14 Sweet Children's Books About The Wonders Of Being Home

The nine-book Little House series highlights the simple pleasures of home and family life as it follows the Ingalls family and their pioneer adventures. For younger kids, My First Little House picture books feature easy-to-understand illustrated versions of stories from the classic chapter books.

The gorgeously illustrated book Let's Go Home describes how the things and people inside your home are what make it a place worth being. Different areas of the home are highlighted throughout the book to show kids how to appreciate the true joys found within their home's walls.

This classic children's story is likely already on your kid's bookshelf and can sweetly reinforce the idea that everything around your child can be familiar and comforting. Try reading Goodnight Moon together with your kids and talk about all of the things in your home that you love to see (and say goodnight to) every day.

This charming book describes a home from the perspective of a parent telling their child all about how special their home is. The House That's Your Home features watercolor illustrations that depict all the wonders of a home and a rhythmic writing style that is easy for kids to follow along with.

Using their imagination, kids can do just about anything from the comfort of home. Where the Wild Things Are helps kids learn about the importance of using their imagination and the magical possibilities it can hold, even when they can't leave the house.

Just because your kids are stuck inside of their own home doesn't mean they can't learn about the wonders of other homes. If You Lived Here describes unique homes throughout different times and places around the world, including how they were made and what it would be like to live there.

My House Mi Casa is the perfect place to start teaching Spanish to little ones. This bilingual book features descriptions of things within a house in both English and Spanish to help kids easily identify things in a new language.

The Dr. Seuss classic In a People House is a simple, joyful book that younger kids can enjoy reading to embrace the concept of home. Told from the perspective of a friendly mouse showing a curious bird everything there is to see inside a house, this silly story is perfect for little ones to read over and over (and over) again.

What better way is there to teach kids how to appreciate being in their home than to show them how a home is constructed? In Building Our House, a girl and her family pack up their home in the city and build a new house in the country. If your kids love learning about construction, this unique story is sure to keep their attention.

Kids can use their imaginations to think about what type of house they might enjoy building one day as they follow along with If I Built a House. In the book, Jack imagines what it would be like to build a house with fantasy features like a racetrack and a giant slide. This is a great read to help kids think outside of the box but still appreciate the ways they can make being in their own house fun.

When a bird carrying a bucket or orange paint dumps it over Mr. Plumbean's house in The Big Orange Splot, he must learn to embrace his creativity to help make his house look even better than it did before. A book like this could encourage your kids to take on some household art projects while you're all staying in at home.

Toddlers and preschoolers may not understand why they can't be anywhere but home for a while. Help younger kids embrace being home and learn about what's inside of their house by reading Me and My House, the bright and colorful book meant just for their age group.

The whimsical picture book Soft House is about kids stuck inside and bored on a rainy day, not stuck at home because school is shut down due to a viral pandemic. Still, readers can relate to having to find different ways to stave off boredom — including building the ultimate fort where all of their imaginative adventures can take place.

Home Is a Window is the perfect book to help your children understand the true meaning of what makes a house a home. Although the premise of this book revolves around a family who moves to a new home, it still showcases how things inside of a home — a rug, a window, a person — define what a home is to their family instead of the structure itself.