Theme List

Below is the alphabetical list of themes/topics.  Click on your choice (for example, Arts or Sibling Rivalry) and it will take you to the Pinterest Board which shows the covers of all the books in that category.  Click on a cover of interest, and then click on it again in the new window to see the review, resources, etc.  If a cover appears more than once, that means it has been reviewed by different bloggers and the links will take you to different places.

(At some point I will try to put a number in parentheses beside the topic to indicate how many books are listed.)

A

Abundance
Acceptance/Tolerance
Accidents
Adoption
Adventure
Adversity/Difficulty

Affecting Others

Animals

Appreciation/Gratitude

Arguing/Disagreement

Arts (Dance, Music, Painting, etc.)

Autism/Aspergers

Autobiography/Biography

B

Bathtime

Bedtime

Be Yourself/Individuality

Behavior

Belonging

Biography/Autobiography

Birthday

Book Characters Come To Life

Books For Boys

Bravery/Courage/Fear
Bugs/Insects

Bullying

By Kids For Kids

C

Careers/Jobs

Cause And Effect

Challenging Assumptions

Change

Charity

Cheering Up

Child Abuse

Children With Disabilities

Cleaning Up

Cliques

Color
Comfort/Reassurance

Common Childhood Experiences

Community

Companionship

Compassion/Kindness

Competition

Compromise

Concepts (Alphabet, Counting, Color, Shapes, Opposites, etc.)

Confidence

Conflict Resolution

Consequences

Conservation/Environmentalism

Consideration

Cooperation/Working Together

Coping

Courage/Bravery/Fear

Creativity

Culture

Curiosity

D

Deception/Honesty/Lying

Decisions/Making Choices

Determination

Diaries/Journals

Differences

Difficulty/Adversity

Dinosaurs
Disability/Special Needs

Disagreement/Arguing

Disappointment

Discovery

Diversity/Multiculturalism/Racial Diversity

Dragons

Dreams/Nightmares
Duty/Responsibility

E

Ecology

Educational

Emotions/Moods/Feelings

Encouragement

Endangered/Threatened Species

Environmentalism/Conservation

Exploration

F

Fables/Fairy Tales (and variations)/Folktales/Retellings Of Classics
Fair Play/Good Sportsmanship
Fairy Tales (and variations)/Fables/Folktales/Retellings Of Classics
Faith
Family
Fantasy

Fear/Courage/Bravery

Feelings/Moods/Emotions

Firsts

Fitting In
Following/Pursuing Dreams

Folktales/Fables/Fairy Tales (and variations)/Retellings Of Classics
Food/Healthy Eating/Nutrition
Foolishness/Wisdom
Freedom
Friendship
Fun

G

Gardens/Nature
Gender Roles
Generosity
Geographic Theme
Getting Along
Getting Lost
Gifts/Gift-Giving
Girls/Girl Power
Goals/Goal Setting
Good Sportsmanship/Fair Play
Grandparents
Greed
Grief/Loss
Growing Up/Maturation

H

Habits
Habitat
Hats
Health/Healing
Healthy Eating/Nutrition/Food
Helping Others/Kindness
Hide-And-Seek/I Spy
Historical Fiction
History
Holidays
Honesty/Deception/Lying
Hope
Humor

I

I Spy/Hide-And-Seek
Identity
Illness/Sickness
Imagery
Imagination
Importance
Independence

Individuality/Be Yourself
Insects/Bugs
Interconnectedness
Interpersonal Relationships/Relationships
Irony

J

Jobs/Careers
Jokes/Riddles/Pranks

Journals/Diaries
Journey

K

Karma

Kindness/Compassion
Kindness/Helping Others

L

Language Fun (including tongue twisters, onomatopoeia, rhyme, etc.)
Language Learning (teach words in other languages, or parts of speech)
Leadership
Leaving Home
Libraries
Loneliness
Loss (of item - see Grief/Loss for people/pets)
Loss/Grief
Love
Loyalty
Lying/Deception/Honesty

M

Magic
Mail

Making Choices/Decisions
Making New Friends
Manners
Math
Maturation/Growing Up
Meditation
Memory
Military Life/Military Families
Mindfulness
Mischief
Misunderstandings

Moods/Feelings/Emotions
Monsters
Moving

Multiculturalism/Diversity/Racial Diversity
Mystery
Mythology

N

Natural Disaster
Nature/Gardens
Neighbors/Neighborhood
New Baby/New Sibling
Nightmares/Dreams
Nighttime
Nonconformity
Nonfiction
Nursery Rhymes/Poetry
Nutrition/Food/Healthy Eating

O

Optimism/Positivity

P

Parenting
Patience
Peer Pressure
Perseverance
Perspective/Point Of View
Pets
Philosophy
Photographic Picture Books
Picky Eaters
Pirates
Play/Playtime
Poetry/Nursery Rhymes
Point Of View/Perspective
Politics
Positivity/Optimism
Power Outage
Pranks/Jokes/Riddles
Princesses
Problem Solving
Pursuing/Following Dreams

Q

Questions

R

Racial Diversity/Multiculturalism/Diversity
Reading (Love of)
Reassurance/Comfort
Recycling
Relationships/Interpersonal Relationships
Religion
Rescue
Resilience
Respect
Responsibility/Duty
Retellings Of Classics/Fables/Fairy Tales (and variations)/Folktales
Riddles/Pranks/Jokes
Right vs. Wrong
Robots
Rule Breaking

S

Safety
School
Science
Seasons
Self-Acceptance
Self-Confidence
Self-Control
Self-Esteem/Self-Worth
Self-Expression
Self-Help
Self-Reliance
Self-Respect
Separation
Sharing
Shyness
Siblings
Sibling Rivalry
Sickness/Illness
Skills
Snow
Space/Stars
Special Needs/Disability
Special Talents
Sports
Standing Up For Oneself
Stars/Space
Strengths/Weaknesses
Surprises
Survival

T

Tall Tale
Teamwork/Team Play/Working Together
Teasing
Technology
Theatre (see also Arts)
Therapy/Helping Animals
Thinking
Traditions
Transitional Object/Treasured Possession
Travel
Treasure Hunts (see also Hide-And-Seek/I Spy)
Treasured Possession/Transitional Object
True Fiction (based on true stories)

U

Understanding
Usefulness

V

Vacation
Values
Vehicles
Vocabulary

W

War
Weaknesses/Strengths
Weather
Wisdom/Foolishness
Women
Wonder
Work

Working Together/Cooperation
Worry
Writing

X

Y

Z