Books like The Night Before Valentine's Day
By Natasha Wing
For the kid who counts down to every holiday on the calendar, this one turns the wait for Valentine's Day into its own kind of celebration. Cozy, cheerful, and full of holiday buzz.
A little llama celebrates Valentine's Day by handing out heart-shaped cards and hugs, reminding everyone around him just how much he loves them.
A small mouse makes valentines for each of his friends, celebrating what he loves most about them — like Pig's dancing and Bunny's hide-and-seek skills — with a surprise waiting at the end.
A friendly little truck beeps his way around the farm delivering Valentine's Day cards to all his animal friends, quietly wondering if any card will come back to him.
A little bear finds a little box one morning and carries it around to friends like red fox and gray elephant, each guessing what might be inside.
A lonely, unsociable man receives a mysterious valentine with no name attached — and the simple idea that somebody loves him transforms how he moves through his whole neighborhood.
A little girl named Malika treasures a beautiful new pair of red shoes until they pinch her growing feet, so she and Nana take them to a resale shop to begin a new life with someone else.
On a distant planet, a red Smed and a blue Smoo fall in love despite their families' rule that Smeds and Smoos never mix, sending both sides on a journey that tests old prejudices.
As night falls and the woods grow cold, a big bear loses his way on a crooked trail — so his friends take to the sky and ground until they find him and bring him safely home.
A mother sings the same lullaby to her son from infancy through adulthood, rocking him each night — until he is grown and gently rocks her in return.
A bear wakes up from hibernation ravenous and thin, and as his forest friends bring him roots, berries, clover, and fish, his hunger keeps growing — until it's satisfied in a surprising way.
A gallery of towering, spike-tailed dinosaurs test their families' patience with messes and roaring fits, then show love in small ways — cleaning up, smiling instead of shouting, and hugging tight.
A stray cat named Debbie starts visiting Mrs. Ainsworth's house, welcomed despite the three Basset hounds already living there, and gives the household an unexpected Christmas gift.
