Picture Books
July 2025

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“Make Your Summer Legendary!” It’s the 2025 Summer Reading Challenge at the Main Burlingame Public Library and Easton Branch Library! 
June 1-August 15, 2025.
The Burlingame Public Library is giving away some great prizes just for visiting the library this summer. Enter to win every time you visit the library!
Here's how the BPL Summer Reading Challenge works. It’s so simple and easy:
Children:
  • Get a free book when they pick up their first reading log
  • Get another free book when they finish the program for the first time.
  • All finishers are entered into a drawing to win a $1,000 college scholarship!
  • Children (TK-6th grade) can also play Book Bingo for a chance to win a large stuffed dragon!
We all scream for ice cream! Come find all the hidden characters eating ice cream in the Main Library Children's Room or Easton Branch. 
Solve the secret phrase and turn it in for a surprise. 
One per child. While supplies last. 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 
Play some bingo, pop some bubbles and have lots of fun. 
Friday, July 18 from 3 - 4 PM
Lawn in front of City Hall
No registration required. 
 
Teacher Bill is back at BPL with Sign Language Storytime! 
Join us on these upcoming Wednesdays: July 9th & September 10th!
This is an excellent method to improve your communication with your infant or toddler.
No registration required. 
 
It's our monthly BPL Music Party! With Teacher Kira.
July 28th at 10:30 am
Join Teacher Kira (in person) from Golden Acorn for the BPL Music Party! It's music and movement fun for you and your little one. 
In the BPL Lane Room. No registration required.  
 
 
Did you know your child can access ABCmouse from home with a Burlingame Public Library card? 
https://www.abcmouse.com/blho-check-out
 
Recent Releases
Ant Party
by Ross Montgomery

It's another busy day at the ant hill. The farmer ants are collecting food, the worker ants are building tunnels and the soldier ants are guarding the queen. But for Andy, it's a very special day: it's his birthday! Word spreads for his 'small gathering' and, in no time at all, thousands of ants arrive to bust their best moves and tuck into dips. But as the party gets into full swing an unwanted guest arrives...The ants must work together to save the day.
Bianca and the Butterfly
by Sergio Ruzzier

For young polar bear Bianca, a chance encounter with a colorful butterfly inspires curiosity for exploration, as well as a newfound appreciation for the familiarity of home. Pairing winsome watercolor art with easy-to-understand words, this story is suitable for sharing aloud or for beginning readers.
Astronaut Sisters
by Julie Fortenberry

Fern and Rosie are astronaut sisters, slipping on their space boots, strapping on their space helmets and pretending the swing set can launch them into the stars, in a warmhearted ode to the transportive power of imagination. Illustrations.
Dragon Dreams
by Roni Schotter

Tired from sister squabbles, a dragon-loving child slips into sleep and a dragon whirs through her window to invite her on a flight to a Secret Gathering where dragons carrying children fill the sky. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
Bunny Made Tea
by Amanda Baehr Fuller

One spring morning, Bunny decides to make a cup of tea and is then joined by friends for impromptu visits, prompting Bunny to make so much tea there isn't enough for Bunny, but the next day Bunny's hospitality is repaid. Illustrations.
Retro Reads
Check out these awesome books from the not-so-distant past.
 
Dog vs. Strawberry
by Nelly Buchet; illustrated by Andrea Zuill

As soon as chubby, long-nosed Dog is given a strawberry, this book’s narrator begins the sportscast: "Welcome to the greatest race of all time!" Even kids too young for spoofs can delight in the exaggerated illustrations of Dog zooming haphazardly around its inanimate challenger. Read-alike: The Squirrels Who Squabbled by Rachel Bright.  
Group Hug
by Jean Reidy

When Slug happens upon a lonely beetle and gives him a big hug, the two friends decide to pass it along, in this picture book that encourages kindness and shows "that a hugger finds happiness 'longside the hugged!
The Bear's Garden
by Marcie Colleen

Assisted by her trusty stuffed bear to imagine a beautiful place where life and love can grow, a little girl uses her creativity to turn a vacant lot into a thriving community garden, in a tale based on true events.
Farming Strong, All Year Long
by Sherri Duskey Rinker

Told in rhyming text, six farm vehicles work through all the seasons, from spring planting to building a barn to protect the animals in winter
Finding Things
by Kevin Henkes; illustrated by Laura Dronzek

The story begins with a child rescuing a series of abandoned items: a ball, a flower, and a box. Each item is useful, but it’s one final, fuzzy find that brings everything together. This sweet and simple tale celebrates the abundance that can be found by those who are patient enough to look.
Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 0-8!
Burlingame Public Library
480 Primrose Rd.
Burlingame, California 94010
650-558-7400

http://www.burlingame.org/library