!

Books for National Egg Day:

• The Good Egg (Jory John & Pete Oswald) Picture Book
• Catch That Chicken! (Atinuke & Angela Brooksbank) Board Book
• Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) Chapter Book
• Gone Crazy in Alabama (Rita Williams-Garcia) Chapter Book Series
• The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County (Janice N. Harrington & Shelley Jackson) Picture Book
• The Interrupting Chicken Cookies for Breakfast (David Ezra Stein) Picture Book Series
• The Little Red Fort (Brenda Maier & Sonia Sánchez) Picture Book

Today in History Book:

• Bright Minds: Charles Drew: The Innovator of the Blood Bank (Aaron Talley & Subi Bosa) Chapter Book Series

June 4: Celebrate National Hug Your Cat Day & National Old Maids Day!

Books for National Hug Your Cat Day:

• Not My Cat (Stacey Patton & Acamy Schleikorn) Picture Book
• Bathe the Cat (Alice B. McGinty & David Roberts) Picture Book
• Crenshaw (Katherine Applegate) Chapter Book

Books for National Old Maids Day:

• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed… (Lucille Colandro & Jared Lee) Picture Book Series
• There Was an Old Mermaid Who Swallowed a Shark (Lucielle Colandro & Jared Lee) Chapter Book

Today in History Book:

• History Smashers: Women’s Right to Vote (Kate Messner & Dylan Meconis) Chapter Book Series

June 5: Celebrate Global  Running Day & National Gingerbread Day!

Books for Global Running Day:

• Ready Steady Mo! (Mo Farah, Kes Gray & Marta Kissi) Picture Book
• Running in Flip Flops from the End of the World (Justin A. Reynolds) Chapter Book Series

Books for National Gingerbread Day:

• The Gingerbread Man Loose at the Zoo (Laura Murray & Mike Lowery) Picture Book
• The Plan for the Gingerbread House: A STEM Engineering Story (Darcy Pattinson & John Joven) Picture Book
• The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (Jeanne Birdsall) Chapter Book Series
• The Gingerbread Man: Buttons on the Loose (Laura Murray & Mike Lowery) Graphic Novel Series

Today in History Book:

• History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes (Tracey Baptiste & Shauna J. Grant) Graphic Novel Series

Additional Book:

• It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit (Justin A. Reynolds) Chapter Book Series

June 6: Celebrate National Yo-Yo Day

Book for National Yo-Yo Day:

• Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys (Rob Peñas & Carl Angel) Picture Book

Additional Books:

• Jumanji (Chris Van Allsburg) Picture Book
• Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube (Kerry Aradhya & Kara Kramer) Picture Book *Releases June 11
• Lucky Scramble (Peter Raymundo) Graphic Novel
• Playing the Cards You’re Dealt (Varian Johnson) Chapter Book

Today in History Book:

• Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes & Dawud Anyabwile) Graphic Novel

June 7: Celebrate National Chocolate Ice Cream Day & National Donut Day!

Books for National Chocolate Ice Cream Day:

• I Scream Ice Cream!: A Book of Wordles (Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Serge Bloch) Picture Book
• Pete the Cat Screams for Ice Cream! (Kimberly & James Dean) Picture Book Series *Releases June 4
• A Sundae with Everything on It (Kyle Scheele & Andy J. Pizza) Picture Book
• The Ice Cream Machine: 6 Deliciously Different Stories with the Same Exact Name! (Adam Rubin) Chapter Book
• My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich (Ibi Zoboi) Chapter Book
• Ice Cream Everywhere: Sweet Stories from Around the World (Judy Campbell-Smith & Lucy Semple) Picture Book

Books for National Donut Day:

• Donuts: The Hole Story (David Miles) Picture Book
• If You Give a Dog a Donut (Laura Numeroff & Felicia Bond) Picture Book
• Homer Price (Robert McCloskey) Chapter Book
• Made with Love: Donuts! (Lea Redmond & Flora Waycott) Board Book

Today in History Book:

• Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson (Angela Joy & Jacqueline Alcántara) Picture Book

June 8: National Best Friends Day

Books for National Best Friends Day:

• Bros (Carol Boston Weatherford & Reggie Brown) Picture Book
• Keyana Loves Her Friend (Natasha Anastasia Tarpley & Charnelle Pinkney Barlow) Picture Book
• Evelyn Del Ray Is Moving Away (Meg Medina & Sonia Sánchez) Picture Book
• Curlfriends (Sharee Miller) Graphic Novel
• Always Anthony (Terri Libenson) Graphic Novel Series
• One Little Word (Joseph Coelho & Allison Colpoys) Picture Book
• Ways to Share Joy: A Ryan Hart Story (Renée Watson) Chapter Book Series
• Best Friends (Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham) Graphic Novel

Today in History Book:

• Ghostbusters: A Paranormal Picture Book (G.M. Berrow, J.M. Kehoe & Forrest Burdett) Picture Book