Happy New Year! I’ve compiled a list of 10 books about New Year’s Day for kids. I hope these books will help your students learn about the celebration of the New Year and inspire them to start the New Year on a positive note. For additional resources about New Year’s Day to use in your classroom, click here! These books will be a great addition to your classroom library during your New Year or goal setting unit. These books contain everything your students will need to know about New Year’s day and setting new goals or resolutions!
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These books about New Year’s Day for kids for kids are not listed in any particular order. All of them can be found on Amazon. I have also included YouTube links where you can preview the book as well! All book information was taken from Amazon.
10 Books About New Year’s Day for Kids
1. Shante Keys and the New Year’s Peas
Shanté Keys loves New Year’s Day! But while Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens, and cornbread, she forgot the black-eyed peas! Oh no―it’ll be bad luck without them! So Shanté sets out to borrow some from the neighbors.
2. It’s New Year’s Day!
When is New Year’s Day? What are resolutions? And how do people celebrate? Full-color photographs, diagrams, and carefully leveled text will engage readers while helping them understand this exciting holiday. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions help build nonfiction reading skills.
3. Happy New Year, Spot!
Spot isn’t old enough to stay up until midnight, but he finds a way to celebrate the New Year early with his family. Bring your party hats and noisemakers as you join Spot in celebrating the new year!
4. P. Bear’s New Year’s Party: A Counting Book
A dapper polar bear has an elegant New Year’s party and invites all of his animal friends—one whale, two horses, three cows, and so forth until midnight. As each party animal arrives, children learn to count . . . AND tell time. Teachers rate this as one of the best counting books available
5. Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution
Squirrel knows that New Year’s Day is a great day for making resolutions! But what does it mean to make a resolution, anyway? As she makes visits around the forest she learns about New Year’s resolutions and helps her friends get started on theirs. If only she can think of a resolution of her very own.
6. Felíz New Year, Ava Gabriela!
Author: Alexandra Alessandri
Age Level: 4 – 7
Grade Level: Preschool – 3
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Ava Gabriela is visiting her extended family in Colombia for the holidays. She’s excited to take part in family traditions such as making bunuelos, but being around all her loud relatives in an unfamiliar place makes Ava shy and quiet. How will Ava find her voice before she misses out on all the New Year’s fun?
7. The Night Before New Year’s
Another title in Natasha Wing’s bestselling Night Before series! It’s the night before New Year’s, and the whole family is determined to stay up until midnight! Everyone?s stocked up on sparkly streamers and festive party hats, but after a night filled with card games and too many cupcakes, the little ones are getting sleepy. . . Can they make it until the clock strikes twelve?
8. Every Month Is a New Year: Celebrations Around the World
In many places around the globe, the new year starts on January 1. But not everywhere! Chinese New Year is celebrated in January or February. Iranians observe Nowruz in March. For Thai people, Songkran occurs in April. Ethiopians greet the new year at Enkutatash in September. All these diverse cultural, regional, and religious observances, and many others, have deep-rooted traditions and treasured customs.
9. Happy New Year Around the World
Discover the holiday customs of nations around the world with 30 festive full-page illustrations. Celebrations range from spectacular parades in China and candles in the sand on Brazilian beaches to fireworks over Sydney Harbor and the countdown in New York’s Times Square. Lively pictures to color include new year observances in Israel, Germany, India, Greece, Mexico, Italy, Haiti, Nigeria, and other countries.
10. New Year’s Day
Introduces the history, customs, meaning and celebration of New Year’s Day.
10 Books About New Year’s Day for Kids
This is not an exhaustive list; there are many more books about New Year’s Day for kids to read! Are there some which are not listed that you would suggest? Which book are you most excited to share with your child or add to your classroom?
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