Top Titles of 2025: Picture Books


What do our youngest readers love most? We let the checkout stats do the talking. These are the five picture books that flew off our shelves this year. They captured imaginations, sparked storytime joy and became the most-borrowed picture books in our library.

Top 5 Picture Books:

  1. Hot Dog, opens a new window by Doug Salati (525 checkouts)
  2. The Bad Seed, opens a new window by Jory John (484 checkouts)
  3. Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn, opens a new window by Shannon Hale (475 checkouts)
  4. Penguin Problems, opens a new window by Jory John (466 checkouts)
  5. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, opens a new window by Laura Numeroff (442 checkouts)